Annual General Body Meeting of the Andaman Sarvajanik Nirman Vibhag Mazdoor Sangh (ASNVMS), affiliated to CITU held

Sri Vijaya Puram, Nov 05: About two hundred Members of the Union from different Divisions of APWD at Port Blair and rural South Andaman attended the General Body Meeting. In his presidential address, B. Chandrachoodan, President of the Union elaborately explained the relentless struggles conducted by the ASNVMS and CITU on various demands of APWD workers during the last 10 – 15 years. He said that it was due to the protracted agitation by the APWD workers that the Administration was compelled to bring a separate scheme to extend the 1/30th of pay plus DA benefits to the daily rated workers working in all the departments under the Administration. Addressing the meeting, D. Ayyappan, Vice President, CITU State Committee briefly explained the various anti-working-class measures being pursued