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PM asks Deora to take action against striking employees

New Delhi: With the country facing acute fuel shortage because of the strike by oil PSU officers, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday asked Petroleum Minister Murali Deora to take firm action to deal with the crisis. "The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Secretary have been instructed by the ....Read more

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PSU strikeBy: Surendra | Sunday , 11 Jan '09 10:27:00 AM Reply | Forward Dear Sir,During the entire episode of strike by OIl Sector Officers,it apparently seems that the media as well as the Govt. are working at the behest of some vested interests. The media is supposed to be just, but in this case, none from the media bothered to go to the root of the problem. Is it the case of "Kissa Kursi Ka again", coterie of media, politician, beaurocrat and vested businessmen, who want to sap the PSUs dry. The officers had been asking for their just demands, since more than last two years, but to no avail. How do they make the people at the helm listen to? Doesn't termination of officers remind us of emergency days? It is requested to media to be more practical and just in itsapproach. As far as politicians are concerned, less said the better.

APATHY OF MAHATMASBy: narayan | Sunday , 11 Jan '09 9:50:15 AM Reply | Forward If your news is true to its spirit then it is clear that a person who has never faced a election in the democratic country like ours and who has been highly paid public servant of the MIGHTY Government of INDIA, which now he heads, perhaps he could not understand sentiments of PSU employees, whom now he along with other mahatamas of our countries like ministers and secretaries treat as his bonded labourer.ALAS! THE ONLY REAL MAHATMA RESPECTED MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHIJI must be taking into notice the real FACE of congress.PLEASE TREAT THE EMPLOYEES ATLEAST AS A HUMAN BEING. In this LAND OF gods demons are always being there.Why these intelligent MAHATAMAS of modern days not done anything during the period of strike notice?As far as illegality of STRIKE is concern IN THIS country of billions it is easy to hang (terminate/ expell) the bonded labourers of ministeries then to impliment the ORDERS OF SUPREME COURT OF INDIA TO HANG TERRORISTS.

Pls. tell the truth to your countrymenBy: Vijay | Saturday , 10 Jan '09 23:37:41 PM Reply | Forward Many of the recommendations are Justice Rao Committee's recommendation has been put in trash

Govt and media showing wrong pictureBy: yogesh | Saturday , 10 Jan '09 22:56:07 PM Reply | Forward Dear friends ,the manner in which our petroleum secratry and media has given wrong picture of getting psu employee more than 1 Lac per month,it has put so many officers and there families at risk.Its quite possible if some day a PSU offices child caught by some criminal and may ask for 10-15 lak rupee to set free.Some one should lodge a petition againt all this agencies.

PSU OFFICERS OR BONDED LABOURBy: S SARASWATHI | Saturday , 10 Jan '09 18:07:51 PM Reply | Forward Dear sir, The entire show was done on one sided. The feelings of the PSU officers were never considered either by the Government or by the media. The last pey revision took place in 1997 and this is the only oppertunity for the officer community to think of some uplift in their life style. The private sector is offering lot of facilities and they have freedom to pay their employees. In PSUs working is becoming difficult day by day due to many experienced officers are leaving for different reason. Working procedures are so eloborate and freedom of decision making is not available at top level also. The officer community discussed several time at put up the pay structure to Oil ministry and subsequently to cabinet. The points agreed by the oil ministry were also denied when the final proposal came out from the parliament. Last decade the PSUs mainly the Oil sector earned lot of revenue to the Government and the Government is treating its own employees as slaves. GET UNITED AND FIGHT.

psu pay revision By: mayank | Saturday , 10 Jan '09 17:16:48 PM Reply | Forward FEW AFTER THOUGHTS ON THE ROLE OF MEDIA ON THE STRIKE ISSUE We have to recognize the fact that these PSUs are favorite poaching grounds for Private sector companies. The PSU employee gets still only 1/4th to 1/10th of his counterparts in private sector. Is it not a fact that the pay package is one of the means to face this competition. Is there any poaching for these leaders and bureaucrats?4) Has anyone taken notice of the petroleum minister hobnobbing with Ambani? 5) Has the media ever compared the cost of ATF and petrol, the govt is providing ATF at around Rs 30/- a litre to the people of higher class and providing huge benefits to the private operators where as petrol is Rs 50/- a litre to the common people.6) The election of Sanjay Dutt was more important than the strike of truckers and oil sector? Did our media has got it's nose all occupied elsewhere and could not smell any rat in this whole crisis?

PSU pay revisionBy: Onkar Nath Rai | Saturday , 10 Jan '09 10:07:18 AM Reply | Forward Dear Sir,There is lot of differences between pay scales of executives of Category “A ” Enterprises recommended by committee headed by former Supreme Court Justice M Jagannadha Rao, and the scales approved by cabinet on recommendations of Committee of Secretaries (CoS. In fact CoS has misled the cabinet

pay revisionBy: radhika | Saturday , 10 Jan '09 21:18:28 PM Reply | Forward why did not the union go public. n thats whygovt is getting public support

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