Pantnagar Revolts, Forward Block Fires and Buddha Smiles! Maharashtra Govt halts work on Dow unit after protests.GOI is busy to keep intact the Milita

Pantnagar Revolts, Forward Block Fires and Buddha Smiles! Maharashtra Govt halts work on Dow unit after protests.GOI is busy to keep intact the Military Option!

Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams: Chapter 73

Palash Biswas




Upset over continuous violence against churches and Christians in various parts of the country, the All India Christian Council claimed on Friday that the violence was aimed at generating passion before the upcoming general polls. It accused the Centre and some state governments of acting slowly and demanded immediate deployment of the Army in Orissa, which has seen a lot of violence in the past few days. - AGENCIES

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Buddha countermands Forward Bloc’s rejection of German wholesaler’s permit.Business Standard reports:

After Tata Motors, German wholesale retailer Metro Cash & Carry could also exit West Bengal over political differences, this time within the ruling Left Front.

Left Front constituent Forward Bloc, which runs West Bengal’s agriculture marketing board, today rejected the proposal to renew the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) licence for Metro Cash & Carry.

However, to prevent Metro's exit from the state, CPI(M) Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has instructed South 24 Parganas' district magistrate to issue the APMC licence. Metro's outlet in Kolkata falls under the jurisdiction of South 24 Parganas.

Bhattacharjee's decision has upset the Forward Bloc, which met today to protest. According to Ashok Ghosh, the general secretary of All India Forward Bloc (AIFB), "Bhattacharjee cannot take these decisions without discussing it with us. From Monday, our ministers will not go to Writers' Buildings till the chief minister's letter is withdrawn."

Earlier in the day, Bhattacharjee and Asim Dasgupta, finance minister, had appealed to the Forward Bloc to renew the licence. But Ghosh rejected their requests .

http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=335671&chkFlg=



West Bengal’s ruling Left Front was Saturday hopeful of resolving the differences between two of its constituents over renewing the licence of German wholesale major Metro Cash & Carry.”We are hopeful of finding a solution through a process of dialogue in the Left Front. It’s unfortunate that FB (Forward Bloc) has already taken a decision to opt out of the state cabinet if the state government doesn’t comply with its demand,” Communist Party of India (CPI) state secretary Manju Kumar Manjumdar told IANS.

He said the issue should be solved through talks within the front.

Majumdar said the ruling coalition has called a meeting Sunday and the matter would be discussed in the presence of all its constituents.

The FB has opposed the decision to renew the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) licence for Metro Cash & Carry.

“The decision to renew the licence for Metro Cash & Carry was neither discussed in the cabinet nor in the LF meeting. The concerned ministry was not consulted either,” senior FB leader and West Bengal State Marketing Board chairperson Naren Chattopadhyay said.

He said Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) took a unilateral decision to renew the licence for the German firm.

“This is unprecedented in the 30-year history of the LF government in West Bengal,” Chattopadhyay said.

FB state general secretary Ashok Ghosh Friday said the party will not allow any big investor or foreign investor to eat up the space of small and poor farmers and the intermediaries.

Forward Bloc leader and state Fire and Emergency Services Minister Pratim Chatterjee said: “A meeting has already been called by the state LF and I’ll share my point of view there tomorrow (Sunday).”

Metro cash & Carry started a project of constructing a 100,000 sq ft outlet with an investment of $30 million in Eastern Metropolitan (EM) Bypass a couple of years ago.

The project got delayed due to land disputes.

The German company already has four stores in India - two in Bangalore, one in Hyderabad and one in Mumbai.

An anonymous lawmaker in the Senate put a “hold” on consideration of the Bill in the Senate which must be lifted before the agreement is approved by a Unanimous Consent Agreement!Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W. Bush gave one last personal touch to the new “strategic partnership” between India and the United States, even as the two leaders were aware that the civilian nuclear agreement itself remained far from being consummated because of the American legislators’ doubts and diversions.With the US Congressional process on the nuclear deal taking longer than anticipated, US president George W Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were unable to put the finishing touches to the nuclear deal in Washington.


Hindu reports from Washington:

The Prime Minister and his entourage travelled to Washington DC on Thursday afternoon for a three-hour interaction, including a working dinner, with Mr. Bush at the White House.

In their brief statements, made before the media at the Oval Office, the two leaders referred to the trouble the India-U.S. civilian agreement had run into in the U.S. Congress. “It has taken a lot of work on both our parts, a lot of courage on your part, and of course we want the agreement to satisfy you and get it out of our Congress. And so we’re working hard to get it passed as quickly as possible,” said Mr. Bush.

Dr. Singh, on his part, hoped that the agreement would be approved “in a manner which will be satisfactory from the point of view of both of our countries.” But the Prime Minister wanted to put on record his appreciation of Mr. Bush’s personal role in the “massive transformation” of the India-U.S. ties, centred on the nuclear agreement.

http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/27/stories/2008092758190100.htm


Pantnagar Revolts, Forward Block Fires and Buddha Smiles!GOI is busy to keep intact the Military Option!
The Tatas reported plan to roll out its cheap passenger car from Pantnagar faces turbulence as another Singur appears to be in the offing with a group of farmers planning an agitation against giving more land to the company. Meanwhile,After followers of the `Warkari' sect in Maharashtra intensified their agitation against Dow Chemical demanding closure of its proposed unit near Pune, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has ordered a month's stay on the project work. Deshmukh, currently on a week-long official visit to Europe, has taken the decision keeping in mind the sentiments of the Warkaris (members of the sect), sources close to him said here. The Government has also decided to appoint a committee headed by a former High Court judge to study the objections to the multi-crore R&D project, the sources said, adding the panel is expected to submit report within a month. The US chemical multinational is the owner of Union Carbide, responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in which several thousand people were killed due to the release of 40 tonnes of deadly methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas.

Dow is trying to build a chemical experimentation facility in Vasuli Shinde village, near Pune, and the project is facing stiff opposition on ground of pollution.


Mind you, Nandigram Insurrection in west bengal aborted a proposed Chemical Hub there with association with Salim from indonesia as well as DOWS! The new chemical hub is proposed to be set up in Naya Char near Haldia, violating Coastline Security Act and environment!


The Singur imbroglio has started casting its shadow on investments in West Bengal, with U.S. companies worrying about the safety of their workforce, sanctity of agreements and political interference in business. The fact that a group like the Tatas was on the verge of a pullout has compounded matters further and shaken investor confidence.

U.S. companies have begun asking “If Ratan Tata cannot succeed in West Bengal then how can an American investor hope to succeed here?” U.S. Consul General in Kolkata Beth A. Payne said. Participating in an interactive session of the Confederation of Indian Industry, she said West Bengal lost an important opportunity to showcase the best that it had to offer when a U.S. India Business Council (USIBC) decided to bypass their Kolkata visit in view of the Singur developments. They were slated to visit Singur between September 21 and 23 as part of their India call.

“They were very excited to come to Kolkata because of all the positive aspects that they were seeing in this region. USIBC’s trade mission, headed by Paul Conway of Cargill and Ian Thomas of Boeing, represented two companies with a long relationship with India and they would have introduced many other American companies to West Bengal for the first time. “It is regrettable,” Ms. Payne said.

