Govt. urged to start talks with MUL employees

NEW DELHI, DEC. 14. A Samajwadi party member in the Lok Sabha today urged the Government to initiate talks with agitating employees of the Maruti Udyog limited and redress their grievances.

Raising the issue during zero hour, Mr. Ramjilal Suman said several had been staging a dharna for many days but no decision was forthcoming from the management or the Government.

A direction should be given to the minister concerned to take a decision.

Farmers' plight: Mr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (RJD) drew the attention of the Government to the kisan agitation launched under the leadership of the former Prime Ministers, Messrs. H D Deve Gowda and V.P. Singh and said farmers were getting a raw deal. Farmers of Bihar were in bad shape and they should also be treated like the farmers of Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. He said the Government should be punished for denying a fair deal to farmers.

Mr. Adhir Ranjan Choudhary (Congress) highlighted the plight of jute growers in West Bengal and asked the Centre to take urgent steps to ameliorate their condition. Floods in the State had wrought havoc on jute growers. In the absence of a crop insurance scheme, these growers had been unable to make up their losses.

The CPI(M) leader, Mr. Somnath Chatterjee, also urged the Centre to do something.

The Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Mr. Pramod Mahajan, said he would draw the attention of the Minister concerned to the sentiments expressed by the members.

Coal royalty: Mr Trilochan Kanungo (BJD) urged the Government to revise the coal royalty to save Orissa from the present financial crisis. The Sarkaria Commission and the 11th Finance Commission also had recommended an upward revision of coal royalty but nothing had been done so far, he said adding that there was ``deliberate and motivated'' discrimination in the case of coal royalty.

- PTI, UNI

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