railways, defence
and postal for
sale
we shall prevent
it at any
cost
NDA Government which came to power
at Centre seven months back, has proved that it is a Govt. of the Corporates,
by the Corporates and for the Corporates.
In the Central Govt. employees sector none of the issues pertaining to
the employees are settled - DA merger, Interim Relief, Inclusion of GDS under
7th CPC, Scrapping of New Pension Scheme, Casual Labourers issue, Cadre
Restructuring in Postal, all are pending. Over and above this, the Modi Government is
moving fast ahead with privatisation and large scale outsourcing of the core
functions of the Central Government departments. The very existence of Government-run Central
Government departments are under threat.
On 22nd August 2014, the Modi
Govt. amended the 1991 Govt. of India’s Policy resolution, replacing the words
“Railway Transport” as “Railway Operations”.
Simultaneously, they also announced the induction of 100% FDI in
Railways including operation, construction, design and maintenance. Induction of FDI and consequent privatisation
of Railways will endanger the job security of lakhs of Railway employees.
The Defence production sector went
in for partial privatisation when the UPA Government allowed FDI to the extent
of 26% whereby the foreign arms manufacturers were permitted access to the
vital defence sector, disregarding the national security perspective. What is now decided by the present NDA
Government is to allow 49% FDI in defence production. The Government has decided to set up a
Corporation to carry out the functions of 41 ordnance factories under the
Ministry of Defence which is a big move to privatise defence production
sector. Eventually this will lead to
closure of department - controlled defence production units, unable to face the
unscrupulous competition from the Transnational Corporations, driving thousands
of Defence employees and workers to unemployment and poverty.
The Task Force set up by the
Government under the Chairmanship of Shri. T.S.R. Subramanian, former Cabinet
Secretary to the Govt. of India, has recommended to convert the core functions
of the Postal Department into a Corporation called “India Post (Financial and
other services) Corporation”. Under this
holding company five more subsidiary corporations will be formed, on the lines
the Telecom was made into BSN, VSNL and MTNL.
The entire social obligations will be thrust upon the Postal Department
while private players will eventually take the creamy part of Postal department
such as Savings Bank, PLI/RPLI, Parcels, Packets and Logistics etc. In the longer run, the public sector company
so formed would be made to incur losses and ultimate closure, as is happening
in the case of BSNL. Lakhs of Postal employees will be forced to go on VRS or
will become jobless.
Thus it is very clear that Modi
Government has thrown a challenge to the Central Government employees in
general and to Railway, Defence and Postal Workers in particular. We must
accept the challenge and defeat the nefarious design of the Modi Government,
with determination and with a do or die attitude. We must not entertain any doubt of our
ultimate victory in this battle.
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