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Last few days in Mumbai has shown what is happening in major cities in India be it B’lore , Chennai , Delhi an Insider vs Outsider debate . Part of some issues raised are true that there is so much influx that resources in these cities are getting constraints but who is to be blamed ?

Here is my story I was born and brought up in MP did all of my schooling engineering there and then moved to B’lore for my master a place some 2000+ KM away from my home town , why did I moved because there were not much job opportunity in MP and only 1-2 good MTech program compared to what I was offered in B’lore. Now if an engineer has to move that much then one can understand the plight of majority of people who hardly had chance to complete there primary education.

Same is happening everywhere we have some cities like Mumbai , B’lore , Chennai , Delhi , Hyderabad which are growing and offering way better prospects , inviting people and in the process crumbling , so what is the solution ?

Goverment should develop more cities , give incentives to businesses for setting shops in small cities like Mysore , Nagpur . Give incentives to farmers so that they stay put in there villages otherwise what is happening in Mumbai might happen in all metros

With Sensex and Economy rising it should all be well with the country but no !! 25000 landless people had to walk 340 Km to make there voice heard , it is really sad for the country and the government that people had to resort to such extent for there basic rights. On top of it in the end what had people got … assurance of a committee headed by PM to look into there grievances.

Opposition which should be raising voice on behalf of these people is all to occupied on N-Deal.

Update 01/Nov/2007 :

FT has also covered this here and fortune has covered this topic here

With all the news stories to be believed looks like congress is going back on N-Deal , if this turn out to be true then this is the most gutless show by the goverment. With all the high talking about the N-Deal and the benefits it could bring to India going back should not be the option especially with Manmohan Singh himself putting his stake on line. Now what are they are doing by towing to the demand of Left who want to rule by proxy . If it had to come to this then why the hell they did all the tough talking to the US and made a mockery of themselves . Now what is the alternative ,  who will feed the power hungry country , it would be better if instead of going back govt. come up with alternative which I don’t think are many.

I would have preferred congress goverment to go down on this deal then making a U-turn , I seriously pray Narendra Modi to loose election in Gujrat so that I can vote for BJP as he is the only reason I dont like BJP otherwise that is the only party which knows how to work with allies and atleast had some guts to walk the talk on big issues like this remember Nuclear testing . Gone are the days when congress had leaders like Indira Gandhi.

With Gowda Vs BJP standoff becoming murkier , looks like BJP is getting taste of what it feels when politicians goes back on there promise .
Hope they will learn some lesson and wont make baseless promises.
Only thing remain to be seen is who comes out less dirty shameless Gowda’s or greedy BJP.