Bathinda, October 14
Scores of landless labourers, including their family members, under the banner of the Dehati Mazdoor Sabha, staged a protest in front of Deputy Commissioner’s office in Bathinda demanding compensation after they did not get work following the pink bollworm attack on cotton crop in the Malwa region.
The protesters raised slogans against the state government before submitting a memorandum of demands to the Chief Minister via senior district administrative officials.
Mahipal Sathi, a leader of the union, said, “After a large part of cotton-cultivated area came under the pink bollworm attack, many labourers were rendered jobless. We demand from the government that every effected labourer family be provided with Rs 30,000 as compensation.” — TNS
No work, labourers seek compensation
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