She said that American investors were looking for stability, transparency, rule of law and most importantly, a respect for agreements and contracts. “Unfortunately, conflicts like the one we are seeing in Singur cause American investors to question whether West Bengal can offer these essential elements.”

She said they were now watching how conflicts such as the one in Singur were resolved and whether they were done so quickly and non-violently.
The proposed new version of the Magic will be based on the same platform as Tata Motors’ one tonne mini-truck Ace!The country’s largest automaker, Tata Motors Ltd, is preparing to introduce an upmarket variant of its Ace Magic seven-seater passenger vehicle, attempting to bolster its market share in the segment.
The higher-end version will be positioned in the so-called multi-purpose vehicle, or MPV, segment, which comprises Maruti Suzuki India Ltd’s Omni and Versa models besides Tata Motors’ own Magic and Winger, said vendors associated with the project who asked not to be named citing reasons of confidentiality. Figures from the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers show that Tata Motors had sold 2,290 units of the Magic and Winger in August, an increase of 143% over August last year.
On the other hand, justifying my earlier story that Pant Nagar is a different story where a single inch of land is not acquired, Country's leading car maker Tata Motors today said that the Uttarakhand government had given its own 1,000 acre land to the company, on which it has already set up manufacturing facilities along with that of vendors.


Mind you it is the land owned by the Pant Nagar University, a Government institution. Fullbagh was the original palce where the University stands now. The Airport was also known as Fullbagh even in seventies. University had farmland in Full Bagh, Haldi, Mota haldi, Nagla and Matkota. All these areas now consists of SIDCUL which accommodated the MNCs and INCs with charity of government land. Thus, we chose not to protest as long as the Uttarkhandi People get job there!

Reacting to reports that a group of farmers was planning agitation if more land is given to the company in case it sets up Nano car project, which is facing uncertainty in West Bengal, a Tata Motors spokesperson said : "All our land has come from the government and the plant exist on the government land." A group of farmers in Uttarakhand's Pantnagar area, under the banner of 'Kisan Kisani Abhiyan', had taken up cudgels against the state government's purported plan to allot more land to the company with its leader Hanif Gandhi threatening an agitation.

The government had agreed to offer 1,100 acre of land in the area, of which the company has already set up a mother plant and vendor park on 1,000 acres. The government is yet to give the rest 100 acre for setting up residential colonies, the spokesperson said.

The spokesman said that since no part of the land for the existing facilities, from where its rolling out commercial vehicle Ace, has come from the farmers and hence there is no ground for any agitation.

On whether the company had decided to shift the Nano project from West Bengal to Uttarakhand, he said that the company had earlier said in a statement that it could explore options at other existing facilities.


Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the NSG waiver will have a positive impact on the global energy security. Last minute hitches appeared to have cropped up today in the Senate for passage of the Bill on the Indo-US nuclear deal but an identical measure inched forward in the House of Representatives for early approval.
An anonymous lawmaker in the Senate put a “hold” on consideration of the Bill in the Senate which must be lifted before the agreement is brought to its floor or approved by a Unanimous Consent Agreement.

On the other hand,faced with an ever more aggressive Taliban, NATO alliance troops are planning a winter "development surge" in the form of civil works projects in eastern Afghanistan.

According to the Washington Post, the plan has been designed to win over tribes in regions near the Pakistan border and to prevent the younger generation from joining the Taliban's ranks.

The paper quoted military officials here as saying that the troops will maintain their armed pressure simultaneously.


It, however, is not clear to what provisions of the Senate Bill that a lawmaker is objecting to.
The “hold” process involves a law maker telling the Majority leader and Minority Leader that he/she is against the “hotlining” of the Bill without debate and vote through Unanimous Consent.
However, in the House of Representatives, Howard Berman, a known opponent of the deal, agreed to support the Senate version of the Bill saying that it was in consonance with the Hyde Act.
Berman, who is the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, said he backed the Bill after the Bush Administration assured him that they will push for an NSG decision prohibiting the export of enrichment and reprocessing equipment and technologies to states that are not party to NPT.
The Senate Majority leader Harry Reid made no mention of this “hold” issue in his opening remarks to the Senate while laying out the agenda on Friday morning.
But he indicated that the Agreement will be taken up only next week as the Senate gears itself for extra days beyond today, when the session was scheduled to end.
“It appears quite evident that we are going to be in session next week. There are a lot of things that haven’t been done and I will mention just a couple of them,” Senator Reid said, listing the issues as Department of Defence authorisation “which is very important”, rail safety, Amtrak and the finalisation of the financial crisis legislation.
“We have the Indian Nuclear Agreement,” he said as he noted that he had a number of conversations with President George W Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the issue.
The Bush administration and key members of Congress were all too aware of this legislative tactic of “hold” available in the Senate where 12 Democratic lawmakers voted against the Hyde Act of 2006.
Though the Congressional nod eluded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh before his meeting with President George W Bush, the revised version of Berman’s bill raises hopes that the deal could be quickly approved.
Berman, who has his own reservations over the deal, introduced in the House of Representatives a new version of his earlier bill which had some provisions like reporting by the President to the Congress which could have sabotaged early Congressional nod for the agreement.

Faced with a mushrooming economic crisis, President George W Bush dealt not only with a Congress fractured over how to respond but world leaders worriedly watching the US meltdown spread into their economies.

Political wrangling blocked a potential deal on a bailout package for the US financial system.

Buddhadeb requested Tata group chairman Ratan Tata to restart work at its Singur project.Amidst deepening suspense over the future of the Nano car project at Singur, speculation is rife in this industrial town of Uttarakhand that Tata Motors [Get Quote] will add a four-wheeler plant to its existing Ace truck factory in Pantnagar. The recent decision of the West Bengal government to raise the compensation offered to farmers at Singur who gave up land for a Tata Motors Ltd car factory effectively raises the cash incentive offered to the company’s Tata Nano project to at least Rs300 crore.
This comes on the top of tax and other incentives already being offered by the state to the company.
A state government official, who didn’t want to be named, said most of these incentives were offered because West Bengal had to match those dangled by the Uttarakhand government.
The official pointed out that even if Tata Motors only made 200,000 cars a year at the plant, the government would get revenue of at least Rs500 crore.

The state had estimated it would earn at least Rs500 crore from all taxes combined—Central sales tax (CST), value-added tax (VAT) and excise duty. But it wouldn’t start earning from sales of the Tata Nano from Day 1, because it would be returning CST and VAT in the form of a loan bearing an interest of 0.1% till it has fully matched Uttarakhand’s incentives.
The Tata Nano is expected to sell for at least Rs100,000 each.
The magnitude of some of these incentives came to light following a March report by India’s audit watchdog and the recent release of part of the agreement between the state and Tata Motors on the website of the West Bengal Industrial Development Corp. Ltd, or WBIDC.


The auto maker recently moved the Calcutta high court seeking to restrain the state government from revealing the full text of the agreement, parts of which have already been published on the WBDIC website.
Mamata Banerjee, leader of the state opposition party, the Trinamool Congress, has been demanding the release of this agreement even as she has been leading the protest against the Tata plant.
The issue came to a head in late August after Banerjee started a protest in front of the plant and Tata Motors chairman Ratan Tata said he would consider moving location.
The state leased 645.67 acres to Tata Motors for 90 years for an annual lease rent of Rs1 crore for the first five years, going up to Rs20 crore a year from the 61st year.

