Maharashtra loss-labour panel Hq shunted from Nagpur to Delhi; MVA slams Centre

The Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA government has slammed the Centres decision to shift the national headquarters of the 63year autonomous body Dattopant Thengadi National Board for Workers Education amp Development DTNBWED from Nagpur to New DelhiThe move came in a terse letter with a punitive threat from the Union Labour Ministry to the DirectorGeneral of DTNBWED ordering to initiate the shifting process from Nagpur to the bodys swank new building at Rohini in the capitalA compliance report in this regard may be furnished to the Ministry Appropriate action shall be initiated for any disobedience of the orders of the Ministry said the November 25 letter signed by an Under Secretary Atul Kumar SinghSlamming the Centre Shiv Senas Kishore Tiwari accorded a MoS status demanded why all Bharatiya Janata Partys union ministers from the state like Nitin Gadkari Narayan Rane Piyush Goyal Raosaheb PatilDanve Bharati Pawar Kapil Patil and Bhagwat Karad besides Ramdas Athawale are mum on the major moveIf they dont have the courage to speak up for the state it is clear they are willynilly supporting the Central move and are acting against their homestate said Tiwari sharplyAlso read MVA firm on having local body polls across all seats on Dec 21 or postponing them altogether Ajit PawarSenas labour leader Dr Raghunath Kuchik holding a MoS rank said Maharashtra is the countrys hub of finance trade commerce and industry which employs huge labour and the decision reeks of a conspiracy between the Centre and the Opposition state BJP leadersWhy didnt they do it when Devendra Fadnavis was the CM It indicates the sheer desperation of the BJP which lost power here in 2019 and now they are working against the interests of the workers the people and the state Dr Kuchik said pointedlyNationalist Congress Party National Spokesperson and Minister Nawab Malik termed the move as another example of the BJP governments animosity towards the state in the past two yearsMaharashtra is creating waves on all fronts and developing at a fast pace which some people cannot digest Now they are going allout to degrade the states importance by such moves but they will not succeed Malik said grimlyStrongly condemning the move State Congress General Secretary Sachin Sawant said right from the beginning the BJPled Central government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been diluting the importance of Maharashtra and the DTNBWED move is the latest in the seriesHe pointed out that since 1958 the DTNBWED with 50 branches in India has been engaged in empowerment of organisedunorganised labour by creating awareness on various socioeconomic issues and implementing government schemesAll these years no Central government had any problem with its DTNBWED headquarters remaining in Nagpur The Modi governments decision is out of a grudge against Maharashtra and must be opposed urged SawantIncidentally 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 2016Its mission is to educate the countrys workforce for their effective participation in the countrys socioeconomicindustrial development create awareness on various best practices for employersemployees and government train them in trade unionism techniques conduct programmes for the labour in all sectors in national regional unit and village levels etcDTNBWED is named after the late Thengadi a RSS Pracharak from Wardha Maharashtra and a rightwing trade unionist who was a vocal proponent of Swadeshi Economics He passed away in Pune in 2004 aged 83This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever