Bhubaneswar, Nov. 12 -- Tata Power denied allegations that contractual electricity workers have lost their jobs, saying no employees were retrenched by the company. The clarification comes as members of the Odisha Bidyut Contract Workers Milita Manch continued an indefinite hunger strike at Gandhi Marg, where they have been protesting for more than 40 days.

Gajanan Kale, chief of Tata Power's Odisha distribution business and CEO of Tata Power Central Odisha Distribution Limited (TPCODL), said 374 workers out of the company's contractual workforce of around 15,300 had been identified for redeployment. Of them, around 200 have already joined their new assignments, as reported by The New Indian Express.

The redeployment exercise was being ...