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24 Dec 2009 ... Kolkata, Dec 24 (PTI) Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said he had taken up the matter relating to the ongoing jute workers'' ...
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22 Dec 2009 ... Kolkata, Dec 22 (PTI) The Labour department has convened a meeting here tomorrow to end the 9-day-old jute strike by the Bengal Chatkal ...
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But, as its scabbing on the jute strike underlines, it is a rightwing capitalist ... As in other industries in India, the jute bosses have increasingly ...
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25 Dec 2009 ... The jute workers' strike which began on December 14 entered the 13th day today. ... Manish says this is not a good sign 4 team INDIA, ...
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Online edition of India's National Newspaper Sunday, Dec 20, 2009 ... Jute strike in West Bengal to continue as tripartite talks fail. Indrani Dutta ...
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1 post - 1 author - Last post: 19 Dec 2008Kolkata, Dec 19 (IANS) The strike at jute mills in West Bengal from Dec 1 ended Friday following a consensus reached after a two-day ...
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8 Jan 2010 ... KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharyyas efforts to break the deadlock over the continuing jute strike failed to yield ...
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Tripartite meeting called to end jute strike
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KOLKATA: To resolve the stalemate caused by the indefinite jute strike in West Bengal since Monday, the State government has called a tripartite meeting on ...
Govt dilutes jute packaging act by 20%
Fibre2fashion.com - Dec 29, 2009
The Union Government of India has diluted the mandatory jute packaging act by 20 percent till May 2009, in order to meet the shortage of packing materials ...
Jute industry seeks ban on imports from Bangladesh
Business Standard - Dec 30, 2009
The association alleged that Bangladesh, India's prime competitor in the jute sector, is taking undue advantage over an unwarranted indefinite strike in the ...
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Indefinite strike: 52 jute mills remain closed
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Moreover, the unions also want the Jute Corporation of India (JCI) to procure jute bales directly from farmers to fulfill the demands of the mills'. ...
GSCSF switches to polypropylene bags for packing sugar as jute mill workers ...
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This decision was prompted by a prolonged strike by jute mill workers since December 14, in West Bengal that has led to a shortage in the supply of jute ...
MCCI for 'political' level understanding with India
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FTA with India is under consideration and the government will strike the deal keeping the national interest in mind, commerce minister told newsmen after ...
India - Jute mills seek PM`s help on price hike
YarnsandFibers (subscription) - Dec 29, 2009
The trade unions have gone on an indefinite strike since December 14 seeking implementation of the owners' statutory obligations such as regularisation of ...
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India Jute Industry
The jute sector occupies an important place in the Indian economy in general, and the eastern region in particular. The jute industry provides direct employment to about 0.26 million workers, and supports the livelihood of around 4.0 million farm families. Around 0.14 million people are engaged in the tertiary sector and allied activities, supporting the jute economy. Presently it also contributes to exports to the tune of nearly Rs.1000 crore. The Government has included the Jute Sector for special attention in its National Common Minimum Programme. Keeping in view its growing contribution to the economy, the Government of India has started the "Jute Technology Mission". This will benefit jute growers; the workers engaged in the jute industry, jute entrepreneurs and others employed in associated activities in the jute sector. It will help modernize the jute industry and enable the country to reap the benefits of enhanced levels of jute diversification. | For this mission, the Government approved a sum of Rs.355.55 crore. The Government also approved allocations for Mini Mission -I and Mini Mission-II under the JTM for the remaining year of X Plan i.e. 2006-07 at Rs.2.46 crore and 9.75 crore subject to the condition that the Ministry of Agriculture and Department of Expenditure will find savings from the existing allocation of Ministry of Agriculture. The allocations for Mini Mission-III and Mini Mission-IV for the remaining year of the X Plan at Rs.7.95 crore and Rs.30.85 crore respectively have been approved, which will be funded from the Plan savings of Ministry of Textiles. Source: PIB Press Releases. | |||
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Govt to fast-track disinvestment of four PSUs
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Delhi: The government plans to fast-track the disinvestment of four
public sector undertakings — National Mineral Development Corporation
(NMDC), NTPC, Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) and Satluj Jal
Vidyut Nigam (SJVNL).
According
to senior government officials, the aim is to complete the process by
the close of the current financial year (March 31, 2010).
"NTPC
is expected to file its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) in the
coming week. Other PSUs will also follow suit and preliminary work
shall be completed in the month of February," Secretary Disinvestment
Sunil Mitra said on Saturday. NMDC has already filed the DRHP with the
Securities Exchange Board of India.
The government plans to
offload 8.38 per cent stake in NMDC, which may rake in as much as Rs
12,000 crore. "A floor price will be determined for retail and high net
worth individual investors. There will be an auction for institutional
investors under the Qualified Institutional Placement route," he said.
In
the case of NTPC, the government plans to offload 5 per cent of its
89.5 per cent holding, which is estimated to rake in as much as Rs
5,000 crore for the government. The government also plans to divest
five per cent in REC and 10 per cent in SJVNL, which is a joint venture
between the Centre and the state government of Himachal Pradesh.
The
government may raise as much as Rs 3,500 crore from REC's divestment
and Rs 560 crore from SJVNL by bringing its stake down to 65 per cent
in the latter.
This could take the total to about Rs 19,000
crore from these four PSUs alone. The money would take the total
divestment proceeds to Rs 40,000 crore in 2009-2010. The funds would be
placed in the National Investment Fund and the government is in a
position to dip into these reserves till 2012, according to a Cabinet
decision taken last year.
Source: Indian Express
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Bengal govt wary of implementing Mandal report, says OBC group
Of the 177 OBCs that had been recognised by the Mandal Commission in Bengal, the state government has recognised only 64 communities, members of the Confederation of Other Backward Classes, SC, ST and minorities of West Bengal said.
“There are still major communities like Mahisya, Tili, Tamul and Saha that are yet to be recognised by the state government, apart from a host of smaller ones that have still not been recognised. We have submitted plenty of deputations to the CM, but so far nothing has been done. We are yet to get an audience with him,” said J K Majumdar, member of the organisation.
The members have alleged so far the state government has implemented only 7 per cent instead of the 27 per cent in service. They said the process of getting OBC certificate was a complicated process in the state and people were being harassed by the SDO.
“The last time the state government recognised a caste was in 1998 when they included Hajjan in the list. After that the government has not taken any initiative to do anything more,” said Majumdar.
Apart from recognising the rest of the communities, the member of the federation are also demanding a reservation in Parliament and Assembly seats in proportion to their population and a reservation in the appointment of Council of Ministers, Governor, ambassador, high commissioner, members of the commissions as well as board should be applied in accordance with their populations.
Apart from these, they are also demanding a raise in the existing 50 per cent reservation in government services in accordance with their population in the state and the removal of the creamy layer till the time the OBCs have reached the optimum percentage of representation.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Bengal-govt-wary-of-implementing-Mandal-report--says-OBC-group/565517
Destroyer of West Bengal
Kanchan Gupta
Had it been Jyoti Banerjee lying unattended in a filthy general ward of SSKM Hospital in Kolkata and not Jyoti Basu in the state-of-the-art ICCU of AMRI Hospital, among the swankiest and most expensive super-speciality healthcare facilities in West Bengal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would not have bothered to arrange for a video-conference for top doctors at AIIMS to compare notes with those attending on the former Chief Minister of West Bengal.
Jyoti Banerjee, like most of us, spent his working life paying taxes to the Government. Jyoti Basu spent the better part of his life living off tax-payers’ money — the conscience of the veteran Marxist was never pricked by the fact that he appropriated for himself a lifestyle shunned by his comrades and denied to the people of a State whose fate he presided over for a quarter century. Kalachand Roy laid what we know today as Odisha to waste in the 16th century; Jyoti Basu was the 20th century’s Kala Pahad who led West Bengal from despair to darkness, literally and metaphorically.
Uncharitable as it may sound, but there really is no reason to nurse fond memories of Jyoti Basu. In fact, there are no fond memories to recall of those days when hopelessness permeated the present and the future appeared bleak. Entire generations of educated middle-class Bengalis were forced to seek refuge in other States or migrate to America as Jyoti Basu worked overtime to first destroy West Bengal’s economy, chase out Bengali talent and then hand over a disinherited State to Burrabazar traders and wholesale merchants who overnight became ‘industrialists’ with a passion for asset-stripping and investing their ‘profits’ elsewhere. A State that was earlier referred to as ‘Sheffield of the East’ was rendered by Jyoti Basu into a vast stretch of wasteland; the Oxford English Dictionary would have been poorer by a word had he not made ‘gherao’ into an officially-sanctioned instrument of coercion; ‘load-shedding’ would have never entered into our popular lexicon had he not made it a part of daily life in West Bengal though he ensured Hindustan Park, where he stayed, was spared power cuts. It would have been churlish to grudge him the good life had he not exerted to deny it to others, except of course his son Chandan Basu who was last in the news for cheating on taxes that should have been paid on his imported fancy car.
