Regency Ceramics Ltd. announced the future of about 1,200 workers (contract and regular) of the company appears to be bleak as the factory, which is one of the biggest in the area, is unlikely to reopen in the foreseeable future. The company condemned the killing of company's president (operations)K C Chandrasekhar by workers and said his company provided employment to about 1,200 workers directly and to another 3,000 persons indirectly. The factory has been burning since Friday following the attack of contract workers who have been on strike for the past few weeks, but no authority has bothered to extinguish it. Regency Ceramics Limited, the largest exporter of ceramic tiles in India, was set up at Yanam in the Union Territory of Puduchery by GN Naidu in the 1980s and has an annual turnover about '2,060 million. Around 1,200 employees are working in it with a majority of them hailing from East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh and around 30% being natives. Most of the regular workers and contract workers, who signed the agreement with the management on production-based incentives, claim that the contract workers who went on the rampage did not bother about the lives of their co-workers.