UNParliamentary!

UNParliamentary!

Indian Holocaust My father`s Life and Time- One Forty TWO

Palash Biswas



Top Andhra politicians linked to human smuggling: Rasheed
India eNews.com - 5 hours ago
Travel agent Rasheed, arrested on charges of smuggling Indians abroad, has told the police that several top politicians in Andhra Pradesh were involved in the racket, police sources said Friday.
Passport kingpin indicts Cong MLAs CNN-IBN
Trafficking scam: Kingpin reveals more names Zee News

Indian Parliamentary affairs seems to be most UN PALIAMENTARY!
Whatever may happen inside the Parliment, it seems an All Party allaince is there to enhance Swiss Bank Accounts! Latest Human Trafficking Scam proves it.

Ashok Mitra, the firebrand Marxist and ex chief economic advisor of Mrs indira gandhigovernment as well as the first finnace miniseter of Left Front government led by comrade jyoti basu, has pointed out the rot very well in his autobiography.The Partition of India found him and his family in the new country of East Pakistan that they were to leave, like millions of other refugees, to a new where they have to re-build lives. He goes on to analyse the fledgling democracy of India, taking his readers through the days of the early Five Year Plans, with which he was involved in the 1950s. Ashok Mitra's involvement with economic policy continued in his work as Chairman of the Agricultural Prices Commission, and with his appointment as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India when lndira Gandhi became Prime Minister. Soon after, the political crisis in East Pakistan turned into the war of liberation and the author provides much new insider information. Highlighting a different aspect of his live, that of his association with writers and intellectuals, Ashok Mitra talks of his friendship with Sachin Chaudhuri and his brothers and the founding of the Economic Weekly and its second coming as the Economic and Political Weekly. Throughout the book, he also weaves in the cultural and literary history of Bengal as his literary interests have been as vital as his political ones. Mitra's reminiscences are enriched by his analysis of Marxism and Marxists in a poor country, of how the alliance of parties that formed the Left Front that has been elected to power in the state of West Bengal functioned, his story of his stint as the Minister of Finance and Planning in the late 1970s and 1980s, and what lay behind his sudden resignation. He is open about his disagreements with the current world-wide mantra of globalisation and liberalisation. The memoirs give valuable insights, adding to our understanding of India's past, present and possible future. {A Prattler's Tale: 473pp, 155x230mm, February 2007; HB, £30.00).

Ashok Mitra's memoirs, translated for the first time into English from the Bengali original, 'Apila-Chapila' (Ananda, 2003), brings contemporary India alive. He exposes the truth that a finance minister of India has to be nominated by IMF and World Bank in coordination with White House Administration!

Though the VVIP refugee Economist did not mention names in most of the cases, the most stunning fact is he has given enough hints to prove that Dr Man Mohan singh is a Prime Minister planted by US. He has to defend US MNC interests at all cost. No matter, how many Nandigram massacres the Indian People have to witness. Thus, the post modern Manusmriti works!
Indian Parliament is represented by Comradors all along, who arenothing but his master`s voices!


Make your stance clear on SEZs, FDI: BJP tells Govt.
Hindu - 2 hours ago
New Delhi, May 4 (PTI): Criticising the government for failing to take "bold" decisions on economic reforms, the Opposition today asked it to clear its stand on FDI and SEZs.
Chidambaram's visit to US called off Economic Times
Chidambaram cancels US visit Rediff

The West Bengal government submitted its status report on Nandigram violence on Friday. The report indicted CPI(M) cadre for inciting violence in the district. According to the report, clashes broke out after CPI(M) activists entered Nandigram. The report also says that CPI(M) activists stopped a Trinamool Congress MP's vehicle and damaged it. The police admitted their inability to reach remote areas of Nandigram, the report added. The report further stated that the state police was helpless without the support of political parties. The report was signed by the Additional Secretary of the West Bengal Home Department.

Advocate-General Mr Balai Ray submitted the status report on the situation in Nandigram to Calcutta High Court and said the state did not agree with the suggestion that the CBI shall either investigate or inquire into the Nandigram police firing of 14 March. He said under the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, consent of the state government was necessary before the CBI could make any investigation at any stage other than in the erstwhile Union Territories. When the CBI is permitted to investigate it has to investigate as a member of the police force of the concerned State. An inquiry is also not possible by the CBI because the Act empowers it to investigate and not to inquire.
The AG said the situation in Nandigram was serious. The status report mentioned a series of violent clashes between CPI-M supporters and those of the Trinamul Congress and the Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee from January, 2007 till 16 March this year. Police parties faced difficulties in reaching remote villages.The AG stated that an area in Nandigram measuring about 65 sq km and inhabited by 60,000 people had become an independent island. The state can restore normalcy in that area in a day by using force under the relevant provisions of the law but it has not done so because it may result in further bloodshed.
The status report says that at present there is considerable police presence in Nandigram. Police have been advised to exercise utmost restraint.
The executive inquiry into the police firing is proceeding. The Commissioner, Burdwan Division, has visited the affected areas and examined a number of eye-witnesses. After hearing the Advocate-General and some senior advocates of the Bar Association who suggested further inquiry into the Nandigram incident, the Division Bench of the Chief Justice, Mr SS Nijjar, and Mr Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose observed that the people of Nandigram had been denied their fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.


It is quite typical of Indian parliamentary sytem where State Power is run by Gestapo or Ranabeer Sena. Ministers and officials as well as the elected so called represntative of People are not only corrupt top to bottom, the play havoc as Comradors of alien market forces to annihilate indigenous people. And it is irony quite well, SEZ or no SEZ Nandigram Massacre has become a killing field to ensure political supremacy and the people have to pay for it. We all know about AFSPA and army rule continued in North EAst and Kashmir. But fire brand Bengal opposition leader MS Mamata Bannerjee demands paramilitary forces, army at Nandigram ! Following up their joint meeting, Congress and Trinamool Congress on Thursday met West Bengal Governor G K Gandhi and demanded that Nandigram be brought under the Disturbed Areas Act and para-military forces and the army be deployed there to restore peace.

"Peace can return to Nandigram only if state-sponsored violence on the people is stopped. Nandigram should be immediately brought under the Disturbed Areas Act and para-military forces and, if necessary, army should be deployed to ensure return of peace," Banerjee said after meeting the governor together with a delegation from Congress to submit a joint memorandum.

