By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, December 13, : , The Maha Vikas Aghadi government (MVA) has criticized the Centre for transferring the National Headquarters of the 63 year-old autonomous body, Dattopant Thengadi National Board for Workers Education & Development, (DTNBWED) from Nagpur, to New Delhi.
This was accompanied by a terse, punitive letter from the Union Labour Ministry, to the Director General of DTNBWED.
It ordered the initiating of the shifting process from Nagpur to Rohini, the new, luxurious building.
The Ministry may receive a compliance report.”Appropriate action will be taken for disobedience to the Ministry’s orders,” stated the letter signed November 25, by Under Secretary Atul Kumar Sing.
Shiv Sena’s Kishore Tywari, who was slamming the Centre and demanding a MoS status for Bharatiya Janata Party union ministers like Narayan Rane (Nitin Gadkari), Piyush Goyal-Danve, Raosaheb Pail-Danve Bharati Pawar Kapil Patil, Bharati Karad and Bharati Pani, along with Ramdas Athawale, demanded that all the big move.
Tiwari stated sharply that “if they don’t feel the need to stand up for the State, then it is obvious they support the Central move and act against their homeland-state.”
Sena’s Labour leader, Dr Raghunath Kuchk, who is a MoS rank, said that Maharashtra was the country’s financial, trade and commerce hub.This decision reeks a conspiracy between the Centre leaders and those in the Opposition, the BJP.
Why didn’t Devendra Fadnavis, the CM, do it? This is a sign of desperation by the BJP, which has lost power in 2019.Now they work against the interests the workers and people,” Dr Kuchik stated.
National Spokesperson of Nationalist Congress Party and Minister Nawab Mallik described the decision as “another example” of the BJP’s animosity towards the state over the last two years.
“Maharashtra is creating waves on all fronts and developing at a fast pace which some people cannot digest.Now, they are going all-out to degrade the state’s importance by such moves, but they will not succeed,” Malik said grimly.
Strongly condemning the move, State Congress General Secretary Sachin Sawant said right from the beginning the BJP-led Central government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been diluting the importance of Maharashtra and the DTNBWED move is the latest in the series.
He pointed out that since 1958, the DTNBWED – with 50 branches in India – has been engaged in empowerment of organised/unorganised labour by creating awareness on various socio-economic issues and implementing government schemes.
“All these years, no Central government had any problem with its (DTNBWED) headquarters remaining in Nagpur.The Modi government’s decision is out of a grudge against Maharashtra and must be opposed,” urged Sawant.
Incidentally, the movement started over five years ago when the then Union MoS Labour Bandaru Dattatreya renamed the erstwhile Central Board for Workers Education as ‘DTNBWED’, and former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan had inaugurated its new building in Rohini (New Delhi), in August 2016.
Its mission is to educate the country’s workforce for their effective participation in the country’s socio-economic-industrial development, create awareness on various best practices for employers-employees and government, train them in trade unionism techniques, conduct programmes for the labour in all sectors in national, regional unit and village levels, etc.
DTNBWED is named after the late Thengadi – a RSS Pracharak from Wardha (Maharashtra) – and a right-wing trade unionist, who was a vocal proponent of ‘Swadeshi Economics’.He passed away in Pune in 2004, aged 83.
(Quaid Najmi can be contacted at: [email protected])
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