Let it be said, and said bluntly, that Jyoti Basu’s record in office, first as Deputy Chief Minister in two successive United Front Governments beginning 1967 (for all practical purposes he was the de facto Chief Minister with a hapless Ajoy Mukherjee reduced to indulging in Gandhigiri to make his presence felt) and later as Chief Minister for nearly 25 years at the head of the Left Front Government which has been in power for 32 years now, the “longest elected Communist Government” as party commissars untiringly point out to the naïve and the novitiate, is a terrible tale of calculated destruction of West Bengal in the name of ideology. It’s easy to criticise the CPI(M) for politicising the police force and converting it into a goons brigade, but it was Jyoti Basu who initiated the process. It was he who instructed them, as Deputy Chief Minister during the disastrous UF regime, to play the role of foot soldiers of the CPI(M), first by not acting against party cadre on the rampage, and then by playing an unabashedly partisan role in industrial and agrarian disputes.
The fulsome praise that is heaped on Jyoti Basu today — he is variously described by party loyalists and those enamoured of bhadralok Marxists as a ‘humane administrator’ and ‘farsighted leader’ — is entirely misleading if not undeserving. Within the first seven months of the United Front coming to power, 43,947 workers were laid off and thousands more rendered jobless as factories were shut down following gheraos and strikes instigated and endorsed by him. The flight of capital in those initial days of emergent Marxist power amounted to Rs 2,500 million. In 1967, there were 438 ‘industrial disputes’ involving 165,000 workers and resulting in the loss of five million man hours. By 1969, there were 710 ‘industrial disputes’ involving 645,000 workers and a loss of 8.5 million man hours. That was a taste of things to come in the following decades. By the time Jyoti Basu demitted office, West Bengal had nothing to boast of except closed mills and shuttered factories; every institution and agency of the State had been subverted under his tutelage; and, the civil administration had been converted into an extension counter of the CPI(M) with babus happy to be used as doormats.
After every outrage, every criminal misdeed committed by Marxist goons or the police while he was Chief Minister, Jyoti Basu would crudely respond with a brusque “Emon to hoyei thaakey” (or, as Donald Rumsfeld would famously say, “Stuff happens!”). He did not brook any criticism of the Marich Jhapi massacre by his police in 1979 when refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan were shot dead in cold blood. Till date, nobody knows for sure how many died in that slaughter for Jyoti Basu never allowed an independent inquiry. Neither did the man whose heart bled so profusely for the lost souls of Nandigram hesitate to justify the butchery of April 30, 1982 when 16 monks and a nun of the Ananda Marg order were set ablaze in south Kolkata by a mob of Marxist thugs. The man who led that murderous lot was known for his proximity to Jyoti Basu, a fact that the CPI(M) would now hasten to deny. Nor did Jyoti Basu wince when the police shot dead 13 Congress activists a short distance from Writers’ Building on July 21, 1993; he later justified the police action, saying it was necessary to enforce the writ of the state. Yet, he wouldn’t allow the police to act every time Muslims ran riot, most infamously after Mohammedan Sporting Club lost a football match.
Did Jyoti Basu, who never smiled in public lest he was accused of displaying human emotions, ever spare a thought for those who suffered terribly during his rule? Was he sensitive to the plight of those who were robbed of their lives, limbs and dignity by the lumpen proletariat which kept him in power? Did his heart cry out when women health workers were gang-raped and then two of them murdered by his party cadre on May 17, 1990 at Bantala on the eastern margins of Kolkata? Or when office-bearers of the Kolkata Police Association, set up under his patronage, raped Nehar Banu, a poor pavement dweller, at Phulbagan police station in 1992? “Emon to hoyei thaakey,” the revered Marxist would say, and then go on to slyly insinuate that the victims deserved what they got.
As a Bengali, I grieve for the wasted decades but for which West Bengal, with its huge pool of talent, could have led India from the front. I feel nothing for Jyoti Basu.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/228148/Destroyer-of-West-Bengal.html
Bitter news: Sugar prices may remain firm in coming months
10 Jan 2010, 1131 hrs IST, PTI
MUMBAI: Sugar prices are expected to remain higher in the coming months as lower acreage and poor rains will keep India's output at 15.3 million
tonnes, falling severely short of domestic consumption of about 23 million tonnes in the 2009/10 season, industry officials have said.
Sugar prices at Kolhapur (S-variety), a major trading hub, rose to a record high of Rs 3,972 per quintal last week, thanks to lower refining, robust demand from stockists as well ice-cream and cold drink makers ahead of summer season.
Lower January quota release by government and second-year deficit in demand and supply will add to the uptrend, Bonanza Commodity Assistant Vice-President Vibhu Ratandhara said in Mumbai.
When the government suspended futures trading in sugar in May 2009 end, the prices were ruling in the range of Rs 2,250-2,300 in Kolhapur for sugar M200. Sugar prices in the Indian markets have now set a new record, crossing Rs 4,000 per quintal mark, NCDEX Institute of Commodities Market and Research (NICR) Research Associate Ruchi Jain said.
The prices have increased due to a slump in production in 2008-09 season (October-September) and projection of shortfall even this season. The government has decided to extend the ban on futures trading in sugar for another nine months till September 2010, Jain said.
The most bullish factor for all last months rally is that India's current year output is unlikely to meet annual consumption of 23.5 million tonnes, Ratandhara said.
India's Oct-Dec sugar output is expected at 5.5 million tonnes, almost 8-9 per cent lower than a year ago, due to falling cane supply, and this indicates that more import is expected in coming days, which will support prices at every dip in short to medium term, Ratandhara said.
During the same period, mills in Uttar Pradesh, India's second-largest producer, churned out 1.7 million tonnes of sugar against 1.8 million tonnes last year in the same period. Mills in Maharashtra, the largest sugar producer, have so far produced 2.2 million tonnes of sugar in the current season, 2.8 per cent more than a year earlier.
The UP government in November banned imports of raw sugar following protests by farmers who said overseas purchases suppressed cane prices and curtailed their bargaining power with mills.
The UP import ban has locked up 1.5 million tonnes of raw sugar in ports, and this could force the country to import one million tonnes of whites to meet domestic demand, he said.
After looking at several bullish factors, global sugar prices not likely to cool off at least for Q1-Q2 of 2010. We might see some softness in global prices after May- June when top producers like Brazil and Australia's crop comes to market, Ratandhara said.
Wheat storage problems serious, says EGoM
8 Jan 2010, 2250 hrs IST, ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state agencies could face serious problems of storage once the procurement of wheat commences
in the ensuing Rabi market season if it does not offload on priority the wheat stocks currently with it. Apprehensions over the impending wheat storage problems were expressed at an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by FM Pranab Mukherjee in mid December.
This makes it imperative for the Centre to push out as much of the 30 lakh (three million) tonnes of wheat designated for the thus far vexed Open Market Sales Scheme (OMSS) to bulk consumers, offtake under which has been very low. The new marketing season for winter sown crops including wheat begins in March this year.
Worst of all, the lean season for wheat during which the OMSS is expected to impact on prices is only between October and February/March. With three months of this period already gone with bugling over prices and very slim offtake even now (since traders know the government anyway has the stocks), the shelflife of the scheme for wheat is likely to have only minimal impact on prices.
According to the First Advance Estimates on crop output, wheat production for 2010-11 is 790 lakh (79 million) tonnes compared to 805.8 lakh (80 million) tonnes in 2009-10. Wheat stocks in the Central pool stood at over 250 lakh tonnes on December 1, 2009 against a buffer norm of 82 lakh tonnes only. Estimated wheat stocks as on April 1 this year are expected to be 147.20 lakh tonnes against a buffer norm of only 40 lakh tonnes and a strategic reserve of 30 lakh tonnes (70 lakh tonnes in all).
