The way the government rushed through the Insurance Bill, amendment of the Patent Act and the move taken towards privatisation of the banks, show that the government is committed to the demands of the IMF, World Bank and WTO at the behest of USA and other developed countries to privatise and dismantle the public sector and completely deregulate the financial sector much to the detriment of the country’s interest and her economic sovereignty. The recent WTO ministerial meetings at Seattle also demonstrated the hell bent bid of the Transnational capital and the rich countries to mount pressure and subjugate the developing countries including India.

It is also a matter of grave concern that the instance of World Bank, IMF, MNCs and the employers lobby, the government is pushing through the exercise for drastically change the labour laws to curtail the trade union and labour rights and empower the employers with the right to hire and fire.

While the ongoing process of liberalisation and privatisation has badly affected all sections of the working class, peasantry and other mass organisations, the continuous price rise, gradual dismantling of the public distribution system and unemployment have made the conditions of the people deplorable. The polices of the BJP led regime has resulted in killing of lakhs of jobs in every passing year, besides blocking prospect of new employment generation, thereby creating serious tension and unrest in the society, particularly among the youth. Side by side, move is afoot to commercialise, privatise and communalise the educational and related institutions, posing a grave threat to the entire education system and the students community. Women are being subjected to worst discrimination and atrocities in the workplace and society and their long standing demand for 33% reservation in legislative bodies have been receiving utter apathy and neglect from the ruling polity. Agricultural workers are the hardest hit constituting major part of the poverty stricken population owning to increasing conentration of land, shrinking rural development and other welfare and poverty alleviation schemes and sharply declining real wages in the liberalised policy regime under BJP led government.

In the above circumstances, the NPMO has decided to step up countrywide action plans and bitter long drawn struggle by the trade unions and all other mass organisations against the retrograde anti-national policies. The NPMO congratulated the workers from all sectors all over the country for their massive participation in the protest action on 29th November 99, in solidarity with the financial sector employees against the retrograde IRDA Bill.

After thread bare discussion, following programmes have been taken unanimously.

• National Convention of NPMO at New Delhi on 20th January, 2000, to be participated by thousand of delegates from various mass organisations.

• State level conventions of NPMO during February onwards.

• Massive rally of mass organisations before parliament during 1st phase of next budget session of parliament (date to be declared later on).

• Countrywide general strike during second phase of the next budget session, preceded by nation wide satyagraha, padayatra, dharnas by various mass organisations.

• The next meeting of NPMO will be held on 6th January 2000 at New Delhi to decide on further details.