{"id":240013,"date":"2024-05-07T00:21:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T18:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=240013"},"modified":"2024-05-07T00:21:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T18:51:10","slug":"modi-govt-has-diluted-reservations-through-privatisation-cong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/07\/modi-govt-has-diluted-reservations-through-privatisation-cong\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi govt has diluted reservations through privatisation: Cong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 6 May:<\/strong> The Congress on Monday alleged that the Modi government has &#8220;diluted&#8221; reservations through privatisation and claimed that the BJP&#8217;s &#8220;willy-nilly&#8221; handover of state assets to a couple of &#8220;the PM&#8217;s friends&#8221; shows that for him, corporate interests will always trump the wellbeing of people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said that each privatisation is accompanied by the end of reservations in employment for Dalits, Adivasis, and OBC families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Each contractualisation is a way of sidestepping reservations for Dalit, Adivasi, and OBC families,&#8221; he said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Modi government has diluted reservations through privatisation. These are the facts: 2.7 lakh central PSU workers have lost their jobs in PM Modi&#8217;s Anyay Kaal. Share of contract workers has shot up from 19% in 2013 to 43% in 2022! PM Modi has overseen 72% of all disinvestments since the beginning of the disinvestment process in 1991,&#8221; Ramesh said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that each privatisation is accompanied by the end of reservations in employment for Dalit, Adivasi, and OBC families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Each contractualisation is a way of sidestepping reservations for Dalit, Adivasi, and OBC families,&#8221; Ramesh said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PSUs play a crucial role in inclusive growth, both through the development of backward regions and through the generation of employment for vulnerable communities, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The BJP&#8217;s willy-nilly handover of state assets to a couple of the PM&#8217;s friends at throwaway prices, and the massive job losses that followed have highlighted that for PM Modi, corporate interests will always trump the wellbeing of the people,&#8221; Ramesh alleged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Whether you call it privatisation or &#8216;monetisation&#8217; &#8211; as they have increasingly resorted to &#8211; it is still a sale of national interests and a dilution of social justice principles,&#8221; the Congress general secretary said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He alleged that there has been an indiscriminate sale of PSUs in the last 10 years and reservation failed due to loss of lakhs of government jobs. 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Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}