The Third State Conference of AICCTU, Assam

Snippet from the Third Conference of AICCTU Assam

The third Assam State Conference of AICCTU was held on 5 Feb 2025 with Comrade Basudev Bose the Central Observer. The Conference began with flag hoisting by Com. Biren Kalita and the martyr column was garlanded by Comrade Sokila Munda, the wife of the martyr Gangaram Kohl. The delegates session was inaugurated by Comrade Bibek Das, the state secretary of CPIML Liberation. He suggested to focus the work on organizing the emerging, dynamic new sections of the working class. A presidium was elected comprising comrades Biren Kalita, Subhash Sen, Pankaj Das, Dhiraj Das and Mira Tanti. The secretary’s report was presented by Pankaj Kr. Das as Subhash Sen was unwell. A total of 107 delegates representing sectors like tea, oil, construction, contract workers, ASHAs and domestic workers. More than 20 delegates deliberated upon the report and was passed unanimously. 

The conference unanimously elected a 19 member state Committee and re-elected Comrade Biren Kalita as the president. Comrade Balindra Saikia was elected as the secretary. 

An interactive session with the leaders of ventures schools teachers, and the power sector preceded the delegate session and was presided by Comrades Pankaj Kr. Das, Pankaj Rabi Das and Brindaban Kalita. Sri Horomohan Borah, the President of the Ventures Schools Teachers Association and Comrade Toilendra Saikia, the working president of Assam State Power Workers Union addressed the conference. The conference resolutions were read out by Comrade Jiten Tanti and was adopted by the house.

The conference passed resolutions demanding - 
  

  • Minimum wages, ESIC and Provident Fund and the scrapping of four Labour Codes to reclaim workers’ rights.
  • Recognition of scheme workers as government employees and a payment of Rs. 26,000 per month.
  • Proper implementation of construction labour schemes of the welfare board, not to divert the welfare fund for other purposes, and not to abolish the construction workers' welfare board.
  • Provincialisation of the teachers and employees of the venture schools of Assam.
  • Enhancement of tea workers' daily wages to Rs. 550, facilities for health and safety and not to utilise the tea plantation lands for other purposes.
  • Closure of all illegal local coal mines, sever punishment to the offenders of the Umrangso mines, payment of one crore rupees as compensation to the families of the deceased.
  • Uniting all contract workers, particularly of the oil sector.
  • To free the industries and assets of Assam from the clutches of Himanta and Adani.
  • United movement to save the industries, the workers and the unemployed under the banner of "Save Industry, Save Workers".