From correspondents in Delhi, India, 05:11 PM IST
The government Thursday lifted a ban on locating industries within 25 km of cities with a population of one million.
The cabinet, at its meeting here Thursday presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, decided to lift the ban that had been imposed in 1991, Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi told reporters.
After the 1991 ban, only electronics, computer software and printing industries, as also industries located within industrial areas were permitted within 25 km of cities with a population of one million.
'Since the grant of industrial licences was on the basis of recommendations of the state government and environmental clearance at the state and central levels, the existing procedure of granting licence can now be dispensed with,' the minister said.
'This was amounting to an unnecessary hurdle in the way of setting up of industries and needed to be done away with,' Dasmunsi added.
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Too much 'tele' communication only accelerates the decay, especially among the youth whose aim should be to think up strategy of ushering world peace and harmony with justice for all mankind based on a less materialistic and a more spiritualised method.
The government is advised in urbanization and industrialization matters by Western educated pseudo economists, planners and scientists, most of them unexposed to the latest realities even in the West which has woken up to the dangers of the ongoing ecological disaster wrought by pseudo modern thinking, unconcerned with this disaster. It is therefore no wonder that govt.has decided to permit industries within 25 km of cities. Unless and until expertise and knowledge with insights into the larger severity of our overcrowded country is built up in economics, planning and scientific R&D, we are likely to be going in the same old groove of ignorance and exacerbation of our deplorable environmental conditions due to the havoc resulting from this stupid "expert" thinking.
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