Boss, you the journalist , TATA is going to sue you soon. Plus you Trivedi, How much land did didi comit to you ? Let the country grow guys. No one is without land in Singur, stop obstructing the development which comes comparatively less in WB. all timepass, nakat
RE: Mamta didi
by Ashok Gupta on May 13, 2008 02:53 PM Permalink
development yes but not anothers cost,would you give up your land at the same terms as the farmers ?
But the crux is we had enough farmers in the last 30 years. Now we in Bengal need more industry and revised education and health reforms. so why Mamata doesn't fight for these? Bengal is already in the medieval age, lets not make it slip to ancient one.
I have visited Calcutta 5 times and toured around the city and the suburbs....Pathetic is the least word I could use after witnessing the infrastructure and cleanliness of the city...its not a metropolis (it was!) but a "slum"polis. diapilated wooden buses trams and what not! huh....feel pity for the people who have merged with the Adda lifestyle by doing nothing!
There is a tint of sincerity from the current CM (eventhough I am terribly happy that they are getting a taste of their own medicine) for what they did to Kerala and Bengal on a holistic note. Jytoi Basu destroyed bengal to what is was to a slumber!
To make matters worse is one like Mamta who hits the lines for the worng reasons...its high time she realized of not being hyper and comes to her senses for being actively involved in the industrialization of the place once deemed to be the capital of India.
We strongly object some words used by some writers, we feel that they are the blind supporters of Marxist Communist Party. Marxist Communist Party and its theory is irrelavant in the present Indian Political situation. Last general election, they got maximum number of MPs from WB, Kerala and Tripura and they are blackmailing UPA Govt. from outside. Their words are pro-poor, pro-farmer, pro-labors, but their present ideology is anti-poor, anti-farmer, anti-labour. Their MPs do not wanted to collapse present UPA Govt because, they are well aware that most of their MP's cannot get a further chance to come to Parliament. Singur is not an issue of West Bengal, it is an issue which is the concern of all India where Agricultural lands and Forest lands are allotting illegaly to the mighty industries or in the name of some development. We need development in all spheres - Agriculture, Industrial and other sectors as well. There are written rules that agricultural and forest lands should not be given for industrial purposes, but the Governments are not interested to obey the rules of the land. They are interested to make amendments of the laws as per their wishes on every rules our fore-fat
RE:WE STRONGLY OBJECT THE WORDS USED BY SOME WRITERS
by SB on Dec 28, 2006 04:28 PM Permalink
Hi, I agree that the issue of acquiring farmland for the purpose of setting up industry is a sensitive one and should be discussed with utmost caution. But unfortunately leaders like Ms. Banerjee is interested only in gaining political mialge from it. Otherwise how can you explain irresponsible acts like vandalising the assembly house or going on prolonged fast risking the law and order situation in the state. I do not believe that she is anyway interested in the wellbeings of the farmers. It is only the question of winning political point over her rivals. So many times she has been requested to come to the discussion table. But she refused bluntly. This just shows her intentions very clearly. We need some leader (with proper vision) to take up the issue of acquiring farmland for industry. Otherwise if leaders like Ms. Banerjee, MAIOPIC and ONLY INTERESTED IN PETTY POLITICS, are allowed to deal with the issue, then no one is going to profit, not even the farmers.
RE:WE STRONGLY OBJECT THE WORDS USED BY SOME WRITERS
by SB on Dec 28, 2006 04:27 PM Permalink
Hi, I agree that the issue of acquiring farmland for the purpose of setting up industry is a sensitive one and should be discussed with utmost caution. But unfortunately leaders like Ms. Banerjee is interested only in gaining political mialge from it. Otherwise how can you explain irresponsible acts like vandalising the assembly house or going on prolonged fast risking the law and order situation in the state. I do not believe that she is anyway interested in the wellbeings of the farmers. It is only the question of winning political point over her rivals. So many times she has been requested to come to the discussion table. But she refused bluntly. This just shows her intentions very clearly. We need some leader (with proper vision) to take up the issue of acquiring farmland for industry. Otherwise if leaders like Ms. Banerjee, MAIOPIC and ONLY INTERESTED IN PETTY POLITICS, are allowed to deal with the issue, then no one is going to profit, not even the farmers.
