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[1] From: "Deepak Mittal" <deepak2312@gmail.com Date: Wed Sep 12, 2007 Subject: RE: [indiathinkersnet] To make India Number One In the world It would have been better if Mr. Mishra had bothered to visit www. jago. in before replying . Where all his doubts are cleared . With warm regards , Deepak Mittal -----Original Message----- From: Aditya Mishra [mailto: aditya11@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 To: indiathinkersnet@yahoogroups.com Cc: deepak2312@gmail.com Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] To make India Number One In the world Very childish game. 1. You have not given any explanation as to how such jobs can be created and what will these jobs entail and who would pay for them. 2. Rapists and murderers are already punished if they can be caught and proved in a court. How can you ensure that the person hired to catch corrupt persons themselves are not corrupt? 3. Do you have any idea how many judges you would require for your proposal? 4. Do you know how much it costs to produce one unit of electricity? ------------ [2] From: ASOKAN CHERIYANDYIL <casokan@hotmail.com Date: Wed Sep 12, 2007 Subject: RE: [indiathinkersnet] To make India Number One In the world First fight against caste and class, when there is no Caste where is the question of reservation? Asokan To: indiathinkersnet@yahoogroups.comFrom: deepak2312@gmail.comDate: Tue, 11 Sep 2007Subject: [indiathinkersnet] To make India Number One In the world Friends ,Mere discussion will not get any result . I have launched Jago Party with following policies (1) Reservation for none , job for all by job-oriented education (2 --------- [3] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com Date: Wed Sep 12, 2007 Subject: Indo-US Nuclear 'Deal': A Critical View and Update by Praful Bidwai http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20070921505011800.htm Sanctifying mass destruction PRAFUL BIDWAI The toxic terms of discourse of the nuclear debate have insidiously intruded into the public’s mind and distorted its moral perspective. ------- [4] Pakistan’s crisis Of Governance By Naeem Malik http://www.countercurrents.org/malik120907.htm Pakistan's political crisis takes a critical turn, as a result of the forced abduction of Nawaz Sharif from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia. The action takes the illegality that prevails in international affairs to a new level Making A Meal Of Bt cotton By Bhaskar Goswami http://www.countercurrents.org/goswami120907.htm In the Malwa belt of rural Punjab, mile after mile of Bt cotton fields are under attack by the mealy bug pest. Bathinda, Muktsar, Faridkot and Ferozepur, Punjab’s four major cotton-growing districts, have been badly affected. The so-called ‘magic bullet’, Bt cotton has turned into a bitter pill for farmers who were promised profits but who are now faced with huge losses --------- [5] From: Regi P George <george_regi@yahoo.com Date: Wed Sep 12, 2007 Subject: Nuclear Power and Energy Security Nuclear Power and Energy Security It is said that the Indo-US nuclear deal is central to our future electricity and energy requirements. At present, nuclear power generation capacity in India stands at 4,120 MW which is a little less than 3 per cent of our installed capacity of all power plants. One reason has been the nuclear isolation imposed on us resulted in the slow development of our civilian nuclear energy programme. However our scientists overcoming many hurdles did very well in indigenising the Pressurised Water Reactors, and then developing it further to 540 MW. The next stage is the fast breeder reactors, in which the Indian scientists are leading the world. The planned three stage nuclear programme would depend largely on technologies based on fast breeder reactors, and in the future, thorium as fuel. This programme requires far less uranium and lower dependence. Instead, the imported reactor route would focus much more on Light Water Reactors, which require much more uranium and are more expensive. Thus even the technology being offered will not necessarily be the best choice for India. Significantly, the mainstay of our nuclear power program – the fast breeder reactors – will still be under technology sanctions, as they would be considered a part of the fuel cycle. The other reason is the techno-economics of nuclear power and its relatively high cost. Nuclear power plants are about 50% per cent more expensive, even when using domestic technology and equipment. If imported reactors for nuclear power are considered, the situation becomes worse: it will cost about three times as much to set up nuclear plants with imported reactors than coal based ones. It will also cost twice as much per unit – Rs. 5.10-5.50 as against Rs. 2.50 from coal fired plants. According to the Planning Commission’s study, the most optimistic scenario of nuclear power is 15,000 MW by 2015 and 29,000 MW by 2021. These targets includes 8,000 MW of imported reactors. Even then, nuclear energy will only add up to about 7 per cent of our total installed capacity. Going ahead with such an ambitious power programme dependant on imports will come at a high cost and will dry up investments in other sectors. Interestingly enough, nuclear power is not the energy of choice for most advanced countries. The US itself has commissioned its last reactor in 1996! Members of Parliament may recall the fiasco of Enron and its Dabhol power plants. Implications for Foreign Policy and Strategic Autonomy The United States does not see the nuclear cooperation agreement as a stand-alone. It is part of American design to try in India a wide ranging strategic alliance which will adversely affect the pursuit of an independent foreign policy and our strategic autonomy. The facts speak for themselves. · Two weeks prior to the joint statement which announced the Indo-US nuclear cooperation agreement, India signed a ten-year Defence Framework Agreement with the United States in June 2005. This is being cited by the Bush administration as India’s commitment to cooperate with the United States furthering its strategic interests in Asia. · Two months after the nuclear cooperation agreement was announced in September 2005, India voted against Iran in the International Atomic Energy Agency, contrary to its stance earlier that Iran, as an NPT signatory, has every right to develop its nuclear technology for civilian purposes. · This was followed by a second vote against Iran in February on the eve of President Bush’s visit to India. · Nicholas Burns, US Under Secretary of State, in his “On record briefing” after the finalisation of the 123 agreement said on July 27: “And I think now that we have consummated the civil nuclear trade between us, if we look down the road in the future, we’re going to see far greater defence cooperation between the United State and India: training; exercises; we hope, defence sales of American military technology to the Indian armed forces.” The United States is exercising tremendous pressure on India to buy a whole range of weaponry including the 126 fighter planes, radar, helicopters, artillery etc. worth multi-billion dollars. Is the nuclear cooperation agreement going to bind India with the United States in a relationship which goes contrary to our cherished goals of national sovereignty and independent foreign policy and an economic development based on the priorities of our people? The objections and the apprehensions raised by the Left parties and other parties, organisations and concerned scientists and citizens need to be examined before proceeding further. All we are asking the government to do is not to rush through with the next steps which are necessary to operationalise the deal. We hope that you, as a Member of Parliament, which is the sovereign representative institution of the Indian people, will seriously consider these issues on this vital matter affecting our country’s future. ------- |
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