All India Kishan and Khetmajdoor Sangathan (AIKKMS) has taken initiative to send one lakh on line mass petition to the Prime Minister on the following demands:
- Increase vaccine production. Ensure free universal vaccination within a given time frame. Ensure free and adequate supply of oxygen to meet the urgent demands of the current crisis.
- Ensure adequate number of hospitals, hospital beds, oxygen and other medical facilities, free of cost, for patients to help them cope with the covid pandemic.
- Withdraw the anti-people and discriminatory, pro-corporate vaccine pricing policy.
- Public health care infrastructure should be strengthened.
- During lockdown, retrenchment, pay cuts and evacuation of houses should be strictly prohibited.
- Three anti-farmer Black Laws and Electricity bill along with four anti-worker Labour Codes should be scrapped.
- There should be a complete ban on privatization and disinvestment of public sector industries and institutions.
- Cash subsidy of Rs. 7,500 per month should be provided to all poor farmers, farm workers and other rural poor families.
- For the next six months, 10 kg of free cereals and pulses, edible oil should be made available per person per month.
- There should be proper arrangement to provide effective treatment of the patients suffering from diseases other than Covid 19 in government hospitals.
- Protective measures for all those engaged in epidemic-management work including health and front-line workers, ASHA and Anganwadi workers and ensuring comprehensive insurance coverage for all of them.
