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Tuesday, Aug 29, 2006

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CITU urges Centre to revive ITI

Staff Reporter

Signature campaign planned against `neglect' of company

Bangalore: The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) is planning a mass campaign in protest against what it terms the neglect of the public sector Indian Telephone Industries (ITI).

The signature campaign, to be undertaken in association with other public sector units, will oppose to the policies of the Centre and State governments that have affected the fortunes of the ITI. "Policies favouring global multinationals are not allowing the public sector ITI to function properly," said Prasanna Kumar, secretary, CITU State Committee, on Monday. He told presspersons here that it was the duty of the Union Government to upgrade infrastructure, technology and research and development facilities of the ITI.

"The total outlay for telecom equipment is approximately Rs. 1,30,000 crore, but production has not been allotted to the ITI, which has been in the field for more than five decades. Instead, the production of equipment for CDMA technology has been allotted to the ZTE, a leading China-based company," he said.

There should be a 20-year vision for every industry, which, unfortunately, had not been the case with regard to the ITI. Employees had not been paid salaries for three months, he said.

The CITU wanted the Union Government to withdraw policies that would destroy existing public sector units and adopt measures to revive organisations such as the ITI by placing sufficient orders, he said.

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