03 October 2020

PBKMS declares its action plan for Purulia

PBKMS organizes a day long event to chart out its roadmap for the district of Purulia

Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity through a day long event begins a dialogue on the nature of our involvement in Purulia and the way forward for our district team. The event saw the participation of our senior leadership and activists from all blocks of the district. Lately, we have faced significant interference in our work from the police administration and some of our full time activists have faced intimidation and threats on organizing campaigns against irregularities in implementation of rights based legislations. The senior leadership used the platform to strongly condemn such behaviour and reiterated our unwavering commitment in ensuring food and work for the vulnerable people of Purulia.

                                             
    Uttam Gayen, General Secretary, PBKMS addressing the gathering

Calls were given to begin a 'work demand' campaign wherein our members across all the gram panchayats will demand work under MGNRGA, 2005 and apply for new job cards. We will also be demanding greater transparency in disbursal of the wages and increased allocation for the programme, which has the potential to support rural households in a significant manner. A food aid distribution programme has also been flagged off to reach out to more than ten thousand vulnerable households in the district. Rice, pulses and edible vegetable oil feature in a food package.

                                       
Inauguration of the food aid programme

Shri Moloy Ghatak, the Hon'ble Labour Minister of the Govt. of West Bengal has sent a letter expressing his support to our initiatives and apologized for being unable to attend the programme.

Media Announcement of the programme


The senior leadership and guests on the stage

People attending the event with strict adherence to norms of physical distancing

A memorandum bearing the demands of marginal farmers, sharecroppers and agricultural labourers has also been prepared by our members. We demand social security benefits for marginal farmers, sharecroppers and agricultural labourers along with better implementation of government guidelines on payment of minimum wages. The senior leadership plan to submit the memorandum on meeting the Hon'ble Labour Minister in the coming days. The demands raised have been declared below:
  • Extending benefits of the SSY (SamajikSurakshaYojana) to all the members of PBKMS.
  • Extending benefits of the SSY (SamajikSurakshaYojana) subsequently to all agricultural labourers, marginal farmers and sharecroppers.
  • Formulating a social security scheme for agricultural labourers, marginal farmers and sharecroppers.
  • Extension of ESI (Employees’ State Insurance) scheme to all the members of PBKMS.
  • Extension of ESI (Employees’ State Insurance) scheme subsequently to all agricultural labourers, marginal farmers and sharecroppers.
  • Provision of a minimum wage inspector for each and every block in the district of Purulia.
  • Providing necessary directions to the bureaucracy for regular inspection of work sites by minimum wage inspectors.
  • Increasing the number of posts of Assistant Labour Commissioners in the district of Purulia.
Deliberations on the nature of implementation of rights based legislation(s) are being facilitated during the event and the impact of our advocacy efforts will also be taken up during the discussions.

Our event has received widespread coverage from the correspondents of district media houses and a few of the posts have been shared below:

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