BHEl Employees and Contract Workers Joint Morcha felicitated labour Minister Antar Singh Arya for increasing minimum wages as wells as to raise upto 2,300 per month in salary by the State Government.
Felicitating the labour Minister, Zonal president of Bhopal Municipal Corporation Barelal Ahirwar said that a wave of happiness has run through labourers as a result of hiking amount on such a massive scale for the first time before Diwali. For this, the contract workers expressed gratitude to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and labour Minister Antar Singh Arya. BHEl Employees and Contract Workers Joint Morcha also thanked labour Minister Arya for issuing orders to pay gratuity worth Rs 2.31 crore to BHEl Shiksha Mandal.
The orders to the BHEl management have been issued by the Assistant labour Commissioner, Bhopal on the directives of labour Minister Arya. Payment of gratuity of Shiksha Mandal employees is overdue. BHEl Employees and Contract Workers Joint Morcha also submitted a memorandum addressed to the Union labour Minister to labour Minister Arya demanding to regularise temporary contract workers working in BHEl for the last 25 years against vacant posts and also equal pay for equal work. Arya will hand over this memorandum to Union
Minister for labour and Employment and Narendra Singh Tomar in New Delhi on Thursday. Those who felicitated the labour Minister included BHEl Theka Mazdoor Mandideep, labourers of Govindpura Industrial Area and other factories, Morcha vice-president Shri Santosh Amle, Subhash Shriwas, Saroj Chakravarty, Ajay Mishra and a number of labourers’ representatives were present on the occasion.