trade union career
- Active in trade union movement, Bombay, 1947-1951.
- Organized Textiles, Sugar, Printing, Dairy, Coal and Mining, Plantation, Government and Hotel Workers, 1952-1979, Karnataka and All India.
- Founder President, Karnataka Sugar Workers Federation.
- President, Hind Mazdoor Panchayat, Karnataka, 1970-1974
- President, All India Hind Mazdoor Panchayat, 1974-1979
- President, All India Hind Mazdoor Sabha, [ post HMS/HMP merger] 1979- till his death in1981
