Industrial Parks in Tamil Nadu - Karunanidhi's Nrw Industrial Policy.

Industrial Parks in Tamil Nadu - Karunanidhi's Nrw Industrial Policy.:

• The Tamil Nadu government will develop a land bank of 10,000 acres with quality infrastructure over the next five years to provide space for industrial parks, according to the new industrial policy released by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Monday.

• “The land bank will be mostly developed on dry and barren lands. Prime agricultural lands will be avoided,” the policy said. The government will also take steps to amend laws to enable automatic conversion of drylands from agricultural to industrial use. 

• Private industrial parks must directly purchase land, which should be barren, non-irrigated and dry, as far as possible. Proposals with more than 10 per cent wet land or double crop land will be rejected, according to the new criteria for an approved industrial park. Parks should be located at least 50 km away from the Chennai city limits and should not include more than 5 per cent of government land.

• At least 10 per cent of the area in industrial parks developed by SIPCOT and TIDCO will be set apart for social infrastructure, such as skill development centres, financial services, housing, schools and hospitals. Another 20 per cent of allottable area will be reserved for small and medium entrepreneurs...
  
  The Hindu November 06, 2007. 
  

• If any Indian believes in this crap then he is a deluded insane Indian. The rules are framed by an illiterate babu, with scant knowledge of the language either Tamil or English, and is so full of ambiguities, it is a veritable Gold Mine, for the chairman or vice-chairman and their goons of the respective Muncipalities and the respective Political parties. There is an unwritten rule among the Parties whether in Power or in Opposition, to bleed the Tax-paying public to death. 

• The Builders would interpret the rules to their advantage, and build structures that are patently illegal, and the Muncipal authorities would interpret in another way that are "beneficial" to them personally, and the worst sufferer would be the tax paying public. 

• The other day, I witnessed a strong arm tactic of the Muncipal Commissioner of an Industrial Muncipality adjacent to the city limits of Chennai, stopping the construction work of a builder, and taking away the materials used for construction. 

• His parting shot, who came to the site to stop the work in his government vehicle is this: " We are not here to repair bad roads, clean the sewage systems, and other work meant for making the life of the suffering public more tolerable. You build Industrial Parks and earn huge sums by way of rentals, and are we Ilichchavayans to be just passive onlookers? Where is the Promoter and owner of this Industrial complex? Ask him to come to me, meet me in my private chambers and then we shall decide. Till then the progress of work on this site will be suspended."

• His minions, who had come in a government truck, took some construction materials and dumped it in the vehicle, and went away in a caravan. 
  
  I do not know what happened next, but I heard that the work is still in suspended animation. 

• Later I came to know, that this "gentleman" belongs to a party which was close to the ruling DMK, but now has difference of opinion, but when it comes to making money, there is no difference between them whether in power or out of power.