"Growth" At Any cost
India Grows At Night ~ A book written by Guruchan das ! A good
book ! In this book he discussed about how India
grow in Night , while government sleep !
When two Indians sit down to sip tea, they quickly agree that their country seems to be rising despite the state and cynically express the idea of private success and public failure as “India grows at night while the government sleeps.” But how could a nation become the world’s second fastest growing economy despite a weak, flailing state? And my point is -- shouldn’t India also grow during the day?
In his book he briefly write about this int he case of Gurgaon Vs./ Faridabad :-
this village called Gurgaon not connected to Delhi. No industries. It had rocky soil, so the agriculture was poor. Even the goats did not want to go there. So it was wilderness. And yet 25 years later, look at the story. Gurgaon has become an engine of international growth.
Faridabad missed the bus :-Faridabad still hasn’t got the first wave of modernisation that came to India after 1991. It escaped Faridabad. Only now it’s kind of waking up. And Gurgaon did not have a municipality until 2009. This contrast really is in a way the story of India grows at night.
Here is the proof : India grow in Night , while government sleep ! Parliament adjourned 10 times in five days and Sensex grow 500+ points ! It's the alarming tone for all of us !
Here I am not writing the review of his book , I like to say : Indian Government want to sleep in day light for the growth of Private sector !
Government Made a new Institution called National Investment Board on the pressure of Big corporate house and Multi nationals company , may be it's also a symbol of Crowny Capitalism !
In early October, Finance Minister P Chidambaram set the cat (National Investment Board) among the pigeons by proposing that the NIB would have the power to overrule ministries if they delayed clearing large-scale projects. Minister of Environment and Forests (MoEF) Jayanthi Natarajan promptly shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh objecting to the proposal. She was joined soon thereafter by Minister of Tribal Affairs V Kishore Chandra Deo. A large number of civil society organisations.
Economic Growth vs Sustainability :-
the prime minister said, “money does not grow on trees”; instead, it grows by cutting them. No, he did not say this but his policies have shouted it out. If we take “trees” to mean not only trees per se but nature as a whole, economic reforms have come at such an enormous environmental and social cost that we are undercutting the safety and security of all future generations. Indeed, at the just concluded CBD COP11, India assured the world that it would be at the forefront saving the world’s biodiversity.
Since 1991 – when Manmohan Singh, then finance minister, ushered in a series of macroeconomic policy changes – India’s forests, coasts, seas, lakes and rivers have faced an increasingly brutal attack along with the communities dependent on these ecosystems for their survival, livelihoods and cultural identity.
It is not as if such impacts were not felt before 1991 – the model of “development” adopted since the 1950s has had the same kinds of results – but they have significantly intensifi ed in the recent phase. For instance, of the total forestland diverted since 1980-81 (when the Forest Conservation Act was enacted to make it mandatory for state governments to seek central permission for non-forest use of such land), about 50% has been diverted after 2001-02. Of the 1.5 lakh hectare forestland diverted for mining in the same period, over half has been diverted in the last decade. And while our bureaucracy reassures us that, overall, our forest cover has not gone down, it hides the fact that natural, dense forest has dwindled and has been compensated only by near-dead monoculture plantations or sparse vegetation.
Take another impact: Fishery exploitation has shot up phenomenally in the last couple of decades with marine product exports more than quadrupling. For the fi rst time in history, India’s territorial waters are showing signs of stock decline. Perhaps the most damaging activity of all, mining, is now laying bare thousands of square kilometre and creating two billion tonnes of toxic wastes every year.
“Coalgate” is only the tip of the hidden lodestone of scams in this sector. Economists in decision-making positions assert that sacrifi ce is necessary to alleviate poverty if “development” is to reach India’s teeming masses. But does economic growth, per se, regardless of how it is generated, really help the poor?
Jobless Growth :-
Industry and FDI give the employment is the Main logic use by Any Government (Center & States) to support prviate players but here I want to show two examples that how this is the totally wrong :-
1.Jamshedpur, the Tatanagar steel plant in 2005 produced five time the output it did in 1991 with half the labour.
2.Take mining for instance – from 1991 to 2004, the value of minerals produced went up fourfold but employment in the sector dropped by 30%, meaning we have had “jobless growth” overall.
GDP Figures after 1991 are Magical but it's not showing the story of growth it's call unsustainable growth :-
If you spend X point your resources ( Man , material and energy) and get Y% growth than :-
1.Sustainable - 5% GDP growth with spending of 15 points of Resources ( People call this Communist)
2.Unsustainable - 15% GDP growth with spending 65 points of Resources ( this is the Growth story of India after 1991)
Diluting Safeguards ( Sleep In sunlight ) :-
P.chidambarm and his friends in Planning commission handle Environment Ministry and comeetee as Terorrist in the growth of nation
Since 1991, notifications under the Environment Protection Act dealing with protecting fragile coastlines and assessing the environmental impact of development projects, have been changed 30 times, nearly all of them to exempt more or bigger projects from having to undergo assessments or public hearings.
Policies and laws governing mining have been diluted to allow bigger and bigger mining (e g, in 1996 a company could be granted a maximum lease of 25 sq km … it is now 5,000 sq km). About 15% of India’s territory is under mining reconnaissance and
the 2008 National Mineral Policy suggests that environmental regulations should become voluntary! Meanwhile, as it clears up to 100 projects a month, MoEF pays lip service to the rigorous environmental impact assessments that it should be insisting on, puts mostly “yes-men” on various committees meant to screen projects and has, at most, two dozen staff members to monitor over 6,000 projects already cleared.
One more time I like to Write that : Nexus between Government & Corporate gave Birth to Naxal
Neighter Government sleep in night not in days ...It's just close One eye and open other eye to calculate their margin in the profit of Private Players !
