The West Bengal Civic Police Association, a member
organisation of the Ossongothito Khetra Sramik Sangrami
Mancha, cordially welcomes you to a press conference at the Kolkata Press
Club on November 4, 2014 at 3 p.m.
The West Bengal Civic
Police Association (WBCPA) is an association of men and women who are employed
by the State Government of West Bengal in India to supplement mainstream
policing and to provide short duration routine guarding duties. WBCPA
was formed in December 2013 for the betterment of its members’ working
conditions.
On October 10, 2013, 130,000 men and women between the age
of 18 and 28 years were recruited by the West Bengal government as “civic
police volunteers”, with a wage rate of only Rs.141.82 per day and extremely
precarious working conditions. With the help of the Ossonghotito Khetra Sramik
Sangrami Manch the civic police began self-organising in November 2013, with
meetings and conventions in many police stations and districts. During the Lok
Sabha elections, they were on duty. However by June 30, all of them were thrown
out of employment. The young men and women therefore organised a large protest
meeting in Kolkata on July 10, 2014, which was attended by about 35-40,000
youth.
The members of WBCPA have had to face huge repression
after their July meeting. Despite High Court orders in their favour, many
facing dismissal have not been reinstated.
It
is in this context of repression, false police cases, physical torture and
other illegal acts that the WBCPA is calling this press conference to declare
its future programme as well as to give details of the problems being faced by
our members.
For WBCPA
Sanjay Poria, President
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