BHARATIYA KHET MAZDOOR UNION - FEDERATION - PHASE I
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This collection is a comprehensive digital collection on Agricultural Workers Union in India. It includes a whole set of documents such as various reports of Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union (BKMU), movements such as land struggle, wage struggle, atrocities etc., documents of BKMU meetings, conferences, seminars, conventions etc., publications such as booklets, pamphlets, souvenirs, journals and so on.
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Item Documents of International Labour Organisation (ILO) National Seminar for Trade Union Leaders on Rural Workers' Organisation(Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1978-11-20)Documents of ILO National Seminar for Trade Union Leaders in India on Rural Workers’ Organisations held in Varanasi on 20-24 November, 1978.Item Draft Report of Fifth Conference of Haryana Khet Mazdoor Union(Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1983-4-8) Haryana Khet Mazdoor UnionDraft Report of Fifth Conference of Haryana Khet Mazdoor Union on April 8-9, 1983 at Sirsa, Haryana.Item Correspondence on the Struggle for Minimum Wages(Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1975)This file contains important historically relevant data both of primary and secondary types on the issue of minimum wages an its nuances during the 1970s. This particular file will provide a good glimpse terms of both handwritten notes, newspaper clippings and government notification giving the details regarding wages for agricultural labour in the State of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan; Minimum wages in Uttar Pradesh revised for Farm Labour, Memo-submitted by Punjab BKMU for upward revision of minimum wages for Agricultural Workers; notification by West Bengal Govt. on minimum wage payable to employees of agriculture; report stating situation of wages in various states of which highest wage payable in Punjab, wage revision of agricultural labour in MP details provided by B.K. Gupta; Andhra Pradesh Government notification dated December 2, 1995 on details of minimum wage for agricultural labour as of 1975; wage of Rajasthan in 1979.Item Documents related to Minimum Wage Struggle (1968-1974)(Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1968)This file contains correspondence on the issue of minimum wages and its implementation for agricultural labour in Kerala, Haryana, Bihar, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and West Bengal. There are notes of discontent among agricultural labour of Bankura and Haryana. Notes of discontent in Bankura, Haryana.Item Brief Note on Agricultural Wages in West Bengal: Arithmetic of Rural Poverty(Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1973) Labour Department, Government of West BengalA brief note on Agricultural Wages in Five Districts namely, Birbhum, Bankura, Nadia, Malda and 24-Parganas of West Bengal by Labour Department, Government of West Bengal.Item Letter from Tamil Nadu Agricultural Workers’ Union(Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1976-3-19) Tamil Nadu Agricultural Workers’ UnionThe document provide details of the activities and programs of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Workers’ Union. It presents an analysis of the situation. Near Chidambaram, the place of the famous Annamalai ‘Varsity, in one village, caste Hindus attacked the Harijans in the course of watering the fields and attacked their fields. And set fire to their huts. The document also describes the difference between padiyal and adaiyal: the two types of agricultural workers.Item Documents related to Land Reforms(Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1973) Punjab Khet Mazdoor SabhaDocuments related to Land-reforms.Item Proceedings of the Meetings of the Working Committee, Resolutions and a Note on Punjab Land Reforms Bill passed by Punjab State Assembly(Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1975) Punjab Khet Mazdoor SabhaProceedings of the meetings of working committee of Punjab Khet Mazdoor Sabha and State Khet Mazdoor Sub-committee; resolutions and a note on Punjab land reforms bill passed by Punjab State Assembly (by master Hari Singh, a veteran Khet Mazdoor Leader).Item 23rd Session of Punjab Khet Mazdoor Sabha on 8-10 November, 1986 at Dharmkot (Ferosepur)(Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1986-11-8) Punjab Khet Mazdoor Sabha23rd Session of Punjab Khet Mazdoor Sabha at Dharmkot, Ferosepur on 8-10 November, 1986. Report of the General Secretary, Punjab Khet Mazdoor Sabha as passed by the working committee. This document is in English and Punjabi languages.Item General Secretary’s Report on Silver Jubilee Session of Punjab Khet Mazdoor Sabha on on 12-15 September, 1980 at Moga, Faridkot(Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1980-9-12) Punjab Khet Mazdoor SabhaIt was in Moga that the inaugural session of the BKMU was held in 1968. And it was in Moga again that the Silver Jubilee session of the Punjab KMU was celebrated in in 1980. The Punjab organization since had grown tremendously. A reflection was the tremendous participation of the khet mazdoors from Punjab in the all India rally in 1979. It was the first time that such participation was seen. Ten thousand khet mazdoors from Punjab joined; the Ferozepur-Delhi rail service had to use two engines to ferry the demonstrators for the rally. In its inaugural session in Khan Khannan (Jullundar) in December 1954, its membership was merely 15920; now it was 1, 28, 902. The document describes the achievements and struggles since 1952.