And the things are back to the square one in the state of West Bengal with the introduction of new industrial policy. The government is going to proudly reiterate all its shining mistakes and glorious follies by not dealing with the land issues first hand.
It says 200 acres is the maximum amount of land that the government will give an industry. But if more land is required, its that industry's responsibility to negotiate terms with the land owners and here the government will not help at all. "Giants go away then". Cause none of the biggies will find this acceptable this so called "land arrogance" the the honorable C.M so frequently boasts of.
Any person with even a tea spoon amount of economic sense knows for sure that the survival of the small scale industries depend on the few giants who are actually going to make the end product that will compete in the world market. If a large automotive plant or chemical factory goes away, goes with the potential of a modern heat treatment unit or a forging unit or an waste disposal technology to flourish.
Here is a state government that thinks industry owners are all desperate, helpless lovers of the state and who will go against all their rationale to bring investment here. Amidst uncertainty of land, a nasty work culture, an incompetent bureaucracy and a 'caged', 'chained' and 'hand tied up' police made it a least lucrative investment destination. And all these have turned the tide, in this bleakest phase of Bengal's industrialization, against the youth of Bengal who dreamed of better, successful, fulfilling life in this state, forcing brain drain, creating deep intellectual vacuum The plight of the old parents are endless, none of the Bengal's intelligentsia settles in Bengal. So, after a life time of caring and nurturing of brilliant studious child they get a lonely old age.
Many people would argue, bleaker than this phase had been there in the past. But the pain of current situation should be counted in terms of lost opportunities and missed chances. What could have been possible in the soil of Bengal had we not lost track in wrong opportunist politics?
Where the rest of India and the world are taking giant strides forward, we stand still. We, the overtly democratic, messy, strike loving, change-embracing people of the once glorious Bengal, where will we position ourselves in the history that the next generation world will write? How will they portray us? As a hoard of losers buried in scams of chit funds? Or will there be any consolidated effort to turn around-fate wise, fortune wise? Let's see.
It says 200 acres is the maximum amount of land that the government will give an industry. But if more land is required, its that industry's responsibility to negotiate terms with the land owners and here the government will not help at all. "Giants go away then". Cause none of the biggies will find this acceptable this so called "land arrogance" the the honorable C.M so frequently boasts of.
Any person with even a tea spoon amount of economic sense knows for sure that the survival of the small scale industries depend on the few giants who are actually going to make the end product that will compete in the world market. If a large automotive plant or chemical factory goes away, goes with the potential of a modern heat treatment unit or a forging unit or an waste disposal technology to flourish.
Here is a state government that thinks industry owners are all desperate, helpless lovers of the state and who will go against all their rationale to bring investment here. Amidst uncertainty of land, a nasty work culture, an incompetent bureaucracy and a 'caged', 'chained' and 'hand tied up' police made it a least lucrative investment destination. And all these have turned the tide, in this bleakest phase of Bengal's industrialization, against the youth of Bengal who dreamed of better, successful, fulfilling life in this state, forcing brain drain, creating deep intellectual vacuum The plight of the old parents are endless, none of the Bengal's intelligentsia settles in Bengal. So, after a life time of caring and nurturing of brilliant studious child they get a lonely old age.
Many people would argue, bleaker than this phase had been there in the past. But the pain of current situation should be counted in terms of lost opportunities and missed chances. What could have been possible in the soil of Bengal had we not lost track in wrong opportunist politics?
Where the rest of India and the world are taking giant strides forward, we stand still. We, the overtly democratic, messy, strike loving, change-embracing people of the once glorious Bengal, where will we position ourselves in the history that the next generation world will write? How will they portray us? As a hoard of losers buried in scams of chit funds? Or will there be any consolidated effort to turn around-fate wise, fortune wise? Let's see.
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