Nilachakra

Modernization , A gift or curse for Orissa

Jaya Jagannath,

Despite endless efforts to develop Orissa, intellectuals in the state are still unable to convert all of their prosperity dreams into reality. Fellow Innocent country people are being continuously spoiled by antigovernment elements to ruin any new progress in the lines of development. Any new proposals of either a steel plant, a port, an airport, a dam, a power plant or even a small road construction project is being responded by local villagers with stiff opposition, even armed revolution in many cases. Rather than thanking the government for their tireless efforts in bringing in world leader industrial emperors to Orissa for investments that will pour in opportunities and wealth, Innocent villagers being misguided by antigovernment bodies as this to be the end of their livelihood, unfair deal for their wellbeing and many more such remarks. For a world that is cruising towards development, If fellow country men are not understanding the value worth of these multi million investments right in front of them, then there is nothing more shameful than this.

This is not only ridiculous, but as citizens of Orissa, it is quite shameful for all of us. Think of any steel township on earth. A mere jungle a day once converted into a steel city, not only provides enormous job opportunities to lakhs of people instantly, but also gifts a well planned, sophisticated, multi billion state of the art township with all facilities intact, a promised future for generations further for all in and around the steel city. So why there is an opposition for such major industrial project movements in Orissa.

At one side millions of talented Oriya youth leave their homes for distant parts of the country in search of job and livelihood and on other side people back home at Orissa resist industries to enter Orissa, atack on them when they come for land survey, kidnap their officials and torture them. How disgusting is this? Why are we all keeping quite? It s not only the responsibility of the administration to look into this, rather it's the responsibility of each and evey Odia around the world to facilitate smooth investments in Orissa in terms of industrialization, modernization and financial development. We do this today and we stay alive in the growing world tomorrow. We sleep today and tomorrow the rest of the world will cruise ahead crushing us behind.

Just imagine POSCO investing 12000 crores shall no doubt gift Orissa a modern township ten times larger, smarter and efficient than Rourkela, Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd at Jajpur with 15,000 Crores, Sterlite Iron & Steel Co. Ltd at Keonjhar with 12,500 Crores, Jindal at Keonjhar with 4,000 Crores, Tube at Kalinga Nagar with 3,480 Crores will shape our state on the templates of Germany and Japan. Along with this in addition we will get seven world class seaports, International Airports, World class educational institutions, Mega power plants, World class railway stations, All employed youth force, A completely developed world s richest state in return, a rich, safe, wealthy heaven just in few years.

All we need to do is welcome such investments to our motherland and help them with all available resources, talent and muscle power we have with us. We do this we stay atop.

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