ADMINISTRATION

MC men flay policies
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, July 11 — More than one dozen trade unions of the municipal corporations and municipal committees held a state-level meeting in the city to discuss the ‘anti-worker policies’ of the government and to put an end to exploitation of the employees in the civic bodies in Punjab.

Among other things, it demanded an end to contract system, abolition of mohalla committees set up to supervise sanitation, new recruitment of safai workers in view of increase in population in the major towns and cities, payment of bonus to municipal workers, provision of another option for pension scheme and benefit of holidays to the workers at par with other cadres.

The meeting was organised at the joint call given by the Bahujan Mazdoor Federation, the Safai Labour Union, the Sanitary Supervisor Union, the Safai Mazdoor Congress, the Safai Mazdoor Federation, the Municipal Safai Mazdoor Union, the Municipal Workers Union, the Safai Karamchari Union, the Municipal Electrical Employees Federation, the Municipal Mechanical Union, the Municipal Seweragemen Employees Union, the Punjab Municipal Light Patrollers Association and the Punjab Municipal Workers Federation.

The speakers at the meeting criticised the government for its indifferent attitude and delaying tactics towards genuine demands of the workers, who were persistently being discriminated against by civic administrations and threatened to resort to agitational approach if the government failed to initiate measures for acceptance of their demands and give justice to municipal workers all over the state.