City-based Centre for Child and Women Development (CCWD), Unorganised Workers’ Forum, Odisha and Action aid jointly held an awareness meeting to mark the International labour Day at the line Sahi slum here on Thursday.
About 50 daily wage labourers and slum committee members participated in the programme. Emphasising on better living standard and safety measures, CCWD secretary Sadasiv Swain said the workers should be well organised. Notably, lakhs of workers are residing in the city’s slum pockets and most of them are not organised.
Youth Federation, Bhubaneswar president Biswa Ranjan Mishra lamented that the living conditions of workers paint a gloomy picture in urban scenario, and called upon the workers to fight for their own rights.