girni kamgar sangharsh samiti

Winning textile workers’ housing rights

GKSS: Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti (Mill Workers Action Committee) Mumbai, India. Housing . A 17-year struggle by Mumbai’s textile millworkers against powerful mill-land owners, for land and housing as compensation for

Land for Mumbai's Millworkers

Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti (bgkss), the forerunner of the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti (gkss). The struggle launched by the bgkss, and supported by almost all political

The story of a Mumbai mill – Indian Cultural Forum

2021年4月12日 In 1989, he founded the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti, of which he remained president till the end. From 1988 to 1990, the union was responsible for the revival

Housing rights: Mill workers continue struggle for a roof

2022年9月9日 The BGKSS became Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti (GKSS) with Gayatri Singh as president and Iswalkar as secretary. The main demands of the Samiti still focused

Datta Iswalkar: A great leader of Mumbai’s labour movement

2021年4月12日 When 10 mills, including Modern Mills, were shut after the strike, Iswalkar brought together the workers to start Bandh Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti. After an

Elevator To The Burroughs: The Growing Housing Crisis In Mumbai

2022年7月30日 The Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti (GKSS), led by the late Datta Iswalkar, was formed in the 1990s to voice the demands of workers who were now forced out of their

One Hundred Years One Hundred Voices - Google Books

Meena Menon has been a political and trade union activist for the past 30 years and active in the textile workers movement for 11 years. Vice President of the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh

Mumbai: Champion of mill workers’ rights, Datta Iswalkar dies

2021年4月7日 Mumbai: Veteran trade unionist Datta Iswalkar, a selfless champion of mill workers’ rights and founder president of the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti, passed away

Home and hope for forgotten force - Telegraph India

2013年3月26日 So, along with others in different mills, we formed the Bandh Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti,” said Datta Iswalkar, 63. In the post-1991 liberalisation era, the Samiti

MHADA lottery: Nearly 7,000 mill workers finally get

2012年6月28日 Those from the Konkan region stayed on due to lack of similar livelihood options in their villages, said Rajan Dalvi from the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti. For 25-year-old Amol Dhas getting a house in Kurla was

Only a third of mill workers eligible for MHADA

2012年6月5日 Pravin Ghag of the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti said, A state government committee with representatives from our union is currently looking at options under the Urban Land Ceiling Act,slum rehabilitation and

‘Singapores of Girangaon’: How Mumbai Mill Workers

2022年7月30日 Modern mills, the birthplace of the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti (GKSS), has already been replaced by Belvedere Court, a 32-storey residential tower. The Phoenix Mills, ...

Home and hope for forgotten force - Telegraph India

2013年3月26日 So, along with others in different mills, we formed the Bandh Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti,” said Datta Iswalkar, 63. In the post-1991 liberalisation era, the Samiti fought a long battle for freeing up 400 acres out of 600 acres of total mill land for public welfare based on a formula devised by architect Charles Correa.

Mills in Mumbai – Historic Textile Mills Of Then Called Bombay

2016年5月19日 Old Mills. Facts about Mumbai Mills and Tall Chimneys. Mill Union Names: Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh.; Girangaon: A name used for referring ‘Mills Village’ location of central Mumbai (Parel, Byculla, Cotton Green etc.) which once had more then Hundred mills.; In 2008, NTC (National Textile Corporation) owned India United

One Hundred Years One Hundred Voices - Google Books

Meena Menon has been a political and trade union activist for the past 30 years and active in the textile workers movement for 11 years. Vice President of the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti (Mill Workers Action Committe) and one of its founders. Also a Senior Associate with a global policy research organization Focus on the Global South.

CAMPAIGN - Pani Haq Samiti

Against this background, in 2010, Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action initiated a city-level Pani Parishad (Conference on water) was organised where residents termed as “illegal inhabitants of the city” shared their experiences of accessing water.

Datta Iswalkar: A great leader of Mumbai’s labour movement

2021年4月12日 The Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti (GKSS) was born with Iswalkar as its general secretary. Soon, sickness and closure affected the sector again. The mill owners were adamant in their refusal to run sick mills and forego the profits from real estate development on prime lands that mills occupied in Central Mumbai.

Mumbai’s mill land amendment: Maharashtra govt’s move may

13) Digvijay Mills Lalbaug 9.33 (Data Given by Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samitee) See more News / Cities / Bhopal News / Mumbai’s mill land amendment: Maharashtra govt’s move may open 130 acres ...

Mill wise Final list of remaining mill worker / legal heirs in 58 ...

Mill wise Final list of remaining mill worker / legal heirs in 58 closed mills to be included in the proposed lottery of 2521 flats provided by M.M.R.D.A.

Datta Iswalkar in Twenty Thousand Homes - Vivek

2017年1月6日 He readily agreed to attend. Iswalkar’s addressed a group of about forty managers. His life story took everybody by surprise. A reluctant entrant to the ‘Band Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti’, later renamed as

Veteran trade unionist Datta Iswalkar passes away - Deccan Herald

2021年4月7日 Datta Iswalkar, founder and President of Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti passed away in #Mumbai He was a pillar of mill workers' movement@DeccanHerald — Mrityunjay Bose (@MBTheGuide) April 7, 2021

Datta Iswalkar: Voice of millworkers fades away - Deccan Herald

2021年4月8日 Iswalkar, the general secretary of Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti continued to fight for the case of these unemployed people, their families and the next generation.

Maharashtra allows industrial land to be put to residential or ...

2018年1月4日 The move was hailed by mill workers unions. The newspaper quoted Datta Iswalkar, who heads the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti who said,“This move will make more houses available to the mill workers who have worked hard their entire life in these mills.”

महाराष्ट्र इमारत व इतर ...

इमारत व इतर बांधकाम कामगारांच्या रोजगार व सेवाशर्तीचे नियमन ...

Mill workers flat price set at Rs8.34 lakh - DNA India

2012年3月5日 With the central government subsidy of Rs2.06 lakh, the flats should be available at Rs1.24 lakh, but Mhada wants us to buy them on built-up area basis and hence the cost of construction is calculated for 414 sq-ft as against the carpet area of 225 sq-ft,” said Praveen Ghag, joint secretary, Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti.

Land for Mumbai's Millworkers

Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti (bgkss), the forerunner of the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti (gkss). The struggle launched by the bgkss, and supported by almost all political parties, resulted in the reopening of seven mills. It also revitalised the fighting spirit of Mumbai's millworkers. A new kind of struggle be-gan, one that was fought by jobless