Live
- They always want me to win, and now I feel lucky to have been offered a story like ‘Zebra’: Satyadev Kancharana
- ‘Democracy first, humanity first’: PM Modi in Guyana's parliament on two countries' similarities
- PKL Season 11: Telugu Titans register third straight win to top standings
- Is Pollution Contributing to Your COPD?
- NASA Unveils Underwater Robots for Exploring Jupiter's Moons
- Additional Central forces arrive in violence-hit Manipur
- AR Rahman and Saira Banu’s Divorce: Legal Insights into Common Issues in Bollywood Marriages
- 82.7 pc work completed in HPCL Rajasthan Refinery area: official
- Curfew relaxation extended in 5 Manipur districts on Friday
- Tab scam prompts Bengal govt to adopt caution over fund disbursement
Withdraw VSP sale move, Centre told
Representatives of Uttarandhra People’s Organisation, among others, participating in the rally held in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.
Various people’s organisations, activists and intellectuals take out a huge rally under the banner of Uttarandhra People’s Organisation demanding Centre to drop the move to private steel plant
Visakhapatnam : The Centre should unconditionally withdraw the privatisation of Visakhapatnam steel plant (VSP) and ensure it continues to operate as a PSU, demanded members of Uttarandhra People’s Organisation, an umbrella organisation formed by people’s associations, democrats and intellectuals. Organising a massive rally in the city on Wednesday, the organisation representatives demanded the Centre to allot dedicated mines to the steel plant and infuse Rs10,000 crore as working capital for the plant so that it could limp back to the profitable track.
Stopping the deployment of employees to the other steel plants, providing permanent jobs to the displaced families of the VSP, regularising the contract workers and implementing reservation policies are their other demands on the occasion.
By making deliberate attempts to weaken the VSP, the Centre intends to sell it off to the corporate entity at throwaway prices, alleged V V Ramana Murthy, convener of the Uttarandhra People’s Organisation.
Further, the representatives demanded that the TDP and Jana Sena should mount pressure on the Centre to withdraw the privatisation move. If the Union government fails to budge, they stated that the TDP and JSP should withdraw their support to the BJP-led NDA government. The representatives urged people from all walks of life to extend support to the Ukku stir as the plant was established following several sacrifices.
