Save migrant workers from middlemen, CPI(M) urges govt.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) Central Committee Member, U. Vasuki, has urged the State government to rescue migrant agricultural workers from the clutches of middlemen.
The CPI(M) leader told presspersons here that workers from northern States came to Tamil Nadu in search of jobs and get employed in agricultural operations. Claiming that such migrant workers, particularly from West Bengal, get trapped in the network of middlemen, she said agents receive wages on behalf of the migrant workers on contract and do not pay the workers the entire amount.
Ms. Vasuki requested the State government to take steps to ensure job security and proper payment of wages to workers from outside Tamil Nadu engaged in the State, including for agricultural operation.
Crop loans
She called upon the State government to ensure that crop loans were distributed to all farmers, including tenant farmers and the desilting of waterways were completed in such a manner that water for irrigation reaches the tailend without fail.
Demanding early disbursal of pending MNREGS wages to beneficiaries, Ms. Vasuki urged the State government to implement the suggestions given by the Parliament Standing Committee on Rural Development and Panchayat Raj for the benefit of rural masses.
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