I am shocked to know that Odisha Legislative Assembly has passed (without a proper debate) the Odisha Industrial Security Force Bill 2012 to protect the interest of the Corporates. The Bill has the provision that anyone can be arrested without warrant or search anyone's house without a search warrant. The Bill is aiming at protecting the Corporates against any kind of labour ineterst or dissidence. This State Security force will be very much in the line of CISF ( Central Industrial Security Force ). The Minister while championing the cause of the Bill has said “Sustained resistance to displacement and relocation impinges on the
security of industries and developmental projects. It is extremely
difficult for the State police to provide security to the industries,”
I know the Corporates which are oftne under attack for their anti-poor and anti-labour policies have been asking the State Government to provide such security Forces. I know one Corporate was negotiating with the State Government to fund the raising of such forces by giving salaries, accommodation, vehicles and other equipments. It is a bsically to legalise a private army by using the State apparatus. This funding will just be a fraction of the profit they are going to make or already making.
The recent killing of the South African Miners in a Platium Mining by the State Security Forces have created wide-spread condemnation and lets pray that such incidents are not repeated in our country but who knows?
I am reminded of the famous book Animal Farm by George Orwell in which the pig Napoleaon raised a secret force of the dogs who were used to suppress and eliminate the dissidence.
One wonders whether such Bills will get the Presidential Assent but it issadto know that several states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Gujarat have already passed such a Bill. No wonder, one state is competing with another to guard the interests of the corporates,
Some of my friends have questioned the role of the Civil Societies who have not made much noise about this Bill. But perhaps, there is some way of expressing protest.
I know the Corporates which are oftne under attack for their anti-poor and anti-labour policies have been asking the State Government to provide such security Forces. I know one Corporate was negotiating with the State Government to fund the raising of such forces by giving salaries, accommodation, vehicles and other equipments. It is a bsically to legalise a private army by using the State apparatus. This funding will just be a fraction of the profit they are going to make or already making.
The recent killing of the South African Miners in a Platium Mining by the State Security Forces have created wide-spread condemnation and lets pray that such incidents are not repeated in our country but who knows?
I am reminded of the famous book Animal Farm by George Orwell in which the pig Napoleaon raised a secret force of the dogs who were used to suppress and eliminate the dissidence.
One wonders whether such Bills will get the Presidential Assent but it issadto know that several states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Gujarat have already passed such a Bill. No wonder, one state is competing with another to guard the interests of the corporates,
Some of my friends have questioned the role of the Civil Societies who have not made much noise about this Bill. But perhaps, there is some way of expressing protest.
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