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Meet focusses on working conditions of labour class

Staff Reporter

KOCHI: The working conditions for the labour class in India has worsened under the present economic conditions, said Sukomal Sen, general secretary of the Trade Union International and All-India State Government Employees' Federation.

He was speaking after inaugurating the 19th national conference of the All-India Peerless Employees Union (CITU) here on Sunday.

Mr. Sen said the economic policies based on globalisation and liberalisation implemented here since 2003 had affected the lives of the people.

He said that while the former National Democratic Alliance-led Government had come up with the slogan `India Shining,' the present United Progressive Alliance-led Government was repeating the same. The Government had said it would increase the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio to 10 percent. If this were to be done, only three percent of it would benefit the poor, while the rest would benefit the rich. This, in turn, would widen the gulf between the rich and the poor.

CITU Maharashtra State secretary P.R. Krishnan, AIPEU general secretary Anudeb Ghosh, working president Nitya Gopal Datta, K. Prabhakaran, Ajith Chatterjee and organising committee chairman K.N. Raveendranath spoke.

The conference will conclude on Tuesday. On Monday, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan will inaugurate the delegates' session at the Ernakulam Women's Association Hall at 10 a.m.

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