German Consul General, Gunter Wehrmann warned on Thursday that if the West Bengal government does not issue the license of Metro Cash and Carry (MCC) then all German investments in the eastern region will stop flowing in. Wehrmann said: “The potential German investors are closely following the developments. If MCC is denied the license it will be the ‘death nail’ for all German investments in eastern India in the future”.

I have already written that it is quite wrong that we happen to be inexperienced in Resistance in Uttarakhand. In fact, Peasants' uprising in Nainital terai led by Kisan sabha leaders including my father late Pulin Kumar Biswas happened in Dhimri Block , just a few KM away from Pantnagar right in 1958. In Rudrapur, the Bengali Refugees thrown in Jim Corbett fame dense forest launched the first movement in Terai in1956 before I was born. My father led the movement.

We were the integral part of Chipko Movement in seventies. Terai was also the epicentre of Naxalite movement in sixties.

Recently only in 2001, lacs of partition victim Bengali refugees rehabilitated in 1954 onwards, demonstrated their strenght and then BJP CM Nityanad Swami had no way but to declare that the Bengali refugees are also Indian citizens as Punjabi refugees are! Hills and Plains always stood rock solid in unity any time since Dhimri Block! We were intact single unit during Chipko and Uttarakhand Movement. We protested Pant Nagar genocide in 1978 and challenged then Home Minister of India, Chowdhari Charan Singh. Even Bengali dalit Refugees are never isolated. We enjoy full support from every part of Uttarakhand and face no discrimination on caste, community and language line!

Just remember, I had warned if a single Inch of land owned by any peasant in Pantnagar is acquired , we might launch a movement anytime and the Nation would feel the heat. I stick with the stand though , i am based in Kolkata for seventeen full years! We are a well connected people, mind you!

Ratan Tata and his colleagues at Tata Motors may have sworn to secrecy but hectic activities at the company's Pantnagar plant in Uttarakhand suggest that Nano could drive out from here to meet the October deadline. Information trickling in from the highest echelons of Bombay House suggested Tata Motors is tantalisingly close to rolling out the Nano from Pantnagar.

A Tata Motors team is meeting senior bureaucrats of the Uttarakhand government on Thursday to press for a crucial 100-acre plot adjacent to its existing auto facility in Pantnagar.

The Tata mission is to garner the requisite land (1,100 acres approx) to rejig the Pantnagar complex to manufacture both the Ace pick-up truck and Nano in tandem.

The Tatas are keen to roll out Nano from Pantnagar in the October-December quarter in step with their original Singur schedule. Early indications are that the plant will be equipped to roll out some 200-300 Nanos per day.

Economic times reports:

Uttarakhand Industrial Development principal secretary P C Sharma told ET, “The Pantnagar plant has enough space to manufacture Nano. A Tata Motors team is meeting us on September 25 where we will discuss the handing over some 100 acres to the company. The company wants the land to turn its Pantnagar plant into an integrated auto complex. We will discuss issues like lease rental, labour and environmental concerns with Tata Motors.”

Incidentally, when Tatas suspended work at Singur on August 29, Uttarakhand was one of the first governments to invite them to relocate the Nano plant.

Meanwhile, Tata Motors has moved equipment key to manufacturing Nano from its under-construction plant at Singur to another facility to meet its rollout obligation. Sources said that equipment was carted out from the plant and the cargo is believed to have been moved to the company's plant in Pantnagar in Uttarakhand.

Tata circles concede that the prime enablers in rolling out the Nano from Pantnagar are the huge tax incentives that Uttarakhand offers. “If Tata Motors rolls out the Nano from Pantnagar, it will be able to retain its Rs 1 lakh price tag,” Tata sources indicate.
Uttarakhand offers 100% excise duty exemption for 10 years, 100% exemption from corporate I-T for the first five years and 30% exemption from corporate I-T for the next five years.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3523806.cms

The Uttarakhand government formally cleared an order to allot Tata Motors 50 acres more for its Pantnagar plant, though sources present at a meeting between state representatives and company officials insisted the embattled Nano project wasn’t discussed.

S.P. Tripathi, general manager of the state’s industrial development corporation, said the Tata delegation didn’t “broach” the topic. “(So) why should we ask them?”

Sources present at the meeting said the delegation, led by senior vice-president A.S. Puri, plant head N.K. Chaubey, and divisional manager Ashutosh Burman, focused on upgrading the project site.

“It was our commitment to allot more land to the Tatas. We have met the commitment at least partially today by approving a government order to allot them 50 acres,” chief secretary Indu Kumar Pandey said over the phone from Dehra Dun after the meeting.



As the scene at Singur gets bleaker by the day, things have started happening at a frenzied pace at the 1000 acre plant in Pantnagar, where more manpower and machinery have started rolling in over the past weeks to manufacture nearly 50 units of Nano daily.

If sources working at the plant are to be believed, in the past week the number of engineers working at Pantnagar, which manufactures ACE mini trucks and MAGIC passenger vehicles, has doubled from 70 to nearly 150-all of whom are focusing their energies on Nano.


Pantnagar, which was till recently only known for its agricultural university, is the latest industrial boom town of the country. Dozens of companies, including Tata Motors, Nestle [Get Quote], HCL [Get Quote] and Dabur [Get Quote], have made sizeable investments here.

Ever since the problems at Singur erupted and Tata Motors said it could shift the plant out of West Bengal, there has been widespread speculation that the company may move the project to Pantnagar.

Large tax concessions are available to industry in Uttarakhand and the other northern hill states of Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. A number of automobile companies including Tata Motors, TVS [Get Quote] Motor, Hero Honda and Bajaj Auto [Get Quote] have set up production facilities in these states, especially to combat the rising cost of key inputs like steel.

Tata Motors owns 1,000 acres in this rapidly industrialising town in the prosperous terai region of the state. About 30 per cent of it is learnt to be vacant.

State government officials, who are keenly following the developments at Singur where the world's cheapest car project has hit a rough patch, said there is a strong possibility that Tata Motors may come up with a new four-wheeler manufacturing plan at the existing facility.
Putting mind over matter

Just how many masterminds does it take to run a terror bombing spree? The Delhi police have nominated Mohammad Atif Amin chief of the Indian Mujahideen.
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Chief secy’s letter on Metro licence irks FB

Statesman News Service
KOLKATA, Sept 26: Forward Bloc ministers will not attend office from Monday in protest against the chief secretary, Mr Amit Kiran Deb's letter to the secretary, agricultural (marketing) department and district magistrate to renew the licence of Metro Cash and Carry, said Forward Bloc state secretary, Mr Ashoke Ghosh today.
He said that if the state government does not retract the letter by 30 September, the four Forward Bloc ministers will resign from their posts.
He said his party has taken strong exception to the chief minister’s unilateral decision before Sunday's scheduled bipartite talks and ordering the secretary, South 24 Parganas Regulatory Market Committee to renew the licence immediately to Metro Cash and Carry. He said after what has happened today, Sunday’s talks will be redundant.
He said that in the morning it was decided at the secretariat meeting that licence should not be renewed. “We were preparing our documents for Sunday’s bipartite meeting on why we are unable to renew the licence when we learnt about the chief minister's unilateral decision from our marketing board chairman...'' Mr Ghosh said. Yesterday, German consul -General warned that future German investment in the state would be jeopardised if Metro Cash and Carry is denied licence to start its operation.

