Retired VSP employees protest seeking continuation of medical benefits

Retired employees of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (RINL-VSP), on with serving employees, staged a dharna astatine the Training and Development Centre (T and DC) connected Wednesday, protesting the hold successful issuance of yearly circulars governing hold of aesculapian benefits.

The strategy follows a contributory mechanism, nether which retired employees carnivore a information of the premium portion the absorption contributes the balance. It besides provides for attraction astatine the Visakha Steel General Hospital (VSGH) arsenic good arsenic empanelled hospitals. Leaders of the retired employees relation alleged that the absorption was repeatedly delaying the circulars connected 1 pretext oregon another, raising concerns that the scope and accessibility of existing aesculapian benefits could beryllium curtailed.