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Job guarantee law demanded

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR, AUG. 23. The Centre of Indian Trade Unions today reiterated its demand for enactment of an employment guarantee law and steps for protection of unorganised and farm labourers, while underlining the need to put the Central Government's commitments made in the common minimum programme to practice.

The CITU national secretary, Tapan Sen, addressing a press conference here, said trade unions believed that though the Union Budget for this year had made provisions favourable for rural economy, the budgetary allocations were not matching. "Besides, the promotion of foreign direct investments in the sectors such as telecom and aviation is not a step in the right direction,'' he said.

Mr. Sen said the United Progressive Alliance Government had the responsibility to formulate its policies to fulfil people's aspirations reflected in their mandate rejecting the socio-economic policies of the National Democratic Alliance. "We have made it clear to the Government that the trade unions will oppose all anti-people, anti-farmer and anti-labourer policies,'' he added.

The CITU leader pointed out that the issues such as reduction in Provident Fund interest rate, erosion of social security and discouragement to small savings had disturbed the trade unions and demanded that the Government take concrete steps to protect the interests of labourers.

He said the CITU was mobilising labourers against opening up of various sectors to foreign investment and would strongly place the demand for upward revision in the ceilings on payment and entitlement under the labour laws, such as the Payment of Wages Act and the Workman Compensation Act. The tripartite Standing Labour Committee will meet in New Delhi on October 8 next to discuss these issues and prepare the agenda for the Indian Labour Conference to be organised in December. Mr. Sen said the CITU's stand on the issues of right to strike, liberalisation and selling of public sector undertakings had not changed after the installation of new Government in the Centre.

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