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=1&theme=&usrsess=1&id=224215




US races to reach bailout deal before Monday
27 Sep, 2008, 2145 hrs IST, REUTERS




US Congress embarked on a weekend mission to strike a deal on a proposed $700 bn bailout of the financial industry. Top 10 US bank failures | Top banking crises
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Another bomb explosion in Delhi; one dead
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Integrated Industrial Estate Pantnagar
IIE Pantnagar at a Glance
Name of Industrial Estate Integrated Industrial Estate, Pantnagar
Location Located at National Highway no. NH-87. 235 Km from National Capital Delhi and 300 Km from State Capital Dehradun.

Total Area 3339 Acres
Industrial Land Rate Rs.1500 / sq mtr.
Connectivity Nearest Rail Yard: 10 Kms
Nearest National Highway: Situated on National Highway NH-87
Nearest Domestic Airport: Pantnagar
Nearest International Airport: Delhi 235 Kms
Water Supply Tube Wells: 2 No .
Under Ground Storage Tank: 1 No.
Over Head Tank: 1 No.

Power Supply Electric Sub Stations
220 KV (1 No.)
33 KV (4 No.)
11 KV (as required)
Financial Incentives 100% Central Excise exemption for 10 years
100% Income Tax exemption for first 5 years and 30 % for next 5 Years
CST @1% for 5 years
Capital Investment Subsidy @15% with a max. of Rs 30 Lakhs

Preferable Industries Cosmetics & Allied
Plastic & Allied
Apparel & Allied
Agro Food & Allied
Pharma Products
Electrical, Electronice & Allied
Furniture Hub
Institutional, Commercial & Allied
Present Status

Officials to be Contacted Mr. S.P.Tripathi
GM (IIE-Pantnagar)
SIDCUL
Ph: 0135-2743897, 9412992604
e-mail: sptripathi@sidcul.com

Mr. N.C.Pant
Regional Manager
IIE Pantnagar
Phone: 05944-247547, 9412992609


Source : www.sidcul.com





The Government on Saturday formed a high-level committee headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to address armed forces' concerns over ‘anomalies’ in the Central Pay Commission (CPC) report. Following this, the Services decided to accept the revised pay scales 'for the moment' and submit the salary bills to the Defence Ministry on Monday. The three-member committee was constituted following a direction from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is currently abroad, government sources said. The armed forces had on Friday refused to accept the revised pay scales and did not submit the salary bills for October. The Prime Minister in USA has all the time of his life to deal this vexed problem while every issue related to common life is never addressed!

The Government of India is considering the grievances of security Forces, it is rather a good sign. The GOI has implemented Sixth pay commission report war footed, it is also a welcome notions. The organised and power generating sectors are appeased on whatsoever cost, we understand the equations very well.

Why the peasants don`t deserve any hearing and led to insurrections just to be heard!

FDI fed Media and the Children of Rupert Mordac are the blue eyes to defend , we know. We know that the Goebbels have to be supported to continue mass destruction in the best interest of the Ruling Class affiliated to fascism as well as corporate Imperialism. Freedom of Expression is nothing as Mind control game and brain washing are the best possible methods to hold power and continue apartheid and caste system based hegemony as well as enslavement. But GOI never cares for worsening working conditions, abolition of editorial, hire fire and miserable life of Scribes in general. Pay Commission for the Journalists sit idle. Even Interim relief is not declared! The Politically affiliated and effluent scribes enjoying five star NRI lifestyle and getting all the gifts of life have become the leaders of mainstream journalism. Thus, general grass root level page maker journalists have to suffer.

I have just refereed to the most organised and powerful sectors in National life.

What about the disorganised sector?

What about the peasants, majority of the population?

SEZ drive, indiscriminate industrialisation and urbanisation, deindustrialisation with destruction of indigenous production system, livelihood and life. displacement, Retail chain, Chemical Hubs, Anti people Development, Deportation, immigration, Crime, Terrorist strikes, inherent injustice and inequality, persecution and merciless repression, Civil Rights and Human rights violations .. every thing unwanted but mandatory to capture natural resources is destined for the lot!

Security Forces as well as Media are used against them. Nationalities and rhetorics of liberation, genuine mass movements have to be addressed always opting for Military solution!

Left Rule Kerala also feels the heat of Peasant Uprising against MNC raj! The ruling CPIM defends Tata Motors in West Bengal, but CPIM in Karantaka, a BJP ruled state is mobilising people`s movement against proposed Nano Plant there!

On the other hand, Pantnagar University the premier Agriculture University in the nation is stripped of land for experiments, research and education just to accommodate MNCs! We the people surrounding Pantnagar and Rudrapur were never afraid of intense wild life in fifties and sixties. We were also not so frightened after Operation blue Star and the following spell of Terror. But we feel insecure most while Kashipur to Sitarganj, the entire Terai region of Uttarakhand with its epicentre in Pantnagar Rudrapur, is heavily industrialised.

Here you are!

Do you remeber the Holocaust just after Operation blue Star? The nationwide anti Sikh Riots, Sikh Persecution and repression, the serial bomb blasts, indiscriminate firing anywhere? GOI was mistaken to deal with Sikh Nationality and it is the most awesome part of Indian history. Despite the claim to absorb Sikhism into Hindutva, the fact remains that Sikhs are also a part of Minorities in India. Even after sixty years of Independence, we never know how to deal with Peasants, Small Traders, Students, Women, Children, Professionals, Scheduled Castes and Tribes, OBC, minorities and nationalities!

We were never scared of ! We faced bravely the Bleeding eighties while Assam, Punjab, Tripura, Kashmir and Tamilnadu were troubled most! While Insurgency and terrorism was on high Note! In comparison, Modern times are more or less relaxed despite some unwanted incidents.

But it is the Urgency on the part of Fascist and Imperialist forces and committed Comradors to create the logic of War against terrorism imported by them to drive a nationwide displacement and killing wheels of development! Terror strikes justifies most ethnic cleansing without which Colonisation happens to be always incomplete in any periphery!

Just browse any channel how they set aside everything to highlight another Delhi Blast and advocating against so called Soft State.

MY God! Indian media has launched a campaign for more repression, more displacement, more eviction, more deportation, more repression, more persecution and more Killing! The Global hegemony must boast for this anti people media!

What happened?


Sincerity and honesty became the death warrant for the child who lost his life in the blast that shook the flower market in Mehrauli of South Delhi on Saturday.
Santosh Kumar (13), who fell victim to the low intensity bomb, was only trying to return the 'packet' of the two motorcycle-borne youth.

Little did Kumar, hailing from Bihar, know that he was trying to return the bomb, which the duo had deliberately dropped.

The last words heard by eyewitnesses and his relations were Kumar saying, ‘bhai saab, aapka packet gir gaya hai (brother, your packet has fallen).’

How the Government of India reacts?

With Delhi being shaken again by a bomb blast on Saturday, Home Minister Shivraj Patil reviewed the situation with top officials of his ministry and extended all assistance to the Delhi Police Commissioner to deal with the incident.
Patil spoke to senior officials, including Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta, who in turn was in constant touch with the Delhi Police chief.

