Tumkur: AITUC stages protest against the Center’s anti-labor policies
Tumkur: Opposing the central government’s anti-labor policies, AITUC carried out a protest march from Town Hall to BSNL office under the theme ‘Mazdoor Bachao, Desh Bachao, Modi Hathao’.
Addressing labors at Town Hall, AITUC district president Girish said the Union Government is practicing anti-labor and pro-owner policies by converting about 44 labor laws into four simplified codes. As per the existing law, all the rules of the labor laws are applicable if there are 20 workers in a factory or company, but it has been increased to 40 in the new law. As a result, around 47 crore unorganized labors are going to come out of the labor laws. It will be like; there won’t be any relation between the owner and the labors. So we are fighting to scrap this law, "he said.
“The central government has snatched away the cesses of labor welfare, building workers, beedi workers, and other cesses; by implementing GST. Now, for everything we must stand before the central government with folded hands,” he added.
This is precisely the same as the millions of construction labors, Beedi labors, and other workers are being done injustice. Also, the owners have knocked the court’s door against the board's decision as per which the minimum wage of Rs.14,000 per month must be given to labors. The central government is indirectly supporting it, he accused.
Many protesters including AITUC Ashwatnarayana, Satyanarayana, Ramesh Shira, Madhugiri Ramanna, Thurvekere Sivananda, Gubbi Doddatimmaiah, Ravishankar of Indosis were present.
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Karnataka govt to provide NEET coaching for rural students: Dr Sharanaprakash R. Patil
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government will take special initiatives to provide NEET coaching to students from rural areas, Medical Education, Skill Development and Livelihood Minister Dr Sharanaprakash R. Patil told the Legislative Council on Monday.
According to The New Indian Express, during the Question Hour, Congress MLC Ivan D’Souza raised concerns that the NEET system is depriving rural students of medical education and questioned whether poor students from rural areas can afford the coaching with just Rs 3 lakh provided.
Responding to the issue, Patil said the NEET system has not reduced the number of medical seats in the state, nor has it caused any shortage.
He said that while they had decided to scrap the NEET system, the Supreme Court had ruled in its favour.
The minister assured that the government will introduce various measures to provide more effective NEET coaching to rural students so that they can compete better in the examination.
