Mission privatisation re-launched as labour reforms passed in Parliament and Indian Railway is the first victim!

Railways should be vehicle of India’s growth story, Modi said, understand this. Modi favours privatization, modernization of railway stations!
Railways should be vehicle of India’s growth story, Modi said, understand this. Modi favours privatization, modernization of railway stations!
"I want both horizontal and vertical development in railways. Horizontal means better network and vertical means better facilities," said Modi.
Most noteworthy, Modi also said that more money will flow into railways in the days to come as the government has wanted to privatise some railway stations in the country. "We want railways stations to be privatised. I believe railways should have even better facilities than airports as the common man travels through trains," Modi added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hinted so many times that his government would welcome greater private investment in Indian Railways. The India incs and foreign capital stress that during the general election campaign, Narendra Modi had professed that Government has no business to do business. As chief executive of the new administration, Prime Minister Modi should practice that principle.
Saffron government of India has decided to close down no less than seventy PSUs as it has endorsed the private party which declared these PSUs should not continue. No sell off, direct shutter down. Mission privatisation re-launched as labour reforms passed in Parliament and Indian Railway is the first victim already selected.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the Northeast Frontier Railway (NF Railway) Stadium in Guwahati on Saturday evening that the Indian Railways should be a vehicle of India's growth story and hoped that under the leadership of new railway minister Suresh Prabhu, the Indian Railways would make rapid progress in the days to come.
Just read between the lines.
Good luck to the employees of Indian Railway and Trade Unions active in this life line sector to be revitalised with privatisation and automation before bullet trains are introduced, that the hegemony may not afford to close down Indian Railway. It is going to close down Indian Railway. It is simply selling off Indian Railway.
It is not that the Railway employees and trade unions are ignorant of the disastrous development but they are not capable anyway to stop the guillotine and have surrendered as two of the Railway trade unions already prayed the merciless super slaves of foreign capital that they are ready to generate fund Torun Indian Railway and Railway should not be privatised.
Just read again the reports of disinvestment council and disinvestment commissions once again which I posted several times during last ten years and quoted often.
Most profitable PSUs have to privatise and irrespective of sector situations, every sector banking, ports, aviation, insurance, mining energy, transport, education, health, food and supply, Post, telecom, mining, steel, coal and so on, has to bear the burns sooner or later.
It is the turn of the Railway. Railway is subjected to privatisation since long. Railway ministers like Ram Vilas Paswan, Nitish Kumar, Mamata Banerjee and others have come a long way to privatise the premises, booking, catering, maintenance and construction in the sector. Only operation and signal are the departments which have to be set free.
Even Railway fares have been decontrolled on the line of Oil and sugar, deregulated as it has been in sectors like health, education, energy and so on.
As soon as NDA Two succeeded to pass labour reforms in the parliament it has become the killing fields all the way as labour rights being irrelevant, unwanted workers may well be shunted out to streamline Indian Railway on the privatisation bullet track.
Mind you, Parliament on Friday set the ball rolling for labour sector reforms by passing a Bill that seeks to exempt lakhs of small establishment from furnishing returns and maintaining registers.
Thus, the prime minister of India on his four day visit to Northeast declared at Guwahati that his government has decided to allow 100 percent Foreign Direct Investment in railways, to spur the process of modernisation of Indian Railways and added that the government was also considering privatisation of railway stations to promote economic activities. The Government would also set up four Universities for the Railways, and graduates from these Universities would be able to contribute to the Indian Railways, also getting employment in the process, he added.
As “the Hindu” reports, the Prime Minister, who drove straight to the venue immediately on his arrival at Lokapriya Gopinath Bardoloi international airport, said India now needs next-gen infrastructure – consisting of both highways and I-ways (information ways). He said there should be no digital divide, and the vision of Digital India should also encompass the North-East and the people living on the hills of THE region should have equal access to information technology as those living in the national capital and other cities. Why should there not be a gas-grid, why should we not get electricity for 24 hours, the Prime Minister asked, expressing confidence that next-gen infrastructure would be the key to building a modern India.
O- Palash Biswas