BJP's labour arm softens stand on retrenchment, EPFO investment | Business Standard News

BJP's labour arm softens stand on retrenchment, EPFO investment | Business Standard News

My VIEW:

May
16, 2015
Managing
labour
This refers to the report
“BJP’s labour arm softens stand on retrenchment, EPFO investment”(May 16/17).
It is comforting to see that there is a positive initiative from government’s
side for a meaningful dialogue with representatives of workers on crucial
changes in labour laws and the workers represented through their unions are
reciprocating in a proactive way.
The government and the
unions are not still free from the hang-over of pre-2014 Election days when there
were distinct positions on every issue of public interest taken by
government(or the combination of political parties which were in charge) and
the opposition(the coalition that failed to make numbers to form the
government) and debates in legislatures or in the media were not issue-based.
Ruling coalition and the opposition mustered the support of their various arms
among workers, students and farmers and argued their cases, seldom keeping
public interest as the priority.
The Narendra Modi
approach of participative democracy, expressed through the setting up of NITI
Aayog which envisaged economic federalism is worth experimenting. Perhaps, a
beginning could be made by all political parties coming together and discussing
issues of national importance on which a Common Minimum Programme(CMP) could be
arrived at. There are several such issues awaiting policy intervention. They
include, financial sector reforms, improving the quality and speed of delivery
of justice, all social sector reforms and management of resources.


M
G Warrier, Thiruvananthapuram

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