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A spokesmaii'M Air Awlla sftjd hat Captain M'l ptWnc� 6f Wnd had averted wtM couM ave been a "tfitfble **Wta�t -{ad he ignored* "i<W|eM ttd (one ahead with lite llipt ttcould live te<f to engjiie ftilare ftpd >erhpas resulted |n -ft <cj�#hv Al�b. lad he hot swetvid it & the left* would have htt^ehftisdirottnd,
ind cadght fire; . Captain Rao. j who t*** been 4th the airlines tot 'U y*9m$** >ot been involved In ajty aecioftnt p>efore A Katf j Regional Manner (Maintenance), aaidi MH�U one of our inlMit eKperkticed .aptainV' �l"' A'!f-\.i �� Although a#iAfe Indte fpo^es-tnan describe^ ^ib damtge to the \lTir*%'^ lie *ft$* H
vould remain ^fiwrtltijtl^d' 'for jomcume, Delhi has no ftidlHy or repairing aircW* ^W***^^ rhese have.To-^fiftfit to Bombfty.
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f Thv t ehtral pre�iflM 1^ jOgdticm �: rctfe^rfi:; ^t*#ftilh^d :" ;frauetuient foreJifa cx^ftng^ ^vp'1 living Hank of%pf� in.^e.^^"|
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ie fbrjj "of the ri^er iained unabated lor )dinff the !ow-li|hg th and; South. De ' \ level urd^ the 1 1 amuna bi Id je reached k vet of abo it 208 metres teuchini til e spftn of |he ich was o dered closed js of traff!Twootler afross the'amuna wjate �seU and th< capital i|as tel| cut b f from the \low%i! ig.larea of rans-Yaniuha colonic % of Sahadra ihd ftdjoin|h|gt arediicf Uttar Pradc sh. Even the marpof cd people fr din across jthe river' <ou d not bt rescued to safety as they perched on topsi > he e snake compel Helicon action in full swing cooked (ocd paclets' to marboi ed people ^jherever could to tjrac^d. Tie army W into ac ;toi to prbtept the bandhs from being washed afmv >oi ts were evacua in, \. the 'flood-atfc ted areas
joined tljleir iie^s. werei'Jn.
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ting the 1 lowing d# of m-road Yamtiina brMge the swirnng watere] of to flow) freely anf
con ten pi; thcr^iNct Jto,cfna.i>le the Ya nu avoid < ve+flow,
Folk wikg the cdllapse of the Shah ntajn bund, the C�pit|l;s ^last' li n.e; ; of ��; defe nee. Adaf$h Najjar, Hlixle) to1 yn and the L'niver >it\j area w ?re floOdejB; The Celttt Univer^y and |all schdols anUcpllege^ -Weri? c oned for .a irtiek aiid Jhe Univcr �it4r stud.cht: .joined ^ftr^ ious-otter relief ori ^nisatiphj| in the evi cu vtioti wort ..The Ariny/ the t;iv 1 a ithoritie< ihd voluntlary: organi! ati i>ns wed engaged V rouhd th y dock ii the gigantic opetuti r>n Schoc Is*; colleges. Hotels ar d vblunt \ty orjganisa-tion�\ cted f<)6< � peckets clotji* kr ^e- relief canips.
the wor? t''affected' were the poor people who wcr< shifted; to re-sett cneht colonies in. the Jow^lvi ig trans-YamUna areft. The; a rfli ent were hot spared either. : There w w knee-deep water in the^ pos colonies^ of Mahar ihi 8agh� Fri mCi coloniy iii South )e hi ahd M< dd town and 1 Uniyersit; � aree in t te North. v'.
i ther stat ss that w;erc aflcctcjd h v the floot were Assftmy Rajast^mr. Ladakh, �' Bihar, West Bentga, Haryana, Punjab lind Uttar 1 radesh: In Nledhura alieut 20 pe( pli were k tied as their escue toad cap ixed in the Yamur a. In Agra the YamjUna crossei 1 tl e danger eve! threaten* ing the TaH Mahal. Vbdut l^hikh people wire, in the flood-affeeted areas i f Agra were isked toniove to safe y. The Rath 'ays. cancelled many in ins, roac traffic was closed an 1 people V ere asked not to visit th * Capital ihd crowd the affected Cities. However^ the rmxralc w is high di iring the four drcadf il lays wherft reletttiess war; of w tsagains the pattire's unfair m� kied fury was bejj$ht fought
��'v':i- Tl c worst � 'v :as .oyer.;.:;:bj Septer \bi r 7 when me water level in the 'at iuna shov ed a receding treiid. According t�the infbji^a-tioti avaiable wit l the Agrkuktuie Mlnistr f oh that 4�y the tic* >ds have affe -tedah aregof 87,80 jakh hectres |^ la}nd a�d a
idptilMioh of laws; tn
i [lore than 46,000 villaj es. About b ! ix lakh houseft have been datm-or destroyed an0 standing
rops covering ffected.
