Lets be realistic.we are a third world country, mainly dependent on agriculture.we yet have high illiteracy rates and the quality of education produces people who learn to read instead reading to learn. So who would actually benefit from such ventures for industrialists where farmers lose lands without proper compensation or adequate relocation? how do we call this capitalist action as a development project? as only few elitist (also technically qualified) benefit and poorest of poor suffer as they have no skills to change jobs. Yes, Indian economy is growing but it has sharply increased the differences between the rich and poor. how is teh booming economy going to stop farmer suicides, increasing debts, problems of water supply, and poverty in short?
The story headline is incorrect...I have carefully studied the Govt data & it is correct. Pl do not romanticise a farmers profession.A car plant can transform the economy og Singur completely.The anti-car movement is taken over by naxalites & anarchists. Agriculture to industry is a natural transitory step.That has happened in the rest of the world & it is bound to happen here.And finally, legally...Govt does not need anybody's consent to acquire land.It is a graciouness of the WB govt that it has endeavoured to take the same. Regarding the land , most of it is single-crop & vary few is multi-crop.In fact boundary of the project site was shifted to save the multi-crop land
RE:Please correct the headline...its incorrect
by rcpillai on Dec 26, 2006 09:41 PM Permalink
I don't know why Guptaji is supporting overwhelmingly to this project as all is not well on this project deal. Agricultural land not to be give to any industrial or other purposes than that of cultivating agricultural products and for which, no firm actions have been taken by any of the Governments, whether it is lefitsts and rightists. If we go through the entire industrilisation / concretaisation done in the name of development, most of the lands are fertile and is meant for agriculutral purpose and that is why till today, we are not producing agricultural products for the people of this country, fully and is getting imported from various countries. The liberalisation policies introduced by the Govt. in 1992 (even though it is wrong to attract foreign investments where we have enough money in India itself...no place to expaln it in detail), we had to first introduce the liberalisation in Agricultural Sector so that we can enough rice, wheat and other products for our people. Industries has to grow, but not on agricultural land or forest lands which are prohibitied by the Constitution, but are always doing by the successive governments in India. When in hungry, people wants rice/w
In all developed countries, the number of people depending on agriculture as a profession has progressively come down to about 5-6% of the population. If the country has to industrialise, the persons dependent on land have to be converted to persons depending on industry or services. How can this happen unless the farmers are persuaded to do so by becoming industrial land owners instead of agricultural land owners first? So the solution lies in not acquiring their land for industry but making them part owners of the industry coming up on their land. A recent example is Magarpatta township near Pune in Maharashtra where land owners pooled their land to form a land developers cooperative which gave contract to builders to develope it into a modern township with industrial parks, malls, Schools and housing. Why can not the West Bengal government help Singur farmers to form such a project and then ask Tatas to buy/rent real estate there? If they refuse, other industrialist will be too glad to grab that developed real estate.
The Singur report blows the lid off the attempted whitewash campaign of the CPM, aided by certain biased and motivated sections of the print media, that Buddhadev Bhattacharya is out to 'transform' West Bengal. A few token IT ventures can in no way reverse the rot that Buddha's predecessor Jyoti Basu had engendered. All talk of industrialisation of West Bengal is pure hogwash. No new (major) industrial project has come up in the state, nor is likely to, given the state's culture of pure red terror. The red mafia state has to completely collapse and wither away before Bengal is able to take its place among the developed states of the nation. Jaganniwas Iyer
i have gone throuh many magazines and newspaper articles on this subject. i strongly feel west bengal govt is not wrong. it is a fact that all the affected people had been handsomely compenseted. issue raised by mamatha benerji is purely political and this report is rubbish and misleading.
Dear Indians, Hypocritical political parties/chiefs and community heads are to be brought before the court of law for this type of irresponsible and inhuman activities and must be punished severely. The Congress and Communist parties and their toe-licking opportunist for power and wealth are the real curse to our country. A day, they will sell the whole India to someone to meet their greed at the cost of we real Indians. Wake up my fellow Indians!, Wake up! Or they will simply eat up from your throat.
I am astonished how a communist regime in WB can be so pro TATAs who are capitalists to the core.As for rehab and jobs for the farmers in the said factory the less said the better seeing how the corporate world works.