She alleged ferry services with Nandigram had been withdrawn by the authorities which had led the people there to face a virtual economic blockade while CPI(M) supporters were indulging in violence in connivance with the local administration. On Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's offer of talks to restore peace at Nandigram, she retorted: "There cannot be any talks unless the state-sponsored violence stops."

Representing state Congress former Rajya Sabha member Jayanta Bhattacherjee was a part of the delegation comprising leaders of the Trinamool led Krishi Jami Rakshya Committee (Save Farmland Committee) formed to fight against acquisition of farmland for industry. The state Congress, so far reluctant to commit itself to joining forces with Trinamool Congress' because of the latter's ties with BJP, changed its mind after Sunday's clash in Nandigram which left one person dead. Congress pointed out that BJP was not part of the TC-led platform.

Mamata alleged CPI(M) did not want restoration of peace in Nandigram and that was why party supporters with government supplied arms were attacking attacking people.

It is once again Comrade Jyoti Basu, the nonogenerian Bhism Pitamah Of Indian Communist movement, have come out to rescue entrapped Buddha Brand and cover up the unparliamentary, undemocratic affairs of the state.Jyoti Basu Friday said the Left Front government in West Bengal would comply with the directions of the Calcutta High Court for restoring peace and normalcy in trouble-torn Nandigram in East Midnapore district of West Bengal.

'The state government will act in accordance with the directives of the Calcutta High Court,' Basu told reporters after a meeting of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretariat here.
Gere issue: Minister criticises TV channels
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'Asia must step up financial cooperation'
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Auburn Citizen
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A division bench of the high court Thursday ordered the state government to quickly restore normalcy in violence-hit Nandigram, after the state submitted a status report on it.The bench comprising Chief Justice S.S. Nijjar and Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh asked the government to mitigate the volatile situation in Nandigram, about 150 km from here, and to ensure return of people who fled villages and restoration of their fundamental rights in the wake of violence since January this year over acquisition of agricultural land for an industrial complex.

Residents of Nandigram have been denied fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution, Calcutta High Court observed on Thursday.

Though state Home Secretary Prasadranjan Ray said the police would enter Nandigram if need be, the HC didn't stop at just restoring order. The HC asked the government to provide assistance to residents of the area. Essential commodities will have to be distributed free of cost and necessary medical assistance provided to villagers. The ferry service between Nandigram and Haldia will have to be restored soon and the state government will have to ensure that people are not prevented from moving around freely, it said.


Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and the party's state secretary Biman Bose were present in the state secretariat meeting.

Basu also condemned the attack on a relief team of Kolkata intellectuals in Nandigram by CPI-M supporters Tuesday.

'It is very bad. I do not know who has done this,' Basu said.

The latest exposures, see!

SEZs are turning into land scam, says Rahul Bajaj.In a zest to secure tax holidays, developers are gradually turning Special Economic Zones (SEZs) into a land scam, a leading industrialist has said. Today, big industrial houses acquiring land for SEZs are "almost turning it into a scam in the name of development," Bajaj Auto Chairman and Rajya Sabha member Rahul Bajaj said at a seminar organised by Consumer Unity and Trust Society here yesterday. Advocating direct interaction with the farmers, he said, if vast stretches of land have to be acquired to set up SEZs the companies must get them by paying the right value, and not the subsidised rates. He also said it would not be fair to compare the SEZs in India with that of China, as in case of the latter the land is owned by the state and the benefits go directly to the people. But, in this case it is the developer who is benefiting the most.

Bajaj said development of an industrial area does not mean it has to be near an existing city. It would be of more significance if the infrastructure creation takes place at a distance providing an opportunity to promote auxiliary settlement, he added.

Echoing his thought, independent Rajya Sabha member P C Alexender said, currently, SEZs are defying the initial social objective of providing small and medium entrepreneurs a growth opportunity. Supporting the SEZ Policy of the government, Rajya Sabha member and Founder of Farmers' Union Shetkari Sangathan Sharad Joshi said farmers, who are unable to repay their debts, are willing to give up agriculture in return of a better life that an SEZ promises.
More MPs, MLAs in smuggling ring


Radhika Iyer
Friday, May 4, 2007 (Hyderabad)
Hyderabad-based travel agent Rashid's surrender has proved to be bad news for many senior political leaders in Andhra Pradesh.In his confession statement, which is available with NDTV, he has named quite a few mighty and powerful politicians.

The following are some of the names mentioned by Rashid.
TRS MP Ravinder Nayak
TRS MP Madhusudan Reddy
Balchand Yadav, MP from UP
Mohammad Taher Khan, MP from Sultanpur, UP
A Narendra, Ex-MP from Medak
Ex-MP Suguna Kumari
Former minister Krishna Yadav
Travel agent Rashid claims that he paid these MPs and MLAs a minimum of Rs 10 lakh each to use the passports of their family members and forge them to send his ''clients,'' mostly Gujarati women, abroad.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070010837

Rajya Sabha approves Finance Bill
New Delhi, May 4 (PTI): Admitting that income tax laws were complicated, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today promised to table the new Income Tax Code in the monsoon session of Parliament. "We are in the last leg of drafting the new income tax ...
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Fake encounter: Supreme Court to give final order on May 15
Financial Express - 17 hours ago
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Fake encounter: CID keen on forensic tests on IPS officers Zee News
'Submit final report in fake encounter' Sahara Samay

And again!

May 04, 2007 13:19 IST

Rajya Sabha plunged into turmoil during Question Hour on Friday on the issue of a letter written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by a group of US lawmakers questioning India's relations with Iran, as the entire opposition as well as the Communist Party-Marxist strongly condemned the US interference in India's foreign policy matters.The strong-worded letter from Capitol Hill came from senior lawmakers like Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, ranking Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Howard Berman, Gary Ackerman, who is the Chair of the House Middle East and South Asia subcommittee, and others.Cutting across party lines, members, including United Progressive Allaince allies CPM, demanded the US be categorically and in "very strong terms" conveyed that India would not accept any outside interference in its foreign policy matters nor compromise with its sovereignty and national integrity.

The letter to the prime minister asking India to 'sever' military ties with Iran and "terminate" all cooperation in the energy sector.

As soon as the House assembled for Question Hour, members were on their feet demanding suspension of the Question Hour and a discussion on the subject. Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, however, said the matter could be discussed after Question Hour.

