DIBRUGARH: A week-long agitation over allegedly delayed compensation to families affected by the Baghjan oil well blowout in Assam s Tinsukia flared up on Saturday, leaving five civilians and four cops injured in a hail of rubber bullets, tear gas shells and retaliatory stone-pelting by the protesters.
The police said they used tear gas and rubber bullets only when the situation threatened to spiral out of control. The protesters, who are residents of the Baghjan area, had been squatting on the road leading to the oilfield every day for a week to demand release of the full quantum of compensation fixed by the National Green Tribunal.
Baghjan villagers resort to blockade; talks with OIL today
The villagers of Baghjan, affected due to gas blowout from an oil well, resorted to indefinite oil blockade from Tuesday due to alleged non-payment of full compensation to them.
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DOOMDOOMA: The villagers of Baghjan, affected due to gas blowout from an oil well, resorted to indefinite oil blockade from Tuesday due to alleged non-payment of full compensation to them.
In a joint statement to the media issued by the president and the secretary of the Baghjan Gaon Milanjyoti Yuva Sangha (BGMYS), Satyajit Moran and Tikhnajit Hazarika respectively stated that they (the affected villagers of Baghjan) were not fully satisfied with the judgement pronounced by National Green Tribunal (NGT) on February 19.