Chennai:
Port and
shipyard workers will stage a demonstration opposing corporatisation of ports
and seeking settlement of wages for the port employees on September 5,
according to Bharatiya Port and Shipyard Mazdoor Mahasangh (BMS) working
president R Santhanam.
He said the decision to hold the protest at New Delhi
was taken at a national executive meeting of BMS held at Visakhapatnam.
BMS criticized the move of the Union government to
corporatise major ports besides entering into joint ventures with private
parties in ports and shipyards and demanded the government withdraw the joint
venture with Mazgaon Dock Limited and Pipvav Shipyard.
“There should not be any fresh private ports within
200 km radius from the existing ports,” BMS demanded in a release.
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