5? lajkh hectres
huiinatf life was have also!
The loss oi ^tiniated at
heads erf <een killed.
I the damage lb public utilities iras estimated at Hs,: 225 14 akhs and: th r tp^al damage to ropsf houses; a id public utilities /as assessed Rs. $t crbres. '
The Agrii ulture Ministry deleaved (till �;.< >ept. J?) 5?,300
nnes of fobor grains iworth Rs. 50 crores as ji ratuitous relief to yietims ih|y .ft; .$harf West engal, f^unja^
Pradesh. ^_
In; addition, 4 sum of Rs. 50;57 < reies was giv^i to floi^d-aftected tates as advande filan; assistance
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ssentlai v: drugk. di#nfectants, accines arid ^Itj^iciie^'.' s. 26 Lakhs.
The Preside at:,r Mh. Neelam a Reddy; The l^me Miri-iter, Mbrarji 0 fsai, the Defence Minister. Mr. J ijgjiyan ftamv the "ongress Presfe ent� JNfr: Chand-ashekharwere aimOng]those who >nducted an ae rial sutvey of the obd-affected ii
Mt; Desai -1ahctioned/Rs.:.';5. khs to Delhi md West iBehgai d Rs. 4 lakhs each tb U.P. and ihar from the piirne iMihister's latibriar Relief ?uh^|jl.:r v":";
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the ;large-s:cale jfexbdus of skilled and set ^skilled workers registered, particularly after the oil price h ike in 1975. had given a
hew impetus
prosperity. It thore than
; tpe state's is estimated thai _ _ T, >^Ke(:alite$ work abroad and their Remittances through norrta^l. chai^hels alone
exceeded vfjsi.jSW-fc^^K ?**t^yc�rV.? v ~*"'"; airbus service
cbnnectjng thi ^statej with Countries brings a fbll loid of Keralites on |JMd�ay:jartd;'o.ri.:.,its; return trip aftef ah ho^if carries at ^ait half load
to the oil-ncSiv nations*r' besides those returninf fu
Many sleepy Villages of the last iecade have unqergonp a face-life jeybnd recoi hiuoni. to fillag^-turne<) fowhjships the :ost of reai; esfi tes ha$ increased 0 fold and the cost of living Ws )ecprne ebmpftrabie tojthat of any naior cities ihln^ia. The steady h-flow of : remittan!ces from. ibroad,.. parnevlarlk to the amilies of theJittW niddle class^ seems toj encourage ' eish �':; ] extraj^ence] with ^ettgeancpv; .-� '''t|e; :^reiru;estatesi: Vhich bnie tinic berpnked^^:& ich landlorb^ are tahds'.'-;.
thn >ugh ihe- narrow conheettn^ th]e villages, which of late have become bver-prbwded with ttfthspo^t buises $nd taxis; cutting t hrough the green-ary of the stat< ?s natAtal beautv.
h Kuwait, astounding iff ihiernat-
Dramatic breakt in ndia's business ventures M isia. particularly Ibya and Iraq, is ie West, Despite onal competition v esdecialry from erful and long (established .esterh:^i'an;d' -^apai .ffti^is^-;:;; ndiahs have baggc 1 contracts unnig into millions dollars in hese three countric s. What; is ore imrk>rtant is th it Arabs no ehjger think of I idia as a ' ackward and po< >r c^tintry. hstead they have begun to nsider it as i teabrmig dtistriaiized natibi i in Spufh East Asia and which am heijj the Atab world in their race against time to develop fast.
This is how Ind ans moved into Kuwait. Some 3 ears ago ah ItiaHan compfthjf c )ntra<ted a housing project iii I uwait. They began Wbrking| witl h gusto but soon their pace slacl ehed due to financial problems Grjadiially they fell oehind s< -hedule and cbhsequently felt foi 1 of Kuy/aiti authbrities; And vtH en bhe iine moirningf the eht re company djisap^eared; leaving behind eveythingr � ^iCy-i^.'
