West Bengal: Contract staff tear down banners of Mamata Banerjee

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) celebration, which has been vocal concerning the ongoing anti-farm legislation agitation towards the Union authorities, had drawn the ire of contractual staff related to Self Employed Labor Organisations. The contractual labourers have been demanding that they be made everlasting workers of the federal government and get a hard and fast wage as an alternative of fee, that has dried up throughout the pandemic.
On Monday, throughout a gathering with the State authorities, indignant staff tore down TMC banners and destroyed flex boards, that includes Mamata Banerjee, on the Netaji Indoor Stadium. In a video shared by ABP News, the contractual labourers might be seen taking out their anger towards the present political dispensation. The incident came about within the presence of State Urban Minister Firhad Hakim, Power Minister Sobhan Deb Chattopadhyay and Labour Minister Moly Ghatak.

(Video Courtesy: ABP News)As per reviews, the contractual staff have been hoping that the federal government would give them assurance about their long-standing wage demand or point out concerning the wage construction. However, when not one of the TMC Minister spoke about it, the indignant protestors ripped aside banners and flex boards.
“You have to give our monthly wage of ₹13,500,” mentioned one protestor. Another employee requested, “We are supposed to get our salary today.” Why did it not occur?” When the police efficiently escorted the TMC Ministers out of the stadium, the employees then blocked the Shahid Khudiram Bose Road.
Workers demand mounted minimal wage from the West Bengal authorities
According to the contractual labourers, the Self Employed Labor Organisation was fashioned to lift cash each month in varied social safety schemes from 6500 unorganised staff in West Bengal throughout the Left regime. They mentioned that they might obtain commissions for withdrawing cash for the unorganised staff. However, because of the pandemic, the withdrawal course of had come to a halt since March-April of this 12 months, thereby wiping out their fee. As such, they demanded a hard and fast minimal wage construction from the federal government, the peace of mind of which was not obtained throughout the assembly.
When contacted, Ghatak instructed PTI that the state authorities had obtained a deputation from the contractual labourers, which included the demand to make them everlasting staff.
“We had nothing to announce today. We know that these labourers are not getting their commission for the last six months. We are looking into their demands but such protest was totally uncalled for,” Ghatak mentioned.
In his defence, Firhad Hakim claimed, “Demands can’t be fulfilled like this. If we inform CM about it she will definitely do something.” However, energy Minister Sovondeb Chattopadhyay conceded, “They have a legitimate demand and I hope the matter will be settled amicably.” While Hakim mentioned that calls for can’t be met this manner, the contractual labourers mentioned that that they had agreed to attend this assembly solely after an assurance was provided that their calls for could be met.
Mamata Banerjee writes to govt to disburse cash beneath PM-Kisan scheme to her
In her letter issued on December 21, Mamata Banerjee had alleged that the West Bengal authorities nonetheless awaits the disbursement of funds to the state authorities for the onward switch of the funds to the farmers of the state. Interestingly, the West Bengal CM has additionally enclosed a replica of a letter dated 9 September 2020 to allege that her authorities had not obtained the funds from the central authorities even after demanding for a similar earlier in September.
Centre rejects Banerjee’s demand for routing the funds allotted beneath the scheme via the state authorities
In September 2020, Mamata Banerjee had written a letter to the Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, asking him to disburse the quantity meant for farmers beneath the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme to the West Bengal authorities. The Centre had then rejected Mamata Banerjee’s demand of routing the cash to the state authorities, categorically stating that the scheme is predicated on direct profit switch to farmers’ account and “routing money through the state government would be against the spirit of the scheme”.
West Bengal stays the one state which has not carried out this scheme that gives an annual help quantity of Rs 6,000 to farmers in three equal instalments.