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Sacked workers from the Honda two-wheeler manufacturing unit at Tapukara in Alwar district protested outside Honda showrooms across several districts. Activist from Gujarat Jignesh Mewani also joined the workers in Jaipur on Wednesday. The workers said that after 3,000 of them were sacked in February this year, Honda appointed workers who were not ITI trained. Many of the current lot of workers, they said, had not finished school. The unit manufactures around three bikes each minute and requires a high level of specialization. There is a clear difference in the quality of products now being churned out, the sacked workers claimed, adding that around 10,000 two-wheelers from the unit meant for sale in Bangladesh have recently been put on hold.