):-y Ufitil then, vtedr;is-vfhad;::,a limited presence in! ;uwait butin impressive one. The i had started buHdihg ajiirt'pf K iwait Airport ($3 million project) i a manner which had wpii pse of the Kttwaities: It was ' a % complex wprkv ihyolyirig fabricatioh, erection of steel si ructures like
over
00 feet
and each weighing i lore than ten tons, and yet the ndians were going about it coi fidently and according to schedu lb; ^ v
theretore;, when the Italians lefltv the Kuwaities a^warded the mamoth Adiya Hbii �iig tipwnship project, <i284milli m project) to Engineering Produtts India Ltd.
} Asked whetfer''w./^^MPg^";: with the work of j Indians in Kuwait, the housing to
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one can see; tall, cor cretehouses r^eepihg through t ie mangoe, *ubberjbr cobnut g ^yesirejplac* ing the old thatel ed dwelling places of the /past Iecade. Taxi cabs crowd the shb| ping centres sellihg fancy g^ods a; fancy prices wfith no bargains.,;
: A taxi driv^ reporter ;that duiih^ weeks of an emigrant from thb Gulf ImbUl; came to Bis 3000.00. A furniture sh6p*o^ ner said he adining set to he emigraht for Rs. 1700.00 and i sofa set for
. io,ooo;oo. ^ � yfS&
ilie posh houses � lave xbodern furniture audi gadget j. Refrigerators.;:'^ electrical rittingSr telephones and eVi n airconditi-oners have become a ery commbn. ihtpprted jgbods, in eluding; elec-tronic equtphiehts, ^ lave beconie a routine arfair^ '.'')/�
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a group ot resea: cher^ have revcnled that im st of: the emigrants are iriv :stlng; their surplus: money in pw st buifdings ^ndr^eal estates, pre: erabiy in the same villages from Where they left to seek put ft livingt In" a village hear triyai drum two i annual remittances firem abroad amounted 'to Rs. 40 lakhs for 91 families, half of wh ch hfts gone into domestic cc tisuroptipn; Those families wh r codld hot send at least one me mber; abroad for employment ar ^ finding it difficult to compete with the ftffluehce all around
Obsessed with the > saying pattern of the en igrants, the Kerala gbvernment i j working but a plan to encourage Inyestment of the surplus remit ances from abroad profitably f< r the much" heeded industrial dc velopment of the state. The plart^ets feel tha
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Hammad Mubarak; told .an Indian cc rresppndent:; "If we vyeVe not happy We would not have ask< fd EPI to undertake; other prbj! ?cts.fbr us/ *;� ;:;; " Another observer who Vtsited Kuwait to assess Indian projects there says MTodav EPI has work worth $4( 0 million (in Kuwait) and empU ys 10,000 Indians. We are numb* fr one there."
Turning to^ Libya,^ jfeis is what Indians fe t when they moved in. On- wlnni'lg a contract for the constructs m of Ghat airport, two Indian er gineers^:;.^V^Vil1/-"<ft>: small Lib: ran town) in a car to locate this place one morning in Septemb< ir 1976. As : they ventured deep into the Saharan desert, th< sir journey turned into a neighmar<; When their car broke down afte � four hours. All around there wis ho inhabitation^ only undulating �� sand as far as one cbuid see H^ever, the hardy Sikh driye � ventured to seek help. He starte<l walking towards what looked lik< j ah basis ^m afar but turned ou to be a mirage. Luckily when he < id reach a yillage after trudging fourteen kilpmeteres iinder the scprch'mg sun, he collapsed: Oh ^egaihihg consck oushessvl e was able to seek help.
venture bein^ executed by Nfat-ibnai Building Construction Corporation Ltd, (NBCC) and the International Air|K>rt Authority of India (IAAI)^ b^^ Public sector enterprises in India) is One thing Bharat Heavy Oectricals Ltd. (BHiEL), another Public sector enterprise; m IndU, is building anOtJier prestt^bus project; pn the ] outskirts of Tripbhv one of the bifigest power stations in North Anica estimated to cost; S25 rhiUion). Agaih at Beniwalid; NBCC is building 1,000 houses on ^ reck in close cpoperation with
i Kerala State Construction Corp. �;j'.'- Already an Indian ^ private : [ comply. Kamah^^^ i hundreds of kilbmeters of electrics j wire oh poles, both manufactuxfed 1 in India, in several parts of Libya. And they are still going ahead with this work. \'. -.
