Tata Motors [Get Quote] said on October 20 it has 'disengaged' 300 temporary workers at its Jamshedpur plant. "In this financial year, since April 2008, the (Jamshedpur) plant has engaged, on an average, 1,455 temporary workmen every month; 300 such temporary workmen's assignments have got over and they have been disengaged," a company spokesperson said.

"It is a routine process to take in temporary workmen for assignments and they are disengaged as their individual assignments are over. We have, on an average, taken in 1,455 workmen every month this fiscal," explained the spokesperson. The Jamshedpur factory has around 8,000 permanent workmen apart from executives.