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KANCHEEPURAM: The Pattali Makkal Katchi founder, S. Ramadoss, has clarified that his party had only opposed the moves to acquire fertile agricultural lands for setting up of industrial units or for creation of satellite townships. A false campaign was being carried out to create an image among people that PMK did not want the State to make any progress in non-agricultural sector, particularly industrial development, he said. “It is none other than the Chief Minister” was his reply when reporters asked him at a press conference here on Sunday to identify the person, whom he (Dr. Ramadoss) thought, indulging in such false propaganda measures. “Whenever reporters raise questions with regard to titanium dioxide project of the Tata group in Tuticorin-Tirunelveli belt they suggest that the Government could itself take up mining operations. While responding to their suggestion we have made it clear that we [the PMK party] had no objection to such a move and at the same time we also insist that lands should not be acquired using force”, he said. Neutral team
Deputing a neutral fact- finding team headed by a retired Supreme Court judge – such as Krishnaiyer – would only help find a solution to this particular issue. Instead of trying to go against the wishes of local people at Tuticorin, the State Government could very well invite the same company to shift their small car manufacturing unit, which is facing rough weather in West Bengal, to Tamil Nadu. Land for small car project could be allotted either in the defunct industrial estates or at the new industrial estates to be set up in the State, he said. Dr. Ramadoss wanted the Government to set up a committee, headed by retired and honest officers from Judiciary or from Indian Administrative Services, to probe the performance of the Tamil Nadu Housing Board and present a report within three months. Alleging that the Housing Board officials had spent public money so carelessly on various projects over the years, he said hundreds of houses constructed by the Board in Dharmapuri district were yet to be sold. The situation was similar in other parts of the State also. Lands were acquired at the whims and fancies of the Board and not based on the actual requirement of general public. Setting up of an inquiry committee would help unearth several misdeeds that had taken place in the organisation, he claimed.
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