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Hello again: Pasted below is an announcement regarding the "Rozgar Adhikar Yatra". Please circulate the announcement to all those who you think may be interested. Thanks,

Reetika.

ANNOUNCEMENT

(Rozgar Adhikar Yatra, May-June 2005)

A country-wide "rozgar adhikar yatra" (right to work convoy) will be launched from Delhi on 13 May 2005. The main objective of this yatra is to consolidate the campaign for a full-fledged Employment Guarantee Act (EGA).

The yatra is a follow-up to the "display of banners" of 21 December 2005, when thousands of banners from all over the country, bearing about 10 lakh signatures demanding a full-fledged EGA, were displayed in Parliament Street (New Delhi). The banners will travel with the yatra and be displayed in various places on the way.

The yatra will go through ten states (Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh) before returning to Delhi at the end of June. Public meetings, cultural activities, training workshops, press conferences, etc., will be taking place on the way.

All organizations committed to the right to work are invited to take part in these activities. They are also welcome to the next preparatory meeting, to be held on 21 April (10 am to 2 pm) at the office of the National Federation of Indian Women in New Delhi (1002 Ansal Bhawan, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, tel 2331 9541).

For further information, please send a line to rozgar@gmail.com, contact "People's Action for Employment Guarantee" (9811553633 [Annie], 9810810365 [Subhash] or 9811087811 [Navjyoti]), or check the Employment Guarantee section at www.righttofoodindia.org. The proposed itinerary of the yatra is also available on this website.

Last updated: 22 April 2005