For the last four years, around 8 am every morning, including Sundays, thousands of men dressed in navy blue and orange overalls, yellow hard-hats and boots have queued up outside the gates leading to the ‘P-25 Project’ site. Hired by private contractors, they work at an intense pace to construct new processing units and expand the crude processing capacity of one of India’s largest government petroleum oil refineries in Panipat, 125 km from the national capital Delhi.
