What do you think must be the net worth of a person who is working in a factory as a store officer or labor or a foreman, it must be few thousands as per your assumption and what if we tell you that it may go in crores.
Yes we are absolutely correct as many workers who work in the factories of Sanand, Gujarat are crorepatis and they work in these factories for a salary of Rs.8, 000- 20, 000/month.
This happened after the Tata Motor’s Nano plant shifted from Singur, West Bengal to Sanand, Gujarat. As the company has taken the land of these day laborers and farmers, it paid them compensation for the land and all those who owned the land became rich. A total of Rs. 2, 000 crores was paid by the company to all the land owners.
There are 300 people working in Raviraj Foils and at least half of them have more than one crore in their bank accounts while their monthly salary ranges between Rs.9, 000 – Rs. 20, 000. The Chairman and Managing Director Jaydeepsinh Vaghela said, “Retaining labour is a major challenge for us. We have to be very cautious in dealing with workers as these jobs are no longer their primary source of income. Only carrot policy works, stick has to be spared.”
There were only 2 banks with 9 branches in this city of Gujarat before the Tata plant was set up and their deposits amounted to only Rs. 104 crores but after the setting up of plant, the amount of deposits has risen to Rs.3, 000 crores and 25 new banks have been set up with 56 branches.
Managing Director of NAMI Steels, Parixit Patel has this to say, “We have high-net-worth individuals in our security and machine operations. Most of them work to keep themselves constructively occupied rather than earn money.” He also told that when he sold Parixit Industries Ltd. to Dutch Company, at that time, “There were about 50 such crorepati workers in PIL when we exited.”
After getting the compensation from Tata, these owners enjoyed their life but after sometime they understood that they need some work to keep themselves busy so they joined these factories.
Sanand Industries Association’s Secretary Shailesh Thakkar says, “There are many units that employ crorepati workers. At one point of time, units were hit with high attrition as workers quit jobs after receiving crores of rupees for their land. Thankfully, many have got back to work.”
These people from Sanand have seen their Acche Din, long back.