Wheat stocks as on April 1, 2008 stood at 134.27 lakh tonnes, compared to this, i.e.. 13 lakh tonnes lower. What makes matter worse is that up to October 1 last year, the FCI held 81.9 lakh tonnes from the 2008-09 season or even earlier. Though FCI follows the First In, First Out principle in issue of stock, there is possibility that some stocks of previous years (12008-09 or earlier) may still remain at some FCI godowns at the beginning of the coming Rabi marketing season It was this very EGoM that took a decision to slash the price for OMSS wheat for bulk users by Rs 200/quintal for December after traders showed very little interest in bidding for the wheat at the high reserve price set originally.
Reserve prices for traders were earlier pegged at ex Punjab rates (procurement plus carrying and transport and interest charges) but, after traders refused to pick up wheat, the Centre reduced the carrying charges. (Up to Dcember 12 last year, tenders were accepted only for 22096 tonnes of wheat and only 5522 tonnes had been lifted).
Currently therefore, the minimum reserve price for OMSS wheat bids in Delhi by traders is pegged at Rs 1,258.08 a qtl compared to the earlier rate of Rs 1,540.09 in December. (The EGoM has directed that the average realization should not be lower than Rs 1250/qtl).Despite that, the response to the bulk users scheme, bids for which were opened by the FCI on December 29, continues to lurch. Curiously enough, the high OMSS rates earlier served to push up open market wheat prices noticeably although the scheme is meant to peg prices between APL and open market rates in order to heighten domestic supply and cool down prices.
In fact, that was the reason why traders refused to bid. Despite the price slash for OMSS wheat now, prices have continued to shoot upward. Earlier this week, wheat prices in the wholesale grains market rose by Rs 25 per qtl, apparently on increased buying by flour mills to meet ongoing marriage season demands, pushing wheat (desi) price to Rs 2,000-2,250/qtl. Price for wheat dara (for mills) also strengthened by Rs 15 to Rs 1,425-1,430/qtl while atta chakki delivery also traded higher at Rs 1,430-1,435/90 kg in line with higher price trend.
Ironically enough, while the OMSS sale to bulk users continues to be plagued with slow pick up problems adding to bursting seams at storage godowns of the FCI and state agencies, several states including AP have been pressuring the Centre for additional allocation at APL rates or at Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Rs 1080/qtl. State governments are currently issued wheat under the AAY, BPL and APL schemes at Rs 200, Rs 415 and RS 610/qtl respectively. Additional allocations are already being made by the Centre to some states according to an earlier decision of the EGoM at the MSP rate of Rs 1080/qtl. But upto December 13 last year, the lifting of OMSS wheat by states was exceedingly poor. Out of 10 lakh tonnes of wheat given to state governments, only 43185 tonnes had been lifted. Several state governmetns told the Centre that they found it difficult to lift wheat at the presnet rates of account of resources constraints and difficulty in distributing at a differential rate.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Markets/Commodities/Wheat-storage-problems-serious-says-EGoM/articleshow/5425327.cms
Jyoti Basu marginally better, still critical!Earlier,The condition of veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu deteriorated on Saturday morning as he slipped into drowsiness with signs signifying “multiple organ involvement.”A medical bulletin issued by authorities of the private hospital where the 95-year-old former Chief Minister of West Bengal was admitted on January 1 for pneumonia stated that “there has been deterioration in his general condition.”
A Hawker in Down Princep ghat Local Train told me this Eveneing that Trade Unions in bengal have launched a Road railway Trafiic Obstruction campaign pressing the demand to open all Closed Juste Mills. He told me only this evening that Twenty political Parties in Bengal including main rivals in Power Politics CPIM, CPI, SUCI, Cong, TMC have supported the decision as their Trade Unions are dirctly involved in the Jute strike. This is puzzle still unsolved for me as the political Rival stand Together on Trade Union front and the Industrial Problems are NEVER to be solved. The Trade Union leaders simply strike new bargains at their Convenience sacrificing the labour. For which more than Fifty Six Thousand Production units remain Closed in Bengal. Jute and Cotton Industries have been converted into permanent Grave yards and the Tea gardens have become the starting Blocks for Death Procession as well as Human Trafficking!Most amusing is the development that despite of the Presence of stronger Opposition with Cong TMC alliance, West Bengal Governement has succeeded to pass Land aquisitio act which would enable to take and hand Over Prime Industrial Land to Builders promoters citing Industrialisation. It will enable to dispose off the Land occupied by Closed Production Units, Jute Mills, Cotton Mills and Tea gardens! You would not be able to get an Inch of land even in rural areas thanks to Promoter Builder raj. More Over, the state goverment paased creamy layer Bill to deny RESERVATION to OBC employees getting over Rs Eighteen Thousand and their Offsprings as well. I Never do Understand why the Political parties ally to defend Corporate and MNC interests while despite so much Concern, commitment and activities why the working Class is always Massacred.
The jute strike in West Bengal from December 1 2008 may result in losses of around Rs 1000 crore, fears the industry.
The indefinite jute strike, spearheaded by 20 central trade unions (TUs), is 27 days old, but there is still no sign of an amicable settlement . The state and the central governments have held several rounds of talks with jute industry representatives and the striking TUs, but the contending parties have so far refused to budge. As a result, the strike continues.
The industry submitted a number of proposals to the state labour minister when representatives of both Ijma and non-Ijma mills met him at a recent meeting. Unless these proposals are accepted and implemented , the industry said it will not be able to pay the DA, PF, ESI and gratuity arrears to mill workers numbering over 2 lakh.
The trade unions, who have called the strike, however, point out such managerial claims to be ‘vague and false’.
As per industry estimates, during the strike period, Rs 500 crore may be lost because of no offtakes of bags by the sugar industry. The remaining loss may arise out of stopping of bags supply for other agri-commodities like oilseeds, guars and lentils.
There is also an impending fear of the jute industry losing the Rabi season food grain market which is around Rs 2000 crore.
The jute industry witnessed a 63-day strike from January 5 to March 8 in 2007. Jute strikes in Bengal have almost become a seasonal and routine affair taking place every year.
Eighteen trade unions, barring the bigger section, the CITU affiliated BCMU, has called for a strike from December 1 in the 59 jute mills of West Bengal involving over 2.5 lakh workers.
The CPIM party fraction committee on jute sector has approved of BCMU’s stand to stay away from the strike, thereby showing that there are no pressures from the party committee on the union. Says Congress-affiliate INTUC body NUJW secretary general Ganesh Sarkar, “ CITU has backed out on party pressures. First they wanted the strike in November and now they are in favour of delaying it”. Almost 14 jute mills, medium and small, outside Bengal are yet to join the strike. They are spread out in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Assam and Uttar Pradesh. The unions have put forward a 17 point split charter of demand basing their arguments on the non-payment of dearness allowance (DA) to workers by the mill owners since April 2007.
The mill owners have turned down union requests and demands for paying DA at 525 points as against the previous 275 points.
A consensus, however, is yet to emerge between the unions on the issue of DA. BCMU has taken itself off from the strike pointing out that the DA demand is ‘hackneyed’ and ‘ inane’.
The industry also pointed out that in the event of an industrywide strike , the TUs calling the strike should see that no mill is exempted, unlike earlier strikes. In support of its reasoning , industry sources said there is a wide disparity in mill wages and, therefore, it becomes an incumbent on all parties to see that the settlement is implemented in all mills so that there are no variations.
It also said the latest recommendation of Tariff Commission 2009 for justified price of B.Twill bags must be implemented immediately . It is also necessary to implement productivity-linked wages as agreed upon in the three earlier tripartite agreements.
Meanwhile,West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s efforts to break the deadlock over the continuing jute strike failed to yield any result.
The indefinite strike began on December 14, 2009 affecting 2.5 lakh workmen all over the State.
Emerging from the meeting, which was held at the secretariat on Friday, representatives of the 20 trade unions who took part in the bipartite meeting said that Mr. Bhattacharjee said that he would take up the issues with the mill-owners.
“Our strike will continue and we will not give up,” Subrata Mukherjee INTUC leader said.
All the Central trade unions are participating in the strike although the Trinamool Congress-affiliated Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress has stayed away from it.
The strike was called to press for implementation of earlier accords and for payment of arrears.
