India, Aug. 11 -- Workers from the unorganised sector, led by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), have staged a 'jail bharo' agitation in Maharashtra's Jalna city, demanding permanent employee status, PF and pension benefits for unorganised workers.

A large number of CITU activists, agricultural labourers and workers' organisation members staged the protest at the Jalna Zilla Parishad office on Monday.

As many as 80 protesters were detained and later let off, a police official said.

CITU leader Anna Sawant said the protest was held as part of a nationwide call by the joint action committee of Central Trade Unions and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha to oppose what they claimed were anti-worker and anti-farmer policies of the central and...