29 Friday May 2015
Posted in Uncategorized
Shaken by the strong protest of war veterans, the government has assured that One Rank One Pension will be implemented with out further delay. Was the government sleeping after giving earlier assurance?
Do not ignore the Pensioners. They are a force to be reckoned with.
Once OROP is granted for army pensioners, the demand of civil pensioners for the same benefit will get momentum and strength.
29 Friday May 2015
Posted in General, WORLD NEWS
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A US senator, Sen Tom Udall, leading a delegation to Cuba has predicted that US and Cuba are just weeks away from full diplomatic relations.
This is good news. Let us hope that the diplomatic relations be restored at the earliest. The economic blockade and the breaking of the diplomatic relations have caused much harm, especially to Socialist Cuba. A positive change is required.
29 Friday May 2015
Posted in General
In India every meeting seems to be controversial. Now it is about the meeting on of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Rahul Gandhi says Modi called Manmohan Singh to learn about economy. BJP sources may say that Manmohan Singh wanted to get escape from the 2G embroil and hence met PM.
It is sure that something is there. But both the present PM and the former PM may not divulge.
28 Thursday May 2015
Posted in BSNLCCWF - Casual and Contract workers, General
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Hundreds of casual, contractual and daily wage employees gheraoed the J and K state secretariat today, 28th May, demanding regularisation and other important issues.
They were arrested and kept in custody by the police. The exploitation of these workers should end. They should be regularised. Justice should be meted out to them.
28 Thursday May 2015
Posted in Uncategorized
Both UPA and NDA Governments promised OROP to retired army personnel. But both failed to implement. Veteran army pensioners are going on agitation from 14 June.
28 Thursday May 2015
Posted in General, TU News - International
Constitution of Inter Ministerial Committee to hold discussion with representatives of Central Trade Unions on 10 point charter of demands and other issues.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Labour & Employment
26-May-2015 11:48 IST
PRESS NOTE
The Government has decided to constitute following Inter Ministerial committee to hold threadbare discussions with representatives of Central Trade Unions on 10 point charter of demands and other issues being raised by them and for recommending measures to address those issues:-
1.Shri Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister
2.Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, Minister of State(I/C) for Labour&Employment
3.Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State(I/C) for Petroleum&NaturalGas
4.Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State(I/C) for Power
5.Dr.Jitendra Singh, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office
The Secretarial assistance to this committee will be provided by the Ministry of Labour & Employment.Ministry of Labour and Employment Government of India New Delhi: May 26, 2015 ( Source: PIB)
28 Thursday May 2015
Posted in General, Neo-liberal policy
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’?
28 Thursday May 2015
Posted in General, Neo-liberal policy
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.
27 Wednesday May 2015
Posted in Left News
The CPI(M) government of Tripura has won one more laurel on governance. Since last year, it is the most literate state in the country, even bypassing Kerala, which was in number one position for decades. Now the Tripura Government has lifted the much hated Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA). The reason:
“Insurgency activities in the state are now reduced almost at zero”, according to Manik Sarkar, Chief Minister of Tripura.
Our Hearty Congratulations to Chief Minister Com. Manik Sarkar and the CPI(M) government of Tripura!
27 Wednesday May 2015
Posted in General
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According to the latest reports, more than 700 people have died in India, especially in A.P., Telengana, Delhi etc. The temperature has gone up much more than usual.
One factor which is very clear is that most of the people died are poor people. Whether extreme heat, extreme cold or food shortage, it is always the poor who suffer most.
When will ‘Achche Din’ for these people will arrive? There is no indication to that at present.
