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Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (India Workers Peasants Council), was a national trade union confederation in India.
During the 1990s, HMKP orgsanised 5,000 women mat weavers into a cooperative to improve livelihoods. [1]
In 2010, HMKP merged with Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS). [2]
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