According to him, some local boys had hit pay dirt by supplying sand, stone chips and fly ash for landfill at the plant, while others were earning as labourers at the site before work was stopped.
Nearly 100 local boys had received specialised training and had joined work inside the factory complex as rookies, while the less skilled people were working at the many guest houses being used by Tata Motors staff.
"Do you know many women were earning Rs 80 a day by selling lunch to the factory workers?" said an agitated Paresh Maity from the area.
Image: A farmer's family collects the crop from their land right beside the fenced Tata Motors land | Photograph: Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images
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