22 July 2012

Manesar Shutdown@Maruti

This is with reference, to the recent shutdown at Maruti after worker riot at the Manesar plant. Incidents such as at Manesar's, is highly condemnable. It's an admonition to a dirty picture ( which labor forces can paint).
Peeping into history, during Pre-Liberalization Era ( 1947-91) labor forces experienced protected markets and dominant status of manufacturing.
But now markets drive the economy. Contractual jobs, cost cutting and over production (to achieve operational efficiencies) is the new mantra of industries. Concurrently, the motto of the successive governments too, moved away from creating an egalitarian society to facilitating the growth of enterprises and entrepreneurship. As a consequence, Workers feel over-exploited and they resort to such means, as happened at Manesar.
There is an urgent need for the parliament to revisit the age old rusted, Industrial policy. The objective should be to re-haul the Labor policies as a whole rather than just providing compensation to suffered managers and punishing those gang of 90 odd workers.


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