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A Proud Indian Canadian
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Originally posted by Desi in Alberta
It's high time Gujarat gets a decent International Airport with good flight connections. I am tired of going through Mumbai...
Gujarat may be the only dry state in the country. Is there any statistics on the alcohol consumption in the dry state of Gujarat ?!!?
The recent renovation efforts at Ahmedabad airports should be over soon and we will get a decent internation airport.
BTW, immigration and custom experience with Ahmedabad custom was great for me during last trip.
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A Proud Indian Canadian
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Originally posted by Nightmare
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Originally posted by kumar_vadivelu
Few states Gujarat, Punjab, and AP in India are doing extremely well and boosting Indian economy. Reliance Jamnagar Refinery is a world bench mark.
world bench mark
In pollution? What will be environmental cost? Have you ever visited Alang Shipbreaking yard? Have you heard of "Golden Corridor" between Baroda and Surat? It is most poisonous belt on the earth spewing most toxic chemicals. Gujarat's progress is at the tremendous cost of environment. It is not worth the human cost.
Vapi is in golden corridor and lists world's top 10 most poluted cities as per Time Magazine.
Here are the numbers:
Number of people potentially affected: 71,000
Type of pollutant: Chemicals and heavy metals
Source of pollution: Industrial estates
If India's environment is on the whole healthier than its giant neighbor China's, that's because India is developing much more slowly. But that's changing, starting in towns like Vapi, which sits at the southern end of a 400-km-long belt of industrial estates. For the citizens of Vapi, the cost of growth has been severe: levels of mercury in the city's groundwater are reportedly 96 times higher than WHO safety levels, and heavy metals are present in the air and the local produce. "It's just a disaster," says Fuller.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1661031_1661028_1661019,00.html
However Vapi is not the most poluted Indian citi listed. It is Sukhinda.
Number of people potentially affected: 2,600,000
Type of pollutant: Hexavalent chromium and other metals
Source of pollution: Chromite mines and processing
If you watched Erin Brockovich, then you know what hexavalent chromium is: a nasty heavy metal used for stainless steel production and leather tanning that is carcinogenic if inhaled or ingested. In Sukinda, which contains one of the largest open cast chromite ore mines in the world, 60% of the drinking water contains hexavalent chromium at levels more than double international standards. An Indian health group estimated that 84.75% of deaths in the mining areas — where regulations are nonexistent —are due to chromite-related diseases. There has been virtually no attempt to clean up the contamination.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1661031_1661028_1661018,00.html
Look at the number of people affected figure!!
China tops the list:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1661031_1661028,00.html
Industrialization ke side effects!!
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A Proud Indian Canadian
This is an interesting article: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IK27Df01.html
Some of the highlights:
Its dazzling economic success is being highlighted by Chief Minister Narendra Modi in his election campaign as he makes a bid for a third straight term in office in upcoming assembly elections in the state.
According to a recent study by the Reserve Bank of India, the country's central bank, Gujarat stood first in the country with investments of US$17.8 billion in 2006-07 or 25.8% of India's total investment of $69 billion during the year.
The southern state of Andhra Pradesh stood a distant second having attracted $6.1 billion in 2006-07.
Gujarat moved up from second place in 2005-06 having tripled its investments in a year.
Situated in western India and bordering Pakistan, Gujarat is among India's most prosperous states.
Its per capita GDP is 2.4 times the Indian average.
It is India's most industrialized state and accounts for 20% of the country's industrial output, 25% of its textile production, 40% of its pharmaceutical production and 47% of its petrochemical production. The state accounts for 21% of India's exports.
A report in Times of India describes the Gulf of Kutch as India's "Gulf of Riches". Four top business houses - Reliance Industries, Essar Group, Adani Group and Tata Group, have invested about $34 billion along the Gulf of Kutch's 700-kilometer long coastline. Other corporates, which had invested over $3.26 billion since the 2001 earthquake have investments worth another $19.5 billion in the pipeline. Ten special economic zones (SEZs) near Jamnagar, a 4000-megawatt power project and five private shipyards are coming up. And massive expansion is being undertaken of the Mundra and Kandla ports.
Gujarat's 41 ports handle 80% of India's port traffic and 20% of its cargo. It is estimated that by 2015, Gujarat's ports will handle 39% of India's cargo.
Not only has Gujarat unseated Maharashtra as India's number one investment destination but also, it is threatening to dislodge Mumbai, Maharashtra's capital and the financial and business capital of India, as the trade gateway to the country.
Mundra port where Indian Oil Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum are setting up giant oil storage capacities has already emerged as India's largest private oil storage tank farm.
Sixty percent of India's coal imports enter via Mundra port. Mundra’s importance is likely to soar further with the completion of mega power plants being set up by Adanis and Tatas.
The volume of cargo handled by Mundra and Kandla ports alone has outstripped that handled by Mumbai’s ports - the Mumbai Port Trust and the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust.
And now Gujarat is nursing ambitions of dislodging Mumbai as India's financial hub. Its government recently announced the setting up of an international financial services center, the Gujarat International Finance Tech-City with an investment outlay of $6 billion in Ahmedabad.
Yes most of the development is at the cost of our environment and our poor people. In India very few people care about environment. They are dumping ground for the westerners. How many people die by cancer due to chemical? Do we have any stats on that?
What happened to Bhopal Gas? How many people got relief? We have laws, but every one get away with it and nobody goes to jail for that and nobody get sued.
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Originally posted by jayaram
Yes most of the development is at the cost of our environment and our poor people. In India very few people care about environment. They are dumping ground for the westerners. How many people die by cancer due to chemical? Do we have any stats on that?
Do you have any stats on what you have said or you are just saying because you feel that development leads to environmental damage ?