Members' persistence later paid off and the first 25 minutes were devoted to the subject.

Bharatiya Janata Party member Yashwant Sinha, who spoke first, said it was a matter of India's sovereignty and should be discussed in the House. He criticised the government for not taking the House into confidence on the issue when it was in session, especially on the recent visit of Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon to the US and his discussions with Bush administration officials.

"This is a dangerous developmnent. But the government has not thought it fit to take the House into confidence," he said while accusing the government of "buckling" under US pressure.

Brinda Karat (CP-M) demanded that US Ambassador to India David Mulford be called to the Foreign Office and conveyed in "very strong terms" that India would not allow any interence with its sovereignty.She said the US should be told categorically that "this country is not for sale." Both Sinha and Karat demanded that the House be taken into confidence on the ongoing negotiations on the Indo-US nuclear deal.Karat said the prime minister should give a statement in the House on the issue.

The House witnessed further turmoil when Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, while making a statement, accused the NDA of "bending on its knees" when they were in government.This was strongly objected to by the BJP members who demanded that the minister withdraw his remark.

Human trafficking scam kingpin spills the beans
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/may/04traffic.htm

May 04, 2007 12:06 IST
Last Updated: May 04, 2007 13:52 IST

The interrogation of Rasheed, a city-based travel agent and alleged kingpin in the human trafficking case, has opened a can of worms as names of several politicians are understood to have tumbled out during the grilling.

"He has made allegations against several parliamentarians, legislators and former ministers across political parties. We cannot disclose their names at this juncture. We are verifying the records," police sources said in Hyderabad on Friday.

Rasheed, whose name had figured prominently during the investigations ever since the emigration scandal broke out, had surrendered before the police on Thursday. He is being interrogated by a team of Central Crime Station police.

According to sources, Rasheed had named one Rajupitti, believed to be a bookie, as the key person in the racket. He admitted that Rajupitti had allegedly introduced to him the prospective clients who were in need of forged passports and travel documents to go abroad.

Rasheed, who had allegedly approached some MPs and MLAs with offers of huge bribe to use passports of their family members, will be produced before Nampally criminal court in Hyderabad.

It was third time unlucky for 'trafficking' MP
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/apr/19katara.htm?zcc=rl

The police have claimed that Bharatiya Janata Partry MP Babubhai Katara, who was arrested while trying to take a woman to Canada on his wife's passport, had smuggled people out of the country for monetary gains twice in the past. Katara, who was arrested on Wednesday at the Delhi airport, had struck a deal of Rs 27 lakh with Paramjeet Kaur through a travel agent but the money had not changed hands, a senior police official said.

Investigations have revealed that Katara had travelled to the United States and Britain in 2005 and 2006 and had taken women along with him on his wife's passport. It has also come to light that he had forged arrival stamps on the passport to show that they had returned.

He said Paramjeet, hailing from Hoshiarpur in Punjab, wanted to go the United States to live with her husband, who works there. The boy also has relatives in the US and his parents had struck the deal through a travel agent. The police is now hunting for at least two travel agents and the MP's aide and have sent special teams to several states including Punjab and Gujarat.


Waning of Hypnotism of Political Leaders Along The Road To Power
By: L Memo Singh.


Of all the political events which bring the closer or distance between the leaders and the led, the most important is the elections of leaders for every constitutional term in a democratic set-up. The universally accepted electoral principle of the Paris Commune was once published in the Chinese Daily, Red Flag as, “All leaders must be elected by the people; the elected must be the servants of the people and be submitted to their surpervision the electors have the right to recall and replace the elected at any time”. Lin Piao, the first vice-chairman of the party and Minister of Defence of Mao Tse-tung’s time, said” “The people’s democratic rights are being fully instituted in accordance with the principle of the Paris Commune. Without such extensive democracy it would be impossible to initiate a genuine Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.”

Keeping in view the peoples’ verdict provided by the 9th Manipur Legislative Assembly Elections the State has witnessed the active participation of the great masses of people in the elections and the rapid mobility of voters accompanied by an apparent decline in the organizational capability of all the political parties irrespective of the regional and the national Parties.

The pre pole scenarios of the State were full of fear and suspicion that in the midst of compelling circumstances any section of people would vitiate the electoral process to impeach the political structure of the state by unsalutory methods and accordingly the political faith of the people would have been shaken and to that extent that it happened, the moral basis of the State Power would shrink irreparably.
http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=kshow&kid=856

Indian incomes to triple in 20 years: study
http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/may/04india2.htm

May 04, 2007 16:23 IST

Continued rise in business productivity and competitiveness of Indian economy is likely to inflate incomes in the country by almost three times over the next two decades, according to a latest McKinsey study.The rising income levels would lift 291 million people out of poverty and create a 583 million strong middle class in the next two decades, a report from McKinsey Global Institute reveals.If India maintains the growth momentum over the next 20 years, income levels would almost triple, it added.




Constitution of India

The Constitution of India is one of the best constitutions of the countries of the world. India attained freedom on 15th August 1947. The Constitution of the Republic came into effect on 26th January 1950. It was framed after a careful study of a number of constitutions and efforts were made to retain what is the best in them in view of the requirement of our country. It was framed by "The Constituent Assembly". Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the chairman of the Assembly and among its members were the most prominent personalities of those days. The draft of the constitution was prepared by the draft committee, which had 8 members, under the chairmanship of Dr.B.R.Ambedkar.It was initially summoned on December 9, 1946. A draft of the Constitution was published in February 1948. The Constitution was finally adopted for 26 November 1949. It came into effect on 26th January 1950.

The Indian Constitution closely follows the British Parliamentary model, but differs from it in one important respect that is, the Constitution of India is supreme, not the Parliament. So the Indian courts are vested with the authority to adjudicate on the constitutionality of any law passed by the Indian Parliament.

