kolkatahooghly workers of jessop on wednesday received the first instalment of their dues as promised by the state government last week dunlop employees are awaiting their turna source in jessop said eight workers of this ailing engineering firm got cheques worth rs 10000 each on wednesday from the labour commissioners office in barrackporein the case of dunlop the administration has assured workers about the payment soon the labour department used to pay rs 1500 to dunlop workers as unemployment allowance which will now be replaced by this rs 10000 stipend announced last week here the amount will be credited directly to the bank account said a source in the state governmentlast friday a day before the end of the assembly session ahead of the state polls chief minister mamata banerjee declared that the state would take over ailing dunlop and jessop two companies owned by the pawan ruiacontrolled ruia groupshe also said the state government would pay stipend to workers each month jessop has 460 workers and dunlop 504 none of them had been getting salaries for more than four yearsthe ruia group only called for suspension of work in 2011at the dunlop factory but there was no closure noticethe jessop factories too are officially not closed but there has been no production in the last five years neither have the workers been paidas per estimates the state government would require around rs 1 crore every month to pay the stipend a state government official said that the financial liabilities of both companies were being assessed after assessing the liabilities we shall take a call there are some irregularities in the financials the official addedthe dunlop factory in sahaganj is spread over 239 acres the plant is on 58 acres around 100 acres are vacant and the remaining has workers facilities jessop has 71 acres prime land on jessore road now lucrative for real estateanother jute mill shuts shopkolkata around 2500 workers lost their jobs after a suspension of work notice was put up at kamarhati prabartak jute mill on wednesday a day after three inttuc labour union leaders were beaten up and injured by mill workers during an agitation a section of workers alleged that a section of trinamool leaders conspired with mill officials to reduce their daily wages by cutting down their job shifts and influencing the authorities to shut shop the angry workers blocked bt road near belgharia on wednesday morning for over an hour in protest