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Relieving 758 Staffs Of Janakpur Cigarette Factory
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 5, 2013: the Interim Election Council of Ministers (IECM) at its meeting held yesterday decided to relieve 758 staffs and workers of the state-run Janakpur Cigarette Factory following the rules and regulations, and the law keeping the factory intact, according to the news in the ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
The factory has been paying one million rupees to the staffs and workers as salaries every day causing the debt of Rs 400 millions so far even though the production of cigarettes has been nil. However, the government has not shut down the factory but decided to appoint a joint secretary to the Ministry of industry as a general manager to the factory. The IECM also has decided to set up a committee headed by a joint secretary to the Ministry of Industry to study an alternative way of running the factory. The time given to the committee is one month.
In 1964, the then Soviet Union had built the Janakpur Cigarette Factory grant-in-aid. The factory had the capacity of producing two billion cigarettes annually for many years. However, the factory could not compete with the private companies after the monopoly of the stat-run factory ended.
The natural death of the factory that had produced the slow poison is not bad. However, the infrastructures left by the factory should be utilized for producing the items useful to the people for living a healthy life.
