HYDERABAD, April 19: The speakers at a seminar on “Human Rights and Education” have welcomed the lifting of ban on trade unions and said that the positive step will not only promote healthy trade union activities but will also go a long way in boosting industrial production.

The seminar was organised by the regional centre of the directorate of workers education, ministry of labour, in collaboration with Self-Help, an NGO, at the press club here on Saturday.

The speakers stressed the need for creating awareness among the masses about their fundamental human rights and responsibilities and duties and said that rights and duties were co-related and there could be no rights without duties.