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Concern over rise in cost of construction materials

Special Correspondent

AITUC plans demonstrations in 100 centres

TIRUCHI: The Tamil Nadu AITUC affiliated to the Communist Party of India (CPI) has condemned the steep increase in the cost of construction materials in the State and urged the State Government to take immediate and effective steps to check this trend.

The prices of various construction materials have increased manifold and has badly hit construction activities across the State. The construction workers have been jobless for days together and were virtually starving. The State Government should step in and bring down the prices of these materials, a resolution adopted at the State organising committee and district office-bearers meeting of the Tamil Nadu AITUC held here on Saturday said.

The changes effected in the Unorganised Sector Workers Social Security Bill by the Union Government have not ensured any benefit to the workers. The Centre should bring in a fresh legislation incorporating the suggestions presented jointly by the central trade unions, another resolution said.

Though the State Government had set up many welfare boards for the benefit of the various sections of the unorganised sector workers, they were not getting any able assistance. The meeting expressed the concern that the State Government has made it a policy to privatise the sanitary works in local bodies. It is not proper on the part of the Government to do away with its responsibility as far as the public health was concerned.

It was decided at the meeting to conduct demonstrations in about 100 centres across the State on September 10 to press the above demands.

K. Subbarayan, MP, presided over the meeting. The honorary president of the Tamil Nadu AITUC, A. M. Gopu, general secretary, S. S. Thiagarajan, and others spoke.

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