Construction workers seek effective utilisation of funds
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Seeking aid and effective utilisation of the funds accessible with the Construction Workers’ Welfare Board, scores of development workers staged a web based protest on Saturday.
The protest was held in response to the decision given by the Karnataka Rajya Samyukta Karmika Sangha affiliated to the All-India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC) to spotlight the poor state of the development workers and to seek fulfilment of their calls for.
Scores of development workers took half within the on-line protest holding placards and pamphlets looking for aid.
Speaking in the course of the protest, president of the Dharwad district committee Gangadhar Badiger mentioned that as a result of of the pandemic many poor households of development workers had been pressured to come back on the road and 1000’s among the many workers had turn into victims of the pandemic. In Karnataka, there have been funds to the tune of ₹8,500 crore with the Construction Workers’ Welfare Board and steps must be taken to utilise the identical for the welfare of the development workers.
He demanded that instantly all the development workers must be given a month-to-month aid of ₹10,000 for 3 months and this aside development workers who didn’t get any aid in the course of the first wave of the pandemic must be given a compensation of ₹1 lakh instantly aside from offering free remedy and vaccine to the workers and their members of the family.
Mr. Gangadhar additionally demanded {that a} compensation of ₹10 lakh must be introduced for these registered members who died of COVID-19 and ₹5 lakh to unregistered workers.
District secretary Ramesh Hosamani emphasised the necessity for development workers to get united to battle for his or her rights.
Other office-bearers, together with Ningamma Huded, Ravi Kittur, Dyamannava Chaluvadi, Iranna Itagi Rafiq Kanaki, and others, took half within the on-line protest from their properties.
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