The Constitution of India guarantees equal rights to all Indian citizens, and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, caste, and religion; it also allows universal franchise, thereby making the Indian electorate the largest in the world.
http://www.indianchild.com/indianparliament1.htm

Former bandit joins race for MP seat in India's lower house
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/05/03/2003359260

Pl See:India's great rush for SEZs
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http://loksabha.nic.in/
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http://www.answers.com/topic/parliamentary-system
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India
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

Republic of India

Flag Emblem

Motto
"Satyameva Jayate" (Sanskrit)
??????? ???? (Devanagari)
"Truth Alone Triumphs"
Anthem
Jana Gana Mana

Capital New Delhi
28°34'N, 77°12'E
Largest city Mumbai
Official languages Hindi, English and 21 other official languages
Government Federal republic
- President A.P.J Abdul Kalam
- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Independence from the United Kingdom
- Declared 15 August 1947
- Republic 26 January 1950
Area
- Total 3,166,414† km² (7th)
1,222,559 sq mi
- Water (%) 9.56
Population
- 2007 estimate 1,126,000,000 (2nd)
- 2001 census 1,027,015,248
- Density 329 /km² (31st)
852 /sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2006 estimate
- Total $4.042 trillion (4th)
- Per capita $3,737 (118th)
GDP (nominal) 2007 estimate
- Total $984.21 billion (12th)
- Per capita $820 (132th)
Gini? (1999–00) 32.5 (medium)
HDI (2006) 0.611 (medium) (126th)
Currency Rupee (?) (INR)
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
- Summer (DST) not observed (UTC+5:30)
Internet TLD .in
Calling code +91
1 †Includes only Indian-administered territory.
The Republic of India (Hindi: ???? ??????? Bharat Ga?arajya; see also other names), commonly known as India, is a sovereign country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second most populous country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world. India has a coastline of over seven thousand kilometres, bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east. India borders Pakistan to the west;[1] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia.

Home to the Indus Valley civilization and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism originated here, while Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism arrived in the first millennium CE and shaped the region's variegated culture. Gradually annexed by the British East India Company from the early eighteenth century and colonised by Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century, India became a modern nation-state in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was marked by widespread use of nonviolent resistance as a means of social protest.

With the world's 12th largest economy by exchange rates and the 4th largest in purchasing power, India has made rapid economic progress in the last decade. Although the country's standard of living is projected to rise sharply in the next half-century, it currently battles high levels of poverty, illiteracy, persistent malnutrition, and environmental degradation. A pluralistic, multi-lingual, multi-ethnic society, India is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats.


Parliament of India
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coordinates: 28.617146° N 77.208001° E
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_India

Sansad Bhavan, The Parliament of IndiaIndia

Portal:Government of India

The Parliament of India (or Sansad) is bicameral. It is located in New Delhi at Sansad Marg. This is the federal and supreme legislative body of the Republic of India.

The Indian Parliament consists of two houses - the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.

Any bill can become an act only after it is passed by both the houses of the Parliament and assented by the President.

The Central Hall of the Parliament is used for combined sittings of the lower and upper houses and is of historical significance.

[edit] Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha is also known as the "House of the People" or the lower house. Almost all of its members are directly elected by citizens of India. It is the more powerful of the two houses since it can precede or overrule the upper house in many matters.

The Lok Sabha can have up to 552 members as envisaged in the Constitution of India (Article 81). It has a term of 5 years but it may be dissolved earlier by the President in the event of no party getting a majority. To be eligible for membership of Lok Sabha, a person should be a citizen of India and be not less than 25 years of age. Up to 530 members can be elected from the states, up to 20 members from the Union territories and no more than two members can be nominated by the President of India.

As of now, the Lok Sabha has 545 members, 530 members from the states, 13 members from the Union territories and 2 members of the Anglo Indian community.

The representatives from States and Union Territories are directly elected by the people on the basis of universal adult suffrage. Every citizen who is over 18 years of age is eligible to vote. There is reservation of some seats for members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes but not for members of any other community.


[edit] Rajya Sabha
The Rajya Sabha is also known as "Council of States" or the upper house. Its members are indirectly elected by members of legislative bodies of the States.

The Rajya Sabha has 250 members in all. Elections to it are scheduled and the chamber cannot be dissolved legally. Each member has a term of 6 years and elections are held for one-third of the seats after every 2 years. The composition is specified in Article 80 of the Constitution of India.

12 members are nominated by the President from people having special knowledge or experience in literature, science, art or social services.
Representatives of States are elected by the elected members of the Legislative Assembly of the State in accordance with system of proportional representation by means of single transferable vote.
Representatives of Union Territories are indirectly elected by members of an electoral college for that territory in accordance with system of proportional representation.

Napalmed!

Napalmed!

Indian Holocaust My father`s Life and Time- One Hundred Thirty SIX

Palash Biswas



“This is my prayer to thee, my lord — strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart/ Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows/… Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifle/ And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.…’’
Rabindra Nath Tagore

Just as the inaugural session of the 14th Saarc summit seemed in danger of lapsing into yet another has-been conference, Bangladesh’s chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed rescued the morning by ending his speech with a Tagore poem.

Salim enters after the nandigram genocide and SEZ cap declared there. Amidst CPIM`s great Damage Control Campaign Salim reappeared in the writers!
NRI businessman Prasun Mukherjee, a stakeholder in the Salim Group’s consortium, will meet Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday. After Nandigram was ruled out and Haldia, the alternative site, found not to have enough land, industry secretary Sabyasachi Sen said the SEZ size might have to be made smaller.

Buddhadev has got Green Signal for capitalist development not only from Party central Committee which committed a historical blunder few years back when it stopped the rise of a Red Star in the Indian sky pulling back Basu`s legs to become the first communist and as well as the first Bengali Prim Minister, but also fro the Prime Minister and super prime Minister! Let the state congress minnows bark alone and alienated!

Now it is very clear as we are Napalmed! Eminent Writer and Activist Mahashweta Devi has disclosed in her column, `AAMI JAA DEKHCHHI’ in bangla Statesman that Buddhadev is also enslaved by US. MNC Dows enters Bengal for Chemical Hub this time!
Inspite of Nandigram, the CPI-M wants the West Bengal government to pursue its industrialisation drive vigorously, while protecting the interests of the peasantry.
After a thorough review of Nandigram, the party’s central committee announced that action would be taken for the “mistakes” committed there. The committee favoured the industrial drive, asserting the state’s success story in agriculture had laid the “foundation” for industrialisation.

The government is likely to cap the maximum area for a Special Economic Zone at 5,000 hectares, reports CNBC-TV18. It is also likely to announce more rules for SEZs after the Empowered Group of Ministers on SEZs meet on Thursday. They are to meet tomorrow to resolve issues. EGoM is likely to cap the number of SEZs at current level. It is also likely to lift freeze on SEZs where land has been acquired.Land acquisition for SEZs by state governments is unlikely to be allowed. EGoM may cap area for SEZ at 5,000 hectares with retrospective effect.


