Gujarat leads in growth, South India needs to catch up: Report

[alphamale]

sometimes it can go upto 12 hours ..............and industries have power cut for whole day in a week

whole day?????? last year industries were facing power cuts as long as 3 days on a row.

 

[Prometheus]

8 hour long cuts ??

we are cussing the hell out of the power minister for 3 hour cuts. Serioulsy you guys need to thrash the power minister.

welcome to reality of Punjab.........................my generator drinks more fuel than my bike
and you dont even know the condition of roads here!!!!!

 

[StingRoy]

welcome to reality of Punjab.........................my generator drinks more fuel than my bike
and you dont even know the condition of roads here!!!!!

I am surprised buddy... I always thought Punjab was rich and had good infrastructure compared to the rest of the country.

 

[perplexed]

Some of the towns in punjab like the gurdaspur, Ludhiana have the largest concentration of Mercedes Benz in INDIA.

contrast this with the fact that they have 8-15 hour power cuts ? HAHA ! Mis governance at its peak...

 

[Mech]

In contrast, we dont have power cuts in kerala anymore, and nowadays the power holds even through heavy rain.

 

[perplexed]

In contrast, we dont have power cuts in kerala anymore, and nowadays the power holds even through heavy rain.

Thats because kerala might have made the transmission wholly underground like US. But its a very expensive proposition considering the huge geographical land area of our country. So until our transmission is overhead, lines have to be switched off to prevent power surge in the grid during thunder storms.

 

[Prometheus]

I am surprised buddy... I always thought Punjab was rich and had good infrastructure compared to the rest of the country.

people are rich..............very very rich......................but Govt. is poor .............very very poor.

ya we got good railway network, good highways, good communication system......................but thats all is under Central govt. thats why its good.

last time when last year of congress term was going on..........Reliance came with a proposal to set up agro-based industrial units in rural Punjab on land leesed from panchayats ........not acquired from individuals as other companies do.................every thing was great...............Panchayats were happily giving them land ( as they were paying many folds they expected).............they started councilling local farmers about comercial farming..
But govt. changed in elections...............and NDA scraped all the projects.

NDA loves development .

They took loan from improvement trust Jalandhar and gave it to the Muncipal coperation Jalandhar......................height of economics................and publicized that they gave grant to the city.

 

[Prometheus]

Some of the towns in punjab like the gurdaspur, Ludhiana have the largest concentration of Mercedes Benz in INDIA.

contrast this with the fact that they have 8-15 hour power cuts ? HAHA ! Mis governance at its peak...

ya...........punjabis love big cars

 

[RoYaL~GuJJaR]

We need this man to lead our country in Future...I hope we will see him as PM...

 

[Kinetic]

For last one year (since last summer) there is no power cut in my home!!! In between 2003-2008 there was no cut even during summer months but now its occasional load-shading during April-June but only for half an hour may be.

 

[jayron]

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Check this out:

Like Tamil Nadu, Telangana will be backward-heavy
Subodh Ghildiyal, TNN, Jan 8, 2011, 03.59am IST
NEW DELHI: A separate state of Telangana will mirror Tamil Nadu as a 'backward class fortress', with OBCs, SCs, STs and minorities forming 89% of the population and will pose a strong challenge to the hegemony enjoyed by upper castes and feudals in the power structure of Andhra Pradesh.

It is a tempting possibility as Reddys, Kammas and Vellammas form the powerelite of AP, riding on socio-economic muscle disproportionate to their numbers. The only state which has managed to make upper castes redundant in the political structure is Tamil Nadu where the SC/ST/OBC/minority bloc is said to form around 90% of the population.

But hopes of political empowerment of weaker groups in Telangana seems far fetched. For, the Srikrishna committee, which explored the prospect of OBCs ending the upper caste hegemony in Telangana, found growing inequity between the rich and the poor, with income growth being true only for the rich.

So much so, the commission said that SCs, STs and minorities in the T-region had suffered a decline in income whereas their Coastal brethern had "gained substantially". The disconnect between the numerical muscle of BCs and their economic growth is seen to put a question mark on their optimism about political empowerment in Telangana.

But the prospect itself is tantalising, as Srikrishna report seems to hint. The strength of dalits, tribals, backwards and minorities in Telangana would go up by 13% vis-a-vis united AP. OBCs number around 50.7% in Telangana. The underprivileged social bloc has not been able to supplant the Reddys and Kammas in so many years because a united AP, with Coastal and Rayalaseema, gives respectability to upper castes numbers. Combined with their financial and social clout, it makes them indispensable for political parties.

Srikrishna panel probed this question and attributed the continued hegemony of upper castes on "politics of accommodation". It said, quoting Ram Reddy, "They have retained their hegemony by negotiating with and giving space to other rising castes while retaining power in their own hands."

However, once AP is divided, the upper caste share in population will drop to near irrelevance in Telangana. This, however, analysts feel, would translate into reality if heterogeneous groups can be mobilised under one banner, like the Dravidian outfits in TN.

