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Monday, March 21, 2011

TAMIL NADU ENVIRONMENT: Activists oppose plan to build hospital on national park land

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Threat to greenery
Chennai's greenery is under attack yet again. This time, the onslaught has not come from an influential builder, but the government. It has endorsed MGR medical university vice chancellor's plan to build a 500 bed hospital in the land to be carved out of the 2.7 square kilometre Guindy national park.

Situated in the middle of Chennai, this iconic park houses some 400 endangered black bucks, 2,000 spotted deer, 24 jackals, 100 species of birds, 60 species of butterflies and spiders.

It is not for the first time that this park has been robbed of land. Originally it was a place of game reserve. A British citizen Gilbert Rodericks, who died in 1817, owned it. After his death, the East India Company bought the property in 1821 as a weekend retreat for the governor. In 1947, when India became Independent, Guindy Lodge, as it was known then, became Raj Bhavan where the governor resided. In 1958, about 600 acre was handed over to the forest department, and in 1977 it earned the status of a national park.

By then, however, the original area of the park had shrunk as large portions of land had been given out for construction of Mahatma Gandhi memorial (9.25 acre); cancer institute (9 acre); Rajaji memorial (2.5 acre) and Kamaraj memorial ( 6 acre). IIT-Madras and Guru Nanak Educational Society also got land. The famous cancer institute is located inside the city.

Interestingly, the wildlife warden of the national park, Karunapriya, is not aware of any such development. She says she hasn't heard about construction of the hospital inside the park. 'Many wild animals survive here. We have a healthy population of black buck.' Many wildlife activists are opposed to such a project.

Chennai-based wildlife filmmaker Shekhar Dattatri said: 'The construction of a hospital will increase vehicle traffic. Besides, the development will have a long-term impact on the fauna and flora. This green space which acts as lung of the city should be protected.' K.V.Sudhakar, member of Madras naturalist association told TSI: 'Guindy national park is the last green patch in Chennai. It seems that the hospital has been planned near the Raj Bhavan. But a hospital inside a park is insensitive as the medical waste disposal and intrusion by the human beings will definitely spoil the atmosphere.'

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

HARYANA LAW & ORDER: Locals accuse cops of doing little to curb crime

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The fort of chandi crumbles

Once known as a peaceful and safe city of India, Chandigarh is rocked by incidents of robbery, brawl, murder and rape. Newspapers unfailingly report about these horrendous incidents.

Recently, an MBA girl student was brutally murdered in sector-38 West around 9 PM in mysterious circumstances. Even after days, the city police are still groping in the dark. They have been unable to lay their hands on the accused. This is not a one-off incident. These incidents have become a common occurrence in the city.

It was not that the administration was a mere spectator to these incidents. PCR (police control room) teams were established to curb vehicle theft, robbery and other crimes. But it is another story that the employees of the PCR were least bothered to act. However, after getting the flak in public the police administration has realised their folly. Now it has launched a movement to monitor PCR teams.

Senior superintendent of police S.S. Srivastav said: 'We have recruited special employees to keep vigil on PCR posts. Actually we have got many complaints that even after getting calls for help, they didn't show up. Till date, the special employees have checked some 500 PCR points in city. We have rewarded some honest policemen for good performance at PCR points.'

There were also complaints that in cases of an accident, PCR staff had been wasting a lot of time in getting permission from the control room. In many cases, victim succumbed to death. Now this rule has been changed. Under the new rule they don't have to wait for a call from headquarters. Besides, taking victims to hospitals, they will also keep vigil on criminals in the city.

In another example of negligence, the PCR did not respond to the call of a local. The story unfolds like this: When a local called on 100 to lodge a complaint with the cops that his house was looted in his absence, there was no response. It was only in the afternoon that the police registered his complaint.

But now Srivastav has assured the locals of prompt response. He said: 'Those PCR jawans, who were careless, will be taken to task.' He said although PCR employees are showing good performance but these kind of checking is necessary. He said: 'PCR gypsies posted for security of city will not be used for other purposes. We have also gotten permission from the administration for getting five more gypsies in the area.' The locals are impressed by the new changes.

A city resident Gagandeep Dhillon said: 'It is good that now they have realised their mistake. It is the duty of the cops to make sure that the locals are safe. And that is why PCR services were introduced in the area. We hope that the new approach will help curb rising crimes in the city.'

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Monday, March 14, 2011

BARACK OBAMA: BORDER SECURITY BILL

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Please, find better ways '
'to secure the borders than increasing visa charges!


After being passed by the US Congress, the much-touted Border Security Bill was signed by the President Barack Obama. The bill will strengthen security along the border with Mexico and address the ongoing problem of illegal immigration.

