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Shame to continued Governments – India leads world in the number of hungry people

28 Thursday May 2015

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It is really a shame on the Government and the people of India. India now leads in the maximum number of hungry people in the world. As per the report of the State of Food Security in the World 2015, India has 194.6 million people who are in the hunger list. Almost every one out of four is undernourished.

Earlier it was China, having more hungry people. But it has now diminished sharply. Even Nepal and Bangladesh has reduced the hungry people. But in India, the reduction has been nominal. Out of 172 countries, India ranks first in poverty and hunger.

The neo-liberal policies being practiced by the UPA and NDA governments, have created more and more billionaires and trillionaires. At the same time more people have become poor and poorer.

Prime Minister Mr. Modiji, is ‘Achche Din’ only for the rich and corporates. What about the poor people who gave vote for you for the promised ‘Achche Din’?

ITDC Hotels to be handed over to private, by sale or by lease – Government proposal

28 Thursday May 2015

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Government is on the path of disposing of its famous ITDC Hotels one after another. It is proposing to come out of the Hotel business. Argument of the government is that running hotels is not he business of the government. ‘Business is not the business of government’ was the slogan of the Bajpayee Government which sold ITDC hotels like Mumbai Centaur Hotel, near the Airport, for paltry sum. How the employees in the Centaur Hotel suffered is a well known fact. Women were retrenched, followed by SC/ST and then hire and fire. That will be the same course now also.

The plea of the government is that most of these hotels are in loss. Instead of making them in to profitable units, the government wants to hand them over to private, for maximising their profits. These hotels are situated in centre locations. The proposal is either to lease them for long period (say 30 Years) or sell them cheap.

The hotels proposed for lease/privatisation are Hotel Jaipur Ashok, Jammu Ashok, Kalinga Ashok, Lalitha mahal Palace Hotel, Mysuru, Hotel Bharatpur, Pondicherry Ashok, Ranchi Ashok etc.

The proposal to sell these icon hotels should be opposed and defeated by the democratic forces and political parties. The unions in these establishments should initiate the protest.

National Convention of Workers today at New Delhi

26 Tuesday May 2015

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The National Convention of Workers, called by the 11 Central Trade Unions, is being held at Mavlankar Hall, New Delhi, today, 26th May 2015. The Labour Minister stated two days back that the ‘strike on 26th May’ is not warranted. He did not even think about, whether it was strike or convention.

Anyhow, this Convention being participated by hundreds of trade union workers from all over the country and steered by the 11 Central Trade Unions are going to take decision for industrial action, most probably a strike. The government has so far not taken action on any of the 10 point important demands, that the unions have been raising for the last 4-5 years.

The insensitive government should be made to understand the Indian work force will not tolerate such humiliation and ignoring.

Towards a successful National Convention! Let important decisions be taken for forward march of the working class!

National Convention of Workers on 26th May 2015 at New Delhi

24 Sunday May 2015

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As per the decision of the 11 Central Trade Unions, a National Convention of Workers will be held at Mavlankar Hall, New Delhi. In addition to the representatives/delegates from the CTUs, delegates from the All India Federations of employees from many sectors like Central/State government employees, Railways, Defence, Postal, BSNL, Banks etc. will participate. It will be addressed by the leaders of the Central Trade Unions.

The Convention will review the programmes of action organised in the past on the 10 Points Demands raised by  the CTUs covering almost all major issues of the working Class and against the attack on them. It is also expected that the Convention will declare the next programme of action, probably a strike,  against the anti-working class policy of the Modi Government.

It is commendable that despite different ideologies and political background, all the Central trade Unions have been jointly continuing with sustained struggles for the cause of the working class, irrespective of which government is in power. This should continue.

 

Railways in acute need of 2,000 additional wagons

17 Sunday May 2015

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It is reported that Railways is in acute shortage of wagons to carry goods, especially coal. As per the Railways Minister Shri Suresh Prabhu, more than 2,000 additional wagons are required. The tenders are yet to be finalised.

It seems that the BSNL example is being repeated here. Making shortage of required wagons, the railways will be in difficulty. And then running of goods trains can be taken over by the private corporates. There is every chance that the shortage is planned to weaken Railways, as it was done to BSNL by cancelling the tender for required mobile connections, which was the main reason for starting of its down fall.

Oppose the govt. move to bring anti-labour laws

08 Friday May 2015

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The NDA government is all-bound to change the labour laws to suit the requirements of the employers. The corporates have been putting pressure on the governments continuously for the same during the last many years. The NDA government is aggressively implementing the same.

It is proposed by the government to bring “Industrial Relations Code Bill 2015” which is to amend the three  earlier acts viz. The Industrial Disputes Act 1947, The Trade Union Act 1926 and The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act 1946.

According to the new Bill, the companies with up to 300 workers need not take government permission for lay of retrenchment etc. At present the limit is 100 workers.

Vast majority of the companies in India will be covered by this bill and hire and fire will become law, The workers will not get any remedy except compensation.

The Central Trade Unions have already opposed the move. This will be one additional reason for the continuous struggle by the Central Trade Unions.

Cabinet decision for closure of HMT Watch Units.

25 Saturday Apr 2015

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The Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises Ministry, which is the administrative ministry for the central PSUs, may move a Cabinet Note shortly for winding up of the loss making HMT watch units, which are HMT watches, HMT bearings and HMT Chinar watches. These are in loss for the last few years, mainly due to the non-support of the government following neo-liberal policies, which favour private companies. HMT Watches was an iconic company with a very high market share in the sector manufacturing excellent accurate watches.

The other loss making companies which are going to be wound up are: Hindustan Cables, Tungabhadra Steel and Hindustan Photo Films.

The government is on a plan to wind up many PSUs, on the plea of loss.

Another Spectrum auction on the anvil

18 Saturday Apr 2015

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TRAI has now  asked the government to conduct another spectrum auction, that of 700 MHz, which is used for 4G services. The TRAI has asked the government to take the decision in this matter within 3 months.

Indian Railways complete 162 years of service to the Nation.

16 Thursday Apr 2015

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It is a creditable record. Indian Railways is completing 162 years of glorious service. It was on 16th April 1853 that the first train started from Victoria Terminus (Bombay) to Thane. It has grown and grown.

Indian Railways is one of the largest railways in the world with 115,000 km of track over a route of 65,436 km and more than 7,200 stations. In 2014-15, IR carried 8.397 billion passengers annually or more than 23 million passengers a day (roughly half of whom were suburban passengers) and 1050.18 million tons of freight in the year. In 2014–2015 Indian Railways had a revenue of Rs.1634.50 billion which consists of Rs.1069.27 billion  from freight and Rs. 402.80 billion from passengers tickets.

It is also the biggest employer in the country with more than 13 lakh workers.

The move of the government to privatise the Indian Railways should be strongly opposed and defeated.

 

Allegations of Corruption against former Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel

16 Thursday Apr 2015

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The Supreme court has asked the CBI to submit the details of its probe against former Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, who has ordered  a large number of 111 air-crafts for Air India, gave preferential routes to private companies taking them from Air India and the merger of Air India – Indian Airlines.

In fact, these are some of the wrong decisions which have been taken by then Civial Aviation Minister which made Air India in to loss and turmoil. I have pointed out these issues several times. PSUs are being dealt with as their kingdom by the Ministers who wants to maximum benefit personally.

Let the inquiry be over so that we will know the extent of the corruption.