Gupta also spoke to AIIMS authorities to find out the condition of the injured, a Home Ministry spokesman said.

Detached from geopolitical social, political and economic realism, how washington dictates drive GOI stance in South Asia! Meanwhile, US Deep depression continues to eat growth in Asia. Ruling Class is never hesitant to tag with United States of America! The delay in passage of a US bailout package for ailing financial markets and shut down of America's second largest bank caused a global meltdown with Indian bourses crumbling by a huge 940 points, biggest point-wise fall in the last 25-week, in the week under review. Even as the US administration continued its debate on a USD 700-billion rescue package for the shattered financial system, the on-going credit crisis claimed yet another victim leading to across the board sell-off in the stock markets.



The security situation in India's neighbourhood is a matter of concern as the country is surrounded by many "failed states", Defence Minister A K Antony said in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday.

"The security situation around is a matter of concern. We are surrounded by many failed states. The security scenario in those states is a matter of concern for us also," he said, addressing an Armed Forces Veterans Rally organised as part of Army Mela-2008 in Thiruvananthapuram.

Though the country's unity and integrity faced threat from different sources, the armed services were capable of meeting any challenge through their dedication, vigil and competence, he said.

"Right from August 15, 1947, when the country attained freedom, we have been facing lot of threats to our unity and integrity from external sources. As years pass by, the threats are increasing, not only from one source but many sources," Antony said.

He said a grateful nation could never forget the sacrifices made by soldiers and their families, he added.
THEIR SHOULD BE ZERO TOLERANCE: PRANAB

In the wake of blast in Mehrauli, the Government today said there has to be "zero tolerance" for terrorism and asserted that it is taking "stern" measures to bring the culprits behind the explosion to book.

Soon after the blast, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who chairs Cabinet meetings in absence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, held deliberations with Home Minister Shivraj Patil on the situation.

"I condemn in strongest terms this barbaric act of violence leading to the loss of an innocent life," Mukherjee said after the meeting. "There has to be zero tolerance for such acts of terror," he said.

Noting that he had reviewed the situation with the Home Minister, Mukherjee said "the government is committed to bring the culprits to book and stern measures are being taken towards this end."






"We think they may come out with some new four-wheeler venture at Pantnagar," a State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand official told Business Standard in Pantnagar after talking to company officials, adding there was nothing specific at the moment.

On their part, Tata Motors officials at the plant refused to comment on any new development as far as Pantnagar was concerned. "Please excuse us," said a Tata Motors official in Pantnagar adding, they are not authorised to talk to reporters.

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Uttarakhand government has assured that it would provide another 200 to 300 acres of notified land to Tata Motors in case it shifts its Nano project to the state.

The nearby vendors of Tata Motors are also not sure about any new plan of the auto giant. Enquiries at various ancillaries here revealed that top Tata Motors officials are not sharing any information with them. "We don't know what is happening at the high level. But nothing is happening at the Ace motor facility also," said an official of Delphi TVS, a vendor of Tata Motors.

But the vendors are also keen to see if the company brings them some good news at Pantnagar. At present, nearly 64 ancillaries of Tata Motors have set up shop near the Ace mother plant. Most of the vendors said they can supply equipment and components meant for Nano or any other four-wheeler.

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Uttarakhand • India

Pantnagar University Campus
Pantnagar
Coordinates: 28°58'N 79°25'E? / ?28.97, 79.41
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
District(s) Udham Singh Nagar
Population 35,820 (2001[update])
Website: usnagar.nic.in/
Coordinates: 28°58'N 79°25'E? / ?28.97, 79.41
Pantnagar is a town and a University campus in Udham Singh Nagar district, of Uttarakhand.

It is famous for having the first agricultural university of India since 1960 and to have bred amongst the best agriculturists and horticulturists globally. Previously it was called Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University, or Pantnagar University,it is now known as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. The university is famous as the birth place of green revolution in India. The university facilities are growing and advancing as India goes through a boom phase.




Contents [hide]
1 Overview
2 Colleges
3 History
4 Communication
5 Tata Nano
6 See also



[edit] Overview
The university town is located in the district of Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand and lies at an altitude of 243.8 m above the mean sea level and 29° N latitude and 79° E longitude.

It is in fact a small town and university immersed into one. Their are two main markets or shopping areas in Pantnagar which are Badee Market ("Big Market") and Chhoti Market ("Small Market).

There are also two main parks which are Gandhi Park and Ambedkar Park both dedicated to important Indian freedom fighters.

Pantnagar is often seen as a small and remote tourist location as well as a foreign exchange university bringing and sending students from and to other countries.

Pantnagar university is unique in providing an excellent education with hands-on experience in related fields. Best known for its agriculture and technology colleges, Pantnagar university has a much bigger presence throughout the world; however, its geographic footprint is quite small. Diverse population at Pantnagar provides ample of choices for various cultural and social activities.

The Campus has fields, a network of roads, housing colonies, street lighting, a telephone exchange, hospitals, marketing centres, a water supply section, 6 primary schools and 3 secondary schools. The main campus lies in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttaranchal at 29° N latitude and 79° E longitude at an elevation of 243.8 m above the mean sea level. This main campus has the area responsibility for the entire Uttaranchal representing plains, Tarai, Bhabar and hill areas. However, to provide service to the hill region its other stations are situated at Ranichauri (Tehri district), Majhera (Nainital district) and at Lohaghat-Sui (Champavat district). There are 763 teachers and officers 59 technical staff, 631 administrative and ministerial personnel and 1425 class III employees, amounting to a total strength of 2878. The number of students in the University ranges between 2800-3000. Thus, the teacher taught ratio is about 1:6 and student-staff ratio is about 1:1.





[edit] Colleges


There are 10 colleges in the University

College of Technology
College of Agriculture
College of Home Science
College of Basic Science & Humanities
College of Veterinary Sciences
College of Fisheries
College of Agri-Business Management
College of Post Graduate Studies
College of Hill Agriculture and Forestry (off-campus)
VCSG College of Horticulture (off-campus)




[edit] History
After independence, development of the rural sector was considered the primary concern of the Government of India. In 1949, with the appointment of the Radhakrishnan University Education Commission, imparting of agricultural education through the setting up of rural universities became the focal point. Later, in 1954 an Indo-American team led by Dr. K.R. Damle, the Vice-President of ICAR, was constituted that arrived at the idea of establishing a ‘Rural University’ on the land-grant pattern of USA. As a consequence a contract between the Government of India, the Technical Cooperation Mission and some land-grant universities of USA, was signed to promote agricultural education in the country. The US universities included the universities of Tennessee, the Ohio State University, the Kansas State University, The University of Illinois, the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Missouri. The task of assisting Uttar Pradesh in establishing an agricultural university was assigned to the University of Illinois which signed a contract in 1959. Dean, H.W. Hannah, of the University of Illinois prepared a blueprint for a Rural University to be set up at the Tarai State Farm in the district Nainital, UP. In the initial stage the University of Illinois also offered the services of its scientists and teachers. Thus, in 1960, the first agricultural university of India, UP Agricultural University, came into being by an Act of legislation, UP Act XI-V of 1958. The Act was later amended under UP Universities Re-enactment and Amendment Act 1972 and the University was rechristened as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology keeping in view the contributions of Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant, the then Chief Minister of UP. The University was dedicated to the Nation by the first Prime Minister of India Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on 17 November 1960.

