HOPELESS ORISSA CONGRESS & ORIYA PEOPLE

[myorissa]

Dear My orissa people !

This is from my heart, how we oriya people are simply "MURKHA ORIYA". In front of us how other state is taking benifit by using dirty politics, just saying the land "problems over land acquisition and the MoEF’s spanners seem to have taken the wind out of its sail". This make differenciating state to state. Seems we Orissa people are very load grade people in India. How ful we are..........


PLEASE READ THIS HOW ORISSA IS GOING TO HELL.
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Dear all:


Yet another report in the media, this time from Indian Express, saying that Vedanta University is most likely not going to happen in Odisha, and possibly will move to Andhra or Karnataka. Please see http://www.indianexpress.com/news/vedan ... r/678836/0 for the Indian Express article. A copy of it is also at http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/5331 .


A sify.com report at http://sify.com/finance/moef-seeks-more ... djchc.html ) see also at http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/5319 ) mentions that the environment ministry has asked the state government to submit some documents which it has not submitted yet.


Most of you have shown your concern on this by signing petitions, sending emails, etc.


The time has come for all of us to do more. Otherwise the moving of Vedanta University to Andhra or Karnataka would be a huge loss to us.


What can one do?


I will suggest a few steps but we all need to own this issue and come up with our own additional plans.


1. Write to the CM and officials in Odisha asking them to make Vedanta University their priority number 1.


Any other mineral based company or factory, if canceled, will be replaced by another one eying our mines, but that is not the case for Vedanta University. Once it makes an announcement that it will move to XYZ location in Andhra or Karnataka, we will never get another such institute (of 15000 crores = 3 Billion USD) by somebody else. These opportunities are rare and we are foolish to mesh it up and not give priority to it. (Email to: cmo@ori.nic.in, csori@ori.nic.in, indsec@ori.nic.in, hedsec@ori.nic.in ) In the email please request the CM to (a) Visit Delhi and get the PM's support (b) Immediately respond to the environment ministry (c) Help in any other way possible so that Vedanta University Project can start construction .


If you have other connections to CM please use it to convey the above message.


2. Write to the PM requesting that his government stop harassing this project and support it. (Email to: pmosb@pmo.nic.in , cc to cmo@ori.nic.in, csori@ori.nic.in, indsec@ori.nic.in, hedsec@ori.nic.in )


3. Make as many Oriyas aware of the value of Vedanta University as possible. You may ask them to watch:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3B7L1S_ ... re=related


http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/516


and read the articles at http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/cat ... university


In particular, we need to convince influential people in Bhubaneswar and Odisha about this project and convince them to come out and openly support this project. If the people there are not convinced then this is not going to work.


4. The Ganesh Puja is coming. One of Lord Ganesh's portfolio is education. When we were in school, we used to take books to get blessings of Lord Ganesha. Many of you will be participating in Ganesh puja in your community. You may use that opportunity to create awareness of Vedanta University and its possible moving from Odisha due to the apathy of the Odisha government. May be you can have a petition for the CM that you can get signed by various people in your Ganesh Puja circle and then send the petition to the CM the next day by courier.


5. The Delhi Oriya student association is looking for help on this matter. See comment 1 at http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/5331 . Please volunteer your help.


In general, all of us need to do more on this. I can and will create a draft letter and petition. But it is better if you write your own, at least one for each circle of friends or group. You may use some of the points mentioned above. The same letter sent by many has less impact than different letters sent by different people.


best regards
Chitta Baral
http://www.public.asu.edu/~cbaral
ps -- If you would like me to not send you mail on this, please accept my apology. Please let me know and I will not send you mail on this in the future.


http://www.indianexpress.com/news/vedan ... r/678836/0


Vedanta University a closed chapter


As Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta Resources battles to save its 1 MTPA alumina refinery project at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district from the axe of Ministry of Environment and Forests, the much-vaunted Vedanta University project in Puri is for all practical purposes a closed chapter.


The proposed Rs 150 billion university seemed futuristic and sounded too-good-to-be-true when Agarwal signed the MoU in 2006 with the Orissa government. It was claimed that when completed the world-class multi-disciplinary university over an area of 6,800 acres on Puri-Konark marine drive would be at par with Harvard and Oxford universities. The university, when fully operational, was to have an intake of 100,000 students with cutting-edge research facility in 95 academic disciplines. But local opposition, problems over land acquisition and the MoEF’s spanners seem to have taken the wind out of its sail.





“The project is as good as over,” said a Vedanta official. The company’s officials confirmed that Vedanta has shifted 26 of its 30 staff at the site to other locations and all work has been put on halt.


Though the Anil Agarwal Foundation (a registered not-for-profit entity controlled by members of the Agarwal family) had acquired 4,500 acres of the 6,892 acres allotted to it on paper, it was unable to take physical possession of the land due to local opposition. Even the initial plan to build a 500-bed super-speciality hospital at the site met with hostility, the official added.


