BMS to hold nation-wide agitation against Govt’s privatisation drive on 10th
   Date :06-Jun-2020

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Business Bureau :
 
 
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) said, it will hold a nationwide agitation on June 10 against the Government,s aggressive privatisation drive. In a statement, BMS said, the Government is justifying the dire need of money to run the Government machinery by privatising public sector undertakings (PSUs). “It (Government) has no moral right to sell national assets created by its predecessors.
 
BMS is committed to fight until it stops the Government from taking the anti-public sector and anti-worker decisions. BMS will launch a nationwide agitation on June 10, 2020 under the banner ‘Save Public Sector, Save India’,” the body said. A meeting of National Coordination Committee of Public Sectors of BMS was held on Tuesday and Wednesday.
 
The meeting was attended by representatives of BMS unions in sectors like coal, non-coal, defence, railway, postal, banking, insurance, steel, marine and PSUs, said Virjesh Upadhyay, General Secretary of BMS. The meeting was held to decide the plan of action by BMS against “the process of privatisation aggressively pursued by the Central Government in different names in different sectors like the commercialisation of coal sector, corporatisation of Defence ordnance factories board and railway, strategic sale of PSUs, merger and privatisation of banks, insurance, increasing FDI cap etc.”