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RSS-backed Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) has decided to motorboat protests against the labour policies of the Union and State governments successful each territory crossed the state connected Wednesday (February 25, 2026). The BMS has demanded that the Centre urgently convene Indian Labour Conference — involving the government, employers, and workers — to sermon workers’ issues and the implementation of the 4 Labour Codes.
Talking to reporters successful New Delhi connected Monday (February 23, 2026), BMS leaders Pawan Kumar and Ravindra Himte said the Union authorities had assured the BMS that it would marque amendments to the Code connected Industrial Relations and the Code connected Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions successful the 2nd thigh of the Budget Session opening connected March 9. “We person conveyed our apprehensions astir definite provisions successful some the Codes. The authorities has assured that our concerns volition beryllium addressed,” Mr. Kumar said.
Mr. Kumar said the protestation is against the neglect of workers’ issues by the government. “Take the lawsuit of Heavy Engineering Corporation successful Ranchi. There are astir 3,500 workers successful the HEC and they person not received wage for the past 32 months. The Prime Minister says our indigenous Brahmos rocket volition beryllium exported to assorted countries. But what astir the workers successful HEC who marque components of Brahmos,” helium asked.
Mr. Kumar besides raised the lawsuit of mid-day repast workers, saying that the workers who marque nutritious meals for students are malnourished owed to the debased wages they get. “Lakhs of mid-day repast workers and ASHA workers proceed to person a meagre honorarium. Even aft 5 decades of service, Anganwadi workers are inactive treated simply arsenic strategy workers, contempt being compelled to enactment for much than 10 hours a day, with an ever-increasing workload. The Ministry of Women and Child Development has been reluctant to heighten the honorarium, portion continuously assigning further responsibilities,” the BMS person added.
On fabric industry, Mr. Kumar said the state has plentifulness of input materials disposable but the authorities is not opening the mills of the National Textile Corporation successful 8 States. “Now, the authorities has allowed import of fabric with zero duties, but wherefore is determination a hold successful opening these mills? Workers successful these mills person been receiving lone 50% wages since the pandemic, with salaries pending for the past 10 months,” Mr. Kumar said.
The BMS besides demanded that the Centre retreat the draught Electricity (Amendment) Bill. “The energy employees passim the state are warring relentlessly to support organisation companies lone successful the authorities assemblage and not manus them implicit to backstage players,” helium said.
The BMS’s different demands see strict and cosmopolitan implementation of labour laws crossed each sectors and categories of workers, summation successful minimum pension nether the Provident Fund pension from ₹1,000 to ₹7,500 a month, enhancement of threshold limits for sum nether Employees State Insurance and PF to ₹42,000 and ₹30,000 respectively, summation successful the eligibility ceiling for bonus nether the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, successful enactment with the contiguous wage levels, regularisation of strategy workers and declaration workers and lifting of the prohibition connected wide recruitment, and guaranteed employment with occupation security.
