Thursday, December 13, 2012

'Modi has given away land to a handful of industrialists at a rate as low as Rs 1 per sq m'

The ruling party has made schemes and allocated budgets only to benefit the rich industrialists, besides diverting the state's precious natural resources towards them. The current public debt is Rs 1.45 lakh crore and the budget is Rs 1 lakh crore.

Forest land, government land, grazing land and coastal belt have been indiscriminately destroyed, so much so that they are beyond use for the future generation.

Chief Minister Narendra Modi has given away land to a handful of industrialists at a rate as low as Rs 1 per sq m. Nearly 104 crore sq m land has been sold to industrialists. Around Rs 33,000 crore of benefits were given to Tata Motors for the Nano car project.
 
What does the Congress plan to change if brought to power?

The Congress party is determined to stop all favours to industrialists and ask them to build facilities on their own. We cannot help them in setting up an industry using the people's money. It needs to be used only for the welfare of the people.

If we come to power, we have decided to revive the older schemes initiated by the early Congress governments. This would include allocating 100-yard plot to rural poor with an easy loan facility to build a 30-yard house each. For urban masses, we would provide houses under three categories.


http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-interview-with-gujarat-congress-chief-arjun-modhwadia/20121009.htm