CITU demands ₹5,000 as Pongal cash dole

The CITU has demanded a cash dole of ₹5,000 for construction and unorganised sector workers during this Pongal.

Participating in a demonstration organised by the Thanjavur District CITU Construction Workers Union, the participants led by District Secretary E. T. S. Moorthy and CITU State Secretary C. Jayabal raised slogans urging the Tamil Nadu government to extend a cash dole of ₹5,000 for this Pongal.

They also demanded a pension of ₹3,000, pension for women workers from the age of 50, a solatium of ₹2 lakh for natural death and ₹10 lakh for deaths due to accident of members of workers welfare boards, quick disbursement of cash assistance for marriage, education and others for the board members and ₹4 lakh as cash assistance for construction of houses by the board members.