Labour and Employment Minister Bandaru Dattatreya has urged Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to deploy mobile ATMs in all the industrial clusters specially in remote and rural areas where there is pre-dominance of workers. <br/><br/>During a meeting with Mr Jaitley in New Delhi last evening, Mr Dattatreya discussed and requested the Finance Minister to take steps to address the wage payment related issues and issues of plantation workers and construction workers. <br/><br/>The Minister also requested to expedite and bring more 500 rupees notes into circulation and to ensure their availability to industrial and other institutions which employ large number of workers. <br/><br/>He said, Labour and Employment Ministry has also started a campaign to open bank accounts of those workers who are not included in the banking system.<br/><br/><br/> He said, more than 52 thousand camps to open bank accounts have been organised all over the country till now and more than 13.7 lakhs accounts have been opened.<br/><br/>

Labour and Employment Minister Bandaru Dattatreya has urged Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to deploy mobile ATMs in all the industrial clusters specially in remote and rural areas where there is pre-dominance of workers. <br/><br/>During a meeting with Mr Jaitley in New Delhi today, Mr Dattatreya also discussed and requested the Minister to take steps to address the wage payment related issues and issues of plantation workers and construction workers. <br/><br/>He also requested to expedite and bring more 500 rupees notes into circulation and to ensure their availability to industrial and other institutions which employ large number of workers. Mr Dattatreya said, his Ministry has also started a campaign to open bank accounts of those workers who are not included in the banking system. <br/><br/>He said, more than 52 thousand camps to open bank accounts have been organised all over the country till now and more than 13.7 lakhs accounts have been opened.