The Orissa Karmachari Sangrama Samiti organised the sixth edition of its conference here on Tuesday. Committee president Ramesh Rout chaired the meeting. More than 2,000 Samiti representatives participated in the conference. Culture and Tourism Minister Ashok Panda, who inaugurated the event, said the Government would sympathetically consider the employees’ demands and problems. MlAs Priyadarshi Mishra and Bijay Kumar Mohanty and Mayor Anant Narayan Jena were present as guests.
Samiti secretary general Upendra Pati read out the annual report. He demanded regularisation of the contractual workers. The Samiti also demanded stopping exploiting the workers and ending the unemployment problem. Madhusudan Mallick and Pravat Kumar Mohanty were selected as the new president and secretary general of the Samiti, respectively.