“We must now make a break with the past and join hands to realise our common, shared destiny,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said.

Prime minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, who has been stressing the need to unleash South Asia from the mental and physical bondage of partition through different “connectivities”, announced the unilateral liberalisation of visas for students, teachers, professors, journalists and patients from Saarc countries.

“The dream of regional connectivity will not be realised merely by building roads and railways,’’ he said, calling for a world-class South Asian university to engage the regional mind.

Exceedingly careful about not making any references to the dramatic political transformation taking place in the region, Singh could not help pointing out that “our governments are now addressing the bilateral political issues that have prevented us from achieving our potential”.

Marxists hated tagore and now they love Tagore! Rabindra Setu was the beginning, Rabindra bhavan was the epicentre, now it is all over Rabindra and Rabindra! Rabindra was the first man who taught us how to address Globalisation! He was the man who coined Indian Nationalism. He was the staunch supporter of Swaraj. He declared that doors for West is open but he emphasised to defend the roots, indegineous Production system and Indian Plural Culture!Contemporary neo-liberal globalisation has proceeded to normalize itself by creating a common-sense opposition between the global and the local.Indeed globalisation seems to be a magical process by which nation-states voluntarily agree to relinquish their power. The frameworks of trade and financial flows that are being put into place by agreements (WTO, NAFTA, FTAA and so on) are inter-national in their basis even as they seek to subject the powers of sovereign states to global regimes of economic power.

A global economy is inherently unjust, unstable and unsustainable...There is an accelerating gap between the rich and the poor. Widespread violence is tearing families and communities apart. And the planet’s ecosystems are deteriorating at an alarming rate.Globalization is essentially acceleration and expansion of industrialization and integration of national into regional or global economies. It is not going to dissipate or disappear, no matter how much some of us wish it so. It can be contained, but that could lead to worldwide industrial and economic stagnation - hardly a solution to the problems of global poverty, inequality, and violence. Global techno-economic systems carry vast opportunity for large numbers of dispossessed people around the world.
http://www.stwr.net/content/view/217/37/

http://www.iie.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Pressroom/PublicationsPR/SpeechesPR/02-26-2001,_Globalization_of_Higher_Education__What_it_Means_for_India.htm

http://corporatepower.blogspot.com/search/label/Globalization


Culturally speaking, globalization is largely the spread (for better and for worse) of Americanization - from Big Macs and iMacs to Mickey Mouse.The idea of 'global consciousness' is suggested as an antidote to the poison of parochialism that feeds and justifies mercenary globalism that is killing the promise of a truly 'global society.' My commitment to this ideal is constantly reinforced by the lives of the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mother Teresa, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Their examples shine as beacon lights for social and economic justice in an otherwise not so enlightened but physically interdependent world. That ideological clash has now been replaced by cross-cultural denigration, racial and ethnic diatribe, violent regional conflicts, terrorism, and the ‘war on terrorism’ on all sides, not just the conflict between religious fanatics of all variety. This is not to suggest that there were no ethnic or regional conflicts before or during the Cold War.

Globalisation involves cluster of issues.The issues range from the role of IT in education in India to comparative sociolinguistic analyses of language and conflict in Nigeria and India, from imaginings of India in British diasporic cinema to the battles over the Tamil canon on the internet, from macroeconomic analyses of globalization and its impact on Indian polity and economy to the fractures and possibilities inherent in North East India.

In what ways does Tagore's notion of the viswa prevent a slide into a notion of globalisation that would not elide the question of assymetrical relationships between different spatial units?
Read:Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora : A Vignette of the Indian Renaissance
http://www.aasianst.org/absts/1998abst/sasia/s50.htm

Read:Explore the impact of Rabindranath Tagore
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/051018-1707.asp

Despite these conflicts, global interdependence in a finite physical world is increasing every day. Global warming is affecting weather and vegetation on the entire planet. Acid rain from pollution caused by industries in the United States can stunt Latin forests affecting rainfall and crops in the entire region (McKibben 1998; Mathews 1999). Water and food chain toxicity is no longer a local problem as fruits, grains, and vegetables are increasingly sold and consumed across national markets (Bright 1999). National economies instantaneously react to global political and economic upheavals. Events in the Middle East cause oil prices to jump everywhere. Stock markets dance in tandem. Currencies fluctuate together. So many diseases - Ebola, mad cow disease, AIDS, influenza, SARS - have been globalized due to the movement of people and products across nations. Over-population, poverty, hunger, war, and violence in some parts of the world threaten the entire world (State of the World 1999; State of the World 2000; State of the World 2001; State of the World 2002).

Dows is famous for Napalm bombs and associated well with Vietnam War against which the Marxists once cried- AAMAR NAAM TOMAR NAAM SABAAR NAAM VIETNAM! The slogan has changed meanwhile: AMAAR NAAM TOMAAR NAAM SABAAR NAAM NANDIGRAM! NANDIGRAM! NANDIGRAM! NANDIGRAM!
Photograph of Napalm Bombs Exploding on Viet Cong Structures :
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyviet76.htm
Dow Chemical Company
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The Dow Chemical Co.

Type Public (NYSE: DOW)
Founded 1897
Headquarters Midland, Michigan, USA
Key people Andrew N. Liveris, CEO, President, & Chairman of the Board of Directors
Industry Manufacturing
Products Chemicals, Plastics, Agricultural Products, and other Specialized Products & Services
Revenue $46.307 Billion USD (2005)
Net income $4.515 Billion USD (2005)
Employees 42,413 (2005)
Website www.dow.com
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW TYO: 4850 ) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan.
The Dow Chemical Company is currently the second largest chemical manufacturer in the World (after BASF)[2]. Dow Chemical is a major provider of plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. With presence in 156 Countries and more than 45,000 employees around the world, Dow holds itself to be one of the top world companies in innovation and research and development,[citation needed] with more than $1 billion annual expenditure in R&D and the single largest concentation of PhD and Engineers in the United States.[citation needed] Its stated vision under the current CEO, Mr. Andrew Liveris, is to contribute to create a better world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Chemical_Company

The company was founded in 1897 by Canadian-born chemist Herbert Henry Dow, who had invented a new method of extracting the bromine that was trapped underground in brine at Midland, Michigan.[1] While at first the company sold only bleach and potassium bromide, Dow today has seven major operating segments, with a wide variety of products offered by each.[2] The company's 2005 sales totaled $46.3 billion, with a net income of $4.5 billion. Traded on the New York Stock Exchange, as of 2005 Dow has about 105,000 shareholders.[3]

While Dow has a world wide presence both financially and due to product coverage, most consumers are aware of the company from press-releases rather than product usage. In recent times, Dow has been called a "Chemical companies' Chemical company" in that most of their product is sold to other manufacturers rather than to end users. Dow had periods of selling into the Human and Animal Health markets as well as into the Consumer Products market (the latter most visible with Saran Wrap), but all of these facilities have been sold over the years.

