The country is having a population of 110 crores. Madam Minister, I will be highly obliged if there is no talk in the Treasury Bench. Sir, the small-scale units are the worst hit. Shir Oscar Fernandes, it has not been covered by the so-called report which has been brought out by the Labour Bureau. The report has admitted not only offloading of five lakh people but also that the earnings of the workers have declined during this period. The Minister does not refer to that. What is the dimension and mangnitude of the distress? According to me, nearly 20 lakh people have been thrown out of jobs in the recent period. Let the country know not the report is true nearly 20 lakh people have lost their jobs and ten lakh more people are on the way of losing their jobs. According to the United Nations agency, 20 million jobs are going to disappear. It is a very small figure. According to ILO five crore jobs are going to be lost in the whole world and the main brunt is to be borne by the people in the developing countries, and India is one of the developing countries. Sir, I have two points here. First, why can the Government not say clearly to the corporates, taking the soft loan and taking the benefit of reduced taxes, that you absorb the losses? When the profits were made, profits were personalized, but when the losses are incurring losses are being socialized. My hon. Friend, Shri Pranab Mukherjee is not in the House. He had contested this theory. In reply to him, I am saying that when the losses are being sustained by the corporates, the workers are losing their jobs. But when 50 per cent profit is being gained, it is being usurped by the corporates. Please tell the corporates absorb your loss, you have enough reserve fund and do not curtail the manpower.
