IFFCO plant worker’s death sparks protest in Odisha

PARADIP: Local residents staged dharna in front of the main gate of IFFCO fertiliser unit here on Friday demanding compensation and job for the family of a worker who died in an accident while commuting to the plant for duty.

The deceased worker, identified as 40-year-old Prasan Kumar Swain, was a resident of Fethpur village in Kujang and engaged as a housekeeping staff in the IFFCO plant. On Thursday, he was on way to the plant when an unidentified truck hit him near Dochhaki on Paradip-Chandikhole national highway.