A two-day executive body meeting of Jharsuguda Progressive Workers’ Forum was held under the presidentship of Manoj Nayak.
The meeting passed political agenda besides holding the election of its office bearers. State secretary Rakshakar Anupam, president Golak Bihari Nath and labour leader Anil Mohanty attended as observers.
Bhagaban Jamudalia has been elected as president, Kuni Rana as secretary, Sindhia Kalo as vice president, Sanjay Sa as assistant secretary and Sushree Subanti as cashier of the forum
It was decided to take up district wise agitational and creative activities. For ensuring social security of unorganised filed workers, rallies for the rights of workers have been held by the forum in each village and slum of the district in which around more than 10,000 workers from 200 branches have been associated, it was informed.
It was also decided to launch strike in June in front of Raj Bhavan demanding survey and identification of skilled, unskilled and high skilled workers getting monthly pension of Rs 5,000.