Six Feet is reserved for all of us on our planet. We need not buy it, we inherit it by grace
of almighty. Even, if we own a land as big as a continent, at last we may occupy only six
feet in that. But, now a days there is an intense desire in everyone to buy as much as
land in his life like Pahom the man who ran to occupy as much as land in a day till his
last breath in the story "How Much Land Does A Man Need?" of Leo Tolstoy.
The resultant is evidential as most of the cultivated land is under real estate cultivation.
The greed behind such purchase of land is that people think of it as a non risk
investment with heavy dividends. In olden days people invested in gold but now, the
trend have changed, because investing in land is considered far more profitable than in
gold. Now a day’s cities are expanding with no leaps and bounds and our rural folks are
migrating to the cosmopolitan cities by selling their cultivable land.Due to high rise in the
demand for land in these cities, we see a soaring graph with no cooling curves.
People are lost in a balance sheet oriented game of P/L (Profit and Loss) without
ever reconsidering the repercussions of their self centered acts. Due to high trading
of such cultivable land we are loosing on an area under cultivation(The area under
rice cultivation in India had declined from 45 million ha. in 2000-01 to 42.4 million
hectares in 2008-09).Let us get ready to face a situation where we would be landless for
cultivation,also to note human’s physiology is unfit for digesting earth(soil).
Gandhiji quoted” Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every
man's greed”A man having a desire to own his dream home is not a sin,but at the same
time buying excess of cultivable land and simply holding on to them as an investment
is a great sin. The statistics revealed last month is astonishing, nearly 12 lakhs houses
of NRI's are kept simply empty in Kerala alone. Some of the ministers in Tamil Nadu
own big houses in New Delhi,but they have not gone there even once in a decade.
They have bought it to showcase their purchasing power and to boast that they have
houses in India's capital. In Udagamandalam(Ooty) so many Estates and Farm houses
are owned by richest men in India. They visit their guest houses for vacation only a few
days in a year or sometimes in their life. After that,the vast guest houses are preserved
by their servants for their owners till the next vacation.
Before one decade, outskirts and some inner part of Coimbatore city was fully
agricultural land,so we got fresh tomatoes,greens and some other vegetables directly
from near farms.But,they were changed in to real estate plots and sold,so now we have
ended in buying these vegetables from the neighbouring districts.
Mostly of the real estate business is done by the ruling and the opposition political
party leaders in the state. They act like dictators and maintain their own army of
hooligans and goons to fulfil their greeds .Any refusal by the vulnerable farmers would
be dealt with tight fist of these goons. These so called “leaders” have gone to the extent
of owning a non agricultural government land(Puramboku). Not only these goons,our
own self elected government is also in pursuit of a sieze by seizing farmers lands in the
name of Special economic Zones(SEZ). Transforming cultivation lands in to Special
economic zones is like selling our own eyes to buy Picaso's pictures. Any civilization
on the planet cannot stand without cultivable land. Do we need only agricultural land
for SEZ?. In Europe,there is a special legislation named "The Metropolitan Agricultural
Preserves Act". The intent of the law is, to protect an important agricultural land in the
metropolitan area from competing land uses,protect the local agricultural economy
and allow farmers to make long term agricultural investments with an assurance
that their land can continue for an agricultural use without any interference from
urban presence.Local governments identifies such an agriculture land which is to be
preserved ,where non farm growth will not be permitted.
In Canada, there is a special law named "The Farm Debt Mediation Act".There, farmers
have special protection which is intended to prevent creditors from seizing farm land
without giving the farmer a reasonable opportunity to repay the debt.But, till now in India
there are no such legislation to preserve the agricultural land and to protect farmers.
