[Reader-list] petition on Singur

[Moslem Ali Quraishy]

Dear Sir/Madam,

   Ref : http://www.petitiononline.com/singur/petition.html

You are probably aware of the recent move of the West Bengal Government
to
acquire multi-crop lands at Singur and the ongoing agitation of the
local
farmers against this take over.

We, a group of scientists from various research institutes have
personally
visited the area and it is beyond any doubt that the earmarked lands
are
extremely fertile and vast majority of those grow multi-crops through
out
the year as captured in the documentary film “ Abad Bhumi” (Right to
Land)
 prepared by a group of research scientists from the Center for Studies
on
Social Sciences (CSSS), Kolkata. This move is going to render more than
ten thousand (10,000) local inhabitants including farmers,
sharecroppers
and daily labourers jobless.

The proposed small car factory (modern automated) cannot accommodate
the
dislodged farmers and at best can provide few hundred jobs, mostly to
highly skilled personnels.
This will have serious consequences,  not only social and political
unrest, but
also ominous environmental and ecological imbalance. Despite protests
from
various corners, the Government is vehemently trying to bulldoze the
ongoing movement through brutal police repressions and arbitrary
arrests.

In view of this, we express our concern to the Governor.  We would like
to
request you to kindly circulate this mail as much as possible and
endorse
our online petition to the Governor hosted at

http://www.petitiononline.com/singur/petition.html

  Thanking you
  Abhee K. Dutt-Mazumder
 * PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION BY VISITING THE WEB ADDRESS ABOVE *