Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Saturday, Oct 05, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Saturday, Oct 05, 2002 |
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Industry & Economy
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WTO Agri-Biz & Commodities - WTO Mazdoor, kisan bodies oppose WTO regime Our Bureau
HYDERABAD, Oct. 4 A CONSORTIUM of organisations supporting the Swadeshi concept has criticised the Centre's policy of allowing multinationals into virtually every sector and being indifferent to the woes of the agriculture and small-scale sectors under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) regime. The organisations — Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) and the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM) — jointly organised a series of rallies and meetings in the city to highlight their views on the Centre's "liberal" economic policy and its negative impact. SJM's all-India Convener Mr P. Muralidhar Rao said: "Despite the Government's claims of growth, the entry of the goods of foreign companies has not benefited the common man." Even as unemployment had increased, the migration of rural people to urban areas was growing, he added. He said, in a press release, the Government's present policy of retrenching people through `golden handshakes' could lead to a time when the people would give the Government their "golden handshake". The wrong policies of the Centre with respect to agricultural produce were forcing farmers to take to the streets, he said.
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