Centre of Indian Trade Unions Denounce Finance Minsiter's Fourth Round Announcement–Programme for Disaster, Destruction, Deindustrialisation
Amid the shrill noise of self reliance, the fourth round announcement of Finance Minister in the name relief package carried no relief to actually suffering people in the least owing to lockdown. No doubt it is big bonanza to the private corporate bosses, more foreign than domestic through facilitating privatization of defence production by corporatization route, through opening privatization process of our vital mineral resources like coal and others, privatization of
At the same time, as has been made clear in her second and third round announcements regarding country's labour- management land-management, extra liberalism showered through aggressive move for complete annulment of all labour laws and also loud talks on liberal availability of land for industries through industrial land bank and other means, promotion of SEZs etc, make it amply clear that the most retrograde reforms programme being ventured by the Govt at the centre to appease the private capital, both foreign and domestic is going to be founded on taking away the lands of the farmers, or forcing them for distress sale who are already distressed through continuing agrarian crisis; on the other hand the misadventure of the Govt is also founded on barbarous sucking of the sweat and blood of the working people at large through promotion of lawless SEZ culture everywhere divesting them of all rights in all the workplaces. Those who produce food for the country and those who produce value for the nation are targeted for barbarous exploitation and expropriation along with desperate auction of country's strategic industries, natural and national resources to the detriment of national interests.
The privatization drive in defence production sector through corporatisation route and forcing PPP on the
absolutely redundant or make them the junior partner of foreign players. This will also severely erode the self-reliance and make the country dependent on imperialist powers.
The privatization drive in coal and Bauxite minerals sector along with banishing of the captive-mine concept and also allowing 100 per cent FDI through automatic route will finally be having destructive impact on the concerned public sector companies like
The Aviation sector has also been thrown in the process of privatization, including the national carrier Air India and also country's profit-making airports some of which has already gone to the chosen and favoured private players.
The country's electricity sector, the most vital sector delivering essential public utility is being pushed to total privatization, creating a compulsion for the state governments to follow such disastrous route, through Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 and authoritarian centralization of regulatory power stipulated by it; on the other hand subsidy on household consumers and agriculture has been announced to be phased out meaning increasing burden on the common people and already suffering agrarian sector.
Utterly notorious has been to open the door of privatization in
Selecting the Pandemic and lockdown time, severely squeezing the space for democratic exercise of debates and dissents for all the above misdeeds involving national interests reflects the dubious and destructive intents of the Govt of the day.
CITU condemns such desperate auctioneering of country's strategic industrial units in Defence production, Coal and Bauxite mining, aviation sector, electricity, Space and Atomic Energy and other national assets and resources in favour of private and foreign players which are severely detrimental to national interests. CITU calls upon the working people and all the trade unions irrespective of affiliations to protest against these retrograde measures and prepare for united resistance struggle at the earliest.
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