I am a politician but am unable to rescue the state from this kind of loot

Congress Leader Srikant Jena : Orissa does not get the right share from NALCO's Profit

Dear Mr Satpathy, Thank you for this kind of initiative. I hope this platform can help in making a meaningful debate on different issues concerning the state. Nalco disinvestment is on hold now by the govt of India.Though the govt has not totaly yilded to but on political compulsion kept it on hold and I think it is not posible again for the govt to proceed inview of the resistance from UPA partners and also from within the Congeress.

Nalco is not only profitable but a highly profitable psu right from its inception. For the last 25 years it is making a huge profit. It is frofitable because Nalco gets its main raw material 'BAUXITE' IN ALMOST FREE FROM ORISSA. Orissa posess 71% of Bauxite deposit of the country. Orissa does not get the right share from the nalco's profit rather Orissa loses in all fronts. Yes, someone may argue, afterall its a national project, so the profit must go to the national exchequre. True, then why we only discuss about nalco's health not others?

Now, in the last 3 years Orissa govt has handed over the most valuable buxite mines to three major private players almost free (officially) VEDANT, UTKAL ALLUMINA BIRLA GROUP AND ONE FOREIGN COMPANY BILTON. TOTAL DEPOSIT AS PER THE GOVT'S ESTIMATE OF THESE THREE DEPOSITS IS NEARLY "5 LAKH CRORE RUPEE."

News papers and other media are captive to these pvt giants.Politicians of allmost all parties are soldout and have converted themselves as bonded labourers of these pvt houses. I am a politician and since i am unable to rescue the state from this kind of loot so you can put me to that catagory also. There are few burocrats who can withstand the pressure and a new trend in burocracy has emerged in recent years perticularly the younger lots are more pliable to to the temptation of these looters.

SO, MY DEAR SACHI, LETS DEBATE THE LOOT OF THE STATE BY THE THE BIG NEXUS OF POLITICIAN-BUROCRAT-PVT COMPANY IN THE NAME OF SO-CALLED INDUSTRIALISATION IN THE STATE IN A PROPER MANNER WHICH WILL REALLY HELP THE STATE AND WE CAN OVERCOME AND LIBERATE OUR PEOPLE FROM POVERTY. NALCO DISINVESTMENT IS A SMALL ISSUE COMPARED TO THIS. WE WILL DISCUSS IN DEATIL KEEPING POLITICS FAR AWAY IN THE GREATER INTEREST OF THE STATE. PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE IN MAKING THE STATE AS THE POOREST ONE IN THE UNION OF INDIA MUST BE BROUGHT TO BOOK IRESPECTIVE OF THEIR POLITICAL STATUS OR POSITION. THANKS. srikant jena

-- Sachi Satapathy, Coordinator, Orissa Politics Platform www.orissapolitics.cjb.net Mobile-09945410345