It reminds me a Comic Incident occured in Bamcef 26th Convention Venue at jaipur. A SC Headmaster from Bengal acompanied by his OBC wife landed in Jaipur. They Planned to tour Rajasthan attending the Conference. The Teacher apparently never discussed the Ambedkarite Ideology. The lady was in a status of Cultural shock while they had t stay and eat with the balck Untochables. The lady belongs to SAHA community which Never represents the Elite Caste Hindus but she consider herself Superior and assumes others untouchables. She was not ready to share anything.She kept on SCREAMING and Creating Drama. We had no scope to discuss with the woman. But I consoled the Man saying that it is simply OBC Mindset in Benghal. While the Brahamins, Baidi and Kayasthas in Bengal liberally allow intercaste marriages with the Untouchables, OBCs would never accept this. They happen to be very rigid on caste line.Mind you, nationwide Indian population is consisted of Fifty Two percent and in bengal the rationo is no less than forty Two Percent. Bengali OBCs have not to be inspired by the Obcs in the Cow belt who have upset the Apple cart of the Brahaminical System right into the heart of Hidnu Cow belt in North India.They may not be either inspired by the Jats and marathas joining ambedkarite camp.Only Three Percent of Micro Minoriti Brahamins rule with SHUDRA Kayastha four Percent and shudra Baidyi One Percent whiole OBCs and Muslims support the Eight Percent Micro Minority to make the Ruling Hegemony. Political parties and Trade Unions are led by the Brahamins only while the workers are our people selected to be killed. Even the maoists leaders are Brahmins while our Tribal Kith and Kin, Refugees bengalies and tamil and SC OBC communities have to evacute their Hoeland under repression with Military Option and zero tolerance! All on the name of development and Ideology!
Representatives of jute mill workers’ in the state of West Bengal met the Chief Minister of the state Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to make him aware about the issues in ongoing strike in the respective industry.
Since December 14, 2009, around 250,000 workers working in 50 odd mills are on strike and demanded from the CM his time to address their views. They sought the State Government’s assistance to take up the issues with the Union Government and force the management’s to clear their dues.
Demands of these workers include job security, payment of arrears in dearness allowance and removal of anomalies in payments of provident fund, gratuity and bonus.
Earlier, the Ministry of Textile and Ministry of Food had announced a 20 percent dilution in the obligatory Jute Packaging Materials Act (JPMA), owing to the ongoing strike in jute industry, to fulfill food grain packaging requirements. Under this dilution, use of plastic would be allowed for packaging of food grains such as rice and wheat.
On the other hand,Maoist leader Kishenji leader hits back Ms Mamata Banerjee after her recent outbirst against the Maoists.Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who has vowed to throw the ultras out of Bengal, has been accused by a top Maoist leader of having taken their help in Singur and Nandigram and now turning her back on them.Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday criticized her own government’s role in curbing what she dubbed as the Marxist-Maoist nexus. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress, under fire from the Left parties for its nexus with the outlawed Naxals, will launch an aggressive campaign in the Naxal-dominated areas of West Bengal.The party has decided to launch its campaign in a bid to distance itself from the Naxals who, as a war tactics, try to stall many development projects in their area of influence.
Meanwhile,Five days after a major offensive against Naxals began in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Orissa today launched a joint operation against the ultras at Gopiballavpur in West Midnapore district.
This afternoon, four companies of armed police from both the states made a thrust at Gopillavpur bordering Mayurbhanj of Orissa. The operation was underway at the time of going to the press.
This is the first joint operation of the West Bengal police with forces of another state to flush out Naxals.
“We have started joint operations today at Gopib-allavpur. A lot of exchange of fire took place between us and the Maoists, who blasted a few landmines too. However, there have been no casualties or injuries on either side nor has there been any arrest,” West Midnapore SP Manoj Verma said.
The operation got rolling following a meeting between Mayurbhanj DIG and his counterpart in West Bengal at Midnapore yesterday.
“In the next few weeks, we will launch this campaign in the so-called Maoist areas. Mamata Banerjee’s pictures will be displayed along with slogans like ‘we want peace’ and ‘we want development’. Every day, we will walk at least 10 kilometers amidst the tribal habitats. Our leaders will share meals with the tribals and interact with them,” Minister of State for Rural Development and Trinamool Congress MP Sisir Adhikari told Business Standard.
In a defiant mood, Adhikari also added: “We hear that almost everyday people are getting killed in these areas but we’ll undertake the campaign and spent a number of days there. Let me see, who has the guts to kill us!”
This enthusiasm — to counter the allegations of a nexus with the Naxals and gain political grounds ahead of the crucial 2011 Assembly polls — is essentially directed at the Union home ministry. The Trinamool’s has drawn a roadmap for campaigning in Lalgarh and other areas where a joint operation by the Central and state forces against the Naxals are underway and are likely to continue.
in West Bengal particularly in the Maoist-hit districts of Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore, commonly known as Jangalmahal.
Mamata said that her party will go on its own if the Centre sides with the ruling CPM. However, the Trinamool chief hastened to add that she had no plan to walk out of the UPA alliance.
Reacting to the gunning down of two partymen in West Midnapore, the Trinamool chief vowed a political battle against the ‘‘cowards working in tandem with the ruling Marxists’’.
‘‘Who is a Maoist? Who is Kishan? Who is Bikash? Who is Chhatradhar? They are cowards, terrorizing people with guns and grenades provided by CPM,’’ she said. The Trinamool attack on the Centre came two days after Manmohan held hands with chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and took the CM in his own car on his way back to Kolkata airport after visiting Jyoti Basu in hospital.
Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today criticised the Centre for supporting to the CPI(M)-led government in West Bengal in the form of assistance for security operations in Naxal-affected regions of the state.
Banerjee accused the UPA government of remaining inert despite violence in the state caused by “the nexus between the Naxalites and the Marxists” and threatened to “fight on her own in West Bengal”.
“Ministry or no ministry, we will not allow bloodshed in the state. We are part of the Centre but our workers are getting killed (due to operations by state and central forces). Why?” she said, alluding to the seven central portfolios held by the Trinamool Congress, the UPA's single-largest ally in Parliament.
Banerjee said she had taken up the matter with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Home Minister P Chidambaram and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, but to no avail.
Meanwhile, The condition of 95-year old CPI(M) leader Jyoti Basu was marginally better on Sunday, though he continued to remain critical, doctors attending on him said.
“His general condition is marginally better than yesterday, but still critical and he is on partial ventilation,” Executive Director of private AMRI hospital D. N. Agarwal told reporters.
Agarwal, who gave a break up of the functioning of Basu’s vital organs, said, “his central nervous system is better in comparison to yesterday and his cardio-vascular system is more or less stable.”
Basu’s blood pressure was being maintained with a minimum dose of stabilising drug, Ionotropes, and his lungs were showing some signs of improvement. “Infection is being adequately treated,” he said.
His urine output has picked up and no dialysis was necessary at the moment, he said.
Basu was given liquid food through Riles tube.
The doctors of the medical board were constantly monitoring his condition and keeping in touch with specialists of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
The medical board will review his condition at 7:00 pm and the next medical bulletin will be issued at 8:00 pm.
Basu was admitted with pneumonia on January 1.
“Ms. Mamata used the people’s movement at Singur and Nandigram to reach the corridors of power at the Centre and now she is dreaming of the chief minister’s chair at the cost of people’s interest,” Maoist leader Kishenji said in a fax message.
“It sounds like the threats of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and P. Chidambaram. Let Ms. Mamata try to tarnish Maoists and despatch forces to suppress a people’s movement. The red flag will continue to fly in ‘Jungle mahal’ which she cannot resist and which will bring change in Bengal.”
‘Jungle mahal’ is Maoist-hit areas in the districts of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia where joint operations by securitymen have been underway since the middle of last year.
On Ms. Banerjee’s resolve to drive Maoists out of Bengal ‘if voted to power’, Mr. Kishenji said “it is a matter of surprise that Ms. Mamata herself speaks against the people’s movement to strengthen the hands of CPI(M) raiders when the people’s rights are being established.”
Alleging that Ms. Banerjee was in the habit of ‘political somersaults’, he said “she should be answerable to the people.”
“Why has she joined hands with a fascist party like the Congress or a communal outfit like the BJP?” Mr. Kishenji asked, claiming she only wants to get the chief minister’s chair.
Mr. Kisenji invited her to visit ‘Jungle mahal’ and see for herself the ‘oppression’ of the people by the ‘CPI(M) and the police’.
He also criticised her for admonishing her own party MP Kabir Suman for singing ‘songs of protest of suppressed tribals’.
“This attitude does not show a human face for the poor tribals of Jungle mahal,” he said.
