Camp coolie system in spinning mills should be abolished
— Photo:M. Balaji
We want…: A. Subramaniam, State president of Hind Mazdoor Sabha, speaking at a demonstration in Tirupur.
TIRUPUR: The Hind Mazdoor Sabha criticised the State Government for delaying the handing over of the land for the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation to set up a 100-bed hospital as announced in 2005.
Activists of the Sabha, led by its State president T.S. Rajamani and general secretary A. Subramaniam staged a demonstration in front of the Kumaran Square here.
‘Take steps’
Mr. Subramaniam asked the Centre and State Government to take steps to construct a multi-specialty hospital at the earliest for the benefit of lakhs of workers and their family members.
The Sabha said that a sub regional office of Provident Fund should be set up in Tirupur for the benefit of workers.
They criticised certain managements of hosiery units for not giving identity cards to their workers.
The Sabha asked the Government to abolish the camp coolie system in textile mills. The system of keeping the workers inside office premises amounted to slavery, it said.
SIHMA appeal
In a statement here, the South India Hosiery Manufacturers’ Association president, Mohan P. Kandasamy, asked the ESIC and the State Government to construct a hospital in Tirupur immediately.
Stating that the existing two dispensaries were not adequate to meet the demand, Mr. Kandasamy asked the ESIC authorities to take up the issue with the State Government to get at least 10 acres on the southern part of the town.
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