'We Fight for Defence Factories to Secure Our Nation'
The Narendra Modi-led BJP government has decided to corporatise the 246-year-old Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), an umbrella body that oversees the 41 ordnance factories across India. But around 80,000 employees and four lakh defence civilian employees associated with the factories are opposing the decision. C Srikumar, the General Secretary of All India Defence Employees Federation (AIDEF), said that even though the Modi government was not concerned about the nation's security and workers' plight, they would oppose the government's plan of privatising the defence factories at any cost.
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