The $600-million bill will fund necessary law enforcement equipment and cover expenses of newly-recruited officials. But before the bill could come into effect, there were several protests and dissent across the globe. Since the bill will be funded through charging higher visa charges from foreign companies operating in the US, many Indian companies showed their agitation over it. Most of Indian IT companies have their operations in the US and they collectively apply for more than 50,000 visas every year. The sudden rise in application fee for H-1B and L-1 visas, by at least $2,000 for the next five years, would hit the operations of Indian IT companies to a very large extent, as Indian IT export industry earns over 50 per cent of its revenue from the US market. However, this is not for the first time that a move or statement by Obama will affect Indian IT or for that matter outsourcing business in India and sub-continent.'

Even in his first state of the union address, on January 27, 2010, Obama announced that the tax breaks that Indian companies get would be discontinued and said, 'It is time to finally slash the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas, and give those tax breaks to companies that create jobs right here in the USA'' On the same lines, this move of Obama will not only increase the operations cost of Indian firm but will also deter Indian investment in US.

The H-1B and L-1 visa application already costs around $2000-2500; and an increase of $2000 as filing and fraud prevention and detection fees will ensure more per capita cost on temporary skilled workers sent to the US for work from India and subcontinent. As per trade body NASSCOM, the impact on the Indian IT sector could be as high as $200-250 million per year.'

Further, the bill may not be acquiescent with WTO as the state department spokesman put it defensively, "We are reviewing a suggestion that this bill is not WTO-compliant. I am not aware that we've reached any final judgment, but we're not sure that necessarily any WTO issues are triggered."

Interestingly, a report titled 'Regaining America's Competitive Advantage: Making our Immigration System Work' made by the US Chamber of Commerce and a popular think-tank called American Council on International Personnel suggested that far from restricting foreign workers, the US should eliminate the cap on H1B visas and allow the market to determine the overseas workers entry into the country. The US President Barack Obama and his government definitely understand already that it is this capability (of the US) to absorb highly skilled foreign employees that is the prime reason behind America's competitiveness and its position as a top superpower. It's surprising that knowing all that very well, they would still allow such a move to curb the flow of skilled technicians and experts that could, in the long-run, dent America's intellectual capital and international business competitiveness.

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Friday, March 11, 2011

The Supreme Court on the issue of food wastage

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INDIA FOOD WASTAGE: No more wastage please
The Supreme Court recently suggested the Centre to distribute food stock free to the needy instead of letting it rot in the public godowns. The apex court, in a written letter to the government, said: 'Don't allow food grain to be wasted, give it away to the hungry population.' This is the most recent instance of the Supreme Court showing concern over governmental apathy.

India is an iconic example when it comes to wastage of food grain. The public storage facility across the country is terrible. A reply to an RTI query revealed that over 1.3 million tonnes of food grain (which comprises 183,000 tonnes of wheat, 395,000 tonnes of rice, 22,000 tonnes of paddy and 110 tonnes of maize) was wasted in the godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) in a span of 10 years from 1997 to 2007. It was enough to feed 10 million people for one year. Besides, the Centre had spent about Rs. 259 crore to clean away rotten food grain. India loses over Rs. 58,000 crore of food grain every year due to wastage. Even the government accepted recently that 61,000 tonnes of food grain had gotten spoilt in godowns because of little or no protection. High-yielding states like Punjab and Haryana were struggling to save 15.5 million tonnes of food grain kept open in tarpaulins. This at a time when over 200 million Indians go to bed without food. The country ranks 66th among 88 countries in 2008 on the Global Hunger Index. Currently, the Indian government distributes its food stock through the Public Distribution System to the poor. Unfortunately, widespread corruption has befuddled the PDS in our country. A research, jointly conducted by the Transparency International and Centre for Media Studies in 2005, revealed that about Rs 21,069 crore was paid as bribes by Indians to avail of any one of 11 public services. Over 1.5 crore households paid bribes in 2004. Sadly, researches have also shown that states with higher poverty paid more bribe in PDS. Households pay on an average Rs. 245 every year as bribe. This means that India's poor are paying Rs.358 crore annually as bribe.

While Mr. Pawar says the issue is exaggerated, it's high time that the Centre should take up the issue of inadequate public storage capacity seriously. India's storage capacity is 60 million tonnes while nationwide food production has increased to 228 million tonnes. China's food storage capacity is 150 million tonnes. Surprisingly, neither the FCI nor Food Ministry have revealed plans to improve the storage, although the Ministry of Agriculture did recently promise to implement world-class storage facilities. The government also passed the Food Security Bill recently. These are all signs of commitments. But will they be enough?

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