‘Workers in unorganised sector will get social security soon’

BJP will simplify Labour Act to eradicate child labour, says Bandaru Dattatreya

Union Minister of State for Labour Bandaru Dattatreya has said that the BJP led Narendra Modi government at the Centre aimed at providing social security to 45 crore workers in unorganised sector in the months to come.

It had embarked on simplifying Labour Act to totally eradicate child labour system, ensure payment of minimum wages and skill development and employability among youth, he said while addressing the ‘Jan Kalyan Parve’ here on Monday.

He said the Modi government increased the amount of the Central Housing Scheme to beedi workers from Rs.45,000 to Rs. one lakh.

He said a 50-bedded hospital would be set up in the district for the benefit of workers and dispensaries would also be sanctioned. The long pending Peddapally-Nizamabad railway line would be completed by next year, he said, adding that the Centre would lay 1,000 km-long National Highways in Telangana.

Emphasising upon the need of coordination between Centre and States for the speedy progress Mr. Dattatreya said that the Modi government would extend all possible help for achieving the Bangaru Telangana.

BJP State president G. Kishan Reddy said that the NDA government introduced several schemes to benefit farmers. It increased the compensation for crop damage by four times and decided to pay full amount even if 33 per cent crop was damaged in calamities, he said.

The party national general secretary P. Muralidhar Rao expressed the hope that in next four years the country would become number one in infrastructure by completing all pending projects.

The BJP ruled States such as Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Chattisgarh established a record of 18 per cent, 10 per cent and 8 per cent agricultural growth rate respectively in the last ten years and which was far greater than the national average whereas the Congress ruled States registered below the national average, he said.

Former MLA Yendala Lakshminarayana, party leaders Loka Bhupathy Reddy and Aljapur Srinivas also spoke. The party district president Palle Ganga Reddy presided.