Rotaract Club honors senior workers on International Workers’ Day

Rotaract Club honors senior workers on International Workers’ Day

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, May 1, 2012 : The Rotaract Club of Mangalore celebrated International Workers’ Day at Hotel Woodlands today, during which senior workers were felicitated.

Mayor Gulzar Banu, who inaugurated the event, said that the Rotaract Club has done an excellent job of identifying deserving workers and felicitating them.

Anand Acharya, who has been working for a long time as a paper boy, and Prem Kumar Shetty and Ananth Phadke, waiters at Hotel Woodlands for the past 35 years, were honored with shawls, fruits, citations, and mementos.


 

 

 

P. B. Harish Rai, the president of the DK Working Journalists’ Union (DKWJU), one of the chief guests of the event, said that it is difficult to find people who do the same work for decades, owing to which the Rotaract Club has done a great job by felicitating 3 workers who have done the same job for over 35 years.

Stating that media workers also work 24 hours per day, he said that the government must consider their demands and provide them security.

Y. Ramesh Rao, the owner of Hotel Woodlands, was also one of the chief guests of the event.