For the last 10 months, around 70 employees of Mysore Paper Mills (MPM) Ltd., a public sector undertaking in Bhadravati, have not got their salaries. When they enquired with their office about the salaries, the response they received was that they had been terminated from service with effect from October 2021.
MPM, set up by rulers of the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom, stopped functioning in 2015. Permanent employees were offered packages under the voluntary retirement scheme. Those on the verge of retirement got better packages than those recently recruited and left the company. As many as 224 permanent employees continued with the company. The firm also wanted to retain some employees for regular maintenance until the company was taken over by private investors.
However, private investors hardly showed interest to take up the firm and it remained non-functional. As many as 129 employees were deputed to different corporations and boards of the State government. Finally, 70 remained with the company’s establishment in Bhadravati.
