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Name
  
Narayan Lokhande


Died
  
1897, Mumbai



Born
  
1848
Thane, Maharashtra, India

Movement
  
Trade Union Movement in India

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Narayan Meghaji Lokhande (1848-1897) was a pioneer of the labour movement in India. He is remembered not only for ameliorating the working conditions of textile mill-hands in the 19th century but also for his courageous initiatives on caste and communal issues. The Government of India issued a postage stamp with his photograph in 2005.

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Narayan Meghaji Lokhande was a prominent colleague of Mahatma Jyotirao Phule. Lokhande is acclaimed as the Father of the Trade Union Movement in India. From 1880 onwards he took over the management of Deenbandhu which was published from Bombay. Along with Lokhande, Jyotirao also addressed the meetings of the textile workers in Bombay. It is significant that before Jotirao and his colleagues Bhalekar and Lokhande tried to organise the peasants and the workers, no such attempt was made by any organisation to redress their grievances. Mahatma Phule started the first Indian Workers organization – 'Bombay Mill Hands Association', with the help of Lokhande.

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Some of the rights mill workers got because of N M Lokhande were:

  • Mill workers should get a weekly holiday on Sunday.
  • In the afternoon, workers should be entitled to half-hour recess.
  • The mill should start working from 6:30 in the morning and close by sunset.
  • The salaries of the workers should be given by the 15th of every month.

    • He was awarded the title of Rao Bahudur by the British Raj.

    Praised by government

    In 3 May 2005, the Government of India released a postage stamp to commemorate his work.

    References

    Narayan Meghaji Lokhande Wikipedia
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