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‘Globalisation promoting use-and-throw culture'

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Achuthanandan opposes such practice in hiring IT staff

— Photo: K. Gopinathan

new facility:Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan with the former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda and CPI(M) State secretary V.J.K. Nair at the inauguration of the EMS Bhavan in Bangalore on Monday.

BANGALORE: Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan on Monday expressed concern that the new economic policies of globalisation were promoting a “use-and-throw” culture with respect to hiring of employees for industries and the IT sector.

Speaking after inaugurating the EMS Bhavan built in honour of the legendary Communist leader and former Kerala Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiripad by the A.K. Gopalan Memorial Social Education Trust, in Bangalore, Mr. Achuthanandan said such policies had more influence in Bangalore which had a large number of industrial workforce and IT employees. He stressed the need for having permanent jobs and incentives instead of promoting use-and-throw culture.

It was possible to strengthen the influence and scope of the Leftist progressive movements by campaigning against such new kind of exploitations, he noted.

Referring to Karnataka, he said it was a State where religion, caste and identity politics were deeply rooted.

EMS Bhavan Managing Trustee G.N. Nagaraj pointed out that the Bhavan was being inaugurated on Monday to mark the 101 {+s} {+t} birth anniversary of the late EMS. He said the Bhavan with an area of 6,000 square feet had been built at a cost of about Rs. 1 crore collected from the working class.

The main intention was to turn the Bhavan into a Study Centre for progressive social struggles and a training centre for activists of such movements. The Bhavan will also house a research centre in which the State's social, economical, political and cultural conditions will be studied in an unbiased manner.

CPI(M) State Secretary V.J.K. Nair, who is also honorary secretary of the trust, remarked that the Bhavan with its study and research centres would turn out to be a university for studying the condition of farmers, working class and oppressed sections.

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