Ms. Banerjee during a press conference yesterday had asked “Who is Kisenji? Who is Chhatradhar (Mahato)? Who is Bikash? All of them are creations of CPI(M).”
Meanwhile,Even as Food Inflation hit new highs, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced that the Government will pass the Right to Food Act. The Act, he said, is a culmination of Congress initiatives like 'grow more food’ and ‘garibi hatao’.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Sunday that the government will pass the Right to Food Act to promote inclusive growth, a concept that has been pursued by the Congress since Independence.
“We are going to pass the Right to Food Act,” the Minister said while speaking at the Economic Times Award-2009 function here.
Pointing out that inclusive growth had always been on the agenda of the Congress, Mr. Mukherjee recalled that earlier slogans like ‘grow more food’ and ‘garibi hatao’ were aimed at achieving the same objective.
The Congress in its manifesto for 2009 general elections promised to enact Right to Food law to provide 25 kg of rice or wheat at Rs 3 per kg every month to families living below poverty line.
The UPA government, he added, had passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and Right to Education Act to provide jobs and education to people through legislations.
The Minister, however, emphasised that to make growth all encompassing the country would have to produce more food and industry more manufactured goods.
Mr. Mukherjee said the rapid economic growth since liberalisation has led to rise in tax-GDP ratio. It was only because of the high ratio that former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram managed to provide Rs 71,000 crore debt relief to farmers.
“As Finance Minister about a quarter century ago I could not give 1,000 rupees relief to farmers, ecause I did not have the capacity,” Mr. Mukherjee said, pointing out that tax-GDP ratio has now increased from 8-10 per cent to 12-13 per cent.
The Minister further said with the implementation of the programmes of the government it would be able to achieve the goals of inclusive growth.
Recalling Mahatma Gandhi’s advice that policies should be framed with a view to helping the poor, Mr. Mukherjee said, that was nothing but promoting inclusive growth.
The concept of inclusive growth was not new though the nomenclature to describe it has changed over the years, he said, adding, “from the beginning of our development, we accepted some sort of concept of inclusive growth.”
Pranab to meet State FMs on Jan 13
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee may meet State finance ministers next week to discuss their requirements and implementation of proposed Goods and Services Tax, speculated to be delayed by over six months, is likely to be discussed during the meeting.
“The Union Finance Minister will meet State finance Ministers on January 13 as a pre-budget exercise,” an official said.
Among other things, the meeting is also likely to discuss issues pertaining to implementation of GST, which is likely to be delayed by at least seven to eight months, he said.
The government had proposed to introduce GST from April 1, 2010, but it would not be possible as the constitutional amendments, necessary for introduction of the new tax structure which will subsume levies like excise, VAT and service tax, would take seven to eight months.
The government, the official said, may not introduce the amendment bills in the forthcoming Budget session as there is no consensus among the states on rates and modalities of the new tax regime.
States, which have been clamouring for more funds to tide over the financial difficulties following the economic crisis which had hit revenue collections, will also raise the issue of compensation on account of phasing out of the Central Sales Tax (CST).
The government reduced the rate of CST, a tax on inter-state movement of goods which goes to states, to two from four per cent in June 2008 and proposed to eliminate it with the implementation of the GST.
The states wants that centre should fully compensate them for the revenue loss on account of reduction of CST.
While the total compensation package for the States works out to be Rs. 14,000 crore for the current fiscal, Rs. 5,000 crore will be paid out of the total transfer of proceeds from tax on 33 services to the states.
This would leave Rs. 9,000 crore of compensation to be paid to the states, on which the Finance Ministry has asked states to take Rs. 4,500 and rest will be paid as arrears.
The CST was cut from four per cent to three per cent from April 1, 2007 and then to two per cent a year later. It is expected to be removed, once the Goods and Service Tax comes into effect, as it does not conform to the common market concept of either VAT or GST.
WB govt, Opp should hold talks on violence: Amartya
The West Bengal government and the Opposition should sit for talks over political killings and Naxalite violence in the state to restore peace, Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen has said.
"Both (the state government and the Opposition) should be responsive to the situation. The Opposition too should behave responsibly. It is time peace is restored," Sen told a local television channel.
Blaming both the ruling party and the Opposition for the worsening situation in the state, he said, "When the Left was strong, there was little evidence that it consulted others. I have written about it."
"The ruling party has a Stalinist heritage, which I think is not good. Now that it has become a minority in many places it is now eager for talks," Sen told Bengali news channel '24 Ghanta' in an apparent reference to the Left's successive defeat in elections in the state.
Without naming Trinamool Congress, he said, "It has apparently gained strength and is in a combative mood and not keen on talks."
Sen condemned the killings, particularly of a school teacher in Paschim Medinipur district by Maoists and asked, "will such things bring any change? The situation will worsen if killings and revenge do not stop."
"Talks are important in the given situation, no matter who wins elections. A change in political mindset is necessary, but it is not easily forthcoming," Sen said.
Sen said, "Questions may arise that the state government did little for the poor in these areas. But, where was the Opposition? All have now woken up to the situation, and no effort is being made to usher in political change."
Referring to Naxalites he said the situation is was now in the hands of "some social bandits", but did not discount the value of revolutionary politics "which may have an ideology". He said, "What is important is to give a serious thought to social disunity instead of using it for political gain." On industrialisation, Sen said it should not be dumped because of clashes and differences and should be on the political agenda of all.
"There is no rift between agriculture and industry and both should flourish together like in Australia, Africa and Canada," he said.
Two Naxals arrested; firearms, explosives recovered in Maharashtra
Two hardcore Naxals were arrested along with arms and explosives in a joint operation with CRPF in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, police said on Sunday.
Sukhdev Yeshu Tumroti (31) and Shankar Parad Gawade (30) were nabbed from Pomke village on Saturday by police and CRPF personnel, they said.
Twenty kilos of explosives, six 12 bore rifles, one country-made pistol and over a dozen cartridges, among other things, were seized from the duo, police said.
Both were produced before a local court which sent them in seven-day police remand.
India only 88th best country to live in: Survey
India has moved up 35 places to become the 88th best country in the world to live, leaving behind nations like Russia and China, according to a survey.
The rise has made India the second best place after Bhutan to live in the sub-continent, according to the 2010 Quality of Life Index, published by travel magazine International Living.
Overall, France topped the poll for the fifth consecutive year, followed by Australia, Switzerland, and Germany. The U.S. lost four positions to end at seventh.
Sweden has been dubbed as the costliest country in the world to live by the index.
In 2009, India was the fourth best country in South Asia after Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka.
The index, published for the 30th year, ranks 194 nations in nine categories: cost of living, culture and leisure, economy, environment, freedom, health, infrastructure, safety and risk, and climate.
India has not only improved its overall position in the tally, but has also gained around 25 points in the cost of living category. This year the country got 65 points compared to 40 last year.
“The figure relates to how much it will cost one to live in a style comparable to — or better than — the standard of living you’re likely enjoying in the U.S.,” the magazine says.
Iraq tops the cost of living category by securing 100 per cent. It was followed by Afghanistan which got 88 points.
Sweden scored a zero in the category.
The U.S., which is the base for the category, got 56 points, 9 less than India.
Other countries of the sub-continent, Bhutan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Burma got 80, 56, 65, 73, 64, 63 and 75 points respectively in the category.
In the risk and safety field, there were many winners — around 55 countries, including Bhutan and Maldives from the sub-continent, secured 100 points.
Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan were the most unsafe nations, according to the index, which gave these countries zero points in the category.
In the sub-continent, India and Nepal got 64, Sri Lanka 71, Burma and Bangladesh 57 each and Pakistan secured a mere 7 points on the risk and safety front.
“For the fifth year running, France takes first in our annual Quality of Life Index. No surprise. Its tiresome bureaucracy and high taxes are outweighed by an unsurpassable quality of life, including the world’s best health care,” the magazine said.
The survey is compiled using official government statistics, data from WHO and views of the magazine’s editors around the globe
No aid for Naxals’ victims as Bengal sits on UAPA
Madhuparna Das Tags : naxals, UAPA Posted: Sunday , Jan 10, 2010 at 0302 hrs Kolkata:
Kin of over 150 dead can’t get Rs 3 lakh of central compensation unless state notifies the Central Act and bans Maoists
Families of over 150 people killed in Maoist violence in the state in the past one year just cannot claim Rs 3 lakh in compensation they are entitled to get from the Centre because of West Bengal’s refusal to notify the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
The administration of the three Naxal-hit districts of West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura are unable to press the demand for compensation to be given to the kin of victims because a circular recently sent by the Centre to the state clearly says relief can be disbursed only if the state government bans the Maoists and their frontal outfits under the UAPA.
