2006, The
TATA group of Industries tried to change the Face of Bengal by dreaming an history that would be pioneering step in the history of Automobiles, a history that would show the world the place of India in the science of Automobile Industries. The endurance plan was sketched, and the chassis was planned out.
Land was acquired (legally and Illegally) in Singur, district Hugli, West Bengal, India. The phantom of pining industrial growth in West Bengal since the mid-seventies was rejuvinating with the newest hope to be on the fore front. A step forward, with the perfect home run in the history books.
2006, somewhere in the State lurked the idea of Political Boon, taking advantage of which, the protest against the governments unlawful means to acquire the land, lands which were more than fertile... yielding fout to five cycles of crop annually, 1000 acres in area. Many farmers were un willing, and the government goons made the needful, some were there with will. Many news came... many people vaporized, as the Singur triangle became thicker and malicious with time. All the time, TATA manages for the designs of Nano, and on an auspicious day in 2007, the model...cute and sweet came into the platform at an Auto expo. Priced at INR 1,00,000 (hundred thousand), without tax, the car was more than economical... dream fulfiller as well as handy! And with the assurance of TATA, well, its more than Trust!
2007, the State faced the turmoil of Nandigram. Chaos was seen to hit in the intellect capital of India. Once it was said: "What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tommorow!" A pride for all bengalis. Today, for a cause, in 2008, the project Singur goes to the live wire, where Miss. Banerjee is standing at a juncture of no return. The advancements of the region bays, but she refuses to bask in the prospectives. What they are?
1) The industrialization brings forth the general welfare of the region, bringing in maintainence of roads and housings.
2) Industrialization would bring in both foreign as well as national money into the state, through the people in and around Singur.
3) The small housings that would develop in and around the region would canter the needs of health and education, responding to which well maintained hospitals and schools would creep up! At least one of each kind.
4) Employment both in kind and cause would sketch a solution for the unemployment in one of the densely populated states of Indian Union. Employment like guards, drivers, small mechanics, housing and household chore managers, maids, canteen workers, shopkeepers and many more...
These prospectives waver in the pandemonium residing at the place. The image of the state gets tarnished day by day and Miss Banerjee stands out as a luddite in the face of social prosperity! Sorry to say, but I once supported the cause at Nandigram...and partially Singur, both carried out by the Trinamul Congress and Miss Banerjee. But I am sad to see the outcome, which we the commoner can see, but a seasoned politician...people who serve the masses, fail to see. Miss Banerjee should sit for talks with the government and negotiate with the prices, as thopse 400 acres of land for which she is jumping around is not only useless, but seems baseless, as she cannot come up with the names of the unwilling farmers, who want their land back! The land is salinated due to construction sand and also rendered infertile due to concrete and other architectural materials. Its useless to win that back. Rather negotiate with the government and the TATAs for better future, a consolidated future for the farmers (whose cause the Lady is supposedly fighting for).
ASK FOR:
* Guranteed employement at the Plant.
* Some kind of Loyalty for the leased out land to the farmer's family.
Its useless to block the NH 32, or The Durgapur Expressway. Since 24th August the agitation is continuing, and today its the 7th day! The trapped trucks, amenities, and many edible and degradable amenities, medicines have all gone a waste!
Please Miss Banerjee listen to the Youth of Bengal... Please don't endanger our future!