Thma U Rangli-Juki (TUR) received backing today from the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) in the former’s fight for financial assistance to marginalised workers.
TUR member, Angela Rangad held a solo sit-in at the gates of the Secretariat that started on Monday.
In a release, NAPM, an umbrella organisation or progressive people’s organisations and movements, expressed full solidarity with the sit-in.
TUR has been campaigning for the release of the balance of funds promised last year for daily wage earners and the like who were bludgeoned by the Covid-19 pandemic’s economic consequences.
NAPM supported the Meghalaya organisation in this and its other goals, namely the consolidation of MLA funds to be used to support families of unorganised sector workers, utilise 20 percent of the salaries of top civil servants as well as the tax refunds for IAS and IPS officers to cover out-of-pocket expenses for working class people affected by Covid-19 and expand the rural employment guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) to 200 day of work per person in rural areas with wages to be set at Rs 600 per day.
