During my visit to Agartala (Tripura) the leaders of the BSNL Casual and Contract Workers Federation met me and discussed about the issues of the Casual and Contract workers.

There are  119 casual workers in Agartala who have been working since the last 15 to 20 years While they are being paid the CDA wages, the IDA wages are not paid. Their regularisation has not been done so far on the plea of the Supreme Court verdict in the Umadevi case. EPF is being deducted but no account number has been given. ESI is not being deducted.

There are specific rules for all these. Then why it is not being implemented. Complete injustice being done to the issues of these workers. The BSNL management has to see that justice is meted out to these workers.