A meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour will be held tomorrow to take evidence from the BSNL management on the complaint filed before the Committee by the BSNL Casual and Contract Workers Federation. I had the opportunity to give evidence to the Committee earlier on the basis of the complaint filed by me. I have also explained all the issues in detail before the Committee. Recently in the sitting of the committee at Kolkata, Coms. Animesh Mitra, Vice-President and Tapas Ghosh, Secretary General BSNLCCWF had given evidence. About 25 Members of the Parliament are members of this committee.

Tomorrow, the BSNL management will give reply to the queries raised by the Committee and also give oral evidence. The issues include the regularisation of the left-out casual labour, conversion of CDA wages to IDA wages for the casual labour, implementation of minimum wage to the contract labour, implementation of the social security provisions like EPF, ESI etc as also other connected issues.

Today, I met GM(SR), GM(Admn) and  PGM(SR) and discussed about the various demands of the Casual and Contract workers and demanded early settlement.