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The Department of Industrial Management has issued a 35-day ultimatum to the ruling CPN-Maoist’s militant youth wing, the Young Communist League, to remove its camps from industrial areas.
Minister for Industries Astalaxmi Shakya said at an interaction here today that the ministry was serious about removing the YCL camps from industrial areas. “The department on Thursday issued a 35-day notice to YCL to remove its camps from industrial areas to create healthy industrial environment,” she said, adding that she hoped the Maoists would act as a responsible party and help remove the camps.
The Department of Industrial Management has issued a 35-day ultimatum to the ruling CPN-Maoist’s militant youth wing, the Young Communist League, to remove its camps from industrial areas.
Minister for Industries Astalaxmi Shakya said at an interaction here today that the ministry was serious about removing the YCL camps from industrial areas. “The department on Thursday issued a 35-day notice to YCL to remove its camps from industrial areas to create healthy industrial environment,” she said, adding that she hoped the Maoists would act as a responsible party and help remove the camps.
However, she was at a loss for words when asked what the ministry would do if the YCL did not remove the camps after the 35 days, a deadline that ends on January 21.
The YCL has camps in Balaju Industrial Area and Lalitpur Industrial Area, apart from those in Hetauda Industrial Area, Biratnagar Industrial Area and Dharan Industrial Area, the industry minister said.
She condemned the donation-drive and forcible closure of industries by militant trade unions and said industries throughout the country had been hit hard by the militancy of trade unions in the name of seeking minimum wages. The trade unions affiliated with all major the parties, including the ruling Maoists and the UML and the Nepali Congress, are vying with each other in closing the industries by putting outrageous demands to lure workers to their respective unions. While addressing industrialists on Friday during the sixth annual general meeting of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal had admitted that there was a competition among the trade unions to close industries.
“I am bringing a proposal to stop all kinds of bandhs,” he had said in a bid to assure industrialists. “But I need other political parties’ cooperation for that,” the PM had said.
Despite repeated assurances from ministers of labour and transport management and industries, and even the PM, the trade unions have not scaled down their activities.
Instead, they are hardening their stance by the day causing immense harm to the economy. One industrialist said the situation was leading to more unemployment and that the finance ministry would bear the brunt as revenue was certain to be hit hard.
