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The juggernaut of development threatens to roll on and on! From Narmada to Nandigarm, Mumbai to Kashipur. No respite, no regard - for human lives and livelihoods! Corporate profit is the only thing that counts! Nothing else matters! That’s why the struggle of WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA is indivisible! From Narmada to Nandigarm, Mumbai to Kalinganagar! The history of resistance - against “development”, against “SEZ”, against “Sanghai”, against “big dams”, against forced eviction, against further pauperisation of the already poor, is thus being written all over the place in the blood and sweat of ours. Nandigram is a burning leaf, still burning, from the pages of that ongoing history. It is in a remote corner of West Bengal in East Medinipur district, 180 kms. From Kolkata. On January 3 this year a notification was issued by the Haldia Development Authority indicating that 19000 acres of cultivated land would be acquired for establishment of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the area to be d...

[Friends are requested to do likewise and also spread the word. Sukla] To The Hon’ble Governor of West Bengal, West Bengal Raj Bhavan Kolakata http://in.f86.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=governor@wb.nic.in&YY=6157&y5beta=yes&ymv=0&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b Fax: 033-22002444/ 22001649 Sub: Failure of Constitutional Machinery and Rule of Jungle in Nandigram Sir, At the very outset, as a conscientious citizen of India, let me express my deepest appreciation of your statement on Nandigram expressing your profound disquiet over the state sponsored war launched by the CPIM cadres on Nandigram and its hapless and defenceless villagers. As we all are aware soon after Ms Brinda Karat, a Politburo member of the CPIM and a Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal – thanks to the amended rule allowing outsiders to get elected, called upon her party cadres in a strikingly ugly and obscene delivery – the video footage of which is available at l...

It is reported in the November issue of the P.U.C.L. News Bulletin that the relationship between women and cash income as below: *12.7% of country's active work force earning cash income are women. *Earning upto 25000/ rupees per year16.8%. *Rarning between 25000/ and 1,00,000/ 55.73%. *Earning above one lakh 28% *68% of women graduate do not have any form of income. *35.4% are agricultural wage labours. *5.2% are private salaried employees.