chennai on the assurance given by the tiruvallur district collector that their issue would be sorted out in the coming week the retrenched workers of hindustan motorshindustan motor finance corporation ltd and their family members wound up their indefinite sitin protest at the collectorate on friday late night a worker saidthey began their protest on friday morning demanding back their land or a job in pca automobiles india private ltdcar maker pca automobiles located in tiruvallur is a joint venture between global automotive manufacturer stellantis group and indias ck birla grouphindustan motors ltdhindustan motor finance belonged to the ck birla groupthe collector spoke to cpis tamil nadu unit secretary r mutharasan and assured him that the matter will be sorted out on monday and requested the protest be called off e srinivasan secretary of the hindustan motors land giving farmers progressive association told ianswe have called off the protest for now if the matter is not resolved then we will restart our protest h ismail one of the retrenched workers whose grandfathers land was acquired by hindustan motors in 1968 told iansthe protest was flagged off by cpi mp k subbarayan friday morning according to a worker the state government does not want a protest on the day of gandhi jayanthithe workers were earlier employed by hindustan motors ltdhindustan motor finance corporation ltd at its tiruvallur car plant rolling out japanese mitsubishi motors corporations models like lancer pajero and also under contract manufacturing deal for isuzu motors mu 7 modellater about 175 permanent workers and over 150 contract workers were retrenched by hindustan motor finance corporation and the plant was transferred to pca automobileswe were retrenched despite an agreement signed between the two joint venture partners that the workers will be absorbed by pca automobiles ismail saidbased on this employee transfer agreement hindustan motor finance corporation got permission from the tamil nadu government to transfer the plant and other assets to pca automobiles post transfer of assets the workers permanent and on contract were sent out srinivasan had told iansaccording to srinivasan hindustan motors acquired about 356 acres of agricultural land from 1968 at tiruvallur for its earthmoving equipment divisioninitially hindustan motors bought the land directly from the owners but it was not able to get the extent it wanted and sought the district collectors help later the company deposited the land cost with the government treasury and the government transferred the land to the company srinivasan saidat that point of time the district collector had assured that the land owners will be employed by the company at its earthmoving equipment planthowever the landowners were not given employment as promised earlier and after protesting hindustan motors employed 82 persons mostly the grandsons of the landowners in 1980safter a decade of protests another batch of 82 workers were hired as trainees in 1997 srinivasan saidsrinivasan and ismail said hindustan motors confirmed the trainee workers only after 10 yearshindustan motors hived off a sizable portion of the land