Dear Umesh,
Thank you for your male please keep us informed time to time on the
happenings.
Meghnath
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 Jharkhand Forum wrote :
>The equation of interest of beneficiaries and loss of the victims if wants
>to understand as to how it is hidden in development hypothesis, one can do
>it with example Jharkhand state in India. The exploitation of Jharkhand can
>be trace back to the past 250 years. The Jharkhand movement for autonomy
>waged struggle against it. As an outcome of above two factors the Jharkhand
>state was born in 2001. However the direction of development it has taken
>has become a matter of concern and anxiety to every class in the state.
>Every class has began to reflect and analyze with styles of their own
>depending upon their class interests.
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>Going against aspirations and dreams of Jharkhand movement state government
>development policies are resisted with increasing intensity through out
>Jharkhand. The government of Jharkhand instead of understanding point of
>view of citizens who are resisting has opted to brand the entire mass
>opposition as 'anti-development'. From the time of its establishment till
>date Jharkhand state has entered in commercial pacts through signing of MoU
>with nearly 50 companies from different part of the world. Most of these
>MoUs? <http://www.openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-editpage.php?page=MoUs> are
>related to business investments in mining and allied extractive industries.
>This is indeed ironic considering that overwhelming focus of Jharkhand
>movement is defense of people and ecology. There is pressing need for
>analysis as to why this has happen and whose interest, specially when one
>class of Jharkhand is standing in defence of state development policies gear
>towards massive policies of capital intensive development .
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>The added tragedy befalling Jharkhand today is that so-called Jharkhandi
>intellectuals have also betrayed the mass movement and trumpeting the
>positions of Jharkhand state development model. One among those so-called
>Jharkhandi intellectuals even went on to state that if you want development
>of Jharkhand, then ignoring question of displacement is a must . This means
>the resistance movement has focused on building opposition to the existing
>development model but completely ignored any serious engagement with the
>issue of evolving alternate development model. The lacuna is even more grave
>considering that relations of production are neither feudal nor capitalist
>nature. Transplanting development models from some where else in to
>Jharkhand will simply not work. It is important that we try and understand
>transformations that has come about in social structure of Jharkhand. The
>social structure of Jharkhand has evolved because of pressure from outside.
>
>According to Vernier Elvin, tribes and other indigenous peoples faced
>numerous atrocities and oppression during British colonial period as traders
>and liquor contractors had reached there early.
when they had not lost
>their vast agricultural land and got in to chronic poverty where they are
>today . This the reason why prime minister Nehru had commented that India
>not only has to be force of the security but also symbol of liberation .
>
>How seriously Nehru's comments were taken by Indian ruling classes and
>policy makers is amply evident from Jharkhand scenario today. If his
>comments were taken seriously, then the problems faced by large number of
>people displaced because of mega projects such as HEC, Bokaro steel city,
>Tata and others would have not existed. In ability to get land for the
>projects, development policies and their unreliability is a living testimony
>to this. This is not simply an administrative problem, but rather an open
>revolt against present development hypothesis.
>
>*Challenges of Development* It is not only in Jharkhand, but in the rest of
>the world too that this development hypothesis faces vehement challenges.
>This challenge is not just due to displacement threats but due to creation
>of large scale inequality, environmental and climatic imbalances that has
>posed danger to entire universe. This is being discussed both at national
>and international level. But the entire discourse is imprisoned within the
>parameters of present development hypothesis. With this approach instead of
>finding solutions risks further aggravating existing problems. Today there
>is need to formulate a type of development alternative that will move its
>hypothesis away from capital centric to common people centric. Beneficiaries
>of which will be common people instead of capitalist. This hope is founded
>on Marxism and development hypothesis flowing out from it. But Marxism has
>to move away from its rigidities and induct situations and requirement of
>the time to present new development alternative. Otherwise the opposition to
>the existing capital centric development hypothesis would only means like
>going around a tree and loosing track of forest.
>*What is to be done?* 1. begin struggle for historic justices 2. review of
>existing development hypothesis from political economy perspectives 3.
>establishment of common people centric development hypothesis 4. efforts
>towards democratic participation in conceptualizing and implementing
>development policies 5. formulation of development policy in harmony with
>nature and environment
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>*References *1. fundamental of political economy : P. E. Nikiteen 2. AITUC
>education series-1 3. Ajadi ke bad Bharat6 : Bipin Chandra, Mridula
>Mukharjee, Aditya mukharjee 4. Bhumandalikaran : kamalnayan kabara 5.
>Pahal-75
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>Umesh Nazir
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>NOTE : This is an extract from paper 'Development & Displacement' is and
>presented in seminar on the displacement and development, organized by
>AITUC, Jharkhand.
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