Nuclear power plants and the confusions

Nuclear power plants and the confusions

    I personally have some confusion regarding the Nuclear power plants. I do think that these confusions may prevail in many others like me. These are merely confusions! Not fears!
 
    Creating more employment opportunities in India is definitely appreciable. If the opportunities created are in more constructive manner, it will be really accepted happily by people. But, if they turn as threats to them, what will be the ultimate reaction? This is what happening nowadays in Koodankulam.
 
    Opening nuclear plants is highly supported by the central government, many scientists, politicians and even many people of India. They put forth the positive features of the power plants to increase public support for their side. Primarily, the plant can resolve the power cut problems and secondly, nuclear weapon in the hands of the nation really proves to be a safety measure, warning the opposite countries – these are the main reasons provided for the development of nuclear power plants in India.
 
    On the other case, the Protestants show their continuous opposition putting forth various scientific and protective issues that may create future health problems.
 
    Why can’t the amount spent for the development of the nuclear power plants, be used for the production of electricity from other productive measures? – is their question put forth in front of the government officials. This is of course unanswered still.
 
    Hence the reasons for their protest are pretty clear. But the government and the media are propagating that people are unaware of the output, working and safety of the power plants and hence they are scared of it. Again and again the central government is trying to clear the panic against the plants. As a result, media is constantly getting good news regarding the issue.

Now these are my confusions –
1.    If presence of a Nuclear weapon threatens the opposite countries of the nation, why it will not threaten the common people of India?
2.    Safety issues – In this case, the countries Japan and America has to be taken into consideration. In the former country, people are already facing many disorders as a result of nuclear leakage. On the latter case, the well grown country of the World, America usually conducts power tests in other lonely islands or in areas apart from America where the population is much less. What is the reason for it? Of course, safety is the only issue. So why don’t India also consider it?
 
    Scientists say that bus, train, aeroplane etc., also created panic in people when they are initially introduced. But now, they are just a part of life. According to them, this is also the similar one. But the common confusion is – are the consequences of the bus, train or plane accidents and the effects due to the nuclear accidents are the same? Is it comparable?
 
    Further, officials are well sure of the various safety measures done in the plants, and hence they say that there is no meaning for worries regarding it. But, whatever may be the boom in technology, manual mistakes play a major role too. For example, the aviation engineering has undergone tremendous improvement now. The totally mechanical Auto pilot technology accurately recognizes each and every scale of the earth texture using RADAR concepts etc. But in spite of this extraordinary boom, many air accidents occur due to technology failure and manual mistakes too. Hence all these statistics has to be taken into consideration to decide about the development of the nuclear power plants in India. On the whole manual defects, technology defects, safety defects or any other may cause problems in the power plants which may affect the scientists, workers, labors and people involved in the nuclear power production too. Also it may stay a threat for the generations to follow. For God’s sake, this must never occur in India.
 
    Hence, even though the importance of electricity is thoroughly known, even though many scientists including Dr. Abdul Kalam insist the necessity of power production, I personally cannot accept the nuclear plants in India.
 
    This is not a fear to be easily removed off from the Indian hearts. These are the strong concepts, well analyzed and well understood knowledge. So, please don’t repeatedly confuse us that we are in mere terror. We are damn clear of our requests!

Price rise! Pressure rise!

What is necessary? Price rise or Free gifts?

    People of India are already facing many financial problems nowadays. Since the price rise of petroleum products, vegetables, provisions etc in the past few years have caused much pressure on the common people, they have opted for the change in Tamil Nadu Government. But changes in ruling parties have proved nothing but rise in the financial pressure again. 

     Public are already longing for decrease in prices of food products. In this condition, sudden extreme rise of milk and bus ticket prices have really given peak shock to the all levels of the Tamil people. Although there was regular increase in the petrol and diesel rates for the past ten years, price rise in the bus fares were not officially announced. Many luxury buses were introduced and the price slots of those buses were fixed, but hike of the normal bus fares were not made since December 2001. This was the first official price rise announced after 10 years. 

