{"id":12217,"date":"2020-08-05T05:33:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T05:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=12217"},"modified":"2020-08-05T05:33:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T05:33:01","slug":"with-eye-on-2021-citu-floats-outfit-for-migrant-returnees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=12217","title":{"rendered":"With eye on 2021, CITU floats outfit for migrant returnees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By: Express News Service<\/a> | Kolkata |
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After Karnataka, the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) \u2014 the CPI(M)\u2019s trade union wing \u2014 has set up a separate organisation for migrant returnees in West Bengal.<\/p>\n

The trade union had recently set up a 67-member preparatory committee to form this new outfit, which has been named the West Bengal Migrant Workers\u2019 Union (WBMWU). The Left party is hoping that this organisation will help it consolidate the votes of these workers in next year\u2019s Assembly elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir problems are unique and will increase even after this corona episode gets over. So, we formed a separate organisation to stand with our migrant workers in the state,\u201d said a senior CPI(M) and CITU leader.<\/p>\n

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee<\/a> has started a scheme called \u201cSneher Parash\u201d for such workers, and directed district administrations to give them jobs under the MGNREGA scheme and rations even if they do not have ration cards. However, according to the trade union, in many districts hundreds of migrant workers are stuck here without jobs, unable to return to the states where they were working before the pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The decision to float this new outfit was taken after this caused unrest in many areas .<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the time of lockdown, migrant workers are in a terrible situation. The Central and state governments did not address their problems. So, we have decided to stand by them and build a movement to help realise their demands,\u201d said WBMWU organisational secretary Jamir Mollah, adding that more than 20,000 worker have become the member of the new group.<\/p>\n

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By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Published: August 5, 2020 5:10:56 am Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has started a scheme called \u201cSneher Parash\u201d for such workers, and directed district administrations to give them jobs under the MGNREGA scheme and rations even if they do not have ration cards. After […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mamata-Banerjee-759.jpgw759.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}