June 2001
Shourie lays down the law
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| Shourie: settling the intellectual
arguments over |
The woman wags a hectoring finger at the minister. "If a
child is unwell," she says, "its mother does not give it an
injection of poison." She and a group of trade union colleagues are
accusing the minister of doing just that by privatizing the
aluminium plant in Chattisgarh state. For 40 minutes they sit in
his office and plead with Arun Shourie, minister in charge of
privatization, administrative reform and a panjandrum range of
critical issues concerning modernization of India's economy, to
roll back the privatization of Bharat Aluminium (Balco).
Shourie refuses their entreaties and tries to reason with them.
The government, he argues, has no alternative: privatization is
good for the economy and good for the workers, especially since the
new owners, Sterlite, run by a London-based overseas Indian, Anil
Agarwal, have made promises that there will be no retrenchments or
redundancies.
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