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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
India’s once-thriving public vaccine manufacturers were absent during the pandemic. This was not due to a lack of capability. The problem has been active neglect by the government.
The headlong rush to list LIC shows shocking disregard for public interest while pandering to the whims of speculative “investors”. The IPO’s pricing indicates that it is perhaps India’s biggest-ever privatisation scandal.
The government has raised more than Rs 97,000 crore in 2021-22 by leasing out state-owned properties to various private entities, including global pension funds. The properties include those related to coal mining, various bits of highways, power transmission lines, etc.
The then PM Nehru and the then FM Deshmukh, whose foresight and vision had led to the creation of a unique institution of the LIC as a social security provider for the poor, would never have imagined even remotely that their successors six decades later would wantonly dismantle it …
The 2021 coal crisis has severely impacted the power sector. During this crisis, while the 2 CPSEs, CIL and the Singareni Collieries Company, have ramped up coal production to tackle the shortages, the private companies which have been awarded captive coal blocks have taken advantage of the shortages to indulge in profiteering.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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