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Tata et Nano: le torchon brûle en Inde
L'Expansion est quasiment le seul journal francophone à relayer l'information - dans l'encart décryptages de la version papier - et pourtant elle pourrait en intéresser plus d'un.
La commercialisation de la voiture la moins chère du monde – la Tata Nano ( 1700 euros ) – est loin de faire l'unanimité. Encore une fois, nul n'est prophète en son pays, puisque c'est en Inde qu'ont lieu les manifestations dont la violence n'est tournée – pour l'instant – que vers les répliques de ce nouveau véhicule low cost.
Plusieurs arguments sont mis en avant en sa défaveur : pollution, aspect non sécuritaire du véhicule mais avant tout expropriation “forcée” des agriculteurs en vue de bâtir l'usine destinée à la production de la voiture du peuple. Un air de déjà vu ?
Tandis que les feux de la rampe illuminaient la Nano le 10 janvier dernier, des activistes brûlaient quant à eux des répliques de la nouvelle voiture star de Tata.
Le “Trinamul Congress”, un groupe d'opposition de l'Ouest du Bengale et le Bhumi Raksha Committee ont allumé une torche en vue de reduire en cendre l'effigie papier de cette voiture oh combien symbolique.
Ceci en signe de protestation contre la violation des droits fonciers induite selon eux par l'implantation de l'usine. Leur revendication : tant que que les paysans ne réintégreront pas leur terre cédée illégalement selon eux à Tata Motors en vue de construire l'usine dédiée à la Nano à Singur, ils empêcheront le groupe de produire des véhicules dans la région. C'est en effet ce qu'a affirmé le leader de l'opposition Partha Chatterjee, selon “The Economic Times of India”. Ce dernier a même averti : “en cas de pression, des troubles auront lieu”.
Alléguant que les terrains ont été acquis de force par le gouvernement en vue de permettre à Tata Motors d'implanter son usine, il affirme que l'affaire relève de la justice.
Selon The Times of India, à New Delhi, un petit groupe de protestataires ont manifesté plus calmement, vétus de T-shirts aborant le slogan ”La voiture à $2,500 porte le sang du peuple de Singur sur elle”.
Sources : L'Expansion, News.com, The Times of India, The Economic Times of India
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Elisabeth
26 janv. 08 01:14:28
Attention, la production pourrait être impactée
http://www.indiaenews.com/business/20080110/90827.htm
So while Tata unveiled a 33-horsepower, 624-cc Nano amid razzmatazz at the Auto Expo 2008, peasant leader Becharam Manna lit a cardboard model as his supporters beat the burning model with sticks and indignation.
There was also unrest at the car plant itself. The West Bengal government has acquired about 935 acres for the plant, triggering violent protests that eventually galvanised people of Nandigram in East Midnapore district to lead a near uprising against a proposed chemical hub and special economic zone (SEZ).
'They named the car Nano meaning something that cannot be seen through ordinary eyes. We hope the people of India would not want to see it at all. The peasants are protesting in New Delhi also and Ratan Tata had no guts to unveil the car, made in Pune, in West Bengal,' Manna told IANS as he led a procession to lodge a symbolic protest against the car's unveiling.
'This is a car of despair and pain. Tatas could not bring out the car from Singur plant also. So many farmers committed suicide for the car, so many families were destroyed and now they have also thrown out about 350 temporary workers guarding the plant. These people also included land losers,' said Manna.
On Wednesday, temporary workers retrenched from the plant led an agitation and reportedly fought with the police forcing suspension of work in the morning.
'We don't have any official statement... In the morning there were some disruptions but work resumed soon after around 12 noon,' said a spokesperson of a PR firm that represents the Tatas.
P. Bakshi, officer in charge of the Singur police station, added: 'There was no clash between cops and workers.'
According to reports, over 3,500 people are racing against time in Singur to meet two deadlines: chisel the car plant into shape by June and prime it for production by the year-end.
Around 1,500 men in uniform are guarding the 935-acre plot.
