Telangana ration dealers threaten to go on strike from June 5
1 year, 7 months ago

Telangana ration dealers threaten to go on strike from June 5

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Over 17,000 ration dealers have vowed to strike work indefinitely beginning June 5, with the main demand being the payment of a minimum monthly honorarium of ₹30,000 in villages, ₹35,000 in mandal headquarters, and ₹40,000 in towns and municipal corporations. Various associations of ration dealers formed a Joint Action Committee and served state government a strike notice. Their other demands included payment of dealers' commission arrears for three months, payment of ₹20,000-₹30,000 to kin of ration dealers in the event of dealer’s death to perform their last rites, health cards for ration dealers and their family members, increasing the renewal period of dealership from two to five years, or eliminating the renewal system and granting permanent dealership. Telangana Ration Dealers Association state vice-president P.Anand Kumar said that the government had stayed silent for five years.

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