Kollam : The Left government will ensure fish workers' welfare, said Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, speaking at inaugural of congregation organised by Fish Workers Federation.
The Central government is intruding on all rights of the country’s coastal sector. The government earlier, and that in the present have ruined the fishing sector. The Central govt's new policy is designed with aim to help corporates and monopolies. The core policy with Centre is one that writes off to the corporates, all sectors that have close bearing on wide public.
The Left government in Kerala is doing things possible to ensure welfare of the fishing community. It was Congress’s Narishma Rao govt that first opened fishing to foreign trawlers. The BJP govt took a step further, encroaching the state government rights on coastal waters, a violation that poses challenge to securing safety and wellbeing of the fisher folks
New economic policies that go by the name of Blue Economy etc deepens that challenge. At the time of accepting GATT agreement and Dunkel draft recommendation, Congress had said there would open up, more opportunities and markets for the country’s farmers. However, three decades on, the farmers’ community are on verge of collapse. The Blue Economy policy will create similar scenario for the fishing sector, said CM.
