Port Blair, June 01: The conclusion of the year-long celebration of 50th Foundation Day of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions was held all over the country today the 30th May, 2020 by organizing various programmes.
In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, CITU’s flag was hoisted by R. Surendran Pillai, President, CITU A & N State Committee in front of the Crusade House, Phoenix Bay, Port Blair at 4 p.m. today. Thereafter, the workers and leaders formed a human chain near Crusade House, by observing social distancing and other protocol.
Addressing the participants, B. Chandrachoodan, General Secretary, CITU said that the CITU has completed 50 years of its formation and said that all these years, the CITU was in the forefront to fight for the rights of workers. It was the CITU which tried its best to bring all the central trade unions in the country to a single platform to fight against the retrograde economic policies and various anti-working class measures of the central government. He dealt in brief the hardship and difficulties being faced by the working class all over the country during the lockdown period of Covid 19. He said that thousands of workers in the organized and unorganized sector in these islands were made to lead a miserable life in the islands in the absence of any job or assistance from the government.
