A complaint has been filed by CPI(M) Himachal Pradesh to the CVC demanding enquiry in to the sale of Agro-Industrial Packaging India Limited (AIPIL) to a scrap dealer of Nagpur for a paltry amount of Rs. 1.08 crore while it is valued at about Rs. 30 crore. The company was constituted in 1990 to manufacture corrugated apple cartons instead of wooden cartons thus to save the trees being cut indiscriminately. The many world-class imported heavy-duty machinery of the company which will fetch crores of rupees are treated as junk and given free.

The State governments are following the disastorous path of central government in privatising the PSUs, ‘the temples of modern India’.