Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 9: Northern Zone Insurance Employees’ Association (NZIEA) here today staged protests in response to the call by All India Insurance Employees’ Association.
The protesters were supporting Quit India Movement Day with ‘Jail Bharo Satyagraha’ of All India Kissan Sabha (AIKS) and Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU).
Speaking on the occasion Pawan Gupta, Divisional Secretary NZIEA demanded implementation of M.S Swaminathan report to increase the Minimum Support Price to one and a half times the cost on production.
He further said that the Government has very smartly changed the formula to calculate the cost of production adversely affecting the farmers.
“There has been a big increase in suicides of farmers during the tenure of the NDA Government and this Government has proposed to amend labour laws in favour of corporates, thereby, snatching the rights of workers, achieved through big struggles,” he maintained.
He said that India slipped 21 places on the Global Gender Gap Index to 108, behind Bangladesh.
“India ranked at 136 out of the total 144 countries in terms of participation of women in the economy. Despite the repeated attempts by the Government to manipulate GDP growth figures, growth was faltering,” he continued adding that the twin assaults of demonetization and GST further crippled the economy, particularly unorganized sector.
It Srinagar, the protest was led by A.M Tantray, President NZIEA Srinagar Division.
In Jammu region, the protests were led by Rajesh Kumar, Rajesh Gupta, Karan Kumar, Nanak Chand, Vijay Verma at Kathua, Tilak Raj at Samba, Neeraj Khajuria at Udhampur, Ram Raj at Doda and Neeraj Sharma at Rajouri.
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