Under the central scheme, for assistance to the victims of terrorist and communal violence, a sum of Rs 3 lakh can be provided to the next of kin of the persons who have died or have become permanently incapacitated.
A senior home department official said, “We have received a circular from the Centre stating the kin of the persons killed in Naxal violence can be provided with the financial assistance. However, the state has to first notify the Maoists and their frontal organisations as terrorists and ban them under the UAPA. But the state government is not yet ready to do so for political compulsions.”
The official said in the guidelines of the scheme, a terrorist attack is categorised as “militancy and insurgency-related violence (Ref. Act Section 15 UAPA, 1967, as amended in 2004).
T.J.S.George, 10/01/2010
News: Every citizen is a stake-holder, by TJS
Appointments inside a newspaper are usually of no concern to the general public. But what happened in Business Standard last week should interest every citizen. For it was a re-assertion of values we all hold dear and yet are vanishing almost unnoticed by us.
T.J.S.George
Outwardly it was a simple matter of re-styling. The editor of the paper was made chairman of the company and a new editor appointed in his place. But the significance of the move is wide-ranging for a variety of reasons - its rarity, the quality of the players involved, the importance of the values they represent, and the universality of stake-holders in this field.
Editor turning chairman is a rare phenomenon anywhere in the world. In India it has never happened before outside family-run newspapers. In Britain it happened when Denis Hamilton, editor-in-chief of The Times was made chairman as well. In the US, Peter Kann who was covering Asia for the Wall Street Journal from Hong Kong was recalled and made Publisher in 1988 and, four years later, chairman of the Dow Jones Company.
What is noteworthy here is that only papers that had achieved high public confidence through their editorial excellence entrusted the company itself to the editors who had helped attain that excellence. In the news business there is no greater asset than credibility. In many other cases also credibility was gained when the owner/chairman allowed the editor to rule unfettered. The Washington Post and The Guardian are examples. In the latter case, owner John Taylor willed that the paper be sold to editor C.P.Scott.
That's where the quality of players - both owner and editor - comes in. Hamilton, the most innovative editor in England at the time, became chairman when the owner was Roy Thomson, a man of inherent virtue who respected the high traditions of The Times. When the company was sold to Rupert Murdoch, a man of inherent faith in his own virtues, Hamilton left and became chairman of Reuters.
T.N. Ninan became editor of Economic Times (1988) when it was a staid, uninteresting paper. He completely re-invented it, gave it variety, liveliness and freshness. This approach of comprehensiveness was to become the template for other financial dailies. In that sense, Ninan can be called the Father of Business Journalism in India. He is effective because of his non-projection of himself, his habit of delegating powers and his knack of picking top-notch team mates. His choice for the chair he vacated at BS was Sanjaya Baru, perhaps the most accomplished scholar-academic-administrator-analyst in the newspaper business.
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3533834
Make land losers stakeholders in development: Nirupam
BS Reporter / Kolkata January 07, 2010, 0:51 IST
Having learnt its lessons from the land acquisition experiences in Nandigram and Singur, the West Bengal government today urged the industry to make land losers stakeholders in the development process.
West Bengal commerce and industry minister Nirupam Sen said, “It is not a question of some political party doing something, people are feeling left out. Industrialists should show the people that the development will do the common people, good. The economic growth is not inclusive and that is not just limited to our state.” He was speaking at a summit organised by Assocham, along with Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce.
Sen’s comments are a change from the earlier stance when the government blamed Trinamool Congress leader and Railway minister Mamata Banerjee for driving the Nano project from the state. Sen said, the private sector should ensure that land losers are made stakeholders. Sen today urged the companies to fulfill their corporate social responsibilities. However, Sen did not clarify as to how land losers could be made stakeholders.
JSW’s proposed steel project at Salboni offered land losers compensation, jobs and free shares equivalent to the compensation. The land acquisition was very smooth and was done directly by the company. In comparison, Singur faced one of the most violent land agitations. Apart from compensation, land losers at Singur were given ITI training but there was no commitment to absorb them at the plant.
Sen also said that while the state government was not opposed to direct purchase of land by the industry, the state government should have a role to play.
“State government should have a role to play particularly in the rehabilitation of the people so that the growth is inclusive,” said Sen.
He added, taking the people into confidence around 65 units were being set up in the engineering, forging and auto component sectors, among others. The West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation was in the process of setting up 25 industrial clusters.
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/make-land-losers-stakeholders-in-development-nirupam/01/02/381900/
WB govt requests Tatas to return Singur land
Press Trust of India / Kolkata January 05, 2010, 22:15 IST
The West Bengal government today said it was in touch with the Tatas for return of the lease land at its abandoned Nano project site in Singur.
"We have requested the Tatas to return the land at Singur but there has been no intimation to the state government about compensation for the land," Chief Secretary Asok Mohan Chakraborty told reporters.
"Why is there talk of compensation? We have also spent money on guarding the land at Singur which has not been used for the purpose it was acquired," he said.
The official said that personally he felt that if such a demand was made "it will definitely be discussed at the appropriate level of the state government."
He said one round of talks has been held with the Tatas and more would follow.
The land at Singur measuring 997 acre was acquired by the state government and leased over to Tata Motors for its Rs 1-lakh car project Nano. However, the Tata Motors had to shift the project out of Singur after violent protests by the Trinamool Congress last October.
After that, the BHEL refused to set up a power plant there citing infrastructure and other problems, following which Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee suggested setting up a coach manufacturing factory in tie up with the state government.
Mamata sees red at Pranab's Left turn
Saubhadra Chatterji / New Delhi January 5, 2010, 0:40 IST
In the turf war between the battered CPI(M) and its arch rival, Trinamool Congress, veteran Congressman and Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has found a new place of prominence.
Mamata BanerjeeMukherjee has been invited by the comrades to cut the red ribbon and inaugurate a host of programmes of the West Bengal government, ranging from a seminar of panchayat bodies to laying the foundation stone of irrigation projects. Apart from being a Union minister, Mukherjee is the president of the state Congress unit.
Mukherjee’s aides told Business Standard that almost 20 invitation letters from the state government for different programmes were pending his approval. These are for the month of January and February, when Mukherjee will be busy in Delhi, preparing his General Budget.
It is not as if the CPI(M) has suddenly discovered the importance of Mukherjee. Its purpose is different: to ‘irritate’ Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.
In a stark contrast to Mukherjee, Banerjee doesn’t share the dais with any CPI(M) leader. Her party leaders, including the six Ministers of State in the UPA government, also boycott programmes that are attended by Left leaders.
But Mukherjee, a veteran of ‘divide and rule’ politics in West Bengal, is now becoming cautious. He is becoming more choosy about the programmes he agrees to attend. Last week, he cancelled a programme of West Bengal Panchayat Minister Anisur Rehman at the last moment even though he had initially given his consent. The senior Congress leader has also not given his consent to an invitation from J K Ghosh, an aide of former chief minister Jyoti Basu, seeking his presence to inaugurate a ‘fair’.
Mukherjee has told his friends that every time he is seen along with the CPI(M) leaders, Mamata Banerjee flies into a rage. According to a key aide of the railway minister, she sees this as an attempt by the Left to create a rift in the Congress-Trinamool alliance in West Bengal.
Banerjee had stopped talking to Mukherjee for almost two months after the Congress took the support of the CPI(M) to form a Municipal Corporation Board, shunning its alliance partner.
Banerjee has also complained to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her political secretary Ahmed Patel that a section of the leadership continues to maintain a good rapport with the Left and not very keen to see the Opposition oust the comrades from power.
In the CPI(M), while party general secretary Prakash Karat and his supporters continue to follow the “defeat BJP, reject Congress” policy, the Bengal lobby feels that it needs to create a division between the Trinamool and the Congress ahead of the crucial Assembly polls in 2011.
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mamata-sees-red-at-pranabs-left-turn/21/58/381717/
Centre ticks off state over delay in starvation deaths report
Sabyasachi Bandopadhyay Tags : government, starvation deaths Posted: Friday , Jan 01, 2010 at 0336 hrs Kolkata:
In a glaring case of indifference, the state government sat over a request of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for four years for conducting an inquiry into alleged cases of starvation deaths in Murshidabad and South Dinajpur districts. It was only after a strong letter from the MHA sent to the state government on December 18 that the latter has now asked the two DMs to submit a report on the subject as early as possible.
