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Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (RD)
Media Release

Udupi, Apr 20: District committee of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) staged a protest rally on Thursday April 19 urging the state administration to fulfill their various demands.

CITU alleged that the state administration has been supporting the rich and capitalists, neglecting the interests of the working class.

The CITU urged the state administration to fix minimum wages of Rs 10,000 for all skilled and unskilled labourers based on the index of January 2008, to regularize the services of daily labourers and contractual labourers serving in all government departments and enterprises, Anganawady assistants, and those working in ‘Aksharadasoha’ mid-day free meal programme at state-run schools, to issue social security identity cards to all labourers working in unorganized sectors, to implement minimum wages for gram panchayat employees, to issue ration cards to labourers and supply 35 kg of rice at Rs 2 per kg to each family, to provide housing to the homeless, to issue principal employer sub-code account to all daily and contracted labourers to avail state insurance scheme and PF, to grant a minimum pension of Rs 1,000 per month to labourers, to grant scholarships to children of ‘bidi’ labourers who are studying in Class I to Class VIII, to include CITU member in union / state committee, to reduce prices of petroleum products, to grant maternity leave of 180 days to working women, and other demands.

CITU district committee chief secretary P Vishwanat Rai, Adamar Sripati Acharya, Dogu Suvarna, Vittal Poojary Brahmavar, Sadashiv Poojary Brahmavar, Rama Battala Karkada, and Shankar Kulal Karkala were present on the occasion.