Deepak Sharma and Atul Verma were elected president and secretary, respectively , of the Uttarakhand Medical and Sales Representatives Association (UMSRA) on Sunday. The elections of the UMSRA were held during the annual convention of the association. More than 200 Medical Representatives (MR) participated in the convention.
Addressing the convention Deepak Sharma said that the management of medical companies is adopting all methods for exploiting the employees. He exhorted the MRs to put a united fight against this practice of the companies. Sharma said that the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat should look into the problems of the MRs. The association demanded that the implementation of minimum wages, working of not more than eight hours a day, inclusion of sales promotion employees in the definition of workers and implementation of sales promotion act of 1976.
Sharma said that the sales promotion act should be strictly enforced by the State Government. He said that a proposal to amend the above mentioned act is pending for long and the Central Government too had directed the State Government for this. Sharma said sales promotion employees have been given the status of workman in 18 states of the country.
The annual report of the association was presented by Rakesh Dharni on the occasion. The election procedure was supervised by State general secretary of CITU Virendra Bhandari. In the elections Prabhakar Dhondiyal and Rajesh Rana were elected Joint secretaries and Rajesh Rana was elected treasurer.