30th conference of CITU related to Himachal Hotel Mazdoor Lal Jhanda Union was held

The 30th conference of CITU related to Himachal Hotel Mazdoor Lal Jhanda Union was held at CITU Office, Kisan Mazdoor Bhawan, Chitkara Park, Kaithu, Shimla. A 31-member committee including six vacant seats was formed at the conference. Pratap Chauhan was elected President, Vikram Sharma as General Secretary, Purna Chand Sharma as Treasurer, Vinod Birsanta, Satpal Birsanta, Deshraj as Vice President, Kapil Negi, Suresh Sharma, Prakash Sharma as Secretaries. Satpal, Shankar, Virendra Negi, Satish, Rati Ram, Sant Ram, Dushyant, Shyam, Mahendra, Rajendra, Santosh, Subhash, Manohar, Rajesh, Mukesh, Praveen and Ram Lal were elected committee members. The conference was inaugurated by CITU District President Kuldeep Dogra and concluded by Ajay Dulta. CITU State President Vijendra Mehra, Vice President Jagat Ram, District Treasurer Balak Ram, Vice President Himi Devi, Sunil Mehta and Dalip Singh were present in the conference.

Newly elected President Pratap Chauhan and General Secretary Vikram Sharma said that due to the neo-liberal and pro-capitalist policies of the Modi government at the Centre, the crisis of unemployment, poverty, inequality and livelihood is increasing. Poverty and hunger are increasing due to unemployment and inflation. Rising inflation due to weakening of the public distribution system has broken the back of the people. There is a huge increase in the prices of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and food items. He *ensured minimum wage of Rs 26,000 per month and pension to all workers; By repealing the four anti-labor labor codes and the Electricity Amendment Bill, banning contract, part-time, multi-purpose, multi-task, temporary, casual, fixed term, contractual system and outsourced system, all these workers should be regularized and thrown out of the job. Demanded reinstatement of hundreds of Covid workers, expansion in urban areas, providing 200 working days at a wage of Rs 375 per day in MNREGA, registration of MNREGA, construction and BRO workers in the Labor Welfare Board and restoration of economic benefits. . He called for stopping privatization and disinvestment of public sector undertakings, ending the National Monetization Pipeline and Agneepath scheme, stopping inflation, strengthening the ration system in the depots and making it universal, regularizing all the scheme workers including Anganwadi, Mid Day Meal, Asha workers etc. , implementing OPS for the employees of Electricity Board, Municipal Corporations, other boards and corporations, stopping privatization of BRO and regularizing BRO workers, implementing Street Vendors Act for street vendors, withdrawing anti-worker and owner changes in the Motor Vehicle Act. demanded.