Free healthcare services, social security for women farm workers sought

Agricultural labourers were felicitated arsenic portion of Women’s Day celebrations organised by the Federation of State Farmers’ Organisations and the State Sugarcane Growers’ Association present connected Monday (March 30).

Nagamma from Alaganchi successful Nanjangud taluk, Bhagyamma from Vajamangala successful Mysuru taluk, and Roopa from Shantipura colony successful H.D. Kote taluk were honoured for their contributions to cultivation labour.

Kurubur Shanthakumar, State president of Federation of State Farmers’ Organisations and the State Sugarcane Growers’ Association, said honouring women who signifier the backbone of cultivation enactment is simply a tribute to the farming community. “Agricultural labourers are similar the eyes of farmers, and women workers are a spot of our society. The maturation of the cultivation assemblage depends mostly connected their hard work,” helium said.

He emphasised that improving the surviving standards of cultivation labourers is simply a corporate work and urged the authorities to present escaped healthcare services and societal information measures for women workplace workers. Women are making strides not lone successful agriculture but crossed each sectors, helium added.

State Sugarcane Growers’ Association treasurer M.B. Chetan and respective office-bearers, including State organising caput Attahalli Devaraj, territory wide caput Baradanapura Nagaraj, moving president Kiragasuru Shankar, territory president Somashekar, and others were present.

The felicitation programme was organised astatine Jaladarshini present to people Mr. Shanthakumar’s 64th birthday.