Monday, October 17, 2011

Dinesh Kamath's Editorial (CIDCO is being unethical) that was published in Newsband


CIDCO is being unethicalWhy is CIDCO giving a step motherly treatment to project affected persons (PAPs) of Navi Mumbai. PAPs are only asking CIDCO to let them have their dues which is their legal right. Why is CIDCO denying them their rights? What exactly is CIDCO's problem?
Doing full justice to PAPs is the first thing that CIDCO should have done once they had constructed the city of Navi Mumbai. Since PAPs had willingly given their lands to CIDCO for giving birth to a developed city like Navi Mumbai, for CIDCO the most ethical thing to do was to first give PAPs their dues since without these people CIDCO could never even have dreamt of coming up with an advanced city like Navi Mumbai. It was due to PAPs' cooperation and generosity that enabled CIDCO to build a city which has impressed not only Indians but also the foreigners. Is CIDCO not feeling guilty about the fact that they have not kept the promise they made to PAPs? Is it that insensitive?
Is it lack of funds that has been preventing CIDCO from compensating and rehabilitating PAPs? If that is the case then how is CIDCO in a position to work on the most expensive project which is constructing of international airport in the city? CIDCO has funds to construct an airport, but it is not in a position to do justice to PAPs. Strange!
What are PAPs asking for? They're just demanding adequate compensation under the 12.5% scheme which CIDCO has promised prior to taking their lands. Why is CIDCO not keeping its words? If CIDCO finds the compensation that PAPs are demanding too much then why did it make the promise in the first place?
How many morchas and agitations did the PAPs stage so far? And yet CIDCO does not budge. It neither does justice to PAPs nor does it refuse to do justice to them. Every time the PAPs stage an agitation, CIDCO comes up with the same promise that of keeping their words which it had given PAPs prior to taking their lands. This gives birth to the question as to what exactly is on the minds of CIDCO authorities. Do they really have the intention of giving PAPs their legal dues or are they just playing a game which doesn't harm them personally but which creates untold miseries for PAPs.
One thing is clear and that is CIDCO has thrown all ethics to the winds by already causing so much delay in doing justice to PAPs.

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