Thursday, December 2, 2010

CPI(M) To Observe Anti-corruption Week In Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh state secretariat of the CPIM has decided to observe the second week from December 6 to 13 as ‘Anti Corruption week’. A massive campaign will be launched to expose the sordid tale of corruption under the central UPA-2 and the BJP government of the state. Corruption in the 2G scam, corruption in the commonwealth (CWG) projects, lands scams corruption in Mumbai- Adarsh Housing society scam and corruption in land lease to private universities in the state are some of the major corruption scams that have come up in the recent past, member of State Secretariat of party Tikender Singh Panwar said in a press statement today.
He pointed out that “a drug controller who was caught red-handed taking bribes, arrested and now faces prosecution was reinstated back on his job.” The haste with private universities have been opened up, smack of corruption, he said adding that a major scam involving fake mark sheets and degrees has surfaced in the HP school education board, which only pointed to an nexus of officials with the perpetrators.

About the central government, he said massive scams like the common wealth games, land scams in Mumbai and the 2 G telecom scam show the level that corruption has reached in the country. “ At a time when people in this country demand a life free from hunger and unemployment, they are witnessing sordid scandals of large amounts of public money being looted, he said.

Only recently an international organization called Global Financial Integrity headed by a former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director published a report that showed that in the last decade 5.7 lakh crores rupees of illegal financial flows went out of the country, Panwar, pointed out.

Agricultural workers march to Parliament



Agricultural workers from various parts of the country held Protest March to the Parliament under the banner of All India Agricultural workers union against the anti-people attitude of the UPA government and the policies of the government that is ruining the agricultural sector of the country. AIAWU president Com. P Ramayya inaugurated the rally. CPIM Polit Buerue member Com. Brinda Karat, CITU secretary Tapan Sen, Com A Vijayaraghavan spoke on the occasion. The leaders came down heavely on the policies of the central government curtailing the investment in agricultural sector, and warned of countrywide agitation against these policies. After that a memorandum which urges the governement to take immediate steps to improve the conditions of the agricultural workers was submitted to union minister for rural development Sri. C P Joshi.


Various demands put forward in the memorandum includes :
  • Ensure 150 workdays with minimum wages of Rs. 200/-
  • Increase the Budget allocation for NREGS to 1.60 crores
  • Implement new central law to protect agricutural workers
  • Take steps to prevent attacks on dalit

BSNL employees 3day strike started

The 3 day historic strike of BSNL Employees has started and is taking place successfully in all the circles. As per the reports received from various circles, the strike has received tremendous response from the 3 lakh Non-Executives and Executives. The work force has given a fitting reply to the arrogance of the govt., which did not even invite the leaders for talks. The strike was called to protest the recommendations of the Sam Pitroda Committee and to press for various other demands. The committee has recommended 30 per cent divestment in BSNL . The strike will continue up to 0600 hrs on 04.12.2010.