It is quite nice to read such postings on National importance. To put it bit poetically (I deserve these days for using such an expression, right ??), considering that reading Newspaper OR watching TV is not in my routine, these postings serve as a window to me which allows me to peep into what is happening outside.....
As we have unanimously agreed, this is a Diary and the name of the blogspot was well chosen to remind ourselves ...and I have no intention to write any thing in the nature of comment on your posting......(I dont remember the past so easily !!). This posting is just a prelude for my next two postings which are going to be quite historic (at least for me and my future postings in this blog).
So, while it is a fact that I read every single posting that you make with great interest, it is also a fact that at the end of the posting, my mind is blank....and does not yield to forming any opinion on the subject...Some times (like the posting on Mobile portability) I do get some doubts but thats different...I am talking about ISSUES.....a very classic example is Nandigram which I have pasted below....
It will be really nice if the Government is sportive enough to relook the decisions made and do the corrections needed (if it feels it is necessary based on representations.....I am not explicity stating that a decision- in the first place- needs to be based on a professional assessment). The Governed too - in turn - learns to accept the decision and work towards the execution of the same (if we have a part to play) & give our total support for the decisions without any qualms....( I am talking about a mental state reading in following lines...."I wish things will be better if decision Y is taken.....but ok, since Government has decided to proceed X, its time to wash the face and ensure if X is implemented without any loopholes"...
It is very easy to muse on such generalised thoughts and the tons and tons of details on every single decision may make me off balance....but, I think it is better if the fundamentals are well understood and internalised before starting to act....either as a Government or a responsible person governed....
At the outset on the last line written, I too have a feeling that the decisions made in various spheres are not scoped for future (I think of the annual road contracts given & the investment made in the Metro Lorries to take water quite often).....In cricket terms, it will be really nice if every single shot is played with lot of clarity on the asking run rate & a clear assessment of all the factors at the time of play.....!!
suchoo
Nov 12, 2007
** Nandigram **
Nandigram - a rural area 150 Km away from Kolkatta is the hot spot of the nation. West Bengal (WB) Govt had proposed (on paper) to bring a few areas under Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The problem started when people of Nandigram came to know that a few areas of Nandigram too is in the proposed SEZ list. A pitched battle is on till this moment with no resolution in sight. A lot of people have died and a fierce battle is on. Political parties are hell bent upon utilising this opportunity to garner the votes. It is a common knowledge that it is the CPI-M that were against all such attempts of industrialisation throughout the Nation. Now, they are tasting the bitterness of their own medicine.
Without going into who is right and who is wrong - I feel that Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are very much important for any State for faster growth. Reliability on Agriculture needs to be brought down and Industrial growth must be resorted to - to meet the population growth rate. The Govts of various states have no other way than to resort to faster Industrial growth. It is inevitable. So is the protest of the people from those areas whose land would come under threat. People like Karunanidhi would readily give away such growth plans for the sake of remaining in power and for the sake of few hundred votes (as they readily did in the recent past). Giving away such ambitious projects would only be doing justice to the present generation at the cost of future generation. No doubt, it is a choice between devil and deep-sea. But what is Governance that does not think about the future?
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