In all about ten Indian Gompan-ies are working jn Libya on j projects worth $500^^ m^ j| the; end of 197$, Indians may have business worth $1>00 billion, so. good is their reputiation ibr bxeciition of plans. In neighbouring Irftq Indians
sure death from sunstroke of hia^ihg Sahara desert. IJltimately the journey was resumed i nd when the engineers arrived a their destination. 9n seeing th<; pake� one of themv is reported :o have exclaimed: it is just ^like landing ohthe moon.? , Today (Jhat is a changed place. Over 2S( engineers are busy ebmpieting: the airport and a regular fl >w of traffic with Ubari brings ey< arything ^edei toUye;a.;;; tolerable ife. � 'They (IndiarVs) are; creatihg in airport hy using, a tebhnplbg i which : is different frpm the ; Vest, sbrnethirig which stiits the Saharan Conditions,>r
says ah d bserver who had been ^ there recently, vlf the- ^ irport at Ghat,(a joint
the>emtg ants could be discouraged fron the lavish conspicuous �consumption, provided proper avenues f >r gainful investmem in small sc de sector are made ayail^fele. y^^'-^i^
Ehcoura gedTby the prosperity. throughrcmittancesfrom abroad, there is n ^ talk of * *bram-drain**. In fact the government has shown willingnes s to help youngmeh seeking e nployment abroad. An overseas, employment prbmbtibn and devel )piment corporation has recehlty ; been constituted to promote c evelppmental activities in the si ate -with the help of people \ wking abroad, the cprbbratic n also helps eliminate the uhhettlthy practices engaged in by .iirij efupulous employmeht agencies ^ ^hich have duped many a prospec iye emigrant
. or the emigrants have no ihtehtibn|ro settle abroad. Out of the ^O.pOO Indians in Kuwait only 200 have accepted citizenship there. In Ihe USA pnly 17>0pO out^ of 2.42.W0 Indian have opted for US citizenship. This pattern is true of Indiari emigrants hi most of the Coi ntries;
: In the C ulf countries particularly there is no scope for long- term emjplbyrm nt since most of the Indiaji la ?bur are employed in constriicti cm bompahies. they all feefrtfiat bne day they would return tcj their motherland to settle dov n and they are eager to establish some source for their iivelihobd after they return home. :
Thty ri ^htly demand adequate ehcburagi 'ment for their economic seciir ty on their return in lieu ec mbmic prpsperity they w Ktle in employ meht abroad* ' lie hew !corpprat?oi ; � expected tb draw but plans to meet the demand adequately.
v are engageo in a pig way again, j ^ey are building grain silos, j laying sewrage pipes, executing water-supply projects
At TaVafar. Sirkhat and Sihiar. grain;silos with a storage capacity of 60^000, 4O;0OO and ; 20,000 tonnes ^(cbst, $53 millipn) are coming into shape. About 1200 I te c h hici a n s f r o m In dia a re j working on them round the clock, j A nd, at Iskandriya, a mechanic cat training centre (cost 516 million) cpmplete with laboratory ibsv classrophiSv library and workr( shopsf have been completed by thdiah.s and hande^^^^^^ to Iraqi
authorities. However, the most challehging job is being done at Shutait. outside the city limits of Bagdad. ^A sewage pipe is being laid (cbst $5 million) in a manner in which ^he original French Technology was found Wanting. An iiigenous Indian engineer Mr. -A.K. \Roy. in collaboration with his senibr colleagues, perfected a new technique: to sblve the tricky problem of shuttering; �''
the: next big. project with the 1 ndians in Iraq is Um Oaser water supply scheme cost $22 million j. It inypiyes drawing wateT from the river Shatt-al-Arab- at the port of Maqal, clarifving it with re-inforced concrete, ciarifiers, pumping it b7 km ' to two reservoirs attTm Oasr, and fin ally filtering the water through f modern technology. This scheme. ] when completed would benefh | industrial enterprises .over an [area of.70-km besides providing | drinking water to millions, j ; India s remarkable success in '�{ Iraq can be gauged from the fact j in the fir)5t months of 1978 tir^y :\ have picked; up contracts worth $90 million. And the indications 'are that very soon they would be: asked to construct more houses, silps, railways, microwave net-i Works, irrigation projects, water-] research centres, radio ahd T.V. 1 stations.; ^ -,vr; �'.
! "We have been instructed by I the highest authorities that it j does not matter if the Indians; do not do too well in the initial stages,'' said Vice-Minister of Housing Mr. Shakir Iviphahiood ] Ahmed to a visiting correspon-j dent. Implied in these Words is the hint that Indians would be preferred in Iraq because they do deliver the gcK>ds once they take the work into hand.
Why Indians are being preferred to Western cbntractors in West Asia? The answer has been prbyided by an observer who had visited : West Asian projectsi recently. He says that as a rule
well in these countries. They absolutely avoid interfering in the political affairs of the host country
j its flaws whether it be regarding '} � wine, Woman or religions..' �;
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