MANGALORE Sept 4: The Construction Workers Federation of India(CWFI) and the Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) on Thursday took out a rally in the city and a protest meeting in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office. About 200 labourers from the construction industry participated in the event.
They first took out a procession in the city from Light house hill road to the Deputy Commissioner's office in the heavy rains and held a demonstration there. They were demanding higher wages, medical insurance and many other facilities and social security schemes.
President of the State CWFI Mr. B. Madhava on this occasion said that the construction workers were given raw deal by the government and it has failed to ensure that all construction works exceeding 10 lakhs to reserve 1 per cent towards the welfare schemes for the labourers. The state government has also failed to achieve 100 per cent financial inclusion of construction workers as a result thousands of workers were not getting the benefits of the financial inclusion like loans, medical benefits and educational facilities for their children.
Mr. Madhava said the BJP government was more intersted in fanning communal issues rather than looking after the interests of the workers.
The workers later presented a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner to send their appeal to the central government.
(Courtesy : mangalorean.com)
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