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The All India Defence Employees Federation (AIDEF), Indian National Defence Workers' Federation (INDWF) and Bharatiya Prathiraksha Mazdoor Sangh (BPMS) had threatened to lead the strike of about 5.60 lakh (560,000) employees in protest against the government's decision.
The decision to postpone the strike was taken after Singh assured a delegation of unions that no defence establishment would be privatised and that the government had no proposal to convert ordnance factories into corporations, S S Chauhan, working president of INDWF-INTUC, told reporters in Delhi.
Regarding the private participation in defence production and 26 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the defence sector, Singh assured the delegation that the 'views and apprehensions' expressed by them would be 'taken care of' and 'communicated to the appropriate authority', he said.
An agreement was also reached to set up a committee under the charimanship of Additional Secretary (Defence Production) Dhirendra Singh, with representatives from the government and the unions to resolve mutually other issues such as contractorisation, filling up of posts, indigenous production of imported items and other service matters, BPMS president Vedbrat Puri said.
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