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Trade unions hold Bharat Bandh, bank employees, auto drivers join strike
The other major component to the GDP is the financial services, including banking, which has been crippled by the strike, Assocham Secretary General D.S. Rawat said. In some states, local unions have agreed to join the strike which means public transport could be affected. This ensured that the regular passengers of City Bus and ST buses did not suffer because of the Bandh.
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Here are the 15 points we should know about how Bandh has affected normal life across the nation.
The trade unions claimed the strike was the biggest ever in all sectors of the Indian economy such as the organised and unorganised sector, public and private sector, in central and state departments.
Meanwhile, in West Bengal reports of clashes have come between the ruling TMC government and the Left Trade Unions. He said while the unions had demanded a minimum wage of Rs 18,000, the government has agreed to give just Rs 9,100. He let his party’s governments in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states take the lead in this area.
The trade unions have been joined by five bank unions who are protesting against government’s new labour and investment policies.
The unions said the government should guarantee both social security and healthcare for all, and should be hiking the minimum wage to double what it is offering in order to keep up with inflation.
Daily life was also hit in the eastern state of Bihar, where shop and business establishments were shut and train and road services were disrupted by union activists.
Similar scenes were seen in many other towns like Berhampur where barring some important and emergency services all other activities like governmental offices, schools and other educational institutions remained closed. Staff of Reserve Bank of India, NABARD, State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, Oriental Insurance, New India Assurance and workers of state roadways remained absent from work and protested against the government policy of privatization. They also stopped people from entering offices.
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“This time strike will be bigger than previous year as 180 million workers from formal and informal sectors would come on streets to protest against government’s indifference”, Trade Union Coordination Committee general secretary S P Tiwari told the Press Trust of India.