The G.B. Pant University is a symbol of successful partnership between India and the United States. The establishment of this university brought about a revolution in agricultural education, research and extension. It paved the way for setting up of 31 other agricultural universities in the country

The credit for starting the functioning of the University without losing any time goes to the warm and resourceful personality of the first Vice-Chancellor, late Dr. Kenneth Anthony Parker Stevenson, who could keep people fruitfully engaged on the university farm, the labs and the classrooms despite the lurking fear of wild animals roaming the area. The other Vice-Chancellors to be remembered for their distinctive contributions in the development of the University are :

Raja Bajrang Bhadur Singh (20-12-64 to 18-1-66)
Dr. Dhyan Pal Singh (28-1-66 to 19-1-75)
Shri Shiv Prasad Pandey (20-1-75 to 20-4-77)
Dr. Dharma Pal Singh (22-10-77 to 22-6-78)
Mr. Narendra Shankar Mathur (1-8-78 to 12-5-80)
Mr. Anand Sarup (27-8-80 to 7-2-83)
Mr. Kripa Narayan (9-2-83 to 21-1-87)
Dr. Kailash Nath Katiyar (27-1-87 to 26-7-87)
Dr. Mahatim Singh (31-7-87 to 30-7-90)
Dr. Hari Govind Singh (31-7-90 to 17-12-93)
Dr. Suresh Chandra Mudgal (17-12-93 to 18-2-97)
Dr. Surendra Bahadur Singh (18-2-97 to 17-2-2000)
Dr. J. B. Chowdhary (17-2-2000 to 15-4-2002)
Dr. Prem Lal Gautam(18-6-2002 to 11-10-2007)
Dr. B. S. Bisht(From 9-08-2008)

[edit] Communication
Pantnagar has the only airport (Code:PGH) in the Terai of the Kumaon region. Though there are no commercial services, some carriers plan to start operations soon as the airport is continued to be built and finalised. At the moment there is an Aviation School currently training pilots.

Pantnagar is served by two railway stations:

Pantnagar Station at Nagla on the Bareilly-Nainital Highway.
Haldi Road Station at Haldi Road on the Delhi-Nainital Highway.
Uttarakhand Roadways connects the town to various nearby cities and towns like Haldwani, Udham Singh Nagar (previously known as Rudrapur) and Bareilly.


[edit] Tata Nano
It is widely believed that in consideration of the recent land-disputes at Singur, in which one or more land-loser farmer(s) committed suicide, Tata Motors may shift its Tata Nano plant to Pantnagar to avoid the harm being caused to its image at Singur.





First Nano to roll out from Pantnagar
http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?title=First%20Nano%20to%20roll%20out%20from%20Pantnagar&articleID=142024

In a major setback to communist ruled state West Bengal, Tata Motors has decided to pull out of Singur. The company has decided to roll out first Nano car from Pantnagar in Uttarakhand. .

CJ: Md Mudassir Alam , 3 days ago Views:311 Comments:0





In A major setback to industrialisation in communist ruled West Bengal, Tata Motors has decided to pull out of Singur. The company has decided to roll out first Nano from Pantnagar in Uttarakhand state. According to the sources, company will make an official announcement within a week.


Meanwhile, the state government sources informed that Tata Motors has started to move out the equipments from the Singur plant. Several trucks loaded with the machines have started rolling out of the Singur Nano manufacturing factory. According to sources, the process of shifting the equipments had started ten days back.


Tata’s exit decision came after the long political turmoil in West Bengal. Since the establishment of the factory in Singur, a spat begun between the ruling government and the opposition Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee. Mamata was demanding the return of 400 acres land to the farmers that was provided to Tatas for setting up the factory. The Trinamool Congress chief staged protests state-wide and in front of Nano manufacturing plant as well.


During the protests Tata Motors workers and officials faced wrath of the Trinamool Congress workers many times. The workers were beaten and also kept hostage inside the factory last month. Two security guards of the plant were also beaten up by the party workers on Monday night, (September 22).


As the Tata Nano project was an important step for industrialisation in West Bengal, so the state government tried to sort out the issue through talks. The state government’s efforts fastened after Ratan Tata’s warning that the company might shift the Nano plant to some other state.

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more >> The state governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi talked to chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Mamata Banerjee at Raj Bhavan to sort out the issue.


After the talks Mamata announced that the government would return 300 acres of land and she suspended her dharna (protest) outside the manufacturing plant. But, later the chief minister clarified that the government had not made any such promise to Mamata.


Since then no satisfactory decision could be taken by state government and the opposition. Tata Motors was in pressure to meet the October deadline for Rs 1 lakh car ’Nano’. As the situation in Singur was not favourable, the company decided to relocate the plant to Pantnagar.


Exit of Tata from Singur is unfortunate and a major blow to the country’s less industrialised state West Bengal. Bottom line is that Mamata’s irritable demand has pushed the state backward and it would discourage investors as well.


I am a Muslim and I am not a terrorist

All in all – I am as much Indian, as much patriotic, as much secular as my Hindu friends are. The only difference is that they don't need to write this article. .
CJ: Asad Iqubal , 3 days ago Views:1395 Comments:25






I AM a proud Indian, I am a Muslim and I am not a terrorist. I am a God fearing, law abiding person. I love my country. I am not corrupt and believe in the rule of law. I file my income tax return regularly and pretty honestly. I do not believe in any kind of violence. I have never been a part of any bandh, chakka jam or of any kind of mob terror. I peacefully follow my religion and respect others.

Just because I belong to a minority community, I do not seek any kind of favours from the government. I have never demanded a reservation for myself. I was not even aware about the fact that I have been provided a subsidy by union government on Hajj pilgrimage until a political party made a noise about it. I am not against providing the same kind of subsidy to Amaranth yatris also.

I do not subscribe to the SIMI, Indian Mujahedeen or any other terror outfit’s ideology. I am not against Hinduism either. I don’t understand what the fuss over Ram Setu /Adam Bridge is all about.
I don’t have any problem if the bridge is preserved for the sake of sentiments of majority of my fellow countrymen.



I believe in peaceful coexistence and I love the secular fabric of my country. In fact, most of my friends are Hindus. I love local customs practiced in my locality. I love the spirit of Holi and Diwali. I share all shades of life with my Hindu friends.

As all Hindus are not Naxalites or ULFA members, as all policemen and politicians are not corrupt, as all Hindus are not involved in the violence against Christians and Churches, as all Hindus do not believe in the ideology of Bajrang Dal – I am also the element of the same set but with a different identity. I firmly believe and I know that there are millions of others who also belong to the same domain.

All in all – I am as much Indian, as much patriotic, as much secular as my Hindu friends are. The only difference is that they don’t need to write this article.

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Anupam Trivedi, Deep Joshi, Hindustan Times
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First Published: 01:23 IST(25/9/2008)
Last Updated: 01:24 IST(25/9/2008)



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Will West Bengal’s loss be Uttarakhand’s gain? There’s a buzz in the Pantnagar plant of Tata Motors that equipment from Singur is being shifted here.



While Tata officials are tightlipped, Uttarakhand government stated that executives from the company would meet senior bureaucrats at the state capital on Thursday to discuss various issues. No details are out as yet on the agenda of the meeting.

