Comments on: Gagret SEZ: ‘Campaign of government full of lies and deceit’ http://www.himvani.com/news/2008/10/05/gagret-sez-campaign-of-government-full-of-lies-and-deceit/1732/ Rediscover your roots [Himachal's first citizen journalism effort] Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:46:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: NITYIN http://www.himvani.com/news/2008/10/05/gagret-sez-campaign-of-government-full-of-lies-and-deceit/1732/#comment-52877 NITYIN Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:19:43 +0000 http://www.himvani.com/?p=1732#comment-52877 Something to ponder: <i>The Bengalis are our Irish, who as Yeats said, have an abiding sense of tragedy. Their tragic sense lies in striving to be rational but recognising life’s underlying irrationality. One cannot avoid tragedy, but strengthening institutions like property rights can help to minimize it.</i> <B><a HREF="http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html" rel="nofollow">Property rights and SEZ</A></B> Something to ponder:

The Bengalis are our Irish, who as Yeats said, have an abiding sense of tragedy. Their tragic sense lies in striving to be rational but recognising life’s underlying irrationality. One cannot avoid tragedy, but strengthening institutions like property rights can help to minimize it.

Property rights and SEZ

]]> By: SS JARYAL http://www.himvani.com/news/2008/10/05/gagret-sez-campaign-of-government-full-of-lies-and-deceit/1732/#comment-51852 SS JARYAL Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:40:15 +0000 http://www.himvani.com/?p=1732#comment-51852 It is a known fact, when we mismanage our growth, society turns out disappointed youths into gangsters, rioters, hooligans, thieves, all a dipressed lot. What we would get in return, a cheerless society. Whenever, any growth is envisaged, or planned, many hue and cries are raised, which in my personal opinion are not based on facts, ground realities, but on assumptions, perceptions. I had a friend who said I donot want to travel by Air, because Plane may crash and I will die. It is a funny logic. Similarly, many people talked about Singur kind of agitation, everywhere in Himachal and other states. Can any one tell me, has any one asked, other stake holders of the society, besides the Land Owners, what they want. They want Growth, Employment, Education of their children, a better life. Which we are denying to them, in the name of Protection to one Section of the Society (Land Owners of Affected Area. Why donot we compare, overall Income of the Land in Question, vis a vis the benefits to other sections of the society, land affected persons, govt., business people etc. I feel it is totally undesirable to leave the Industry to the mercy of Land Owners who are left free to demand any price of their land. Industrial growth in our country vis a vis China has been much slow, because of too much of liberty and looseness in Political Will, to transact business in true spirit. Todays' politicians are afraid of Singur, but ask jobless bengalis, what they have lost, a Presitigious Tata project, which an Intelligent CM of Gujrat has managed to snatch for its people. In fact so called environmentalists, kisan representative organisations should ponder, how much the value of farmers land will increase if such projects come in their area. These are my personal views, those who donot subsribe to them or differ with me, are welcome to do so. I think we have to ponder over todays' problems, keeping tomorrow in mind, rather than worrying for tomorrow and forgetting today. With due regards - SS Jaryal It is a known fact, when we mismanage our growth, society turns out disappointed youths into gangsters, rioters, hooligans, thieves, all a dipressed lot. What we would get in return, a cheerless society.

Whenever, any growth is envisaged, or planned, many hue and cries are raised, which in my personal opinion are not based on facts, ground realities, but on assumptions, perceptions.

I had a friend who said I donot want to travel by Air, because Plane may crash and I will die. It is a funny logic.

Similarly, many people talked about Singur kind of agitation, everywhere in Himachal and other states.

Can any one tell me, has any one asked, other stake holders of the society, besides the Land Owners, what they want. They want Growth, Employment, Education of their children, a better life. Which we are denying to them, in the name of Protection to one Section of the Society (Land Owners of Affected Area.

Why donot we compare, overall Income of the Land in Question, vis a vis the benefits to other sections of the society, land affected persons, govt., business people etc.

I feel it is totally undesirable to leave the Industry to the mercy of Land Owners who are left free to demand any price of their land. Industrial growth in our country vis a vis China has been much slow, because of too much of liberty and looseness in Political Will, to transact business in true spirit. Todays’ politicians are afraid of Singur, but ask jobless bengalis, what they have lost, a Presitigious Tata project, which an Intelligent CM of Gujrat has managed to snatch for its people.

In fact so called environmentalists, kisan representative organisations should ponder, how much the value of farmers land will increase if such projects come in their area.

These are my personal views, those who donot subsribe to them or differ with me, are welcome to do so.

I think we have to ponder over todays’ problems, keeping tomorrow in mind, rather than worrying for tomorrow and forgetting today.

With due regards - SS Jaryal

]]> By: NITYIN http://www.himvani.com/news/2008/10/05/gagret-sez-campaign-of-government-full-of-lies-and-deceit/1732/#comment-50641 NITYIN Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:46:30 +0000 http://www.himvani.com/?p=1732#comment-50641 <P> <DIV ALIGN=JUSTIFY>I fail to understand why the law does not allow the company to buy land directly from the farmers. Why should the state meddle in between? After all it is a free market economy and the benefits of free market should be extended to the land owners. Why should the state acquire land and then hand it over to the company? If the govt. is hell bent on bringing SEZ to the state then, isn't the law of not allowing selling of agriculture land for non-agriculture purpose obselete? Why is the state govt. afraid of doing things in the spirt of free market. Address this law first and things may fall in place</DIV ALIGN=JUSTIFY></P>
I fail to understand why the law does not allow the company to buy land directly from the farmers. Why should the state meddle in between? After all it is a free market economy and the benefits of free market should be extended to the land owners. Why should the state acquire land and then hand it over to the company? If the govt. is hell bent on bringing SEZ to the state then, isn’t the law of not allowing selling of agriculture land for non-agriculture purpose obselete? Why is the state govt. afraid of doing things in the spirt of free market.

Address this law first and things may fall in place

]]> By: ranjana sharma http://www.himvani.com/news/2008/10/05/gagret-sez-campaign-of-government-full-of-lies-and-deceit/1732/#comment-50393 ranjana sharma Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:05:48 +0000 http://www.himvani.com/?p=1732#comment-50393 Hello Its really very bad that such agitations are taking place in peaceful land of himachal pradesh. But, associated stakeholders are requested not to make it other singur. Hello

Its really very bad that such agitations are taking place in peaceful land of himachal pradesh. But, associated stakeholders are requested not to make it other singur.

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