Mamta may be using this issue for political gains...but the basic question still needs a logical answer - "Why does a factory need fertile land"...and the same question needs to be answered by all SEZ projects..."Why is there a need for irrigated fertile land for SEZ projects?". Factories and offices can easily be built on barren land...that way barren land will be used productively and perhaps greened in the next 10 years. There is no reason to get into a confrontation with farmers...after all we also need food security in India..and there are many plots of barren land available in India in every state. The other question to be asked is, "Why can't the company buy land and pay market prices for it?"...the same is true for software companies needing land for offices...how can the Govt forcefully buy land at a lower than market prices and give it to the company? It is upto the farmers who may wish to sell land at whatever is the market rate - or not sell at all. Would any of us living in cities like the Govt to acquire our property at a price lower than the market rates? Then why should farmers be forced to do the same?
The Trinamul spokes person interviewed is blackmailing Tatas, a venerable name in the industry.His idea appears to be to provoke the house of Tatas to back out of the project. If they do it would serve the people of Bengal right Trinamool would be advised not to drag Tatas' name into their petty issue of political survival pledging Mamta's life S.Ramaswamy
These are the people and parties which are against change, against betterment, against economy...
There is never in history of mankind any society which has survived or fluorished because of isolating or 'protecting'...the economy has fluorished, for allowing competition because competition brings in competence and thats whre world class industries are built...
Have anyone ever found an issue where everyone unanimously agreed to something? Nope. If you are taking a step ahead there will always be many people trying to be a pest, trying to pull you hold you back. If the land is alotted to a Corporation, are the farmers not compensated for that? Yes they have. Most have agreed. Did you expect everyone to agree? Not possible. Government in this matter can should and is authorised to take a decision which is to be honored by everyone.
Well except for those who are sitting with their back towards betterment or progress. Who still think only agriculture is answer to improving economy.
These are the ones who have been witnesses to fall of their idiology in USSR and change in idiology in China
The author, though speaking truth about ecology and loss of agricultural land, is highly biased and short sighted. The accusations on a very reputed group like Tatas do not hold any kind of ground. It is such discouragement by these so-called pro-poor that West-Bengal(WB) lost private industries and sank into horrors of mass unemployment, day-to-day strikes and lack of growth. Nobody wants to enter such a state where the focus is less on the matter at hand, that is earning people bread and butter, and more on issues concerning the larger public and future trends, causing political influence and approach in matters that are better without.
Industrialization has its own costs, private firms require profit, and people need employment and better quality of life. It is upto people to decide whether the way they are, is better, or industrialization should be given a chance.
Tatas entry is much required by WB, as it only, will open door for further larger investments, and thus Tatas also are taking a risk of name and money. Stakes are on both sides. It requires great planning and experience to enter into such waters, so some noises are bound to come from unprepared.
Mamata didi's fast has become a sort of farce now. The whole issue now has moved from the farmers to the health of didi who is hell bent on gaining political mileage by fasting rather than coming to the table for discussion. Every day she comes up with some new prank - one day its "boycotting Tata products", another day taking out a rally without shirts, another day calling a 2 days bandh..she has now seen that public support is not with her and the whole issue has just limited itself to Dharmatal. What the public doesnt understand is why Trinamul is not coming to the table for discussion ? The law says that once the land has been acquired it cannot be returned. Trinamul could have done a lot for the farmers had they come to table for discussion regarding compensation. But didi chose to gain political mileage and now she is caught in a web where she cannot come out with her dignity intact. Dont blame the media. We have all see how Didi mistreated female correspondents of local TV channels. Lets face it..she is desparate to get out of the web and looking for facing saving tactics. the quicker she does the better for publc who is being harrassed everyday in Dharmatala by her bandhs
All the left-wing parties are corrupt, whether Trinamul or CPI-M. It's good to see them turning on each other. Hopefully neither will be left standing afterwards. I hope Mamata starves herself to death, and takes Buddadeb with her. Ideally, both should have a contest to see who can achieve suicide first. We all know neither has any taste for self-sacrifice, and will quickly withdraw. Nobody expects anything self-sacrificial from any of them.