Speech of
Hon’ble Minister for Finance etc. Departments
as inaugurator of 34th Joint Circle Conference, NFPE
Hon’ble Presidium,
distinguished guests, delegates from North Eastern Seven Sisters’ States.
I welcome you all in the capital city at Agartala,
Tripura State. You are here in the 34th Joint Circle Conference of Assam and
North East in the banner of National Federation of Postal Employees to discuss
the present situation of the country, particularly the North East region in the
context of alarming situation of the working class people due globalization.
Right from 2008 recession in the capital economy around the globe have become a
permanent -feature i.e. stagnation of economic growth. The burden of the crisis
is transferred to the shoulder of the working class and the middle class
teachers and employees of the advanced countries also. Protest against this
situation is leading to organized strikes to protect the available facilities
against the closure of industries, retrenchment of employees causing problem of
the working people and the poor. The welfare measures prevailing for the
decades and centuries being withdrawn by not touching the rich and the
corporate, even they are being subsidized from the state exchequer curtailing
welfare activities.
In our country also same economic system is being
following by the Central Governments from 1991 leading to much trouble to the
working class and the poor causing their pauperization due to new Economic
Policy and uncertainty to the teachers, employee’s pension and other retirement
benefits. The UPA government while following globalization policy, used to say
that globalization will have also a human face. But the NDA Government now with
majority in the Parliament (though only got 38% votes) now nakedly following
anti— people policies favoured the monopoly and the corporates in and outside
the country. So, accumulation of rapid growth of wealth in the hands of a few
by making the crores of poor peoples to be poorer and the poorest is followed.
If this continues, purchasing capacity of billion Indians will go down in such
a way that our country will be weak. The Workers’
Trade Unions and the middle Class Teachers
Employees’ Associations should rise to the occasion by making barricades on the
streets to defeat the attempts from destroying the country’s economy. National
Federation of Postal Employees have no option but to follow the path of
struggle with other organized and unorganized sectors in the banner of National
Platform of Mass Organization (NPMO).
I think your deliberations in the conference will go
for critical analysis of the affect of globalization in the Postal sector where
this postal services are substituted by the Courier Service destroying the
importance of the postal service. You have chosen Agartala for your conference
because you have heard that a small state with an alternate policy is trying to
save the organized and unorganized working classes of Tripura along with the
middle class teachers and employees in a way that is not folldwed by the
Central Government. Only if the Central Government follows a pro-people policy
they can satisfy the entire people of the country with a spirit of actual
“welfare state” described in the Constitution— right to live, right to speech
and expression, right to protest against oppressors as guaranteed in the
Constitution instead of those rich people who does not require any help. Let
the governments at States and Central try to help the poor who can’t afford two
square meal a day, have no shelter to live, have no income to survive by
providing free education and health care for all, subsidized foodgrains,
shelter for all, electricity to every household and safe drinking water
facility for all, the people will survive in the welfare state.
That means an alternate economic policy can provide
the above facilities to the country people for which direct tax to the rich and
minimum indirect tax to the poor people should be practised.
With these few words, I request all of you to raise
this democratic demand along with your own trade unions economic demands to
fill the pulse of the common people and to have them with your struggle with
which national governance may be changed in a positive way to serve all in the
truest sense.
Thanking you.
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