According to locals at Pantnagar, increased activity has been witnessed at the plant where Tata manufactures its ACE mini trucks and MAGIC passenger vehicles and outsiders have been barred from venturing near the gates.

“In the past few days, there has been a lot of activity in the plant and we have heard that assembling of Nano has already started and some units are ready for the October deadline,” said a local resident.

Chief Secretary Indu Kumar Pande welcomed the possibility of Nano project coming to Uttarakhand as it would create ample job opportunities for locals.

“We haven’t received any official communication from Tatas regarding their intention to produce Nano from Uttarakhand”, Pande said. Tata executives would be calling on Industrial department officials on Thursday.

“The officials are coming on Thursday but meeting is all about their old issues”, said P.C. Sharma, Principal Secretary Industries.
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Tata staffers yet to receive work notice


16 Sep 2008, 0327 hrs IST, Suman Chakraborti,TNN

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kolkata_/Tata_staffers_yet_to_receive_work_notice/articleshow/3487275.cms

KOLKATA: The state government hopes that the Tata Motors' management will resume work at the Singur plant from Tuesday or Wednesday. But the employees are yet to get any notice from the company regarding resumption of duty. Many of them have been temporarily shifted to Pantnagar and Pune to bring out the Nano on time.

"We have not received any directive from higher-ups to join duty. Work is still under suspension," said an employee of the Singur plant.

He added that since August 28, when the suspension of work order at the plant was issued, they have been temporarily attending office in the city. "Some employees at the Singur plant have been temporarily shifted to Pune and Pantnagar. They have been asked to work there till work resumes," said the employee.

The employees though are optimistic about the state government being able to sort out the present political impasse. "We hope the government solves the impasse soon so that we can rejoin work," the employee said.

Buddha makes last bid, urges Tata to restart Singur plant


26 Sep 2008, 1401 hrs IST,AGENCIES


NEW DELHI: Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata is set to meet West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday, according to Times Now. ( Watch )

Earlier on Friday, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had written to Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata urging him not to shift the Nano car project from Singur.

The chief minister in his letter to Ratan Tata said no more disruptions will occur. “We assure you of police protection,” he said.

The letter was seen as a last-ditch effort by Buddhadeb to salvage the Nano car project.

West Bengal Industries Minister Nirupam Sen had said the state government was trying its best to retain the Nano project in Singur.

The letter by the chief minister was sent after Thursday’s decision at the state cabinet meet to appeal to both the Tatas to implement the project here as well as to the opposition to cooperate in the interest of the state.

On Thursday, Trinamool Congress said it was willing for further talks on Singur issue if Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi takes an initiative for this.

"We had responded to the invitation for talks on Singur in the past. The Governor is the constitutional head. We will go every time he calls us," Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee told a public meeting here.

Without responding to the state cabinet's appeal for cooperation, she said "if the government really wants the Tata Motors unit to come up at Singur, why did it not operationalise the (September 7) agreement? The government took recourse to a canard against us, although we are for both industry and agriculture".

Trinamool Congress did not ask the Tata Motors to leave Singur, she said. "Let both agriculture and industry smile."

She said the state government and CPM were claiming that the September 7 agreement was a 'declaration' and not an accord. "They are cheating us. They have also insulted the Governor by violating the agreement", she charged.

Reading out the copy of 'agreement', she said that her party was ready for a 'land-based solution'. She also said the industry should purchase land and added "why should land be acquired forcefully?"

Meanwhile truckloads of material have started rolling out of the Singur Nano factory, a sign that Tata Motors is on an exit route from West Bengal. There has, however, been no formal communication from the company so far.



However, he insisted that the Nano would certainly roll out by its October deadline, if not from Singur then elsewhere. "Work is going on in full swing in Pune and Pantnagar and, as far as we know, the car is all set to come out by its stipulated deadline of October."



CM 'UNBLOCS' METRO
- Bypassed, Bloc vows to keep ministers away from Writers’
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Calcutta, Sept. 26: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has bypassed the Forward Bloc and ordered an agri-marketing committee to issue a key licence to German wholesaler Metro Cash & Carry within four days, taking by far the most aggressive investor-friendly stride in his career and risking a revolt within the Left Front in the middle of the Singur crisis.

An enraged Bloc, the second-largest partner in the front after the CPM and the unquestioned master of the farm marketing system in the state, decided to keep its four ministers away from Writers’ Buildings.

Asked if the ministers would resign, Forward Bloc state secretary Ashok Ghosh said: “We are opposed to the renewal of licence of Metro Cash & Carry because it will affect poor farmers. If the directive concerning the renewal of licence is not withdrawn, our ministers will resign.”

The chief minister’s decision came a day after the German envoy in Calcutta cited the Metro case to warn of dire consequences for investments in Bengal if the licence was not renewed. Metro officials had also met the chief minister this week after a public statement that the company was evaluating “all options”.

The licence allows companies to buy farm produce directly from farmers. Indian laws allow 100 per cent foreign investment in wholesale projects such as the Metro store off EM Bypass.

On a day all eyes were peeled on the Singur crisis, the chief minister set in motion a stunning series of events by using his discretionary powers to direct the secretary of the South 24-Parganas Regulated Market Committee to renew or issue the licence to the German wholesaler by September 30 “positively”.

The directive was issued to the secretary, a gazetted officer attached to the Bloc-controlled committee, by the chief secretary through the district magistrate. Copies of the letter have been forwarded to Metro and the secretary of the state agricultural marketing department. Bhattacharjee, under pressure to re-establish the industrialisation credentials of the state after the Singur controversy, invoked special powers rarely activated — veterans claimed the last to use them was Siddhartha Shankar Ray — to issue the directive.

A rule of business of the government — 25(4)(b) in para III — confers special powers on the chief minister that allow him to overrule a ministerial order.

Since the marketing committee secretary is a government official, he will have to comply with the directive, sources said. The secretary of the South 24-Parganas committee, to whom the directive has been issued, is Rabin Haldar.

If the chief minister wanted to blunt the Singur curse and burnish Bengal’s image, he seems to have reaped some dividends by taking on the Bloc, rather than Mamata Banerjee. “Whatever bad name Bengal had earned from Singur will be undone by this action of the chief minister,” Venugopal Dhoot, the chairman of Videocon Group, said.

The Bloc leadership tonight convened an emergency meeting of its state secretariat. “Our party secretariat decided that no minister would attend office from Monday as a mark of protest,” Ghosh said.

The Bloc and the CPM were scheduled to discuss the issue on Sunday. But the chief minister appears to have decided to act after feelers to the Bloc were rebuffed.

Metro, which has already invested Rs 140 crore in the wholesale store in Calcutta and plans to put in another Rs 420 crore, was issued the licence by the agri-marketing committee in 2005. The licence was subsequently renewed twice in 2006 and 2007 with validity till March 2008. However, in June 2007, the licence was withdrawn, which The Telegraph first reported.

The marketing committee cited halt to construction which the company was compelled to do because of a stay related to a dispute between the government and the former landowners.

Metro said the board had stated that the company could apply again for the licence as soon as construction resumed. When the court stay was revoked, the company approached the licensing authority in November 2007, December 2007 and in March 2008.