The first bottleneck for the project came in March this year when Orissa Lok Pal Justice P K Patra recommended a moratorium on the project till the Foundation complied with legal provisions pointed out by the Ministry of Company Affairs for conversion of its status from private to public company. The Lok Pal said the Foundation was a private company and thus the state government can’t acquire any land for it.


Acting on a petition of trade union leader Dwarika Mohan Mishra, the Lok Pal held that Land Acquisition Act and Section 16 of Shri Jagannath Temple Act, 1954 have been violated by the government. The Lok Pal asked the Chief Minister to appoint a competent authority to investigate and inquire into the land deal and take appropriate action against the erring persons.


The university project faced another big hurdle when the MoEF on May 11 kept the conditional environmental and Coastal Regulatory Zone clearance in abeyance over allegations of irregularities, illegal and unlawful deeds by the Foundation.


With the project facing so many bottlenecks, Vedanta officials said the project may go to Andhra Pradesh or Karnataka. Both Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have sent feelers to Agarwal assuring him all support.




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A month back there was also an article in Business World ( http://www.businessworld.in/bw/2010_07_ ... Curve.html) which mentioned that Vedanta University people are considering invitations from two other states. In particular it says the following:




" “Two states have extended an invitation; a decision is likely to be taken on a new site in two months,” says Ajit Kumar Samal, in-charge of the university project. "


Similarly an article in Business Standard ( http://www.business-standard.com/india/ ... ono=398081 ) sayid:


"The Anil Agarwal Foundation’s plan to set up a Rs 15,000- crore varsity in Puri (Orissa), called Vedanta University, has come a cropper. The management is now in talks with two southern states for alternative land to set up the varsity."




Business Standard on Karnataka and Andhra’s wooing of Vedanta University

Following is from http://www.business-standard.com/india/ ... ap/405561/. The highlights are mine.


Even as the Congress and BJP, two parties in the opposition bench in Orissa, are stiffly opposing the setting up of the Vedanta University Project at Puri, two south Indian states, where the government of these parties are in power, are vying with each other to get the project relocated to their respective state.

First it was Karnataka, which had sent feelers to Vedanta chief Anil Agarwal and assured him all support if he decided to relocate the project to the state.

Now, it is Andhra Pradesh chief minister K. Rosaiah, who has gone all out to woo Agarwal to set up the university project in his state. Congratulating Agarwal for entering the shores of Andhra Pradesh through acquisition of majority stake in Cairns India which has interest in KG Basin, Rosaiah in a letter to Vedanta chief has urged him to cement the ties further by complementing the Andhra Pradesh government’s efforts to make the state global centre of learning.

Meanwhile, the fate of jinxed Vedanta University Project appears to be sealed as the company has shifted 26 of its 30 staff at the site to other locations. “All work on the project put on halt and the residual staff will also be withdrawn shortly, said a company official.

In his letter to Agarwal, who is also the chairman of Anil Agarwal Foundation (AAF), Rosaiah said, “I request you to choose Andhra Pradesh as the state has a unique capacity and culture to nurture the institute of your dreams that will put Indian education back on the global map. I depute the chief executive officer of AP Invest, the state government’s nodal agency, to make a detailed presentation to you in this regard. I assure you that the state government will extend every possible support to this endeavour.”

“Your vision of building a research university of the stature of Stanford in India, your dream of providing higher education of global standards to over one lakh students is all the more heartening. My government strongly believes in nurturing great institutions of learning in the state. As part of this vision, we have successfully invited institutions of excellence like Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Chrisitian Medical College-Vellore and Indian Institute of Science-Bangalore to start their academic and research campuses in the state”, the letter added.

AAF had sought around 6000 acres of land for building a university project of international standards in Orissa. The universit was to come up on the Puri-Konark marine drive at an investment of Rs 5000 crore.

The university, when fully operational, was to have an intake of 100,000 with a total construction area of 273.68 lakh sq metres. This proposed university would have a provision for quality higher education and cutting-edge research facility in 95 academic disciplines.

The project could not progress on the ground due to stiff opposition from the locals and opposition parties over land acquisition. Though the company had acquired about 4000 acres on paper, it was unable to take physical possession of the land. “Whenever we went to start work on the project, we were chased away by the local villagers”, rued the company official. Even the initial plan to build a 1000-bed super-speciality hospital at the site met with hostility, he added.

To make the matters worse for the company, the Union ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) had put in abeyance its earlier order granting environment clearance to the project.

[No.1]

The Congress govt at center is the most hopeless and backbone-less govt ever.
Now these A$$HOLES have planned to do cast census and increase the divide on the basis of caste and religion. All world has started hatin us Indians coz we are going backwards, just like the taliban.

From such a taliban govt, what can you ecpect?

It's worth mentining that the only person who protested against the caste-census bill has been an Odia. Long live Odisha!

[SonuCTC]

Now Vedanta said it will not move back on its decission on the industries neither on the university! Is it a fact?