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    AIRTWF To Hold National Convention

THE All India Road Transport Workers’ Federation (AIRTWF) has decided to convene a national convention to chalk out a programme of action by private bus and mini bus workers at Kolkata on July 22. The road transport workers throughout the country are facing a serious crisis due to the wrong policies of the central and several state governments.

The meeting also decided to organise conventions of public transport workers at Chennai in August 2003, of light vehicle workers including auto rickshaw and taxi workers at Kozhikkode in September 2003, and goods vehicle workers including lorry workers at Siliguri.

AIRTWF general secretary K K Divakaran presented a report in the meeting that was held at Thiruvananthapuram on June 17. West Bengal transport minister Subhash Chakraborty and Syamal Chakraborty also spoke on the occasion. It is also decided to convene a meeting of road transport workers of the SAARC countries in Nepal.

AIRTWF president and West Bengal labour minister Mohammad Amin presided over the meeting. (INN)