Dow Chemical is an active member of the American Chemical Association, and an active partner in different programs and initiatives in both the World Bank and United Nations.

Napalm is any of a number of flammable liquids used in warfare, often jellied gasoline. Napalm is actually the thickener in such liquids, which when mixed with gasoline makes a sticky incendiary gel. Developed by the U.S. in World War II by a team of Harvard chemists led by Louis Fieser, its name is a portmanteau of its original ingredients, coprecipitated aluminum salts of naphthenic and palmitic acids. These were added to the flammable substance to cause it to gel.[1]

One of the major problems of early incendiary fluids (such as those used in flamethrowers) was that it splashed and drained too easily. The U.S. found that a gasoline gel increased both the range and effectiveness of flamethrowers, but was difficult to manufacture because it used natural rubber, which was in high demand and expensive. Napalm provided a far cheaper alternative, solving the issues involved with rubber-based incendiaries.[1]

Modern napalm is composed primarily of benzene and polystyrene, and is known as napalm-B.[1]

Napalm was used in flamethrowers and bombs by the U.S. and Allied forces, to increase effectiveness of flammable liquids. The substance is formulated to burn at a specific rate and adhere to materials. Napalm is mixed with gasoline in various proportions to achieve this. Another useful (and dangerous) effect, primarily involving its use in bombs, was that napalm "rapidly deoxygenates the available air" as well as creating large amounts of carbon monoxide causing suffocation. Napalm bombs were also used in the Vietnam War to clear landing zones for helicopters.[1]

Though napalm was a 20th century invention, it is part of a long history of incendiary materials in warfare. However, historically, it was primarily liquids that were used (see Greek fire). An infantry-based flammable liquid fuel weapon, the flamethrower, was introduced in World War I by the Germans, variations of which were soon developed by other sides in the conflict.[1]
Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm
The Independent August 10, 2003

US admits it used napalm bombs in Iraq

In-Depth Coverage By Andrew Buncombe

American pilots dropped the controversial incendiary agent napalm on Iraqi troops during the advance on Baghdad. The attacks caused massive fireballs that obliterated several Iraqi positions.

The Pentagon denied using napalm at the time, but Marine pilots and their commanders have confirmed that they used an upgraded version of the weapon against dug-in positions. They said napalm, which has a distinctive smell, was used because of its psychological effect on an enemy.

A 1980 UN convention banned the use against civilian targets of napalm, a terrifying mixture of jet fuel and polystyrene that sticks to skin as it burns. The US, which did not sign the treaty, is one of the few countries that makes use of the weapon. It was employed notoriously against both civilian and military targets in the Vietnam war.

The upgraded weapon, which uses kerosene rather than petrol, was used in March and April, when dozens of napalm bombs were dropped near bridges over the Saddam Canal and the Tigris river, south of Baghdad.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030810-napalm-iraq01.htm



Welcome Salim!

Welcome Dows!

Welcome Napam Bombs!

Now India is the VIETNAAM!
Salim Group guns for alternative site for project

The land and land reforms department decided to stick to the price quoted for the Salboni site where the Jindal group is supposed to set up a steel pant

Express News Service

Kolkata, April 3: Prasun Mukherjee, the Indian partner of the Indonesia-based Salim Group, which had plans to build the chemical hub at Nandigram, is going to meet the chief minister to decide on an alternative site for the project.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=229963

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
Chappell's contract is over: Pawar
Times of India - 29 minutes ago
PTI. MUMBAI, April 4: Cricket Board President Sharad Pawar on Wednesday confirmed receiving Greg Chappell's resignation as coach of the Indian team and said the Australian's contract with the BCCI was over.
Greg Chappell must go! Merinews
UPDATE 1-Cricket-Chappell quits as India coach Reuters.uk

Calcutta Telegraph
'We'll take appropriate reply' - BCCI
CricInfo.com - 3 hours ago
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has said that it would take "an appropriate decision" with regards to the proposal received from Zee Telefilms to start a parallel cricket league.
ICL not feasible without BCCI support NDTV.com
Subhash wants to do Kerry Packer in Indian cricket Economic Times


Rediff
AB, not Ash goes off work...
SantaBanta.com - 3 hours ago
While the Indian film industry, the media and fansd have been speculating mainly on whether Aishwarya Rai will continue to work after marriage, it's her soon-to-be father in-law who has stopped work.
Aishwarya unveils unique Bollywood photo exhibition Hindu
India poised and shining PakTribune.com

Globalistion is also Realignment of Demography. Urbanisation is the easiest way to evict the hostile population! We should investigate the Demographic realignment whenever we talk on Industrialisation, urbanisation and Globalisation.

Without realignment of the population you may not create a Hindu superpower India Shining, Mind You!

We have read so many write ups by Left leaders in media! We have heard from so many Left leaders from different forums! The government violated Human Rights, Civil rights and the most hyped RTI!The Left leadership have said so many things centred on so called plot to oust the Marxists by Rightists and Ultra Leftists!

Is there any Marxist Rule in Bengal after all? Do the Marxists care for Ideology and commitment at all? Left Rule has become the best tool of Brahmin promoter raj in Bengal! Why the brahmin Ruling Class is out to oust Marxists while they have maintained the Rotten Manusmriti so scientifically in Bengal? Rightists are led by Brahmins. So are the Left and Ultra Left!
Thus, The plot theory does not stand at all!

Suppose , there had been a plot! Suppose, the Marxists version of the story is nothing but truth! Why the West Bengal Government was trapped in a Genocide so unwanted? Why Writers Building was unable to control the situation? Why the party leadership was not minimum diplomatic to save the day? Why the Cadres were armed to annihilate the peasantry? Why they were in a haste to recapture Nandigram?

No CPIM or Left leaders seem s to be answer these uneasy questions!

