(LSTV/PTI Photo)Amid the din in Parliament on Thursday over allegations of snooping by the government using the Pegasus Spyware, and the three farm bills, Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt introduced the Essential Defence Services Bill in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. Essentially, the Essential Defence Services Bill is aimed at preventing the staff of the government-owned ordnance factories from going on a strike. It also prohibits strike and lockouts in “any industrial establishment or unit engaged in essential defence services”. The OFB was directly under the Department of Defence Production and worked as an arm of the government. For the same purposes, the government had promulgated the Essential Defence Services Ordinance on June 30.

Source: Indian Express July 23, 2021 07:12 UTC