Due to the Indian Government agricultural policy,in two decades nearly 2 lakhs farmers
have committed suicide and now we are seizing farmers land in the name of SEZ and
for expanding metropolitan cities. If we do not prevent this now then, we will be forced
to face famine(Almighty must save us from that). So, to preserve agricultural land and
farmers, it is the need of an hour to enact special legislation.
of almighty. Even, if we own a land as big as a continent, at last we may occupy only six
feet in that. But, now a days there is an intense desire in everyone to buy as much as
land in his life like Pahom the man who ran to occupy as much as land in a day till his
last breath in the story "How Much Land Does A Man Need?" of Leo Tolstoy.
The resultant is evidential as most of the cultivated land is under real estate cultivation.
The greed behind such purchase of land is that people think of it as a non risk
investment with heavy dividends. In olden days people invested in gold but now, the
trend have changed, because investing in land is considered far more profitable than in
gold. Now a day’s cities are expanding with no leaps and bounds and our rural folks are
migrating to the cosmopolitan cities by selling their cultivable land.Due to high rise in the
demand for land in these cities, we see a soaring graph with no cooling curves.
People are lost in a balance sheet oriented game of P/L (Profit and Loss) without
ever reconsidering the repercussions of their self centered acts. Due to high trading
of such cultivable land we are loosing on an area under cultivation(The area under
rice cultivation in India had declined from 45 million ha. in 2000-01 to 42.4 million
hectares in 2008-09).Let us get ready to face a situation where we would be landless for
cultivation,also to note human’s physiology is unfit for digesting earth(soil).
Gandhiji quoted” Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every
man's greed”A man having a desire to own his dream home is not a sin,but at the same
time buying excess of cultivable land and simply holding on to them as an investment
is a great sin. The statistics revealed last month is astonishing, nearly 12 lakhs houses
of NRI's are kept simply empty in Kerala alone. Some of the ministers in Tamil Nadu
own big houses in New Delhi,but they have not gone there even once in a decade.
They have bought it to showcase their purchasing power and to boast that they have
houses in India's capital. In Udagamandalam(Ooty) so many Estates and Farm houses
are owned by richest men in India. They visit their guest houses for vacation only a few
days in a year or sometimes in their life. After that,the vast guest houses are preserved
by their servants for their owners till the next vacation.
Before one decade, outskirts and some inner part of Coimbatore city was fully
agricultural land,so we got fresh tomatoes,greens and some other vegetables directly
from near farms.But,they were changed in to real estate plots and sold,so now we have
ended in buying these vegetables from the neighbouring districts.
Mostly of the real estate business is done by the ruling and the opposition political
party leaders in the state. They act like dictators and maintain their own army of
hooligans and goons to fulfil their greeds .Any refusal by the vulnerable farmers would
be dealt with tight fist of these goons. These so called “leaders” have gone to the extent
of owning a non agricultural government land(Puramboku). Not only these goons,our
own self elected government is also in pursuit of a sieze by seizing farmers lands in the
name of Special economic Zones(SEZ). Transforming cultivation lands in to Special
economic zones is like selling our own eyes to buy Picaso's pictures. Any civilization
on the planet cannot stand without cultivable land. Do we need only agricultural land
for SEZ?. In Europe,there is a special legislation named "The Metropolitan Agricultural
Preserves Act". The intent of the law is, to protect an important agricultural land in the
metropolitan area from competing land uses,protect the local agricultural economy
and allow farmers to make long term agricultural investments with an assurance
that their land can continue for an agricultural use without any interference from
urban presence.Local governments identifies such an agriculture land which is to be
preserved ,where non farm growth will not be permitted.
In Canada, there is a special law named "The Farm Debt Mediation Act".There, farmers
have special protection which is intended to prevent creditors from seizing farm land
without giving the farmer a reasonable opportunity to repay the debt.But, till now in India
there are no such legislation to preserve the agricultural land and to protect farmers.
Due to the Indian Government agricultural policy,in two decades nearly 2 lakhs farmers
have committed suicide and now we are seizing farmers land in the name of SEZ and
for expanding metropolitan cities. If we do not prevent this now then, we will be forced
to face famine(Almighty must save us from that). So, to preserve agricultural land and
farmers, it is the need of an hour to enact special legislation.
-Ibnu Mohamed
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