Press Release CPI(M) state committee has raised serious objection to Haryana cabinet’s decision to grant option for alternative use of lands purchased for setting up Special Economic Zones(SEZ) by private players during recent years.In a press release issued today state secretary Inderjit Singh has stated that such a provision with far reaching importance should not have [...]
Thousands of women, led by senior leaders of AIDWA including CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat, staged a protest march at Rohtak in Haryana on Monday against the failure of the State government to halt the continuing violence and rape of Dalit women and minors and also the reckless statements made by senior political [...]
C P Krishnan THE two-day total strike by bank employees and officers on August 22 and 23 was primarily against the move of the government of India to dilute the public sector character of the banks. The amendments to the Banking Regulation Act, Banking Acquisition and Undertaking Acts and the Competition Commission Act, proposed by the government, [...]
Pradip Biswas THE banking industry of the county came to a grinding halt on August 22 and 23, with around 10 lakh employees and officers striking work at the call of United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), a joint platform of nine all-India organisations of employees and officers. Bank gates remained closed on these two [...]
OUR country’s financial system and economic stability will be in peril if the proposed Banking Laws Amendment Bill is allowed to be passed, felt the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) president A K Padmanabhan while congratulating the 10 lakh employees in banking sector for their successful strike against this Bill. Addressing media persons in Hyderabad on [...]
Prabhat Patnaik THE allocation of captive coal blocks to private parties raises a number of issues, of which only one, namely the loss to the exchequer, because the allocation was not determined through auctions, has received attention. Let us first discuss this issue itself, before coming to others that have been ignored. The fact that [...]
The prime minister in his written statement laid on the table of both the Houses of Parliament amidst din, said, amongst other things, that the Left Front government in West Bengal had opposed the auction process for allocation of coal mines. This is a distortion of facts. We are reproducing below a note on this [...]
The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the allocation of coal blocks has revealed how chunks of the coal resources of the country have been handed over to private companies to enable them to make windfall profits. According to the CAG, the allocation of captive coal blocks to private companies is likely [...]