Meet calls for safeguard of local labourers
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, March 05 2023:
Taking serious note of the situation at Khong shang railway station that went viral On social media recently and considering the impact of Trans Asian highway and railways on the workers of the state, Manipur Railways Mall Godam Mazdoor Sangh (MRMGMS) convened a meeting on Saturday to look into the critical condition of workers in the state and discuss about the essentiality of effective implementation of 'The Inter State Migrant Workmen (Regulation and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.In a release, MRMGMS general secretary Koijam Tomba Singh said that the trade union has been urging the department concerned to effectively implement The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 and check whether proper employer certificates were possessed by the labourers while terming as highly questionable why the department concerned failed to make the reports public.
He called for minutely looking into Inter State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service (Act), 1979 and The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 and implement it effectively in the state so as to protect the native workers.
The meeting also resolved to convene a general body meeting of the trade union at Khurai Konsam Leikai on March 23, he added.