Wednesday, 29 MAY 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Registering his strong protest over the proposed transfer of the ONGC headquarters from Dehradun, the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Karan Mahara has said that the chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and the Union Petroleum secretary should intervene in the issue. In letters directed to the CM and the Petroleum secretary, the PCC president said that it has come to notice that the BJP government is planning to shift the headquarters of ONGC, which is one of the Navratna companies, from Dehradun to New Delhi. Under the plan, shifting of some of the departments has already started, he added.
The PCC president said that there is a huge resentment among the employees of ONGC and the general public against the manner in which different departments of ONGC are being shifted out from the State. He added that the entire episode appears to be a conspiracy to destroy the existence of ONGC like done in the case of Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited (IDPL) Rishikesh.
Mahara said that under the visionary leadership of the first Prime Minister of the country Jawaharlal Nehru, world class institutes were set up in different parts of the country. It helped in providing a unique identity to the States and prompted development there.
He said that now an attempt is being made to obliterate the existence of these institutes one by one. The PCC president said that institutes like ONGC, ordnance factory, IMA, FRI and IIP provide a unique identity to Dehradun. Lakhs of people are directly and indirectly associated with these institutes and they provide strength to the economy of the State.