Let Us Analyse a lttle bit!
Basic question is how the Left Front avoids anti-incumbency factor in every election and is successful to hold the POWER for three decades? Even after Nandigram why Buddhdev and the Left leaders do not care for public opinion and the opinion of its longtime sympathisers and friends?

If we judge by the achievements of secularism, land reforms, rural development and panchayat system, we have to be spell bound to analyse the turnaround! Well, in West Bengal, if the Ruling Left works in the best interest of the Have Nots, the proletariat, It is a mystery why Nandigram had been thrown in the Blood stream and The Gestapo has its Run in Nandigram!

The Left Base in Bengal is a mystery and at the same time, not a mystery at all!
Cadre power is well expressed in Singur as well as in Nandigram! What the Red Gestapo may do, it has become a history now.Calcutta High court and CBI team exposed a tip of the ICE BERG only. Media also played its sponsored role as well and we really got some footage of the Cold Horror! Then CBI works under the Government of India, led by UPA which may not go a step forward or backward without Left support. The meeting of Buddhadev with Prime Minister and Super Prime minster and the agenda of the central committee have sealed well the episode whatsoever! Now, it would be quite rude to expect anything fro a CBI enquiry. CBI could no do anything to discover the stolen Rabindra Nobel Medal! It could do nothing to expose the Keshpur Massacre! Nothing done in Nanur Case! Nothing happened in the Purulia Arms air Drop Case in Purulia! Without any political will, why the CBI should be so active? And political will depends with power bargaing. It is always in favour of the Brahmin Raj. Neither Judicairy nor CBI has any track record to save the underclasses, the dalits, the tribals and particularly, the muslims!

CPIM led Left holds the power in Bengal by propagating a Brahminical bangla nationalism which is quite different fro that of Bangladesh, mostly represented by Muslims and dalits! In Bengal, it creates bogey of fascist Hindutva and US Imperialism just to dodge the underclasses while the left government has proved itself a better tool of Brahminical Hindutava and Corporate Zionist US MNC imperialism!

In fact, Left holds the power enslaving the Dalits, BC, OBC, Tribals, Muslims and other minorities.
In fact, Left has created a scientific rigging system with its well oiled election machinery supported by Police and Administration and run by the Cadres! It is called organisation. This organisation is fed by State Resources and revenue. Peerless Credit had been the source of employees` salary all these years. Now The tatas takes over. Some day it will be Salim or Sultan Or Dows! Panchayati raj ia praised all over which has got the responsibility of Rural Development. This is the avenue, where CPIMpays well its cadrebase! No wonder, the helpless opposition in Bengal wants the Panchayats. Thus, The Brahminical opposition wants to continue Nandigram resistance while Left is crying CEASE FIRE and PEACE all the time. Panchayat Elections are not too far away!

The key lies in all the Sixty thousand polling booths. You have to manage the booths very well to capture Vote. It is not the Vote Bank like the COW BELT which determines the electral results. It is the BOOTH and the AREA combined which decides the color of polity. Capture the area, manage the booth and ensure nintey percent Cast. This is the key of Success for the Left in Brahminical Bengal!

This booth management is not very simple as it may sound. cadres have to be in constant touch with the people. Party has to intervene in every petty day to day affairs of the captive population. Society sholuld be disciplined and has to be mad a habitual Left supporter.Party Local Committeee has to take over fro police and administration.
In West Bengal, No FIR IS LODGED ANY WHERE WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF LOCAL COMMITTE. POLICE AND ADMINISTARTION HAVE TO WAIT FOR GREEN SIGNAL FROM CPIM TO ACT. WHICH ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN NANDIGRAM BLOODBATH!

Cpim local committees hold all the power of executive, judiciary and legislature.
Laxman seth, Nirupam Sen, Amitabh Nandi, Sushanto Ghosh are few names which have become giants of Bengal. What Laxam Seth did in Nandigarm, issueing land aquisition notice, is nothing new. Somnath Catterjee did whatsoever he thinks GOOD for promoters in Shanti Niketan. Ashok bhattachary has become the DON of North Bengal!
If you don`t support Left in Bengal, be ready to face dire consequences, Mental and Physical toture, social bycutts and liquidition! So, the witches are hunted so often! So lynching is in Vogue! Encrochment is never a crime in Bengal as long as you have got the party support!
Areas should be captured. No area should be a FREE ZONEas Buddhadev cried in Brigade rally just before Nandigarm Genocide! Free Zone means out of Party control. So Nandigram is attacked constantly from KHejuri side. Thus janani Bricks factory was used by armed cadres for almost three months and the War continues.

Earlier Keshpur Kurukshetra was won in leadership of MP Laxman Seth and Minister Sushanto Ghosh. They tried it in Nandigram this time and unfortunately faced unprecedented Ressistance! Keshpur was won. Nothing happened. Nandigram Resists and everything happens. What not? Genocide! Gangrape! Molestation! Arson! Arrests! torture! kidnaps! Loot! Press Censorship! Everything and the world is shocked to watch the Truth limited!

bECAUSE THEY WON kESHPUR, BECAUSE THEY WERE LOSING GROUND IN MEDINIPUR WITH INDISCRIMINATE LAND AQUISITION IN NANDIGRAM, KHARAGPUR, SHALBVANEE, HARIPUR, JANPUT, EVERYWHERE, it became almost mendatry for the Left to recapture Nandigram! It got land slide victory in last assembelly elections and Buddhadev was overconfident to control and manange every thing as long as the Media and Intellegentsia supported the Left!

What went wrong with Buddha?

What went wrong with CPIM and Left.
Nandigram resisted. singur resistance continues despite the land transfer to Tatas, In 24 parganas, Nadia, Malda, Murishidabad, Hugli, Howrah, burdwan- everywhere the peasantry revolted.

No avenue was left for the opportunist Media and Intelligentsia to escape and they crossed the Fence. It changed the color of the censored, sponsored and managed informations leaking out of Bengal.

Buddhadev entrapped PLUMB!

And the irony is that Left has no way to oust Buddha as he represents well the BHdralok Brahmin Bengal ruling Class and he serves in the best interest of the Ruling Hindutva Zionist Class!

