Surat: Following repetitive incidents of violence involving embroidery labourers during past few Sundays, city police commissioner Satish Sharma held a meeting with embroidery unit owners and labour representatives on Tuesday.It was decided in the meeting that the labour representatives will submit a written application to the owners association first and later the demands will be discussed. At the meeting, representatives of Akhil Gujarat Embroidery Owners Association (AGEOA), various labour associations, officers of labour department and police officials remained present at the city police commissioner office. However, no final solution to the demands of leave on Sunday and salary related issues were resolved.“Police have called the representatives of both sides and concerned government departments to understand exactly what the issue is. It is a labour and industry related issue which has become a law and order issue,” city police commissioner Satish Sharma said.“I had discussed the issue with the district collector after which I called the representatives to find a solution to the issue since it is going on since last few weeks,” Sharma added.Sharma warned the labour representatives not to take law in their hands otherwise police will deal strictly with all those involved in violence.Around 25 persons, representatives of various labour associations from the the city remained present. From AGEOA, its president Dinesh Anghad and other office-bearers were present in the meeting. The labourers demanded identity card as employee of embroidery units and various rights like leave and salary available to labourers. In turn, the embroidery unit owners argued that the labourers don’t provide complete documents of identity and other proofs due to which issuing them any card or providing other benefits is not possible.“We have asked the labour representatives to submit their demands in an application based on which we can decide what we can do. We are ready to cooperate in solving the issue at the earliest,” Anghad said.“The embroidery unit owners have asked labour associations to provide demands in writing. Hence, we will give them a written memorandum and we want to solve the issue peacefully,” representative of labourers Nirmal Rajput said.

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