agentperry
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tribals need to get aside. its called rehabilitation.
environment- its protected thru nuke plants, that black smoke u r talking about.
power to a hamlet of 200 or 300 people or families is not a feasible option. you cant spend 200-300 crores on transmission line, distribution office and transformer for them they need solar lighting or biogas electrification.
India needs 400000 mw of power if we need to make it grow by the way we want-9% and every person given power.India has 400000 small hamlets and villages which have no economic contribution and no social interaction at all. govt has no land with it. if for one year govt halts its land acquisition then the whole economy will get into freefall. yes bad politics and corrupt officials make things miserable but these tribals are no good either. they posses some rare culture but again we are no african country surviving on tourism bounty.Rehabilitation? Have you ever seen what happens in "rehabilitation" - let me give you an example, the Supreme court admonished the state and central governments for NOT rehabilitating dam affected people - like this ..
India Together: Narmada dams rehabilitation scam exposed - 13 April 2005
http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/articles/ncsxna/art_dam.pdf
In our country, between bad policy, lack of accountability, corruption and mindless rhetoric, poor adivasis NEVER get rehabilitation.
It's all so nice to talk about "for greater good" and "social causes" and "for the interest of the nation" - but when it some down to the spades and boots, the spades dig the graves of poor people and the boots trample on their bones.
Somehow your solutions sound more and more like Europe between the two wars where forced mass exodus and elimination of communities were a common belief.
What have we learnt from the 1930-1940s Europe?
A nation is not made by sparkling towers, warships or cricket teams - a nation is made by the people in it and the respect that we are ready to give each other. The 400000 small landholders you dismiss so easily are just representative of India's tribal population, which is about 9% of all Indians. 400000 is a large number - no matter how casually you send them off in your post.
Environment protected through nuclear plants? What are you? Insane? Do you know Chernobyl? Three Mile island? What happened to Japan this year after a Tsunami at Fukushima daichii?
Nuclear power plants are ONLY safe if they are built far away from locality (read atleast 30 miles away - of the 30+ nuclear plants being planned in India, how many are located like that? Probably 10%, if any.
if the government needs the tribal held lands for national defense - in peacetime, then my argument will be the same - first build a new village for them, then give them adequate infrastructure for a livelihood, then relocate them with their consent. that is a civilized thing to do and a democratic thing to do. Otherwise we are no better than our enemies and our values are as bad as theirs.
In wartime, emergency evacuations are different, but then again, you cannot evacuate them to a desert or a marshland (unless that's what they want).
Anyway, I will love to coninue this discussion later, but my advice is, try to put yourself in their shoes and imagine how your life would be - imagine if you lived in a part of India where China invades and decides to displace all Indians to put in their people ....
nation needs its land back from the occupier.
these tribals fight for the land and then ultimately finds a place in our household as domestic help. they are not ready to get educated- if they get educated they will automatically leave those forests for cities. but no they stick to the outdated primitive culture.
we just have 28% land left to support more than 1.2 billion people, some half a billion livestock, industry houses and barracks. suggest me an alternative.