Leaders of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant workers and trade unions and Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan, at his camp office on Sunday.
A delegation of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), workers and unions called Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan at his camp office here on Sunday (October 6, 2024), and urged him to see that the Central government bans them. planned to privatize the company under the guise of disinvestment.
They also asked Mr. Pawan Kalyan to fight to raise funds to help VSP meet the financial crisis.
In response to their requests, Mr. Pawan Kalyan said that the privatization of VSP is a matter that touches the heart as it came about after a difficult struggle, in which 32 people died. Apart from that, about 16,000 people gave away about 24,000 hectares of land.
He promised the delegates that they will take this issue to the floor again, while realizing that the survival of PSUs is important for the country’s economy.
The need to allocate the captive steel mines to VSP and invest in working capital, or to merge it with Steel Authority of India (SAIL) / NMDC’ Steel Limited (NSL) in Nagarnar, or to convert VSP from non-strategic to strategic category will be. transferred to the Centre.
The pressure should have been applied by the leadership team of all the major political parties in this center as when this proposal came but it happened, he cried.
Union leaders told the Deputy CM that VSP has 12,500 employees and 14,000 contract workers, and that some allowances have not been paid for the past few months.
In addition, Mr. Pawan Kalyan wanted to know if the former Chief Minister, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, had planned to sell the VSP lands, the workers replied that it was true.
The meeting took on importance in the context of the visit of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in New Delhi on October 7 (Monday), where he was expected to speak to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Ministers on various issues, including the proposed reservation. of VSP.
Mr. Naidu and Mr. Pawan Kalyan had expressed their determination to protect the VSP, while the Minister of State for Steel and Heavy Industries Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma said that the Center is looking at all possible ways to pull the VSP out of the red, and that is detailed. discussions were held with all stakeholders to find a permanent solution.
Published – October 07, 2024 03:45 am IST