Rajeev Srinivasan shows that this Deal is NOT good for India. Prof. Brahma Challaney had also looked at the Deal in detail and came to the same conclusion in essays he has contributed to Deccan Chronicle and other media. 1) This is yet another of this UPA government's ill-conceived programmes, along with the Sethu Samudram project, Iran-Pak-India gas pipe line and so-called loan-waiver to our farmers. 2) While energy security is a good aim, hard thinking is required to go about it in a sensible way. 3) One sensible way, as R.Srinivasan has suggested is: Break traffic bottle-necks. Currently, if a motorist spends Rs.100/- worth of fuel to get from A to B, Rs.50/- worth of fuel is spent "idling" waiting in traffic. Only Rs.50/- worth of fule spent in "moving". This failure to rationalise road transport is a disgrace. It demonstrates the impotence of our politicians and officials. 4) India can, and must, show more patience to work out how thorium can be used in the place of uranium. Dr. Abdul Kalam knows his science. He says it can be done. Put trust in his words and work hard. He is a Guru whose words his pupils must listen to and will reach the goal he has set. What is the harm in trying that out? 5) There is some truth in our Leftists, usually neative abt many things, saying that India wd come under US pressure in her foreign policy, towards such countries as Iran - shd this Deal be signed. 6) Even without this Deal Indo-U.S. relations would improve very well.
