For all those who are screaming hoarse their lungs out in this blog in support of Ratan Tata, please answer me honestly, if you want.
In Bombay you got two whacking stadia Brabourne & Wankhede in the prime business district where only a couple of cricket matches are played in a year.
Govt asked the land be sold to any one and build multi storeyed office space there. The ongoing office space rates are already one of the highest in the world there i.e Nariman Point.
The owners of the stadia i.e Private Clubs refused to sell that land stating that it is their private property and they can do whatever they like with it. Selling it to build multi storeyed offic space for the good of the nation didnt bother them. Every educated person supported them stating that it is their property and they can do what they like and the GOvt has no say in it.
FINE!
Now, in Singur, the land is alluvial soil i.e. the richest arable soil irrigated by the gangetic tributaries over millenia. The farmers are tilling that land for centuries and are makiing a living out of it.
What moral right has anyone to force them to sell their lands to the Tatas?
If you are rich you get away by builing whacking stadia in the prime business district of the nation.
If you are poor you are forced to sell your best farming land to some one else and you have no say in it?
Are all those educated lot who are screaming hoarse here believe in equality and common rights? Or are they regurgitating?
RE:RATAN TATA IS WRONG!
by SHUJAT MIRZA on Aug 26, 2008 06:06 PM Permalink
Dear Mr Kabeer, Thanks for admiring the quality of land in question. I wonder why the people who have toiled on such a land for centuries are poor? They should have been super rich people. The owners of those stadia are doing favor to the nation, the future generation and the environment by not allowing multistoried office structure to be built in already conjested Mumbai. Instead if you flatten a few high rise buildings to make open play groung will be more apt. Buying Mamta? C'mon there are fewer shorsighted, power hungry, oppurtunist, rhetorical and useless politicians available on the Indian political panorama than didi. I am 100% sure that the farmers who will loose the land to nano will be most fortunate in the long run and neighbourhood farmers will be geelous of them. Only thing is people have to be patient. If the land of West Bengal is so fertile, bengal should be able to export quality grains to the world but only Punjab does so? Farmers of Bengal is very poor compared to those of Punjab and Rajsthan? Grow up and understand that you need investment and managment and back up by Industry to help even farming. It was probably naive and highly optimistic on part of Tata to choose Bengal. Many states will be happy to host him. India had lost L N Mittal to 70s beuracracy. Bengal is losing Tata to Mamta. I am ready yo sell million Mamta to one Tata or Ambani.
RE:RATAN TATA IS WRONG!
by Umesh Sharma on Aug 26, 2008 05:55 PM Permalink
well, mr kabeer, yr comparison is totaly wrong, firstly as far as brabourne stadium is concerned it does belong to the cci and it is used for local tournaments including ranji trophy, as it is there is shortage of place for sports in mumbai. now take singur, firstly there is division of land , it may be fertile but returns today compared to the inputs like fertilisers etc are very less, it is a virtual hand to mouth existence. if you will see as in case of jawaharlal nehru port project, all the land was acquired and the locals along with compensation were also gvn jobs in the port and other ancillary and supporting companies like the cfs and shipping lines offices. it is a good deal, so what is wrong in singur, with tatas also are other industries that will gv employment to the sons of farmers, income would be more than that from the fields. as it happens they hv accepted the money, now people like mamta are raking this issue for personal gain. it will be a huge loss for bengal if this doesnot materialise. it will become an outcast for investments
RE:RATAN TATA IS WRONG!
by Kabeer on Aug 26, 2008 06:07 PM Permalink
Dear Mr.Sharma!
1. Do they players stay around Brabourne & Wankhede? No! It is all prime business district. Players come from suburbs. When the Govt offered land in suburbs like New Bombay for building stadia to where the players can go and practise - it is equidistant- the club refused. Even the club was offered handsome money; purely legitimate ofcourse!
2. It is a matter of right! How can you deprive a poor farmer his right to sell his land and do not touch the rich of their rights on a similar issue?
3. Given the rates at which real estate is sold at Nariman point, the land of Wankhede & Brabourne results in thousands of crores when high rise office space is built.
4. We often regurgitate what the media keep telling us; and that media is funded by businessmen; Indian and Foreign.
