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SEZs should protect labour rights: Viswan

KALPETTA: Twenty-eight public enterprises in the State, including the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation, are on the path of becoming profit-making enterprises and this achievement has been made through the cooperation of the workers and the strong determination of the Left Democratic Front government, Vaikom Viswan, convener of the front and president of the Kerala State Road Transport Employees’ Union (CITU), has said.

He was inaugurating the general council of the union at the Vyapara Bhavan auditorium in Sultan Bathery on Sunday.

Mr. Viswan said the interests of workers in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) coming up in the State should be protected.

The SEZs would be implemented on the basis of 13 criteria decided by the government.

He said the Chengara agitation was the work of reactionary forces in the State and as a result of it, workers in the estate there were losing their jobs.

K.K. Divakaran, MLA and working president of union, presided. P.K. Rajendran, secretary; K. Sukumara Pillai, treasurer; P. Krishnaprasad, MLA; and P.K. Saseendran, district secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist); were among those who spoke.

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