Thanks. By this understanding the East India Company and the British Raj were perfectly justified in lording it over us for couple of centuries. There is no concept of justice and rights - and Might is Right. the world is one big battlefield. If one accepts what you claim, than a goon coming into your house and taking away your belongings by force is morally justifiable because after all it is the survival of the fittest.
Who is everybody? The nation, the humanity, or the five % of the people who grab all the resources. It is an issue of right and wrong as seen from the perspective of an Oriya or an adivasi from Keonjhar/Mayurbhanj. If they crib about what they see as "bloodsucking TATAs", what is your problem as long as they are not cribbing about you. It is their form of making a claim based on the information and values available to them. It is also one of the ways in which a prevailing political situation is sought to be changed. Anyway - you shouldn't call people who demand their rights from TATAs as beggars. It is not very polite. Regards Nachiketa On 1/15/08, savita kispotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a different opinion about Tata's or any such business houses > which the locals claim to be SUCKING BLOOD. > > - Iron Ore or Coal mines or be is whatever natural resources - It was > there to harness for EVERYBODY. Why did the LOCALS or other than Tata's or > Sterlite did not harness it??? One cannot blame the other person or > organization for grabbing the opportunity if it existed & one did not make > use of that oportunity. > > - Business houses have muscle power - agreed, but there are some > formalities, rules & regulations by which they acquire land or mines & set > up their business. I dont think that there is any set up done by Big > business house without GOVERNMENT approvals. The GOVERNMENT which is chosen > by the LOCALS. If there is injustice, FIGHT the Government, LEARN how to > choose a correct Government, revolt against the government - Why Blame > Business Houses? Why keep crying about injustice? > > - Beggars are not Choosers. Its the benevolence of the business houses, if > they give something in return They DON'T HAVE TO because they pay heavy > TAXES already to Government. Tell me what percentage of our earnings do we > give out as charity?? And how regularly, if at all we do part with a small > sum? > > - Bottom Line - No use ot blaming business houses. Its because of them > that Indian has shown so much of progress over the last couple of years. > From inception of life, the rule has been "Survival of the Fittest". FIGHT, > STRIVE, THINK, WORK HARD, COMPETE, if you really want to come up in life. > > Stop the Blame Game. & Stop thinking that someone will come & make your > life easier. > > > > Partho Datta < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <pdot52%40yahoo.com>> wrote: > That counts as a marketing failure on the part of the Orissa government. > Partho Datta > > deba nayak < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <debanayak%40yahoo.com>> wrote: Rs. > 1-lakh car "Nano" of Tata Motors will provide a joyous ride to common man. > > But people of Orissa are literally taken for a ride. > > Exploiting Orissa's iron ore and chrome ore for a century Tata Steel has > given little in return. Apart from a couple of plants here and there with > few social projects the House of Tata has ignored Orissa. > > But the group is lavishing West Bengal with a number of major industrial > and huge social investments. > > Ratan Tata has listed a slew of investments his group would make in West > Bengal on 11 January. > > Tata Steel is investing in coke and power plants in Haldia. > > TCS will be setting up a large facility in Calcutta, where as in Orissa it > has a small development centre. > > The "country's largest cancer hospital with "World class research and > development" facilities would also be built in Calcutta, announced the Steel > Czar. > > In Orissa it has set up small hospitals in Joda and a few tiny health > facilities in the mines and nearby plants. > > It acquired 4000 acres of land in 1996 at Gopalpur to set up a major steel > project. > > But it ditched the state and set up the cold rolling mill at Jamshedpur. > > Compelled to announce a Greenfield steel project at Kalinga Nagar due to > threat of cancellation of iron ore lease, the project is yet to make any > progress. > > Orissa has given every thing to Tatas and leaders of the state have gone > out of the way to shower favors to the Steel Major. > > Tata receives hundreds of crores of rupees per annum by exporting > /exploiting chorme ore and iron ore. > > Once the mineral is exhausted that area is left like abandoned filed full > of gaping holes. > > Mining areas of Gorumahisani and Badampahar bears the burnt of Tata is an > eye opener. > > With all the iron ore deposits exhausted the fields of both the areas are > abandoned without any trace of development leaving huge craters as their > legacy. > > Now craters accumulate water, resulted in the breeding grounds for > malaria, which has become scourge for the poor tribals. > > Tatas have never looked back to barren tracts of Gorumahisani and > Badampahar and now it is one of the most deprived zones of the state. > > Similar will be fate of entire mineral bearing areas of Orissa, when after > 20 years all its chrome and iron ore will be exhausted , predict experts of > the industry. > > Earlier Orissa paid for the development of Jamshedpur and now experts say > the state will continue to pay for development of Calcutta. > > http://www.tathya.in/story.asp?sno=1547 > >
