Posted on: 29-11-09 01:38:48
We need all these projects for providing employment to our educated youth in India. Thankfully they dont have to come all the way to Canada and get employed in the same companies, by some contract labour agency as helpers. Speaking from my own experience.
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Originally posted by ILOVENA
To both TK & web 2000........... Please read my original message.
I knew that you would try convert this into a INDIA-VS-CANADA discussion. I wrote very clearly that this is NOT a "which is better - India or Canada discussion.
I know that both of you would try to hijack the essential component of the thread - which is, how socially responsible multinationals behave in third world countries.
I know you have this uncontrollable urge to convert every topic into one about Canada bashing............. If your intention is to divert the attention from the core subject of the topic, go ahead and do that.. However, that will serve no purpose.
I have no intention of doing that.
But in ur original post u started talking about beggars in India where as the actual topic has nothing to do about that. if u invite to hijack the topic then it is ur fault not ours.
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Originally posted by tamilkuravan
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Originally posted by ILOVENAThe liberalization has not helped the majority of people - whatever the reason. They still have no access to health care, and barely eat two meals a day. When a trans-national company sets up a factory in India, it does not necessarily mean that it will improve the lot of the common man. Time and again, it only shows that the rich get richer, and the poor live on the fringe.
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Looks like you are talking of the India of 2002 when I was last present there.
India of today is changed. Yes. I agree that there might be some beggers on the streets with Mental issues or people with poverty who are unable to work but then even on the streets of Canada, I see beggars (proportionate to the population of Canada 33 mill vs 1000 million). Just observe the local food bank, subway entrances and the exits of highways
Are you aware that India has now a tremendous shortage of servants , mason's, handy men, farm labourers etc... I agree that we live in a highly corrupt world, but then that is due mainly due to lack of computerization of processes which give rise to corruption. just wait for a couple of decades.
Peace by a PD
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It is nice to know what India is today. "Things are a changing" so fast in TN, I could not believe, had I not passed through that area in the recent months. Also it is nice to know a few other languages that are part of that diaspora to learn and understand the conversations.
Here is some thing everyone can chew and get to know. Also I read an article in one of the local magazines that they can and are capabe to make and eat IDLIES there for two per Rupee. So, I delved deep into the foray to find out how is it possible and is it true? Here is one such article trhat could have made it, as one of the ingredients are given away, next to nothing, for those who hold a Ration Card.: http://www.sonyvellayani.com/2009/04/political-gimmicks-by-tamil-nadu.html
Also heard through the grape vine that the unsold stuff is sold on the BM for four bucks and it gets polished and carted across the borders to the other neighboring states for Seven bucks a Kilo and then sold on the open market for as much as fourteen bucks a kilo.
After reading this article I feel that Poverty, SIR, has gone out through the window. If you offer a beggar a tenspot he will give it back to you now. So, "go fish". "Conjee" is currently an unknown word there. They eat barbequed goat for breakfast. (I will be contradicting myself from here) But it is a cross section that one observes and gets to see.
Poverty will still remain as the aged population has no 'family support' and are neglected by their children. (WHY?) There are only a few "Chatrams" and "Savadies" and they are full and there is an overflow of people that spills out into the areas of the shaded trees and also into the lean to's. What a name SAVU ADI !! There was one such portrayal of the widows just last week on the CBC. You might have had a chance to observe the same with me.
The free meal at some of the temples in the afternoons have become the main stay of the poor and the disabled. And currently there are a lot of them. So how does one go about doing a survey in a short while?. The Government has to step in and do the needful there, if they want to eradicate Poverty. And from a distance we are just onlookers. If anyone has seen some improvement it is hog wash. They are just pulling the wool over our eyes. But the current steps taken by a few in the politics are considered to be in the right direction. Hope it moves upwards from here. But it is slow in coming.
Yet it is there. That is India for us with 1.1 billion people. Yes, in a nation that is getting industrialized, it will slowly and marginally will ease out. Hope the improvements will follow.
Freddie.
1500 Local jobs are created and 4000 crores of investment, it will certainly help real estate business around, many hotels, transport business, local suppliers of machineries or raw materials or whatever. This is how economy rolls
It is indeed a good news.
Slightly off topic link, but still there are tonnes of negatives which is holding India for perpetual and steady growth:
Here is an interesting site about rampant corruption in financial sector which is involving billions of Rupees in corrupt administration involving peon to top bureaucrats
www.kaminababu.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8