'Work is going on in full steam. I cannot say what percentage of work is complete but a lot of work has taken place,' said a Tata Motors spokesperson.
In Kolkata, West Bengal's Industry Minister Nirupam Sen said the car would roll out in due time.
While journalists are still barred entry in the area, a villager of Singur said: 'We can see the shed coming up but we are not sure if any car would ever roll out.'
The protest over the Singur plant in West Bengal heralded the birth of a civil society movement in the state. No farmer was ever killed in Singur despite several incidents of violence and clashes.
But the December 2006 rape and murder of Tapasi Malik, a farmer's daughter, inside the fenced off area prompted a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe and led to the arrest of a ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) local leader and a party supporter.
26 janv. 08 01:18:49
Tata n'a qu'à offrir des voitures à tout les plaignants comme ça au lieu d'être agriculteurs ils seront taxis.
Elisabeth
26 janv. 08 01:24:35
pas si simple :
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Under construction Singur plant from where the Nano is supposed to roll out.
The facility in West Bengal's Singur, which would deliver the dream car, could still be a cause of worry for the daring industrialist.
Repeated interruptions in construction work could leave Tata Motors in the lurch in June 2008. That's the company deadline for giving final shape to the plant so that it could roll out its first car by the year-end.
Given the kind of hurdles the project has had to face since inception, meeting the June 2008 deadline is a stiff proposition. Achieving that would be no less a feat for Tata Motors than rolling out the people's car itself.
Ironically, work at the 935-acre site has slowed down considerably, since Thursday - the day Nano was launched.
This time due to protest by a section of security guards owing allegiance to the CPM and are resisting the company's decision to downsize its workforce.
Tata Motors Singur Site temporary worker Sushanta Pramanik says, “I could work for about an hour today. But then the CPM men came with their flags and stopped us."
Severe water logging at the site during last monsoon held up work for about a month.
Work is also yet to reach top gear at the adjacent 290-acre vendor park where 55 ancillary units are supposed to set up shops to feed the mother plant.
And political opposition apart, this could well be the prime source of botheration for Tata Motors.
Elisabeth
26 janv. 08 01:31:48
Autre pb , donc, l'emploi des gardiens, qui pourrait diminuer,
or nombre d'entre eux sont des paysans désormais "sans terre"
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Singur, January 11, 2008
First Published: 01:12 IST(11/1/2008)
Last Updated: 01:15 IST(11/1/2008)
Day of rumours in SingurSecurity guards slammed the brakes on work at the Tata Small Car factory in Singur on Thursday after a rumour that half of them were going to be sacked.
They closed the gates and prevented workers from entering the plant. By noon, trucks carrying building material had lined up outside. The protesters then put up a CPM flag in front of the main gate.
Trouble began when the authorities allegedly informed the security guards — drawn from local youths and numbering about 700 — that only half of them would be needed for service. The guards, most of whom had lost their land or source of income from the land, started an agitation in Beraberi and Khaserveri villages in the morning.
"Around 700 villagers who lost their jobs in the fields but started working for the project were deployed by the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation. But they have become anxious after being told that WBIDC will reduce their number by half," said Jiyarul Haque, a local CPI(M) leader.
The protestors also alleged that police had lathicharged to disperse them. Gokul Santra, a Beraberi villager working for the project, said they were also not paid regularly. "As we started shouting slogans, the cops came to drive us away. They also beat up some of us." The police, however, denied the allegations.
He argued that they had not protested against the car project only on the assurance of receiving alternative jobs. "If now the authorities turn around and say that our jobs are gone, we can't accept that."
The WBIDC pays the guards Rs 68 per day.
Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya, the Trinamool MLA from Singur and the president of Singur Krishi Jami Raksha Committee, said these incidents were just waiting to happen.
"The CPM and the administration had convinced these villagers that the project would bring them jobs and there would be no unemployment problems and thus restrained them from joining the anti-acquisition movement. Now they have to fulfil their promises."
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print.aspx?Id=734484c4-3085-4372-a393-a4e492388d14
Jo Jo
29 janv. 08 00:10:53
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