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For a government refusing to bring unorganised workers, comprising more than 90% of the workforce, into the social security net, education for them and their children along with other workers in an exclusive Workers University does not seem to be a bad idea.
More than a year after it was set up, a committee headed by Indian National Trade Union Congress president G Sanjeeva Reddy has spelt out the broad contours of the proposed Workers University. The panel wants it to be headquartered in Hyderabad, which would provide education both in formal and informal streams to more than two lakh workers and their children. With Left-affiliated trade union leaders not being represented in the committee, it remains to be seen if the recommendations are accepted by powerful unions like CPMs Centre of Indian Trade Union, CPIs All India Trade Union Congress and RSS-aligned Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh.
If it comes through, this will be the first exclusive workers university in the country. However, the concept is not new — in the erstwhile USSR, Petrograd Zinoviev University came up for workers immediately after the revolution while a college was established solely for workers in Oxford University and a Workers University in Geneva is still functional.
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