Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who moved the decision within the Meeting, opined that leaving the insurance coverage big to the pursuits of personal gamers wouldn’t be useful to the nation and therefore the union authorities ought to revisit its choice.
“The union authorities is attempting to justify its act by propagating that solely 5 per cent stakes shall be offered via an Preliminary Public Providing (IPO) and that isn’t privatisation. However it’s clear that promoting shares is step one in direction of privatisation and that’s the actual goal of the federal government,” he mentioned.
He recalled that the LIC was nationalised with an purpose to guard stakeholders from the exploitation of personal firms and to make sure that insurance coverage protection was prolonged to the weaker sections and backward areas of the nation.
Such an establishment is being privatised now with out giving any alternative for an in depth dialogue or examination within the Parliament, he mentioned and criticised the Centre for amending the LIC Act by together with it within the Finance Invoice.
Quoting figures, the Chief Minister additionally mentioned the general public sector insurance coverage big has thus far invested Rs 36.76 lakh crore for the advantage of the society and this mammoth supply of useful resource can be over with privatisation.
The Centre, in February, had filed draft papers with capital market regulator SEBI for promoting 5 per cent stake in insurance coverage behemoth LIC via an preliminary public providing. The IPO is 100 per cent provide on the market (OFS) by the Authorities of India and no contemporary problem of shares by Life Insurance coverage Company (LIC).
