C-DIT employees oppose move to privatise Hologram production

Slamming the move to outsource printing of hologram embedded security tax labels for liquor bottles, a section of employees of the state-owned Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT) here today claimed it would result in flow of spurious foreign liquor into the state.
Members of the C-DIT Employees Association affiliated to CITU have come out against the government move to handover to a private company in Karnataka the production of the labels, which their organisation was doing for the past 12 years.
Handing over the production of hologram tax labels would lead not only to corruption but also pave the way for the flow of spurious foreign liquors to the state, Association President Kadamkampally Surendran told reporters here.

C-DIT's main sources of revenue was also from the contract for the production of hologram security tax labels for the foreign liquor sold in the state, he said adding 'scrapping the contract with C-DIT would adversely affect the functioning of the institution'.
The move was to help the liquor lobby of Karnataka, from where large quantity of foreign liquor was brought to the state, he charged adding this can also lead to tax evasion.
A people's protest would be held before the secretariat here by C-DIT protection Samiti on October 10, he said.