Around 170 participants, including representatives of Government, civil society groups, NGOs, political parties, lawyers and leaders of domestic labour associations from 30 slums of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, Khordha and Puri districts actively participated in a State-level consultation on ‘Ensuring social security and entitlements of domestic labour’ and shared their views in respect of land and housing rights of slum-dwellers and urban poor in Odisha.
The consultation was organised by YUVA-Basic Service Facilitation Center, Bhubaneswar in collaboration with Centre for Advocacy and Research (CFAR), Women’s Organisation for Social Welfare (WOSW), Rashtriya Yuba Samaj (RYS) and All Odisha Domestic labour Welfare Association (AODlWA) on Monday.
RTI activist Pradip Pradhan, BMC Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena, Building and Other Construction labour Welfare Board Chairman Subash Singh and Sashikanta Pradhan attended the event and highlighted the problems being faced by slum dwellers and the facilities available for them under various Government scheme.