Seven uses for an Airport in Kerala
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| Image Courtesy: Google |
The ‘Kerala
Model of Development’ was a very famous example of development in India
In Kerala,
recently a new airport plan is commissioned. It means, the people in power
decided to build an airport. The land acquisition is in contestable grounds,
because the chosen the place is rich with diverse flora and fauna, as usual.
Who knows if it is not purposeful that each time a development project pops us,
it is dumped in some delicate landscape just to ravish the nature, so that some
multi-national billionaire can build swimming pools there?
Thus, the
context of assessment of the important uses of the airport has been
triangulated.
What??
Plainly, due to
the above mentioned reasons, we must look into the main uses of an
airport in Kerala. And we have a just cause to do so.
The Seven uses
of an Airport in Kerala
1. The
government can invite tenders and finally, place the tender for the lowest
paying construction company once the pockets of the khadi sleeves of the
ministers are brimming with bank currency.
2. The land
acquisition will help the poor villagers earn a lot of money without spending a drop of their perspiration. This in return would
create a bunch of consumers who do not have any idea about the value of the
money they are spending. Obviously, a spending spree from the poor folks who,
waking up on a fine morning found their wallets full of currency would result
in a sudden increase in the price of land, food and gold.
3. The
acquisition of land gives a tremendous opportunity for the government and
bureaucracy to cut down the trees and scratch out the last root of grass from
the soil.
4. A magnanimous
airport and its sleek construction would give an impression that the State is undergoing
a tremendous period of development, even though power cuts and food and
medicinal shortages are part of the daily life.
5. Some
minister or MLA would boast of his or her role in bringing the airport to the
State. This will garner some votes in the next assembly election, as the
population is both blind and deaf.
6. By virtue of
its very nature, a lazy and corrupt bureaucracy would maintain the balance of
its corruption cycles from the money and comfort the airport project would
bring them.
7. If there are
more airports and consequently more treeless desert-like landscapes, Kerala
would look much like Gulf countries, and especially UAE. The concept of
development being constantly loaned from the UAE, the government would much
appreciate any resemblance with the Gulf countries, at least in looks.
Thus we can sum
up the seven uses for an airport in Kerala.
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| Aranmula Image Courtesy: Google |
People of Aranmula, the place of the proposed airport, are
in protest against the airport. All of them are requested to go through the
above mentioned important points and cure themselves of their pitiful ignorance
about how the system works.
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