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Talks in Delhi to end BALCO stir

By Our Principal Correspondent

RAIPUR, MARCH 17. The striking employees of Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO) have agreed to hold negotiations with the new management to end the fortnight-long stalemate.

Representatives of seven trade unions under the banner of BALCO Bachao Samyukt Abhiyan Samiti and officials of Sterlite Industries and the Chhattisgarh Government will meet in New Delhi on March 21.

This will be the first interaction between the employees and the BALCO management after Sterlite Industries took over on March 2.

The employees had struck work on the same day to protest the sale of the company for Rs 551.5 crores.

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