SAY NO TO JOB KILLER POLICIES!!!
DOWN-SIZING RIGHT-SIZING OUTSOURCING
ASSERT YOURSELVES INDIA NEEDS YOU
Dear Graduates of Bangalore,
The last several years have witnessed an onslaught on employment
opportunities by the cutting of jobs in the name of administrative
reforms.
In the 2004 elections, 51% of the voting population were youth. The
people, quite rightly, rejected the parties like BJP led NDA,
Chandrababu led TDP, SM Krishna led Congress, Jayalalitha led AIADMK
pursuing such policies. The only exception being the Left parties as
they were against these policies.
Reason: First there was
'downsizing' then 'rightsizing' and now 'outsourcing'. All these terms
mean the same ie., the government does not want to create new jobs for
the growing population while drastically cutting down on the existing
jobs. This leads to involuntary job loss and creates temporary and
contractual jobs which is unhealthy for the economy on the whole.
Even with the changing governments there has been no change in
policies. The reason being the LPG (Liberalisation, Privatisation and
Globalisation) policies vigorously pursued by the successive
governments.
Result: The educated unemployed
were not given secure jobs but rather temporary and contractual jobs
and due to this a vast section of under-employeds are emerging.
While being squeezed as the sugarcane is squeezed there is no minimum
wages, lack of job security, NOTHING.
Since the last two decades, around 80,000 jobs have beenlying vacant in
Karnataka. Due to this increased workload on the meagre staff, public
works have been disrupted hampering the growth of the Nation. Mahiti
sindhu teachers, gramaviduth pratinidhis, licensed surveyors, contract
workers, employees, engineers, doctors, part-time lecturers and
teachers-all working on a meagre honorarium and their numbers are ever
mushrooming.
As per government records, there are around 3.5 lakh vacant jobs in the
various central govt. depts.. In the various depts. of all state govts.
there are around 30 lakh vacant jobs and 6 lakh vacant jobs in the
railways. A grand total of around 40 lakh jobs. Instead of
filling these jobs, the Congress led UPA govt. came out with a circular
dated 23rd Nov., 2003 with the same content as the 16th May, 2001
circular of the BJP led NDA govt. which directs all the state govts. to
list all the vacant jobs so as to enable them to abolish them.
The present JD(S)-BJP combine in Karnataka promised that 80,000 vacant
jobs would be filled but did say anything about it in the first budget.
Instead, the day after the budget, the Finance Dept. proposal to
abolish 7000 vacant jobs was taken up.
In this situation, it is for us to decide whether the under-employed
and unemployed should get decent jobs or allow the policies of
down-sizing, right-sizing and outsourcing, which encourage a "
jobloss growth"
to prevail. In this regard, the students, youth, employees, workers and
other movements in the State and Nation are striving to build a
movement to reverse these anti-people trends.
We, the graduates of Bangalore now have an opportunity to assert
ourselves and defeat the anti-people policies and ensure ourselves and
future generations decent jobs. We appeal to all the graduate vaters of
the Bangalore Graduate Constituency to utilize the forth-coming June
17th bueniel elections to choose a firm voice against these policies.
In this regard, on behalf of Bangalore Alive we appeal to yourself to
cast your first preferential vote to Mrs. K. S. Lakshmi, M.A., and make
her victorious.