The Party Congress at Calicut being held now has given an opportunity to meet with many leaders, especially in the  trade union field. The issue of unorganised  workers is one issue which is taken very seriously by the CITU. In BSNL we have formed the BSNL Casual and Contract Workers federation nd we have sought the help of CITU also in settling the issues, since they have been working on the issue of unorganised workers for a long period.

I met Coms. Janardhan Pati (Odisha), Dr. D.L.Karad (Maharashtra) Prasanna Kumar, Mohanty (Karnataka), Kahmiri Singh (H.P) and leaders in other states and discussed the ways and means to ensure minimum wage, social security measures etc as also regularisation of the casual labours. I had requested Com. Tapan Sen M.P., General Secretary CITUto arrange a meeting with the Labour Minister. I discussed with Com. P.R.Natarajan, M.P. who took up the matter in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.  All of them assured support and assured to take up the matter with the Government.