On March 18th 2019, around 500 tribal members launched an indefinite protest in front of the main gate of the Vedanta refinery, demanding jobs and free education for their children in the Vedanta-managed school at Lanjigarh. During the protests, 2 protesters were killed, and 50 were injured, after Odisha Industrial Security Force (OISF) personnel used batons on displaced tribal members demanding jobs. The two persons killed were Dani Batra, a displaced person of Chatarapur village and Sujit Kumar Minj, a worker of the company. “The Vedanta Alumina Company acquired around 3,000 acres of land in 2004 in Rangopali, Potagada Bundel, Bandhuguda and other villages, on the promise of providing jobs. But now, the company is not considering our demands. The officials of the company also promised to provide free education for our children. But our kids are being denied education in the school of the company. We were peacefully agitating in front of the office when the OISF mercilessly attacked us. As a result, two persons were killed and many sustained injuries”, said Basant Batra of Rangopali. "The officials of the company are giving priority to outsiders in the matter of jobs, depriving local youths, who have the requisite degrees and diplomas in different streams. Those who have lost land have also accused the company authorities of adopting anti-local policies in all the appointments in their project, in violation of the decisions of the Rehabilitation and Peripheral Development Advisory Committee", said Lingaraj Azad, vice-president of Samajabadi Jana Parisada and one of the leaders of Niyamagiri Surakhya Samiti.