Dear Friends, Unfortunately scribes resort to just publsihing press releases without any cross-checking of facts. What are these child care centers all about in reality? Vedanta has already 10-12 child care centers in Lanjigarh, Orissa. I have seen them in villages of Bandhaguda, Sinduali, Belamba, etc. where the child care center is nothing but just a painted signboard saying 'Vedanta Child Care Center'. If you ask villagers they say someone comes once in a while and gathers all the children and teaches them some english alphabets. C V Krishnan is just talking about the groups plans but who said they will actually carry it out? And including a MLA and Collector doesnt make the system fool proof as anyways all welfare policies of the district are being looked into by the Collector and the MLA despite which Kalahandi languishes. So how can their presence change anything at all? The role of Collector & MLA while acquirind land for Vedanta in Lanjigarh was notorious. They have threatened people and forcefully evicted them. It is really unbearable that companies like Vedanta continue to make a mockery of social welfare and public sentiments. - Surya
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Pradyut Nayek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > *Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org.in/forum * <http://www.jharkhand.org.in> > <http://egroups.com/list/Jharkhand> > * * > > > Dear Mr.Debo, > The news seems tobe very good when we look in to it at a superficial level. > The basic question is why vedanta is doing so? Whose money is it ? who are > affected ? howmuch affected ?who is becoming rich & who are becoming poorer? > What is the cost of Disaster caused by development? Howmuch ecology is > affected by them? How much the greenhouse is affected? > aaaaaaaaaafter calculatin all the cost ,please see the welfare amount. > do you think those anganwadi children were starving ? Is it not the failure > of the Govt. > This is what is my opinion. > pradyut. > > > On 7/6/08, deba nayak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> *Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org.in/forum *<http://www.jharkhand.org.in/> >> <http://egroups.com/list/Jharkhand> >> * * >> >> >> Vedanta Aluminium has entered into an MOU with the Odisha governmen and >> Sterlite Foundation for adopting 400 anganwadis in Kalahandi district, where >> its alumina refinery has started trial production at Langjigarh, Vedanta >> group spokesman C V Krishnan told. >> >> The same process was being implemented in Kalahandi and would be >> replicated in Jharsuguda. >> >> "As every anganwadi has 40 children, the company will be looking after the >> welfare, food and healthcare requirements of more than 40,000 children," >> Krishnan said. >> >> The decision to adopt the anganwadis, he said, was taken on the basis of >> the company's experiment of running 100 child welfare centres in different >> places of the country. >> >> As part of the arrangement, every pre-school child aged betwen three and >> six years would be provided a hot cooked meal of 300 calories at noon, said >> another Vedanta official. >> >> The company also proposed to look after the health of the children. There >> would be regular health checkups and the children would be dewormed as part >> of the programme, he said. >> >> Krishnan, giving a detailed account of the company's child welfare >> programme, said "Vedanta believes in giving back to society what it has >> given us. Making money is a means and not an end." >> >> The company was also undertaking beautification of the anganwadis adopted >> by it. It was whitewashing buildings and erecting green boundaries around >> them and provided seesaws and slides for children. >> >> Incentives were also being provided to anganwadi workers. >> While workers received Rs 250 per month each, each helper was given Rs 150 >> per month. The total expenditure on child welfare activities in the two >> districts would be over Rs 15 crore, company officials said. >> >> In order to ensure that everything went as per plan, the process would be >> reviewed by a committee headed by the district collector. The local MLa and >> chairman of panchayat samities would be its members, they said. >> >> Vedanta was also working to strengthen infrastructure in the backward >> Kalahandi district and Jharsuguda by increasing the electricity network, >> constructing roads and developing educational and healthcare facilities, >> Krishnan said. >> >> While about 2000 people had got direct employment at the refinery in >> Lanjigarh, over 2000 others were getting indirect income generating >> opportunities, he said. >> >> >> > > > *Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org.in/forum * <http://www.jharkhand.org.in> > <http://egroups.com/list/Jharkhand> > * * > > > >
