Basically, I am opposed to acquiring agricultural land for industrialization. This acquisition is not a good trend if you take environment into consideration. Outskirts of Chennai, Thoraipakkam, Sholinganallur etc where we have big buildings of TCS, CTS, Wipro, Infy, Accenture etc were once fertile, agricultural land providing food to whole Chennai. Infact, I learnt from a website that even the places like Mylapore, Gopalapuram (heart of city) were once paddy fields in early 20th century. Now, we have converted them to a Concrete Jungle. If we are going in very fast rate in converting agricultural land to concrete jungle, a day might come when we get a new Nokia Phone for Rs 50 and a Kg of rice for Rs 500. Do you want this to happen? On the other hand, I am not against the growth. But, the growth should be planned growth. Govt should have a committee of agriculturalist, economist, scientist etc. They should workout a plan so that non-agricultural land can be taken for growth. Of course, we have more waste land than fertile land. Make use of them, build road, necessary infrastructure in these area and develop them to a city.
We see growth in this country, but unfortunately it is UNPLANNED GROWTH.
RE:Preserver Agricultural Land
by Yehswanth Pai on Aug 24, 2007 04:44 PM Permalink
Excellent analysis. You hit the nail on the head. While Ramdoss may not be wrong in saying Reliance may be armtwisting on the long run and there woudl be nobody to oppose-this is nop way to put an end to investments and developments. Let the govt bring in measures and rules that have a legal and logically forceful binding on Reliance to conduct buisness ethically by Yeshwanth Pai from Bangalore