It is rue that Nandigram had been a strong base of the Left thanks to Enblock support from the majority Muslims.As soon as slim entered, the scenerio changed suddenly. In the last assembelly elections CPI candidate Ilius Mohammad won the set with 69,376 votes! Then, TMC candiadte Shaikh Supin got 65,553 votes! The Congress candidate provided the Escape route as he polled 4,953 votes.

CPIM had to Bear This!
Left is never habitual to face any resistance. It is so despotic that it has left no space for democracy. Thus Nandigaram Had To Be Recaptured!

IN New delhi: Under fire from its detractors over the Nandigram incidents, the CPI(M) asked its West Bengal unit to examine what went wrong as it admitted that "some mistakes" have been committed while handling the affair. The three-day meeting of the party's Central Committee, the first after the police firing, deliberated the issue and concluded that it was unfortunate that ordinary people have died in the violence which should not be repeated again.

"The Central Committee has noted that some mistakes have been committed in the handling of the affair as stated by the West Bengal Chief Minister," said party General Secretary Prakash Karat.

In Kolkata: Condemning the state government’s attempts to coerce farmers into giving up their plots of farmland for industrialisation, the artist fraternity today demanded a speedy inquiry be conducted into the Nandigram carnage.
The main demand in the 10-point memorandum submitted to Governor Mr Gopalkrishna Gandhi today was that the true number of those killed or wounded in police firing on 14 March be investigated and severe punishment be meted out to those responsible for the carnage. The role of police in the incident should be looked into and the state government should arrange for the treatment of the wounded, the memorandum read.
Intellectuals under the banner of Forum of Artists, Cultural Activists and Intellectuals, demanded the murderers of Rajkumar Bhul and Tapasi Malik in Singur be identified without delay. They further urged the government to return those plots of farmland that had been forcibly taken away from farmers in Singur for the Tata Motors small car factory. The location for an industry should be decided on only after consultations with peasants, environmentalists, social scientists, soil scientists and industrialists, the memorandum read.
The letter also sought the Governor’s intervention to reopen the closed tea gardens in the Doars and to ensure re-employment of workers who were currently jobless. n sns


India’s Growing Pains

Why are both Washington and Tokyo interested in SAARC?
When does an organization, be it of the people or of governments, become relevant? When it gets noticed, to start with. By that yardstick, the 21-year-old South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation may be said to have turned a corner at its cu... | Read:
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070404/asp/opinion/index.asp

Indian activists protest government land seizures. (AP/Gurinder Osan)
April 4, 2007
Prepared by: Lee Hudson Teslik


India’s torrid economic expansion over the past five years delighted investors internationally, but the inevitable shakeouts of rapid growth are starting to rub some nerves raw at home. Thousands of Indian farmers battled police (Telegraph) in the country’s West Bengal state in March, protesting government plans to confiscate their land and turn it into a special economic zone (SEZ). After fourteen deaths and chastisement from groups like Amnesty International, the state abandoned its plans for the SEZ. But after reviewing the SEZ policy, India’s Prime Minister announced in late March that new zones will continue to go up across India (Jurnalo).
http://www.cfr.org/publication/12980/indias_growing_pains.html?breadcrumb=%2F

Crisis for Punjab farmers over SEZ is non-existent
Chandigarh/ New Delhi, Apr 2: Rumours of farmers in Punjab acing a socio-economic crisis because of the State Government's move to coercively acquire their lands for proposed Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is non-existent and incongruous with facts.
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/130234.php/Crisis-for-Punjab-farmers-over-SEZ-is-non-existent

How 'they' can spoil India Inc's dream

Govindraj Ethiraj

April 04, 2007

Sometime in the mid-90s, in the era of 17 per cent interest rates, I was speaking with an on-the-ascent industrialist with interests in, well, mostly steel. Sitting back in his recently refurbished office in Mumbai's Nariman Point, he spoke of the many new opportunities that were springing up, in telecom, power and even the media.

The conversation turned to the location of his plant in coastal Maharashtra, where most of his present investments were going. I remarked that another metals company was going to set up a large plant there. "Oh that," he said, "they won't allow it to come up." "How do you know that," I asked. "Just wait and watch," he said.

He was right, the company in question had to pack its bags and go south, where it faced a fresh round of environmental problems but come up it did. My interlocuter's own diversification efforts into power, announced with considerable fanfare and ministerial blessings, ran into truckloads of opposition later. "They" did not spare him, either. Even today, it's not clear where that project, worth billions of dollars, stands.
http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2007/apr/04guest.htm






SEZ hopes float on trade policy
Calcutta Telegraph, India - 1 Apr 2007
Guwahati, April 1: Assam industry minister Pradyut Bordoloi today described the North East Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy, 2007, ...

Kerala zeroes in on animation SEZ
Economic Times, India - 30 Mar 2007
“This is the second phase of development happening in the park and we have decided to make it an exclusive animation SEZ. It is the first of its kind in ...

SEZ policy that is sustainable
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SEZ cap plea, silent prayer: A Telegraph story
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New Delhi, April 3: Cautious after Nandigram, the CPIM plans to propose a 5,000-acre cap on special economic zones (SEZs) but could be silently praying the Centre does not accept it.

The party also announced that it will review all industrialisation projects — not SEZs alone — in Bengal that require large-scale land acquisition and where the farmers have not given consent.

CPM general secretary Prakash Karat told a news conference the politburo has decided there should be a 2,000-hectare (5,000-acre) ceiling on SEZs.

“Some of the proposed SEZs have huge tracts of land,” he said.

At least two such have been planned in Bengal: the Salim Group’s chemical SEZ spread across 10,000 acres that was to come up in Nandigram and a 12,500-acre multi-product SEZ.

“Whether it is Salim projects or not, the party has asked us to take the farmers into confidence and strengthen the political process wherever a big chunk of land is needed to be acquired,’’ central committee member Benoy Konar said.

Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee — and his party, which fully backs his industrialisation campaign but must be seen in public as speaking up for farmers — will be hoping the Centre rejects the ceiling so that the CPM can have its cake and eat it, too.

“The government will first have to accept the cap,” Karat stressed.

He might be banking on a section within the Union cabinet, which is a strong votary of SEZs, to ensure the ceiling is rejected. Some Congress-led state governments have planned SEZs bigger than 5,000 acres. At present there is no cap on land.

In February, the CPM had suggested that SEZs larger than 5,000 acres be developed by the government or PSUs. This was before 14 people were killed in police firing while resisting land acquisition in Nandigram, putting Bhattacharjee and his party in the dock.