But Srikrishna committee marks a serious indictment of the very groups which are leading the statehood movement. Studying the economic growth in Telangana, the panel found it was nowhere near the abysmal levels in social and physical indicators but said the pink figures were largely valid for the rich. The SCs, STs have suffered a decline in income.

Like Tamil Nadu, Telangana will be backward-heavy - Times Of India

 

[StingRoy]

We also didn't have any power cuts in my hometown (in Orissa) for the last 12-14 years.... only last year we had some power shortage so there were 1-2 hour power cuts, but this year no more power cuts. We are back into surplus power

Power problems should be dealt with the most urgency. Ask the private industries to setup captive power plants and buy power from them.

 

[indushek]

You know what I mean.. All the high caste Reddy and Kamma businessmen controlling all the business and resources of AP while there is hunger and farmer suicides in Telengana. You have Cyberabad and Hightech city on one side and Naxal problem on the other. AP is one of the most unequal societies I have seen. Some of the richest neighborhoods in India like Jublee hills and Banjara Hills and then there is famine stricken Telengana.

Seems that u are selectively painting a picture , u want to show only one side of it not the other side.

While the neglect is not completely untrue, there are deeper factors here to be taken in to account.

Firstly the leaders elected in Telangana themselves are not responsible enough to demand better funds and better projects to their areas.

While the exploitation is being done by the local landlords and high caste rich people , the ones being blamed are the ones from coastal region.

Funny thing is that once YSR entered into picture it was the Rayalseems factions that prospered not Coastal regions.

The leaders elected here from all parties are the most corrupt, they take money from the Coastal rich and talk differently in public.

One of the worst Gaddar who roams with paltry clothes is the worst whose children are well settled in US. He preaches everybody to take up the struggle but sends his own to safety and prosperity. The real people who were struggling for Telangana not for money i say have been long sidelined.

Please provide the whole picture so that there is no confusion to anybody.

 

[indushek]

Check this out:

Like Tamil Nadu, Telangana will be backward-heavy
Subodh Ghildiyal, TNN, Jan 8, 2011, 03.59am IST
NEW DELHI: A separate state of Telangana will mirror Tamil Nadu as a 'backward class fortress', with OBCs, SCs, STs and minorities forming 89% of the population and will pose a strong challenge to the hegemony enjoyed by upper castes and feudals in the power structure of Andhra Pradesh.

It is a tempting possibility as Reddys, Kammas and Vellammas form the powerelite of AP, riding on socio-economic muscle disproportionate to their numbers. The only state which has managed to make upper castes redundant in the political structure is Tamil Nadu where the SC/ST/OBC/minority bloc is said to form around 90% of the population.

But hopes of political empowerment of weaker groups in Telangana seems far fetched. For, the Srikrishna committee, which explored the prospect of OBCs ending the upper caste hegemony in Telangana, found growing inequity between the rich and the poor, with income growth being true only for the rich.

So much so, the commission said that SCs, STs and minorities in the T-region had suffered a decline in income whereas their Coastal brethern had "gained substantially". The disconnect between the numerical muscle of BCs and their economic growth is seen to put a question mark on their optimism about political empowerment in Telangana.

But the prospect itself is tantalising, as Srikrishna report seems to hint. The strength of dalits, tribals, backwards and minorities in Telangana would go up by 13% vis-a-vis united AP. OBCs number around 50.7% in Telangana. The underprivileged social bloc has not been able to supplant the Reddys and Kammas in so many years because a united AP, with Coastal and Rayalaseema, gives respectability to upper castes numbers. Combined with their financial and social clout, it makes them indispensable for political parties.

Srikrishna panel probed this question and attributed the continued hegemony of upper castes on "politics of accommodation". It said, quoting Ram Reddy, "They have retained their hegemony by negotiating with and giving space to other rising castes while retaining power in their own hands."

However, once AP is divided, the upper caste share in population will drop to near irrelevance in Telangana. This, however, analysts feel, would translate into reality if heterogeneous groups can be mobilised under one banner, like the Dravidian outfits in TN.

But Srikrishna committee marks a serious indictment of the very groups which are leading the statehood movement. Studying the economic growth in Telangana, the panel found it was nowhere near the abysmal levels in social and physical indicators but said the pink figures were largely valid for the rich. The SCs, STs have suffered a decline in income.

Like Tamil Nadu, Telangana will be backward-heavy - Times Of India

Ha... Talk of dreams!!!!!!!

Comparision with Tamilnadu is futile, the reasons:

While in Tamilnadu most or all of the fringe groups in backward SC and ST have come on one platform, there is no such unanimity here.

The inherent differences between the groups called backward are so stark (where the regional differences are added spice here!!!) that people have for so long advocated a coming together but it has remained a dream only. Want to know the truth go to regional university campuses u will find it, loud and clear.

The part about unequal distribution and higher castes is very true indeed.

 

[Swati Shukla]

We really need someone with a personality in power, the last person i saw was our former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

yeah i agree... he's a great man and most deserving person to b our pres.