On 2 June 1991, the workers of a cement factory at Dalla, (District Sonbhadra) in Uttar Pradesh were fired upon when they were staging rasta rook and dharna in protest against the privatization of their factory, owned by UP state Cement Corporation. Eight bodies were recovered and many were seriously injured and one of whom died later.
PUDR sent a team in the last week of June to investigate the tension that led to the firing at the Dalla cement factory in the light of wide-ranging measures initiated in the Dalla’s Cement factory as part of the liberalization of the Indian economy and privatization of public sector units and its political and human dimension. The team met a large number of workers, shopkeepers and other residents of Dalla, workers unions, District Magistrate, the Superintendent of Police, Additional District Magistrate conducting the enquiry, the Deputy Labour Commissioner and the doctor at the hospital at Dalla.
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Dalla: Privatisation, Police Firing and Workers Struggle
