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Tailors demand welfare fund

Staff Correspondent

Protesters take out procession in Hubli and Dharwad, stage 'rasta roko'

COLLECTIVE DEMAND: Members of the Karnataka Tailors' Association taking out a procession in Hubil on Tuesday.

HUBLI: Hundreds of members of the Karnataka State Tailors' Association, Dharwad district unit, took out a protest march here on Tuesday in support of their demands.

They staged a "rasta roko" in protest against the negligence of the State Government in fulfilling their demands. The protest was part of a State-wide agitation of the association.

The protest march in which many women took part began from the Indira Glass House here and concluded at the tahsildar's office. The protesters said there were around 10 lakh people engaged in the tailoring profession in the State. Devendra Damodar and Vasanthkumar Paste, president and general secretary of the association's Dharwad district unit respectively, urged the State Government to set up tailoring workers welfare fund board on the lines of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

They said although Deputy Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa promised to earmark funds for the benefit of tailors, he had not made allocations in the State Budget.

The members of the association staged a "rasta roko" in Dharwad and took out a protest march.

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