     The per km ticket fare of ordinary mofussil buses has rised from 28 paise to 42 paise, express and semi-deluxe bus fares has increased from 32 paise to 56 paise, super deluxe buses are now charging 60 paise instead of 38 paise and the ultra deluxe bus rates are 70 paise rather than being 52 paise. The minimum bus fare in urban areas other than Chennai is Rs.3 (Rs.2 earlier) and the maximum is Rs. 12 (earlier Rs.7). In Chennai the minimum rate has gone up to Rs.3 (from Rs.2) and the maximum has risen to Rs. 14 (from Rs.12). In the other case, the price of toned milk per litre has been revised from Rs. 17.75 to Rs. 24. The news was announced yesterday (Nov 16th, 2011) and was brought into immediate practice on the same day night. Thus these shocking prices have definitely led to the big drain of the common man’s budget.

     Tamil Nadu Government grumbles that the Central government is not providing them sufficient finance even after multiple requests and also charges the previous rulers for total drain of the state’s treasury. So, it says the rise in milk and bus fares is required in order to equalize / manage the drain. Even though various reasons were provided for this sudden hike, the burden is too extreme to be handled. Hence it is clear the state government follows the same path as that of the Central by imposing heavy burden on the common man to overcome their financial drain. 

     Instead, why don’t the managing parties think of any other alternate remedy to sweep away the problem? Another important field which brings high revenue to the government is the sales in the tasmac shops. Rise in those products and any other luxurious products might never cause such an opposition from common men. 

     The ruling Tamil Nadu party made many promises at its election campaigns. It announced that mixies, grinders, laptops, fans, cows, goats etc will be given free of cost. The party thinks that fulfilling those promises will maintain its good will. Hence in order to do it, the ruling party is in a position to improve its treasury. 
 
But, is it necessary to increase the state’s treasury through these heavy price hikes and use it for providing free gifts to the public? 
 
Is this the right way to fulfill those promises?

Will people feel happy getting the free gifts on one side and facing the heavy fares of the essential commodities on the other? Definitely NO.
 
The reaction is truly completely different. This immediate hike has definitely decreased the good will of the current ruling party. Will the party understand it and reconsider its decisions? 

Shall we hope that the ruling government will rollback these extreme increase in milk and bus ticket rates?

Kanimozhi’s Jail days

    
The DMK MP M K Kanimozhi is spending her tough times at Tihar Jail, being rejected bail plea in the CBI Court once again. Arrested in connection to one of the biggest corruption scandals of India, the 2G Spectrum allocation case, she spends her lonely days in jail mostly fighting against her emotions, reading books and writing Tamil poems. 
 
    She is arrested on May 20, 2011 for allegedly accepting Rs. 200 crore around the time of the 2G scandal. Her lawyers say that the amount was received as a loan and that was paid back. 

    Her father, the DMK patriarch Dr Karunanidhi has been very popular in writing tamil poems and stories for years. Being his favourite daughter, Kanimozhi is also spending her days writing poems in the isolated cell number 6 of the women’s jail.

The unbroken bond between Politics and Cinema

The unbroken bond between Politics and Cinema

    Cine stars are been frequently used for publicity of political parties. This has been a common practice from those days. 
 
    In general, people admire and become fans for artists belonging to different fields. He may be a sports person, a journalist, a writer, a speaker, a painter etc. People enjoy the real talents of those celebrities in their respective fields. Similar admiration prevails for the celebrities belonging to the cine field too. Cine actors win the hearts of the mass by expressing their acting talent, their beauty or their sense of humor. Stars are usually not admired due to their life principles or their policies.
 
    But a political party or a politician is admired/followed only because of the policies he follows in life, his humanitarian activities, his speaks, his thoughts etc. People never follow a politician attracted by his beauty or his comic sense. But nowadays, once a person (an actor, mostly) gains popularity and earns a considerable number of fans, political parties try to make use of them for their political familiarity. So fans of the real talents are confused with that of the politics. This may lead to blind followers of the parties or in the other case, may lead to loss of fame of the particular celebrity. Hence the original talent may sometimes lose value. 
 
    Anyone can jump into politics. It is the right of all Indians. A common man takes a long time to gain importance in a political party, just bagging some fine policies alone. But on the other hand, a film star can easily succeed in politics using his/her popularity. In general, only when common people become totally aware that a politician should not be followed blindly only because of the craze in him, politics and Indian democracy will really flourish in World.
 
    On the whole, we Indians heartily welcome stars in politics or as ruling members, only if they are strong in their principles too. As India proves to be the greatest democratic country in the World, strong public support is necessary for valid politicians/parties to change the future of Mother India.