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 regurgit
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by ajith k on Aug 27, 2008 12:12 PM Permalink
Hi, Accuquiring the land is nothing related with TATA. Tata asked for some land from govt. and WB commu govt has provied the land. thats all. Tata never told they will setup factory at this particular place. This the question to be asked to WB govt who is responsible. Why to blame tata?
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by akhilesh dixit on Aug 27, 2008 11:18 AM Permalink
You want them to continue farming so that never prosper because we all know farming in India with small holdings only leading to sucides. If the land is so fertile the best in India what spl crop it is producing which cant be produced in any other place. Govt is owner of owners as per act and in public interest it can take lands by giving suitable compensation, otherwise noone will part his land and no collges, raods dams,canals can be ever built. So much protest was done by Megha in Narmada Dam but go and see Gujrat it has changed life of millions by giving water and electricity.Don't make India live in Stone age again.
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by Kabeer on Aug 27, 2008 11:29 AM Permalink
Dear Akhilesh,
Why there should be an obligation on the part of a farmer to sell his land to a private entity?
Is Tata Motors a part of Govt? so that giving the land at a price determined by someone else will benefit the shareholders of Tata Motors?
Or the farmers of Tata Motors offered any equity shares of Tata Motors?
Will Tata Motors be forced to sell their equity stake to the Govt at a price determined by the Govt, if the Company is incurring losses-based on your logic of unremunerative farming?
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by SHUJAT MIRZA on Aug 27, 2008 11:54 AM Permalink
Lets decide matters of rights under the constitution in courts, not on the streets. Jai Hind
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by Kohinoor Basu on Aug 27, 2008 12:06 PM Permalink
Hungry and half naked people have no right anywhere in the world. Its survival of the fittest. Lets build industry and I can assure you people will find a way to survive. The only way out of poverty is industrialization. It has happened in Europe 150 yrs back, it has happened in Far east in early '80 and it has happened in China in late 90's.
And we Indians are only worried people's rights, and other crap. Lets get industrialized, lets feed the masses, and then we can talk about people's rights. Again, you cannot have rights on empty stomach.
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by akhilesh dixit on Aug 27, 2008 12:10 PM Permalink
What right? even in communist countries all lands are of state given on lease. If everybody is given right nothing big can ever happen in name of right. No land can be ever acquired even for ports airports by your logic because from open market one can never get such big land.State is not fool they give it because they know state will get taxes,it will create employment earn foreign exchanges etc. We are not born with land from our mothers womb.These all are given by state.They are owner of owner.
