Officers Federations oppose 'Nationalization of losses and Privatisation of profits' policies
Various officer's federations opposed the government's policy of neglecting public sector at the cost of the private sector. A meeting of bodies representing various government employees said that policies of the government should be re-evaluated.
CJ: V K Gupta

Mon, Jun 06, 2011

A NATIONAL joint meeting of the representatives of National Confederation of Officers Associations of Central Public Sector Undertakings (NCOA), All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF), All India Bank Officers Confederation (AIBOC), Sanchar Nigam Executives Associations (SNEA), and MTNL Executives Associations (MEA) was held at Hyderabad on Sunday.

The meeting took stock of the serious situation arising from the systematic and relentless destruction of the public assets built by a generations of Indian people, compounded with known and yet uncovered scams the likes of which have not been witnessed in India since independence.

The meeting has resolved that there is a need to bring awareness amongst the general public and employees in implications of the policies of the govenrment of India as well as state governments, leading to the “privatization of profits and nationalization of losses”, and specifically its devastating effects on the rural areas, the weaker sections of the people, and the employee.

The meeting further resolved that step by step opposition of the working people should be built up against the sale of people’s assets, destruction of BSNL, MTNL and Air India. Padamjit Singh Chairman AIPEF said that privatisation of the most profitable creamy areas in the power distribution sector through franchising and setting up of new power plants through the MOU route will prove disastrous for the power utilities.

K Ashok Rao, Convener of meeting, said that the sudden reversal of nuclear power policy in favor of import of high cost (Rs. 22 Crore per MW) nuclear plant against Rs. 5 Crore per MW for thermal plants in India will raise the power cost abnormally high, and will be detrimental for consumers. He further said that in some cases like Jaitapur even untried and untested large size nuclear reactors are being bought.

The meeting further resolved to hold in the first Joint convention in July to be followed by State level conventions throughout India. The meeting was addressed by Baby Thomas General Secretary NCOA, Shailendra Dubey Secretary General AIPEF, G.L. Jogi, General Secretary, SNEA, V.K. Tomar General Secretary, MEA, and G.D.Nadaf Secretary, AIBOC.

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