>>>Exchange of plots is a possibility. One has also to ask why a small car >>>factory needs more than 900 acres. The car factory can come up without these >>>400 acres unless you support real estate speculation in the name of >>>development.>> Dr.Fernandes, Have you studied the techno-economic feasiblity study of the project before talking through your hat that car factory can come up in 400 acres? Didn't you hear the expert clarifying that due to the far away locations of other plants and the requirements of the samll car components are different, all the anxillary units to supply the components for the car would be manufactured in hundreds of factories set up in the area, and the body parts and assembly lines would be the main structure. Mamta Banerjee does not see the reason and is adamant to get political mileage from this movement though the image of the Country as well as future investments in WB will be in jeopardy. Indeed people who want to "harvest the poor" ************* would desire perpetuation of poverty for easier conversions of the gullibles. Assurance of skilled jobs cannot be made by any organisation for everyone, as acquisition of skill varies with individuals. While intelligent and smart ones would be placed at higher levels and lowest ranks would be in unskilled. Nobody uses this matter for their own purpose except mamata Banerjee and ************* . The loss will be for the local people, the WB State and the Country. There are many other Countries who have invited Tata-s to establish production of nano-s in their Country due to expected huge international demands. Here we have the industrialist almost completing his project at Singrur and people are chasing him away from final stages!! And many Ph.D-s and experts in Social activity taking active part in the expulsion of Tata from there!!
--- On Wed, 8/27/08, Dr. Walter Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Dr. Walter Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fwd: SINGUR AND HOUSE OF TATAS To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 7:39 AM Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand Blog | Jharkhand Video | Jharkhand Network You cannot go by this one-track thinking. It is true that these plots are not contiguous. In that case the negotiations would be precisely on how to make them contiguous. Exchange of plots is a possibility. One has also to ask why a small car factory needs more than 900 acres. The car factory can come up without these 400 acres unless you support real estate speculation in the name of development. I am not worried about what Mamata says. She is using the issue for political purposes. We have to be concerned about the people who are losing their land and sustenance. Most of them will not even get compensation. There will not be any rehabilitation. Some young persons have been sent for training but the letter choosing them for that training says that the are not assured a job after it. We have to look at the social consequences of economic development and see how these two can be combined instead of taking a stand for or against those who are using these issues for their own purpose. Walter Fernandes Dr Walter Fernandes Director, North Eastern Social Research Centre 110 Kharghuli Road (1st floor) Guwahati 781004 Assam, India Tel (91-361) 2602819 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com www.creighton. edu/Collaborativ eMinistry/ NESRC ----- Original Message ----- From: S kumar To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps.co.in Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:13 PM Subject: Re: [ =>> Jharkhand <<= ] Fwd: SINGUR AND HOUSE OF TATAS Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand Blog | Jharkhand Video | Jharkhand Network I find there are so many Dr.-s in this group, either medical or otherwise? The 400 acres mamata demands is scattered as smaller plots of land throughout the 100 acres. Many of them have already been land-filled and constructions have come up for ancillary and other units. Even if TATA-s abandon and return the land as demanded, they cannot be used for agriculture unless all the structures are demolished and carted away and the landfills removed bull dozers to original levels. Will Mamata foot the bill for restoration of these 400 acres to tillable land? Tata-s would not lose anything by abandoning Singrur, as the assembly lines are already ready in Uttarkhand and other locations of Tata Motors and the NANO would be launched perhaps in the original schedule. --- On Tue, 8/26/08, Dr.Geetin Murmu <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: From: Dr.Geetin Murmu <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> Subject: Re: [ =>> Jharkhand <<= ] Fwd: SINGUR AND HOUSE OF TATAS To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps.co.in Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 2:02 PM What I would Like to ask is that if the question of the livelihood of the farmers and the landowners is in question,cant Govt give them some sort of alternative source of income.How can it be made sure that those who will get their land back(supposedly) would us eit for cutivation and not sell it of as the land prices around Singur has skyrocketed
