AIt can only happen in Bengal
Posted : October 21, 2005 at 7:46 am [IST]
Bengal always allures me. They do things in innovative manner. There are not many industrial units left out in West Bengal after the decades of leftists’ onslaughts. Buddha doesn’t seem to work on encouraging those that are still there and can improve the perception of the industrial climate thereby. He is busy in bringing in new investors and that too from the developing countries in neighborhood. His leaning for the Chinese is well known and obvious. I wonder one day he shall be the host of some industrialists from Bangladesh too whom he would have invited for setting up some apparel manufacturing park. He must be having a good reason for selecting the Indonesian firm. Indonesian firm may set a manufacturing unit, but it can’t be significant player in that sector. Neither the state nor the country as whole require the manufacturing capacity and technical know-how of motorcycle’ manufacturing. Surprisingly, when he was putting a red carpet for Indonesians, he showed the Wal-mart people the door.
I wish he could have asked the management of some big companies such as ITC, HLL, Hindustan Motors, and others already there to multiply their output and make the company efficient. He would have requested the damaging union activists to improve the productivity and work culture in the existing firms. But my subject is not that.
I am amazed and amused by the way Mamta is trying to make a come back. The CM could ditch her men and brought in the Indonesian guests without any major shameful incident. But the stories appearing in media about the protesters’ effort to demonstrate against the Indonesian investment and industrialist visiting West Bengal again raise the question why the leaders and people of Bengal put all their innovative energy in only protesting for some or the other issues and discover unique ways to do that. Instead, they may start working more diligently and rediscover and re-establish the image of the innovative state that produced PC Roy, Jagdish Basu, Meghnad Saha, and Satyen Bose.
Mamta Devi! Let Bengal do at least these small little things. You would have declared a holiday on this rainy day for your members. And Budho(u) Babu, why can’t you have the two-wheeler plant located in Midnapur near around IIT, Kharagpur, where a lot of wasteland is available?
- Indra
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