WHY "TATA" IS DANGEROUS,
WHERE AS OTHERS ARE NOT ?
TATA, THE TERROR IN BANGLADESH :
Few months ago, TATA was the name of a terror in Bangladesh. Now the
fear is over because situations was ripe in Bangladesh to pronounce a
big "Ta Ta" to this very "special multi-national company" of India.
With a gloomy face, Mr. Ratan Tata, the representative of Tata-India
accepted, or better had to swallow the "bye bye" from Bangladesh. By
this time however, Mr. Ratan Tata could successfully waste several
hundred million Rupees of his organization, excepting however, his own
commissions and kick-backs.
TATA, THE HATED TERROR IN WEST BENGAL, INDIA :
At this moment TATA is the name of another terror to the common people
of West Bengal, India. The CPM government of West Bengal is after
patronizing Tata's investment definitely for lucrartive kick-backs.
However, the local people are endeavouring their best to kick-out this
demon from their land. It is high time to analyze and discover why
Tata is so unpalatable to the common people of these two countries.
TATA-US DUET IN BANGLADESH :
Taking the scope of unprecedented corruptions by the autocratic
governments in Bangladesh during the period 1975 to 1990 and then,
during the reign of corrupt governments (from 1990-1996 and
2001-2006), a number of Gas and Oil companies from USA succeeded in
getting the contract of marketing natural gas in Bangladesh. And they
could manage the deal at extremely cheap rate. In the reality of
constant increase of gas price throughout the globe the US companies
remained silent for few years. Then they intended to sell gas to India
through pipes. The bottling of this gas for marketing was not found
economically feasible because of the availability of gas in the Gulf
countries at much cheaper rate. All endeavours made by these companies
to sell gas to India, however, failed because of the shrewd activities
of the Pakistani lobby working inside the country. Achieving gas by
India was seen by Pakistan as a threat to their economy. At this stage
USA was in need of an alternate policy. All on a sudden the people of
Bangladesh saw Mr. Ratan Tata to visit Bangladesh with the all-time
largest foreign investment offer in electricity and steel productions.
Tata wanted to use natural gas in these industries. Even though the
then government of the country highly spoke of this alluring
investment, the steel-producers could rightly see their peril in this
investment. Also it was crystal clear to the people of this country
that in the disguise of Tata's alluring investment it, in fact was the
US policy to use up Bangladesh's scarce gas resources. In addition,
the Pakistani lobby was also active. In such a situation, the
government could not give green signal to TATA in spite of US
government's insistence. After wasting several hundred million Rupees,
finally Mr. Ratan Tata had to accept he heartily "ta-ta" from
Bangladesh.
TATA-CPM DUET IN WEST BENGAL :
One fine morning Tata declared their extremely alluring proposal of
manufacturing and selling of small car at a price of One lac Rupees
each. The CPM government gave them green signal. Immediately Tata
managed a large chunk of fertile land in Singur. The CPM government
dreamt many sweet dreams in Tata's Eklaki Nano car project. They
already have got the taste of sweet kick-backs, they dreamt of jobs
for their 'party harmads', big contracts for their relatives and so on
so forth. However, the local people could not believe in the
"unbelievable love and affection of this political party for country's
industrialization". They already witnessed that this is the same party
that so carefully worked to smash the backbone of Industries for over
three decades in West Bengal. The people of Bangladesh have been
successful in kicking away TATA, now they are eagerly waiting to see
what the people of West Bengal do.
COMPARE TATA WITH BIRLA OR MITTAL :
Tata is definitely a large Indian company, but it is not the largest.
On the other hand there are numerous large Indian companies who are
successfully doing business in India and abroad. There are both profit
and loss in business. But no one has ever heard of the other Indian
companies (I mean to say, companies other than Tata) to take up such
non-feasible, impractical and childish projects and then to return
back after great wastage. We shall soon explain why Tata is going to
face a big failure and to earn ill-names, even if their "Eklaki Nano
car project" in Singur comes out successful.
WHY TATA OR RATAN TATA IS SO DIFFERENT :
When the big companies are doing business peacefully at home and
abroad and earning good profit, what makes Mr. Ratan Tata to take up
such absurd and hazardous projects, and to loose money ? If it is a
riddle, it is not a very difficult one. Mr. Ratan Tata's company is
basically different from the other Indian companies. In the non-Tata
companies the directors have great concern for the good and bad,
image, profit and loss etc. of their respective companies. In case of
Tata, however, the Company belongs to the government, where the Tata
family enjoys certain percent of the profit. As a member of the family
that previously used to own the entire company Mr. Ratan Tata enjoys
extremely high position in the decision making act of the company.
Thus he is a person, whose family owns a small percent cent (2.5%) of
the profit of an extremely large company. As representative of the
same company this gentlemen however, enjoys huge financial and
non-financial privileges. Those who are aware of the inns and outs of
business might know that many a times the chief executive may be more
benefitted from the flop projects than from successful ones. I believe
this much will be sufficient for the intelligent people to understand
what are there behind the super-activities of this gentleman.
NANO WILL BE A CURSE :
As of today (31st August, 2008) the problem with Tata factory at
Singur has not been solved. And we do not know what would happen
tomorrow, or after a few months. Even if Mr. Ratan Tata becomes
successful (even though it seems grim), the Eklaki Nano car of Tata
would bring a curse for the company and thousands of its users. Why ?
Let us mention one example.
Few years ago, the corrupt BNP-Jamat Government arranged to import
cars from selected manufacturers of India to be used as Taxi-cab in
Dhaka city. A number of 10,000 cars were imported. After a period of 5
years only 2,500 of those in dilapidated condition are running in the
road. The remaining 7,500 cars are waiting in fields in extremely
dilapidated condition. Even though the government of Bangladesh have
given the cab-owners clearance to import cars from the same
manufacturer against their previous sanctions, none of the users have
shown interest to do that. On the other hand they have proposed for
importing 5-year old Japanese cars. Just imagine, the cab-owners want
to import 5-year old Japanese cars, and not brand-new cars from India.
You should not blame them. They are not anti-Indian fanatics, but
honest businessmen. They had certain assumption regarding the
life-span of the brand new cars and it was 10-12 years. What happens
to their calculation of profit when they discovered that :
(01) The cars started to go out of function after 2 years.
(02) 75% of the cars went out of use after 5 years.
(03) The remaining 25% now ply on road with their dilapidated and worn
out bodies and extremely high-sounding engines.
In Bangladesh the poor people are in the habit of collecting every
little piece of iron from the road, because those have resale value.
The dilapidated cars I mentioned above, however, may be seen to stay
side by side quite peacefully, because no one is interested to utilize
their extremely thin and low-quality steel sheets, not to say anything
about the rusted and defragmented engines. These cars came from a
company other than Tata. This company is quite renowned for their
product and the price of their car is much higher.
In the above situation, Tata's thin-body Nano cars would only cheat
and befool the buyers. There remains the possibility that most of
those would surrender their youthful fluffy bodies to incessant dents
within one year and shall go out of use after 3 to 4 years.
In such a context, foiling of Tata's Eklaki Nano car project may save
thousands of its probable users from severe loss. Whether successful
or not, the project, by this time has been able to ensure the expected
"success" for Mr. Ratan Tata
PROF. BIJON B. SARMA, HEAD ARCHITECTURE DISCIPLINE, KHULNA UNIVERSITY,
KHULNA, BANGLAESH
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