Vizag steel plant, a saga of steely grit, struggle and sacrifice
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February 09, 2021 01:06 IST
The VSP was set up after a series of protests spearheaded by students and death of 32 people in police firing
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Then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao dedicating the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant to the nation on August 1, 1992 as former Minister of State for Steel Santosh Mohan Deb and Chief Minister N. Janardhan Reddy look on.
The VSP was set up after a series of protests spearheaded by students and death of 32 people in police firing
Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) has a long saga of struggle and sacrifices. It was a people’s movement in then combined Andhra Pradesh, in which students from Andhra Medical College, Andhra University, Ms. AVN College and many other colleges from Guntur, Krishna, Warangal and East Godavari districts, had participated. They were led by stalwarts such as Tenneti Viswanadham, Gouthu Latchanna, Puchalapalli Sundarayya,
CITU Haryana unit to gherao eight Ministers
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Move is part of union’s nationwide campaign supporting farmers’ agitation
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Move is part of union’s nationwide campaign supporting farmers’ agitation
The Haryana unit of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) will gherao eight Ministers, including Chief Minister Manohar Lal, over the next week to express solidarity with the farmers seeking repeal of the farm laws.
It is part of CITU’s nationwide campaign supporting the farmers’ agitation.
On February 14
Giving details, CITU Haryana vice-president Satvir Singh said the workers from Gurugram, Rewari and Mewat would lay siege to the residence of Union Minister of State for Statistics and Gurugram MP Rao Inderjit Singh, on February 14 in support of the farmers’ demand for withdrawal of laws and legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price. Similarly, the CITU workers from Sonipat, Panipat, Kaithal and Karnal will gherao the office of Mr. Lal in
Tribune News ServiceNew Delhi, February 6
The Delhi Police have deployed over 40,000 police personnel in and around the National Capital to avoid any kind of flare up amidst calls for a countrywide c
‘Govt. policy is to help RTC; ₹6,000 cr. given in 5 years’
The government has expressed willingness to form an independent society under it instead of floating a legally independent company, KSRTC-SWIFT, for operating long-distance buses under the proposed restructure of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC).
The offer to form the society was extended by Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac on Friday to win over the three recognised trade unions of Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) that are opposing the formation of the independent company.
At the talks in the presence of Transport Minister A.K. Saseendran and KSRTC Chairman and Managing Director Biju Prabhakar in the Secretariat here, Dr. Isaac said the formation of the society was the alternative that the government could offer.
CITU condemns cut in ICDS funding
Mysuru,
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CITU activists and anganwadi workers staging a demonstration in Mysuru on Thursday. | Photo Credit:
M.A. SRIRAM
Activists of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) staged a demonstration in the city on Thursday against the curtailing of allocation to the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) in the Union Budget.
They said that the allocation has been curtailed by 30 per cent resulting in slashing of the funds by ₹1400 crore. This comes at a time when malnutrition was on the high among children resulting in stunted growth, according to CITU.