Nagpur’s long-suffering textile workers have finally received a lifeline—though after nearly three decades of neglect. The state government has sanctioned ₹50 crore in relief for 1,124 workers of Nagpur Vinkar Sahakari Soot Girni Maryadit (NVSSG), which shut down in 1996, leaving hundreds of families stranded without jobs or compensation. The order, issued on August 28, 2025, comes only after relentless demands and repeated disappointments in 2018, 2019, and 2024, when earlier promises failed to materialize. Workers who had given their lives to the cooperative mill were left battling poverty while successive governments dragged their feet.
The relief package, approved by the Cabinet on August 5, will finally be funded from the sale of the mill’s 20.20-acre land parcel along Umred Road. Sold to MHADA for ₹177 crore, the proceeds will now set aside ₹50 crore, ensuring each worker receives a one-time payment of ₹4.44 lakh. But the decision comes with a bitter clause: once the amount is disbursed, no further claims for arrears, interest, or dues will be entertained. For workers who endured 29 years of false starts and bureaucratic apathy, this effectively closes the chapter—without acknowledging the irreparable damage already done.
Officials say the Industrial Commissioner, Nagpur, will oversee disbursal. Yet for the workers, this long-delayed settlement is less a gesture of generosity and more a forced closure of injustice. After nearly three decades, they are being handed relief not as a right, but as a final settlement to silence their claims.
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