India’s farmers won’t stop protesting until Modi’s unfair agricultural reforms are repealed
Narayan Gaikwad, 73, a farmer from rural Maharashtra has sent 250 postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling on him to repeal the three farm bills passed hastily in September 2020.
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Narayan Gaikwad, 73, a farmer from rural Maharashtra has sent 250 postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling on him to repeal the three farm bills passed hastily in September 2020.
(Sanket Jain
)
Narayan Gaikwad has sent 250 postcards to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and intends to send 300 more. Written meticulously, he wants to draw attention to the massive agrarian crisis that has been taking place in India for decades while calling for the repeal of three agriculture-related reforms hastily passed by the Indian Parliament in September 2020.
Labour law protests to intensify Ten central trade unions have decided to hold state-level agitations in February
Ten central trade unions on Friday decided to intensify their agitation next month over four labour laws that the Narendra Modi government wants to enforce.
The ministry of labour and employment is finalising the rules for the implementation of the Code on Wages, Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions; Code on Industrial Relations and the Code on Social Security. A labour ministry official said the government was planning to implement the laws on February 1.
The Indian National Trade Union Congress (Intuc), All India Trade Union Congress (Aituc) and the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (Citu) met in Delhi on Friday and decided to hold state-level agitations in February.
Put Labour Codes On Hold, Start Fresh Discussions: Trade Unions To Government
The ministry intends to finalise the rules under labour codes by this month-end for implementation of these laws. File photo Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-20T16:37:21+05:30 Put Labour Codes On Hold, Start Fresh Discussions: Trade Unions To Government outlookindia.com 2021-01-20T18:20:31+05:30
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The Central Trade Unions on Wednesday demanded that the implementation of four labour codes should be put on hold and fresh discussions should take place in the spirit of bipartite and tripartite consultations. The Central Trade Unions demanded that all the four codes should be put on hold and then discussions should start with the Central Trade Unions on each of the Labour Code afresh in the true spirit of bipartite and tripartite consultations, the statement said.
The Central Trade Unions have already opposed the arbitrary decision taken by the government to tinker with 40 labour laws and reducing these laws into 4 codes, , trade unions, government, intuc
Labour Codes may get implemented before April 1: Report
Twenty nine central labour laws have been consolidated into four codes on occupational safety, minimum wages, and social security.
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment (Independent Charge), Santosh Kumar Gangwar (Image Source: PIB)
The four labour codes passed by Parliament in September 2020 may get implemented ahead of April 1 as planned earlier,
The Hindu reported on January 13.
The Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Code on Social Security, 2020, and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, were passed by Parliament in 2020, whereas the Code on Wages was passed during the monsoon session of Parliament in 2019.