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The Terms of Reference (ToR) set on Tuesday by the Defence Ministry, for a high-level committee to address the concerns raised by workers’ federations, have raised further apprehensions about the Centre’s policy towards corporatisation of Ordnance Factories Board (OFB).
Federations have questioned the ToR and said they will challenge it at a meeting with the high-level panel scheduled on September 30. The federations, which held a six-day strike recently against the proposal, maintained that OFB should remain a Defence Ministry Department and should not be converted as a public sector enterprise. The ToR, approved by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, said the high level panel will work out safeguards to protect the interests of employees in terms of wages, health facilities and other service matters due to converting OFB into a public sector entity.
Ordnance factory workers object to fresh impetus for corporatisation
Federations have questioned the ToR and said they will challenge it at a meeting with the high-level panel scheduled on September 30. The federations, which held a six-day strike recently against the proposal, maintained that OFB should remain a Defence Ministry Department and should not be converted as a public sector enterprise. The ToR, approved by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, said the high level panel will work out safeguards to protect the interests of employees in terms of wages, health facilities and other service matters due to converting OFB into a public sector entity.
Ordnance factory workers object to fresh impetus for corporatisation
