AITUC threatens stir in Goa if demands not met Webindia123.com Panaji | February 14, 2006 12:40:30 AM IST
The CPI-led All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) today threatened to intensify its agitation if the state government failed to accede to its 18-point charter of demands inclding regularisation of 1800 PWD contract labourers by next month. The AITUC, earlier, submitted a seven-page memorandum to chief minister Pratapsinh Rane listing their demands. It had also taken out a rally led by its general secretary Christopher Fonseca and secretary Rajiv Mangeshkar from Kadamaba Transport Corporation to the old secretariat that culminated in a meeting. Revival of Goa Antibiotic and Pharmaceutical Limited in Penjim, introduction of a new eco-friendly and labour-intensive industrial policy to attract durable investments, provision of at least 70 per cent jobs to locals in hotel industry, and raising of minimum daily wages to Rs 175, are some of the demands put forth by the AITUC. The AITUC, in a resolution, condemned the "repression let loose by the Government on Saleli villagers in South Goa's Sattari Taluka since December 2005". Stone-quarrying and crushing operations in the village have destroyed the productive fields and polluted the ground water, besides causing injury to humans and cattle, the AITUC said. UNI SRN-BM MAZ AK DB2151
