Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
It’s been weeks since the new norms for EPF withdrawal were announced but the tipping point - that prompted the rollback tonight - lay in the garment district in Bengaluru. An estimated 1.25 lakh workers - a quarter of the force, most of them women - blocked key roads Tuesday in industrial zones, halting traffic for hours. Over 100 of them were injured, three seriously; several state buses were damaged, said police. As many as 116 people, including three women, were arrested in connection with the violence, which originated mainly from the Peenya Industrial Area, said police.
