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AITUC protests Rajasthan privatisation move

JAIPUR: The All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) held a rally here on Thursday to protest against the “anti-labour policies” of the State Government and to oppose the move to privatise public sector units, especially the Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation (RSRTC).

The trade union leaders who addressed a public meeting at the Civil Lines railway crossing here at the end of the rally said the Government should give up attempts to privatise the RSRTC. They warned against giving further contracts in power companies and other government departments to private parties. Addressing the workers, CITU national secretary G.L. Dhar said the workers would oppose privatisation of RSRTC by all means.

The steps already initiated by the State Government in this direction including the Cabinet proposals and the recommendations of the Yatreendra Singh Committee should be withdrawn, he demanded.

AITUC State president M.L. Yadav said the Government was neither permitting the RSRTC management to buy new buses to keep the fleet in order nor allowing new recruitments to infuse young blood. The desire to trade off Rs.15,000 crore worth RSRTC property had prompted the Cabinet proposal on privatisation, he charged. The fate of 22,000 families was involved in the survival of the corporation, he noted. AITUC State general secretary D.K. Changani demanded immediate appointment of tripartite committees and a revision of the minimum wages in the State to Rs.175 per day.

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