They have again
vowed to drown down the proposed project of Nanar Refinery. Long back, two
decades ago an influential BJP leader had pledged that they would drown the Enron
power plant in Arabic Sea and would drag fetch Dowd Ibrahim, the mastermind
behind Mumbai bomb blast. Nothing happened. They provoked people against
proposed Jaitapur nuclear project, a lot of hue and cry was spread, activists
that had never been connected to Konkan before, agitated, an innocent was
victimized to Police firing. The project wasn’t called back, the work is going
on.
Do they really
represent people as they claim?
Do the people
really want to drive the projects out of Konkan?
In case of
Enron, the opponents had organized a lecture of certain Mahajan to enlighten
the citizens about the high cost of the electricity to be produced by the
American company, soon after that they had a meeting with Ribeca Mark, Enron
Chief and they themselves were enlightened and influenced by the usefulness and
reasonableness of the same plant.
Meanwhile Enron
faced some trials in their own land of the U.S. and wound up to handover to
others. The result was that the power plant at Dabhol/ Anjanwel remained under
authority of several bodies, was time and again reformed and reorganized, but
did never prove to be efficient and never produced sufficient power. Despite
wastage of capacity, theft of water and a huge unpaid tax amount to the Gram
Panchayat of Anjanwel nothing came out.
They also had
protested before the energy plant being erected by Finolex, near Ratnagiri. A
very honest and loyal party worker went on fast and suffered; the leaders thundered
and received applause. The factory is working well. The people who always
carried on protest drag substantial monetary aids for their sports events and
so on…!
At the same time
a very influential local leader concentrated on the energy plant of JSW at
Jaigad and strategically spread agitation among surrounding dwellers for his
own political benefit. The project itself did much to offer services to local
people and utilized the CSR as good as possible.
Now the project
of Nanar Refinery. After declaration of the project estate agents rushed to
that area. It is a fact that before a few months all lodgings at Vijaydurg were
houseful and people discussed that a certain capitalist had purchased a huge
land to erect a private port. It is the other side of the fact that some
outsiders have already purchased land in Nanar area.
After all, for
whose interest all this is happening? The leaders who never spoke clearly on
this issue are set to hurriedly visit the area after it was declared that a
Saudi company is going to invest. Is it for public interest or benefit of
somebody else?
The leaders of
Konkan might be very keen about the possible harm to regional environment. But
they are so busy with the task of resistance to proposed projects that they
must not have found time and space to think about the heavy pollution and
hazards that have already present in the State industrial area around Chiplun.
Occurrences of ruthless draining hazardous chemicals into agricultural land
have taken place there. Several plants have caught fire that tolled lives. The
river and streams near Gane Khadpoli MIDC area are worst polluted. It is for
the people’s astonishment that not a single figure has been pointed to this
deadly fact by any leader in the district.
If they don’t
get time in their busy schedule as mentioned above we hope they will look after;
And if they are
ignoring the facts we should better say they are not representing us and should
give up running after them!