But the licence was not renewed, clouding Metro’s plans to open the store by this Puja season — two days away. Metro officials were not available for comment after the chief minister’s directive but the store can open within weeks of getting the licence.

The store can sell other goods without the committee’s licence but food and allied products are expected to account for 45 per cent of the wholesale business.
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Bhattacharjee: ‘Bold step’

Calcutta, Sept. 26: Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had tried more than once in the past 24 hours to turn the Forward Bloc around on the Metro licence, CPM sources said.

Both the chief minister and state CPM secretary Biman Bose, who had been urging Bloc leaders to consider the renewal of the licence to Metro, spoke to Bloc veteran Ashok Ghosh yesterday. Bhattacharjee also sent finance minister Asim Dasgupta to convince Ghosh. They called up Ghosh today before and after a meeting of the Bloc secretariat.

But Ghosh turned down their request and made public the party’s refusal to budge. “This provoked the chief minister to exercise his special powers,’’ a CPM leader said.

An agitated Ghosh accused the chief minister of highhandedness and wanted to know whether the CPM leadership supported his move.

Some CPM state secretariat members like Benoy Konar and Shyamal Chakraborty said they were not aware of the chief minister’s decision. “It was not discussed at the state secretariat today,’’ said Konar. Chakraborty, the Citu state president, was in Delhi and said he learnt about it from the media.

Although Bose was involved in the efforts to persuade Ghosh, Bloc leaders said the CPM state secretary told them he was not aware of the government’s decision.

“Bimanda spoke to us several times but never indicated what was coming. Later, he said he did not know about it,” a Bloc leader said. Bose was not available for comment.

A section of the CPM felt that Bhattacharjee wanted to send a signal to prospective investors that he was firmly in the saddle and industrialisation would not be shelved because of Singur.

Although Bose did not speak up, Konar said: “Ghosh is a respected leader. But he should explain why his party issued the licence to Metro some years ago and why it is refusing to renew it now. If they did not bother for any bilateral or Left Front meeting then, why are they insisting now?’’

Chakraborty said the party was not opposed to Metro’s entry into vegetable wholesale business. “We have opposed the entry of big players in foodgrain business. But we have no objection to Metro in vegetable business since it helps the growers and curbs waste. Second, if they restrict their business to bulk consumers and don’t sell below 20kg to each customer, it should not hurt retailers.’’

Chakraborty pointed out that the Metro licence was issued before the policy-churn within the CPM on the issue. “I can’t say what will happen if other big players want to enter the same market. But laws and rules change when the situation demands,’’ he added, hinting that the party had not yet resolved differences.

Some partners of the Left Front are still in shock, trying to make sense of the sledgehammer that was wielded not on Mamata but an ally.

“We don’t recall such use of chief ministerial discretionary power during the Left Front rule. This was done last by the Congress government of S.S. Ray,’’ said Naren Chatterjee, the chairman of the Bloc-controlled state marketing board.

Other partners questioned the “timing”, fearing the licence directive would reopen fissures within the front at a time the allies had rallied behind the CPM on Singur.





Industry salutes CM
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The Metro Cash & Carry store on EM Bypass in Calcutta

Calcutta/Delhi, Sept. 26 Industry leaders today praised Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s move towards getting Metro Cash & Carry a licence, saying it would restore investors’ confidence, shaken by the Singur fiasco.

Venugopal Dhoot, the chairman of Videocon Group, said the taint earned by the state had been washed away by this act of the chief minister. “It is a very bold step. Foreign investors will take heart from this. Singur is an isolated investment,” he said.

Dhoot, an early-bird investor in Bengal, has proposed a large steel-and-power plant and several special economic zones in the state.

Biswadip Gupta, CEO of JSW Bengal, which is executing Jindal’s steel project at Salboni, said: “This sort of firmness is what people look for.”

McDonald MD Vikram Bakshi said: “Every such step that the CM takes will be in the direction of attracting further investment.”

D.S. Rawat, secretary-general of Assocham, said Bhattacharjee’s move would boost the state’s image at home and abroad.

Metro had invested in Bengal against an assurance that a farm product marketing licence would be issued to it. But the Forward Bloc-run agri-marketing board withdrew the licence after the German wholesaler had built a store.

Keventer Fresh chairman Mahendra Kumar Jalan, who has taken on the board for denying licences to his company, was excited by Bhattacharjee’s move. “Investors will get a lot of confidence from this action,” he said.

Keventer has moved 11 petitions against agri-marketing committees under the board for sitting on its applications.

Legal experts feel Metro has a stronger case since it was issued a licence that was twice renewed before being abruptly withdrawn. They said the farm product marketing act’s provisions were less than clear.

“The criteria for award of a licence are not specific. But that does not mean the authority (agri-marketing board) has discretionary powers not to give it. The board’s rejection would not pass the test of law,” an expert said.

Debanjan Mandal, a partner in Fox and Mandal, the solicitor firm appearing for Keventer in the cases at Calcutta High Court, said: “Unfettered discretion is against the basic structure of the Constitution as has been repeatedly held by the court of law. It is a fundamental right to do business subject to reasonable restriction.”

All eyes will now be on Keventer’s challenge to the agri-marketing board, pending in the high court.





Bloc follows Buddha, Jatin script
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Calcutta, Sept. 26: Today’s Forward Bloc decision follows an old tradition of Left Front ministers resigning or partners threatening a pullout on contentious issues.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had himself resigned as information and cultural affairs minister in 1993 following “sharp differences’’ with then chief minister Jyoti Basu.

“Nobody could have imagined that Buddhababu would quit because of differences with Jyotibabu over certain government affairs. He told his aides he would never return to the cabinet and would instead prefer to spend his time writing poetry,” a senior bureaucrat said.

A year later, Bhattacharjee was brought back by Basu following a party decision and given additional charge of the home department.

“One line in a statement issued by the state committee informed the media that Buddhababu was being taken back,’’ a CPM central committee leader recalled.

Economist Ashok Mitra had quit the ministry as finance minister in the ’80s saying he “could not share Jyotibabu’s views’’.

“Mitra quit the ministry and gave up his CPM membership at one go because he failed to see reason in Jyotibabu’s style of governance. Jyotibabu used to think that Ashokbabu’s moves to blame the Centre for Bengal’s economic ills would not help improve Centre-state relations,” a senior official said.

In the recent past, RSP minister Kshiti Goswami criticised the government over its Nandigram “failure” and stopped going to Writers’. But about a month later, he resumed working at the state secretariat at the prodding of his party leadership, “though not ungrudgingly’’.

“I was not greedy for the trappings of power. I was in a mood to quit but my party wanted me to continue as minister,’’ Goswami said today.

The late cigar-puffing RSP leader, Jatin Chakraborty, had quit as PWD minister on the Bengal Lamp controversy.

“The allegation was Jyotibabu had prevailed over Chakraborty at (Basu’s son) Chandan’s insistence that Bengal Lamp be given orders from PWD,’’ an RSP leader said.

The CPI had in 2000 decided not to send its ministers to Writers’ after the CPM denied a Rajya Sabha berth to Gurudas Dasgupta. “Our decision was based on party principles,’’ a CPI leader said.

After about 10 days, however, the CPI ministers returned to work following an assurance that Dasgupta would get a ticket the next time there was a vacancy in the upper House

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