Agartala, Sept 3 (TIWN) Number of women members is increasing rapidly in the CITU (Center of Indian Trade Unions), party’s newly elected General Secretary Sankar Datta said here Tuesday.

“A record number of working class people, 2,04,944 under 40 sister trade unions have registered in the CITU as its members. Of them a large number are women,” said Datta, who was elected new General Secretary of the CITU Tripura unit in the just concluded three day state conference, held in north Tripura’s Dharmanagar, the state’s second biggest commercial town after Agartala.

CITU is the frontal trade unions of the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Former CPI-M MLA Mr Datta said : “In the three-day 13th conference (Sept 1-3) 537 delegates took part in the conference, of them 107 are women. With this highest number of women member participated in any CITU conference so far in Tripura.”

According to Mr Datta, the CITU would organise movements in support of six-point demands, that include minimum monthly wages or remuneration of Rs 10,000 for each man working in organised or unorganized sectors.

The CITU along with other like minded trade union bodies would organise protest rallies in front of Parliament in New Delhi on December 12 in support of the workers’ genuine demands. 

In the conference, a three-tier committee has been formed with larger number of women trade union leaders. In the 21-member officer bearers Chief Minister Manik Sarkar’s wife Panchali Bhattacherjee has been chosen as one of the nine vice-presidents.