(Refrence - Article : http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2012_47/45/National_Investment_Board.pdf of EPW
When two Indians sit down to sip tea, they quickly agree that their country seems to be rising despite the state and cynically express the idea of private success and public failure as “India grows at night while the government sleeps.” But how could a nation become the world’s second fastest growing economy despite a weak, flailing state? And my point is -- shouldn’t India also grow during the day?
In his book he briefly write about this int he case of Gurgaon Vs./ Faridabad :-
this village called Gurgaon not connected to Delhi. No industries. It had rocky soil, so the agriculture was poor. Even the goats did not want to go there. So it was wilderness. And yet 25 years later, look at the story. Gurgaon has become an engine of international growth.
Faridabad missed the bus :-Faridabad still hasn’t got the first wave of modernisation that came to India after 1991. It escaped Faridabad. Only now it’s kind of waking up. And Gurgaon did not have a municipality until 2009. This contrast really is in a way the story of India grows at night.
Here is the proof : India grow in Night , while government sleep ! Parliament adjourned 10 times in five days and Sensex grow 500+ points ! It's the alarming tone for all of us !
Here I am not writing the review of his book , I like to say : Indian Government want to sleep in day light for the growth of Private sector !
Government Made a new Institution called National Investment Board on the pressure of Big corporate house and Multi nationals company , may be it's also a symbol of Crowny Capitalism !
In early October, Finance Minister P Chidambaram set the cat (National Investment Board) among the pigeons by proposing that the NIB would have the power to overrule ministries if they delayed clearing large-scale projects. Minister of Environment and Forests (MoEF) Jayanthi Natarajan promptly shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh objecting to the proposal. She was joined soon thereafter by Minister of Tribal Affairs V Kishore Chandra Deo. A large number of civil society organisations.
Economic Growth vs Sustainability :-
the prime minister said, “money does not grow on trees”; instead, it grows by cutting them. No, he did not say this but his policies have shouted it out. If we take “trees” to mean not only trees per se but nature as a whole, economic reforms have come at such an enormous environmental and social cost that we are undercutting the safety and security of all future generations. Indeed, at the just concluded CBD COP11, India assured the world that it would be at the forefront saving the world’s biodiversity.
Since 1991 – when Manmohan Singh, then finance minister, ushered in a series of macroeconomic policy changes – India’s forests, coasts, seas, lakes and rivers have faced an increasingly brutal attack along with the communities dependent on these ecosystems for their survival, livelihoods and cultural identity.
It is not as if such impacts were not felt before 1991 – the model of “development” adopted since the 1950s has had the same kinds of results – but they have significantly intensifi ed in the recent phase. For instance, of the total forestland diverted since 1980-81 (when the Forest Conservation Act was enacted to make it mandatory for state governments to seek central permission for non-forest use of such land), about 50% has been diverted after 2001-02. Of the 1.5 lakh hectare forestland diverted for mining in the same period, over half has been diverted in the last decade. And while our bureaucracy reassures us that, overall, our forest cover has not gone down, it hides the fact that natural, dense forest has dwindled and has been compensated only by near-dead monoculture plantations or sparse vegetation.
Take another impact: Fishery exploitation has shot up phenomenally in the last couple of decades with marine product exports more than quadrupling. For the fi rst time in history, India’s territorial waters are showing signs of stock decline. Perhaps the most damaging activity of all, mining, is now laying bare thousands of square kilometre and creating two billion tonnes of toxic wastes every year.
“Coalgate” is only the tip of the hidden lodestone of scams in this sector. Economists in decision-making positions assert that sacrifi ce is necessary to alleviate poverty if “development” is to reach India’s teeming masses. But does economic growth, per se, regardless of how it is generated, really help the poor?
Jobless Growth :-
Industry and FDI give the employment is the Main logic use by Any Government (Center & States) to support prviate players but here I want to show two examples that how this is the totally wrong :-
1.Jamshedpur, the Tatanagar steel plant in 2005 produced five time the output it did in 1991 with half the labour.
2.Take mining for instance – from 1991 to 2004, the value of minerals produced went up fourfold but employment in the sector dropped by 30%, meaning we have had “jobless growth” overall.
GDP Figures after 1991 are Magical but it's not showing the story of growth it's call unsustainable growth :-
If you spend X point your resources ( Man , material and energy) and get Y% growth than :-
1.Sustainable - 5% GDP growth with spending of 15 points of Resources ( People call this Communist)
2.Unsustainable - 15% GDP growth with spending 65 points of Resources ( this is the Growth story of India after 1991)
Diluting Safeguards ( Sleep In sunlight ) :-
P.chidambarm and his friends in Planning commission handle Environment Ministry and comeetee as Terorrist in the growth of nation
Since 1991, notifications under the Environment Protection Act dealing with protecting fragile coastlines and assessing the environmental impact of development projects, have been changed 30 times, nearly all of them to exempt more or bigger projects from having to undergo assessments or public hearings.
Policies and laws governing mining have been diluted to allow bigger and bigger mining (e g, in 1996 a company could be granted a maximum lease of 25 sq km … it is now 5,000 sq km). About 15% of India’s territory is under mining reconnaissance and
the 2008 National Mineral Policy suggests that environmental regulations should become voluntary! Meanwhile, as it clears up to 100 projects a month, MoEF pays lip service to the rigorous environmental impact assessments that it should be insisting on, puts mostly “yes-men” on various committees meant to screen projects and has, at most, two dozen staff members to monitor over 6,000 projects already cleared.
One more time I like to Write that : Nexus between Government & Corporate gave Birth to Naxal
Neighter Government sleep in night not in days ...It's just close One eye and open other eye to calculate their margin in the profit of Private Players !
(Refrence - Article : http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2012_47/45/National_Investment_Board.pdf of EPW
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