Circular Dated 5th April'2010

Circular

Dt.5th April'2010

The members of the State Working Committee of WBSDEF in it's 18th meeting held on 5th April'2010 at the Mother Dairy City Office at 10 AM unanimously resolved as follows,

1) Considering the outcome of the discussion with the Minister-In-charge, ARD Dept. Govt. of West Bengal, it is resolved that Comrade Subodh Ganguly, President WBSDEF, shall write a letter to Sri Biman Bose, Chairman- Left Front, describing the present situation in the dairy sector in our state, with an emphasis on the breakdown of the milk co-operative structure particularly due to non co-operation of the department and the Milk Federation authority.

2) Comrade Abhijit Roy, Genl. Secy, shall write a letter to Sri Narayan Biswas, MIS-ARD, once again describing the present situation in the dairy sector in our state, with an emphasis on the breakdown of the milk co-operative structure particularly due to non co-operation of the department and the Milk Federation authority. In this letter Minister should be requested to fix a date of a bi-lateral meeting with our organisation, preferably at the end of this month. Copy of the same will be sent to MD, Milk Federation.

3) On the basis of the reporting of the Goa meeting of "Dairy Employees' Federation Of India" (DEFOI) held on 24th & 25th March'2010 by Com Molay Nandy, the members present unanimously resolved to disassociate our organisation with DEFOI with immediate effect. Com Abhijit Roy, Genl. Secy shall write a letter to the Secretary-DEFOI clearly describing the reasons behind such disassociation. Copy of the same shall be sent to I.U.F for intimation.

4) Considering the crisis of organizing the unorganized workers in the dairy industry and the employees of the few Milk Unions, particularly Bankura, Purulia, Sundarbon, West Dinajpore, Howrah and 24 parganas (north), the members unanimously resolved to form a central trade union organisation namely " Paschim Banga Dugdha Shilpa Sramik Karmachari Union" and process of registration of the same shall be completed within May'2010. This organisation shall take the affiliation of WBSDEF in due course. The names of the Executive Committee of this new organisation are, Com Subodh Ganguly (President), Com Abhijit Roy & Com Aloke Roy (Vice Presidents), Com Molay Nandy (General Secretary), Com Jayanta Acharjee (Treasurer), Com Sujit Nandy, Com Barun Chatterjee, Com Subhas Banerjee, Com Ajij Mondal, Com Firoj Khan and a member will be taken from Purulia District.

5) The members resolved that the conference of the "Ichhamati Unit" of the " Paschim Banga Dugdha Shilpa Sramik Karmachari Union" will be held on 24th April'2010 at 12 noon at Bongaon. The members of the "Ichhamati Co-op Milk Prod. Union Ltd Employees' Union" will be verbally requested to join the new organisation.

6) The 1st meeting of the " Paschim Banga Dugdha Shilpa Sramik Karmachari Union " is fixed on 12th April'2010 at Milk Federation Office, Salt Lake, Kolkata at 1.30 PM. The members of this organisation shall attend the meeting as per schedule.

7) The members unanimously resolved that the "4th conference of WBSDEF" has been tentatively fixed on last weak of June'2010 i.e. after the ensuing Municipal elections.

8) The members decided to discuss the remaining pending issues in the next SWC meeting, which will be communicated to the members in due course of time.

Issued by the Office of the President,

West Bengal State Dairy Employees' Federation