May Day falling today attaches significance to the labour class for having won over their rights and provisions laid down regarding their working hours and other conditions, but most of the labourers here expressed ignorance over such privileges. The reason is their unawareness about the historic struggle worldwide that brought eight-hour working system into effect on May 1, 1886. Besides, a large-scale influx of inter-state migrant workers over the years has rendered them jobless here as the outside labour is easily accessible at lower rates. The workers from Bihar, Uttar…
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