It was on March 17, 2005 when Jean Ziegler, then UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, wrote to the then Minister for External Affairs Natwar Singh requesting him to look into cases of numerous starvation deaths, malnutrition of children and cases of exodus from village in search of food, in the two districts of Murshidabad and South Dinajpur.
The note, which cited several examples and referred to reports, also mentioned about the poor infrastructure, lack of heath and education facilities in the two districts.
The letter came through the Permanent Mission of India in Geneva and was referred to the MHA which in turn requested the state government to conduct an inquiry and submit a report.
But more than four years elapsed but the state government sent no report to the MHA.
On December 18 last, R K Sharma, a deputy secretary in the MHA, wrote to state Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen requesting him to conduct the inquiry fast and submit the report.
It also said as the matter was long overdue, it was being pestered by the Ministry of External Affairs to submit the report as early as possible.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/centre-ticks-off-state-over-delay-in-starvation-deaths-report/562122/
Gangasagar pilgrims to get a helping hand from shipping ministry
Express News Service Tags : Gangasagar pilgrims, government Posted: Monday , Jan 04, 2010 at 0445 hrs Kolkata:
Minister of State for Shipping, Mukul Roy, announced on Sunday that his ministry will take measures to help those visiting the Gangasagar Mela, beginning January 14.
Though not under the jurisdiction of the ministry, Roy said they would make arrangements to facilitate the pilgrims and also ensure that safety measures are followed in the area. “It is our social commitment to the people. Moreover, the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) will deploy two flagships — MV Rajagopalchari and MV Koel — for movement of buses, trucks and vehicles,” he said.
On a visit to Kakdwip last month, Roy had said siltation in Muriganga river was making it difficult for ships to navigate. This would further cause delay and endanger security during the Gangasagar Mela. “The siltation was so bad that vessels could not ply during the low tide — it would remain unnavigable for almost 10 to 12 hours. In a meeting with the Kolkata port, IWAI, PWD, state Fishery department as well as the representative from the Mela, a decision was taken to dredge the river,” said Roy.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the vegetable fibre. For the Germanic people, see Jutes.
Bundles of jute, showing the fibres of Corchorus olitorius (tossa jute fibre) and Corchorus capsularis (white jute fibre)
Jute plants (Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis)
Jute is a long, soft, shiny vegetable fibre that can be spun into coarse, strong threads. It is produced from plants in the genus Corchorus, family Tiliaceae.
Jute is one of the cheapest natural fibres and is second only to cotton in amount produced and variety of uses. Jute fibres are composed primarily of the plant materials cellulose (major component of plant fibre) and lignin
(major components of wood fibre). It is thus a ligno-cellulosic fibre
that is partially a textile fibre and partially wood. It falls into the
bast fibre category (fibre collected from bast or skin of the plant) along with kenaf, industrial hemp, flax (linen), ramie, etc. The industrial term for jute fibre is raw jute. The fibres are off-white to brown, and 1–4 meters (3–12 feet) long.
Jute fibre is often called hessian;
jute fabrics are also called hessian cloth and jute sacks are called
gunny bags in some European countries. The fabric made from jute is
popularly known as burlap in North America.
[edit] Cultivation
Main article: Jute cultivation
Jute needs a plain alluvial soil and standing water. The suitable
climate for growing jute (warm and wet climate) is offered by the monsoon
climate during the monsoon season. Temperatures from 20˚ C to 40˚ C and
relative humidity of 70%–80% are favourable for successful cultivation.
Jute requires 5–8 cm of rainfall weekly and more during the sowing
period.
[edit] White jute (Corchorus capsularis)
Several historical documents (including, Ain-e-Akbari by Abul Fazal in 1590) state that the poor villagers of India
used to wear clothes made of jute. Simple handlooms and hand spinning
wheels were used by the weavers, who used to spin cotton yarns as well.
History also states that Indians, especially Bengalis, used ropes and twines made of white jute from ancient times for household and other uses.
[edit] Tossa jute (Corchorus olitorius)
Tossa jute (Corchorus olitorius) is an Afro-Arabian variety. It is quite popular for its leaves that are used as an ingredient in a mucilaginous potherb called molokhiya (ملوخية a word of uncertain etymology), popular in certain Arab countries. The Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible mentions this vegetable potherb as Jew's mallow.
Tossa jute fibre is softer, silkier, and stronger than white jute.
This variety astonishingly showed good sustainability in the climate of
the Ganges Delta. Along with white jute, tossa jute has also been cultivated in the soil of Bengal where it is known as paat from the start of the 19th century. Currently, the Bengal region (West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh) is the largest global producer of the tossa jute variety.
[edit] History
For centuries, jute has been an integral part of culture of Bengal, in the entire southwest of Bangladesh and some portions of West Bengal, India. During the British Raj in the 19th and early 20th centuries, much of the raw jute fibre of Bengal was carried off to the United Kingdom, where it was then processed in mills concentrated in Dundee. Initially, due to its texture, it could only be processed by hand until it was discovered in that city that treating it with whale oil, it could be treated by machine[1].
The industry boomed ("jute weaver" was a recognised trade occupation in
the 1901 UK census), but this trade had largely ceased by about 1970
due to the appearance of synthetic fibres.
Margaret Donnelly, a jute mill landowner in Dundee in the 1800s, set
up the first jute mills in British-India. In the 1950s and 1960s, when nylon and polythene were rarely used, one of the primary sources of foreign exchange earnings for the erstwhile United Pakistan was the export of jute products, based on jute grown in then East Pakistan
(now Bangladesh). Jute has been called the "Golden Fibre of
Bangladesh." However, as the use of polythene and other synthetic
materials as a substitute for jute increasingly captured the market,
the jute industry in general experienced a decline.
During some years in the 1980s, farmers in Bangladesh burnt their
jute crops when an adequate price could not be obtained. Many jute
exporters diversified away from jute to other commodities. Jute-related
organisations and government bodies were also forced to close, change
or downsize. The long decline in demand forced the largest jute mill in
the world (Adamjee Jute Mills) to close. Bangladesh's second largest mill, Latif Bawany Jute Mills,
formerly owned by businessman, Yahya Bawan, was nationalized by the
government. Farmers in Bangladesh have not completely ceased growing
jute, however, mainly due to demand in the internal market. Between
2004–2009, the jute market recovered and the price of raw jute
increased more than 200%.
Jute has entered many diverse sectors of industry, where natural
fibres are gradually becoming better substitutes. Among these
industries are paper, celluloid products (films), non-woven textiles, composites (pseudo-wood), and geotextiles.
In December 2006 the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 2009 to be the International Year of Natural Fibres, so as to raise the profile of jute and other natural fibres.
[edit] Production
Jute matting being used to prevent flood erosion while natural
vegetation becomes established. For this purpose, a natural and
biodegradable fibre is essential.
Jute is a rain-fed crop with little need for fertilizer or pesticides. The production is concentrated in India and Bangladesh.
The jute fibre comes from the stem and ribbon (outer skin) of the jute
plant. The fibres are first extracted by retting. The retting process
consists of bundling jute stems together and immersing them in low,
running water. There are two types of retting: stem and ribbon. After
the retting process, stripping begins. Women and children usually do
this job. In the stripping process, non-fibrous matter is scraped off,
then the workers dig in and grab the fibres from within the jute stem.[2]
India with overall of ~66% of worlds production tops the production of jute. Bangladesh with ~25% lies at second position followed way behind by China with ~3%.
| Top ten jute producers — 11 June 2008 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Production (Tonnes) | Footnote | ||
 India | 2140000 | F | ||
 Bangladesh | 800000 | F | ||
 People's Republic of China | 99000 | |||
 Côte d'Ivoire | 40000 | F | ||
 Thailand | 31000 | F | ||
 Myanmar | 30000 | F | ||
 Brazil | 26711 | |||
 Uzbekistan | 20000 | F | ||
 Nepal | 16775 | |||
 Vietnam | 11000 | F | ||
| World | 3225551 | A | ||
| No symbol = official figure, F = FAO estimate, A = Aggregate (may include official, semi-official or estimates); | ||||
[edit] Uses
[edit] Fibre
Frozen jute (saluyot) leaves sold at a Los Angelesss market
Jute is the second most important vegetable fibre after cotton; not
only for cultivation, but also for various uses. Jute is used chiefly
to make cloth for wrapping bales of raw cotton, and to make sacks and coarse cloth. The fibres are also woven into curtains, chair coverings, carpets, area rugs, hessian cloth, and backing for linoleum.
