 The Steel Authority of India Ltd. is one of the largest steel-making companies in India among the central public sector enterprises. There are nine plants under sale nationwide. The Narendra Modi-led central government has listed the sale and steel plant managed by sale for privatization. Two years earlier, opposition parties and trade unions had held several protests and campaigns against the government's proposal when it was first made public. However, this is not the first time that attempts to privatize the steel plant are being made. In 2003, the then NDA government led by Atil Bihari Vajpayee had made a similar proposal to privatize the Salem Steel Plant. The Salem Steel Plant in Tamil Nadu has a rich history. The proposal for a steel plant in Tamil Nadu was part of the visionary plan for development of the state presented by left leaders P. Ramamuti, K. T. K. Thangamani and M. Kalyana Sundaram in the assembly debates following the first legislative elections in then Madras state in 1952. The United Front Alliance had formed the government against Congress and P. Ramamuti of the Communist Party of India was the leader of the opposition in the state. The leaders were inspired by the industrial development model of the Soviet Union, which was sourced to India in the form of five-year plans under then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Den Rohe. Following a long discussion on the establishment of a steel plant, the company was started in 1981. The Tamil Nadu government acquired about 15.5 square kilometers of land in nine villages more than four decades ago in the foothills of Kanjamale in Salem district. Such extensive land acquisition was possible mainly because it was public sector initiative. Since then, the public sector undertaking has been a source of employment for a considerable population in the region. Recently, when the country was faced with oxygen shortage amid the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the steel plant jumped into the production of oxygen for meeting the rising demands. In such a scenario, the privatization of such an important central public sector undertaking has drawn huge criticism and opposition from its employees and other sections of society. News clicks spoke with an employee to find out about the impact of privatization on the workers. In 2010, they joined us. We took the quality from ITI. My family and my relatives were very close to the company. When I joined the government and the public sector, my family and my relatives were very close to the company. The government's decision to settle the current situation has broken everything. The company's situation is getting better and better. Today, it will be independent. It will be the protection of our work and the education of our children. We are working in a independent company. We are working in a independent company. This is a big part of our mind. I have worked in a independent company 10 years before joining the government. Even though I have done so much work in a independent company, I can't do anything about it. Even though I have done so much work in a independent company, I can't do anything about it. The fear of being independent is what makes me proud. If I become independent, what can I do? How can I be a surveyor? How can I ask for my problems? Today, I am in a new generation. I am in a government control. I am in an organized union. I am in a problem. I can't do anything about it. But I can't do anything about it. I feel secure in my job as a surveyor. But I feel secure in my job as a surveyor. My family and needs are the first reason for my job. I feel secure in my job as a surveyor. I feel secure in my job as a surveyor. This is what I fear. Our job is to protect our people. This is what we should be. The government has decided to stop the government in the last few years. The next government, Congress, has made a new government for the next generation. Today, we have the opportunity to get a new government. We will ask them again. The last government, the last government has to get a new one. We have to get a new government. We have to get a new government. We have to get a new government. They have also asked about it. But our wish is to make a decision in the court. We will be in a new generation. But it will not happen until then. The next government, the last government has told us about it. They have told us about it. We will not be alone for a few days. They have told us about it. But they have told us about it. But we will be in a new generation. We will be in a new generation. They have told us about it. We have to get a new government. The privatization policy, it is globally this disinvestment concept was introduced in the European countries to make a sizable treasury so that the funds from that treasury can be operated for the welfare and infrastructural amenities for the citizens of their own country. This is the original concept of disinvestment. In the government, both the Israel government and the present government, they misused this disinvestment policy and they want to sell off these plans. Disinvestment is the downsizing or download what we call the reloading of the share markets. So that reloading activity has been completely evaded and now they want to reinvest that in the name of privatization. In 1975, market Tharcha government in England decided to go for a privatization in their railways and now they are facing the heat of the privatization which has caused, which has damaged their public transport. And the English government is now trying to revert back to public sector. So this is a glaring example before us. So public sector entity is an entity which cannot produce material and not even it is meant for revenue. It is an entity meant for the nation's development. It affects the economy, labor, employment, social justice, all these things are involved in public sector entity. So as a left ideologist what I can say this social inequality will be building more and more and the gap of this social injustice will be widened by privatizing any company not even private sector, not even production areas, service areas also, the banking, insurance, airports, seaports, all these service sectors also if you avoid public sector means then it will widen the gap and the social injustice will be penetrating more. This is a serious threat to the harmony and culture of the country. From the beginning as well as now the employees trade unions and people from the progressive political front are continuing their struggle to keep the Salem steel plant in the public sector and they are determined to continue their struggle to safeguard the plant in public sector for the welfare of the nation.