BHARATIYA MAZDOOR SANGH ARE MAKING EFFORTS TO INCREASE STRENGTH

PANJIM: The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, which has around 2,000 members in Goa, will be making all efforts to increase its strength in the state. The newly elected all India general secretary of the BMS, Mr B N Rai, who is currently in Goa to address the meeting of the workers of the Sangh at Ponda, on March 27, interacting with media, on Saturday, said that the BMS is presently handling 5 to 6 acute problems such as corruption, price rise, black money stashed in foreign banks and unemployment, among others.

"The main problem is however, unorganised labour sector in the country, which has 42 crore employees, but this employment is not even half employment in terms of minimum wages paid to them, social security and provision of need-based facilities," Mr Rai observed, adding that a common awareness at the grassroots level is a must to counter this problem.

"Unfortunately, the nature of revolution we have, had its epicentre in the urban and not rural locality," he maintained, pointing out that the BMS will carry out a movement at the village, district, block, state and finally, national level, which will culminate into a historic gherao of the Parliament on November 23, 2011 by lakhs of workers under the banner of the Sangh, demanding shift in power and system.

"We have over 1 crore members all over India, and they form the inherent energy of the BMS," he added, stating that the awareness movement would also start in Goa soon.

The state general secretary of the BMS, Mr Hridaynath Shirodkar informed that in Goa the Sangh has its workers in various industries, besides naval establishment, and agencies like bank, railways and postal department. The Goa region in-charge of the BMS, Mr S N Deshpande and state working president of the Sangh, Mr Sabaji Govekar were also present on the occasion.