While jute is being replaced by synthetic materials in many of these uses, some uses take advantage of jute's biodegradable
nature, where synthetics would be unsuitable. Examples of such uses
include containers for planting young trees which can be planted
directly with the container without disturbing the roots, and land
restoration where jute cloth prevents erosion occurring while natural
vegetation becomes established.
The fibres are used alone or blended with other types of fibres to make twine and rope.
Jute butts, the coarse ends of the plants, are used to make inexpensive
cloth. Conversely, very fine threads of jute can be separated out and
made into imitation silk. As jute fibres are also being used to make pulp and paper, and with increasing concern over forest destruction for the wood pulp
used to make most paper, the importance of jute for this purpose may
increase. Jute has a long history of use in the sackings, carpets,
wrapping fabrics (cotton bale), and construction fabric manufacturing
industry.
Traditionally jute was used in traditional textile machineries as textile fibres having cellulose (vegetable fibre content) and lignin
(wood fibre content). But, the major breakthrough came when the
automobile, pulp and paper, and the furniture and bedding industries
started to use jute and its allied fibres with their non-woven and
composite technology to manufacture nonwovens, technical textiles,
and composites. Therefore, jute has changed its textile fibre outlook
and steadily heading towards its newer identity, i.e. wood fibre. As a
textile fibre, jute has reached its peak from where there is no hope of
progress, but as a wood fibre jute has many promising features.[3]
Jute can be used to create a number of fabrics such as Hessian
cloth, sacking, scrim, carpet backing cloth (CBC), and canvas. Hessian,
lighter than sacking, is used for bags, wrappers, wall-coverings,
upholstery, and home furnishings. Sacking, a fabric made of heavy jute
fibres, has its use in the name. CBC made of jute comes in two types.
Primary CBC provides a tufting surface, while secondary CBC is bonded
onto the primary backing for an overlay. Jute packaging is used as an
eco-friendly substitute.
Diversified jute products are becoming more and more valuable to the consumer today. Among these are espadrilles, floor coverings, home textiles, high performance technical textiles, Geotextiles, composites, and more.
Jute bags are used for making fashion bags & promotional bags. The eco-friendly nature of jute make it ideal for corporate gifting.
Jute floor coverings consist of woven and tufted and piled
carpets. Jute Mats and mattings with 5 / 6 mts width and of continuous
length are easilly being woven in Southern parts of India, in solid and
fancy shades, and in different weaves like, Boucle, Panama,
Herringbone, etc. Jute Mats & Rugs are made both through Powerloom
& Handloom, in large volume from Kerala, India. The traditional
Satranji mat is becoming very popular in home décor. Jute non-wovens
and composites can be used for underlay, linoleum substrate, and more.
Jute has many advantages as a home textile, either replacing cotton
or blending with it. It is a strong, durable, color and light-fast
fibre. Its UV protection, sound and heat insulation, low thermal
conduction and anti-static properties make it a wise choice in home
décor. Also, fabrics made of jute fibres are carbon-dioxide neutral and
naturally decomposable. These properties are also why jute can be used
in high performance technical textiles [2].
Moreover, jute can be grown in 4–6 months with a huge amount of
cellulose being produced from the jute hurd (inner woody core or parenchyma
of the jute stem) that can meet most of the wood needs of the world.
Jute is the major crop among others that is able to protect
deforestation by industrialisation.
Thus, jute is the most environment-friendly fibre starting from the
seed to expired fibre, as the expired fibres can be recycled more than
once.
Jute is also used in the making of ghillie suits which are used as camouflage and resemble grasses or brush.
Another diversified jute product is Geotextiles, which made this
agricultural commodity more popular in the agricultural sector. It is a
lightly woven fabric made from natural fibres that is used for soil
erosion control, seed protection, weed control, and many other
agricultural and landscaping
uses. The Geotextiles can be used more than a year and the
bio-degradable jute Geotextile left to rot on the ground keeps the
ground cool and is able to make the land more fertile. Methods such as
this could be used to transfer the fertility of the Ganges Delta to the
deserts of Sahara or Australia[citation needed].
[edit] Food
Jute leaves are consumed in various parts of the world. It is a popular vegetable in West Africa. The Yoruba of Nigeria call it "ewedu" and the Songhay of Mali call it "fakohoy." It is made into a common mucilaginous (somewhat "slimy") soup or sauce in some West African cooking traditions, as well as in Egypt, where it is called mulukhiyya and is often considered the national dish. It is also a popular dish in the northern provinces of the Philippines, where it is known as saluyot.
Jute leaves are also consumed among the Luyhia people of Western Kenya,
where it is commonly known as 'mrenda' or 'murere'. It is eaten with 'ugali', which is also a staple for most communities in Kenya. The leaves are rich in betacarotene, iron, calcium, and Vitamin C. The plant has an antioxidant activity with a significant α-tocopherol equivalent Vitamin E.
[edit] Other
Diversified byproducts from jute can be used in cosmetics, medicine, paints, and other products.
[edit] Features
Picture of cutting lower part of the long jute fibre. The lower part is hard fibre, which is called jute cuttings in Bangladesh and India (commonly called jute butts or jute tops
elsewhere). Jute cuttings are lower in quality, but have commercial
value for the paper, carded yarn, and other fibre processing
industries. Jute fibres are kept in bundles in the background in a
warehouse in Bangladesh.
- Jute fibre is 100% bio-degradable and recyclable and thus environmentally friendly.
- It is a natural fibre with golden and silky shine and hence called The Golden Fibre.
- It is the cheapest vegetable fibre procured from the bast or skin of the plant's stem.
- It is the second most important vegetable fibre after cotton, in
terms of usage, global consumption, production, and availability. - It has high tensile strength, low extensibility, and ensures better breathability of fabrics. Therefore, jute is very suitable in agricultural commodity bulk packaging.
- It helps to make best quality industrial yarn, fabric, net, and
sacks. It is one of the most versatile natural fibres that has been
used in raw materials for packaging, textiles, non-textile,
construction, and agricultural sectors. Bulking of yarn results in a reduced breaking tenacity and an increased breaking extensibility when blended as a ternary blend. - Unlike the hemp fiber, jute is not a form of cannabis.
- The best source of jute in the world is the Bengal Delta Plain in the Ganges Delta, most of which is occupied by Bangladesh.
- Advantages of jute include good insulating and antistatic properties, as well as having low thermal conductivity and a moderate moisture regain. Other advantages of jute include acoustic insulating properties and manufacture with no skin irritations.
- Jute has the ability to be blended with other fibres, both synthetic and natural, and accepts cellulosic dye classes such as natural, basic, vat, sulfur, reactive, and pigment dyes.
As the demand for natural comfort fibres increases, the demand for jute
and other natural fibres that can be blended with cotton will increase.
To meet this demand, it has been suggested that the natural fibre
industry adopt the Rieter's Elitex
system, in order to modernize processing. The resulting jute/cotton
yarns will produce fabrics with a reduced cost of wet processing
treatments. Jute can also be blended with wool. By treating jute with caustic soda, crimp, softness, pliability, and appearance is improved, aiding in its ability to be spun with wool. Liquid ammonia has a similar effect on jute, as well as the added characteristic of improving flame resistance when treated with flameproofing agents.
- Some noted disadvantages include poor drapability and crease resistance, brittleness, fibre shedding, and yellowing in sunlight. However, preparation of fabrics with castor oil lubricants
result in less yellowing and less fabric weight loss, as well as
increased dyeing brilliance. Jute has a decreased strength when wet,
and also becomes subject to microbial attack in humid climates. Jute can be processed with an enzyme
in order to reduce some of its brittleness and stiffness. Once treated
with an enzyme, jute shows an affinity to readily accept natural dyes,
which can be made from marigold flower extract. In one attempt to dye jute fabric with this extract, bleached fabric was mordanted with ferrous sulphate, increasing the fabric's dye uptake value. Jute also responds well to reactive dyeing. This process is used for bright and fast coloured value-added diversified products made from jute.
[edit] See also
- Cash crop
- Cellulose
- Lignin
- Bast fibre
- East India Natural Goods
- Behind Products: A Study on Crafts of Bangladesh (book)
[edit] References
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- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n5pvr/Brian_Coxs_Jute_Journey/
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