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Hats off!

The Centre's decision to put on hold the disinvestment process following the DMK's threat that it would walk out of the Government is welcome. Hats off to Mr. Karunanidhi for his success in thwarting the disinvestment.

M. Surveswaran,
Chennai

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Selling the family silver for day-to-day expenses is not the most prudent course. Instead of persisting with the misconceived elitist notion that privatisation is the panacea for all economic ills, evolving informed creative ideas of garnering resources for resolving livelihood issues should be the endeavour of the Government.

Kasim Sait,
Chennai

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It is not enough for the Centre to put on hold the disinvestment process in a PSU, that too a profit-making one. It should be given up totally. It should be part of a national commitment and not a matter of mere expediency or politics of numbers, waiting for the next available opportunity to reintroduce it when the numbers improve. Whither Congress?

N.G.R. Prasad,
Chennai

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken the right decision. His detractors must know that in a coalition government, partners often take recourse to `give and take' as their ends are more important than the means. The Government has successfully weathered another looming crisis, thanks to the Prime Minister's political shrewdness.

M. Somasekhar Prasad,
Badvel, A.P.

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The Centre should have known better than to go ahead with the proposal. The people of Tamil Nadu rejected the earlier Government that had sought to suppress labour. The decision is a success for the united struggle of trade unions.

S. Jagadish,
Chennai

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When the UPA Government came to power with the support of the Left parties, one hoped the pace of the so-called reform process would be halted. But the Government is bent on following anti-people policies, be it disinvestment in profit-making PSUs or hiking the price of petrol. The Congress seems to mock at the common man when it calls its Chief Ministers to Delhi to advise them on controlling the prices of essential commodities.

R. Seshadri,
Chennai

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I was surprised by the query why workers should oppose any privatisation move (Letters, July 7). It has been the common practice of companies to downsize with a change in the management. As for voluntary retirement, it is voluntary only in the public sector. In private organisations, employees are retrenched with minimal or no compensation.

S. Sankaranarayanan,
Chennai

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