Summary:
This is suicidal,” a senior union leader said. Unions cannot even put up signboards or notice boards inside prison premises.The move to defang unions in prisons comes six years after the Trinamool government banned unions in the police force in 2012. “We will wait for the outcome of the case regarding police unions and then take appropriate legal steps,” he added. The notification, he claimed, was faulty because it was contrary to the West Bengal Service Rules. “No employees should be extended the privilege of exemption from routine/administrative transfer” because they are union members, the order adds.“We have also formed the West Bengal Correctional Services Welfare Board,” ex-officio director-general of police (correctional services) Arun Kumar Gupta said..