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Government has no Intention to Privatise Either Railways or Coal India: FM

| | Jan 18, 2015, at 05:05 am
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IBNS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley assured the representatives of various Trade Unions that the Government has no intention to privatise either railways or Coal India.

He said that focus of his Government is to create more jobs and employment opportunities beside safeguarding the existing jobs and give better environment for ease of living for the common man.

The Finance Minister said that’s 'why we need more money for investment in infrastructure sector in order to create more job opportunities for our youth'.

He said: "Our approaches may be different but goal is same."

Jaitley was making the Opening Remarks during his Pre Budget Consultative Meeting with the representatives of Trade Union Groups here.

He said that the Government wants to create better social security system for the labour force working both in organized and unorganized sector.

Jaitley said that more than 63 percentage of population in our country is in age group of 15-59 years which is defined as India’s “demographic dividend”.

Jaitley said that the thrust on skill development as well as on ‘Make in India’ are Government’s endeavors to improve employability and generate employment avenues.

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