Provide Rs 5,000 each to barbers, urges AITUC
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 19 2020:
All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) Manipur State Committee has urged authorities concerned to provide Rs 5,000 to barbers across the State as they are among the section worst hit by Nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19 .
It a press statement, AITUC said that the barbers who are living as tenants across the valley districts are facing a quite hard time as their means of livelihood have been cut off for the past two months above bearing rents and daily expenses.
Social workers, local representatives and State are extending help from time to time but the activities are proving insufficient and not reaching to them very well, said AITUC.
Considering the plight and the likely extension of the lockdown beyond May 31, the State Government and concerned Department should take up an initiative to address the issue and provide Rs 5,000 to these helpless barbers, urged AITUC.