Tuesday, August 5, 2008
On U.S.-India civil nuclear deal - Nuclear-deal has spin-off;100,000 new jobs, more research opportunities
O ne of the spin offs of the U.S.-India civil nuclear deal coming through will be the creation of 100,000 new jobs for the 30-odd reactors that India hopes to set up to meet its nuclear power deadline of 20,000 MW by 2020, experts say.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi highlighted the fillip the deal is expected to give to employment generation and the energy sector. Interacting with students of Ravindra Bharati in Hyderabad on July 26, Gandhi said, "The nuclear deal means millions and millions of jobs, and lights in the houses of the poor in this country."
Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power, Jairam Ramesh, visiting the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)'s Kalpakkam campus in Tamil Nadu, said, "Nearly 10,000 MW of nuclear power would be generated from indigenous reactors, 8,000 MW from light water reactors and 2,000 MW from Fast Breeder Reactors (FBR)." Thousands of engineers, technicians and scientists would be needed to run these establishments, he underlined.
"India's 17 nuclear reactors have the capacity to generate 4,120 MW, but in 2007 they could produce only 1,800 MW due to lack of fuel," Ramesh said.
By 2020, India is likely to import six light water reactors while six nuclear plants are under construction to beef up generation capacity, said Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd Technical Director S.A. Bhardwaj.
The total expansion is valued at nearly $300 billion."India's Department of Atomic Energy employs about 70,000 experts today," M.R.
Srinivasan, former chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission, told the media at a function in Kalpakkam.
The new nuclear power plants on the cards are expected to create at least a 100,000 new jobs in India, experts say.
Not just in India, the nuclear deal is expected to give a fillip to the industry in the U.S. also.
In 2007, Ron Somers, president of the U.S.India Business Council, supporting the IndoU.S. Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, said,"The deal would create 27,000 high-quality jobs a year for the next 10 years in the U.S.
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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi highlighted the fillip the deal is expected to give to employment generation and the energy sector. Interacting with students of Ravindra Bharati in Hyderabad on July 26, Gandhi said, "The nuclear deal means millions and millions of jobs, and lights in the houses of the poor in this country."
Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power, Jairam Ramesh, visiting the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)'s Kalpakkam campus in Tamil Nadu, said, "Nearly 10,000 MW of nuclear power would be generated from indigenous reactors, 8,000 MW from light water reactors and 2,000 MW from Fast Breeder Reactors (FBR)." Thousands of engineers, technicians and scientists would be needed to run these establishments, he underlined.
"India's 17 nuclear reactors have the capacity to generate 4,120 MW, but in 2007 they could produce only 1,800 MW due to lack of fuel," Ramesh said.
By 2020, India is likely to import six light water reactors while six nuclear plants are under construction to beef up generation capacity, said Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd Technical Director S.A. Bhardwaj.
The total expansion is valued at nearly $300 billion."India's Department of Atomic Energy employs about 70,000 experts today," M.R.
Srinivasan, former chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission, told the media at a function in Kalpakkam.
The new nuclear power plants on the cards are expected to create at least a 100,000 new jobs in India, experts say.
Not just in India, the nuclear deal is expected to give a fillip to the industry in the U.S. also.
In 2007, Ron Somers, president of the U.S.India Business Council, supporting the IndoU.S. Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, said,"The deal would create 27,000 high-quality jobs a year for the next 10 years in the U.S.
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Labels: Business Council, congress, employment, india, jobs, nuclear deal, Rahul Gandhi, Tamil Nadu, US
Monday, June 23, 2008
Scholars say Obama's campaign is history in motion
Already, the adjective ‘historic' seems permanently attached to news media descriptions of Barack Obama's emergence as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
News anchors and pundits deploy the term with abandon, but what do actual historians think?
"I think this will be in a class by itself," said John Hope Franklin, who at 93 is the dean of the American historians who think and write about race.
Obama's campaign "is the most radical, far-reaching, significant (undertaking) by any individual or group in our history," he said. "This strikes at the very heart of national ideology on race and the political patterns of this country's history."
Obama's candidacy is ‘monumental,' said Manning Marable, 58, professor of history at Columbia.
"It can redeem American history from the specter of race that has plagued us for nearly 400 years."
"Race is the original sin of American democracy," said William Chafe, 65, professor of history at Duke, so "this will be historic in a thousand ways."
It could be, added Alan Brinkley of Columbia, "a very important event in the effort to put race to bed as an issue."
These scholars were all talking about the phenomenon - unexpected for all of them of a black man becoming a leading candidate for president in 2008.
They agree that this is something big, even if it is too early to know just how big. And several of them agreed that it is also something complicated.
So Obama began his first speech as the presumptive nominee in St. Paul on June 5 night with eloquent thanks to "my grandmother, who helped raise me ... who poured everything she had into me and who helped to make me the man I am today." She is Madelyn Dunham, Obama's white grandmother.
Race in America has never been a blackand-white matter. Many Americans have a mixed racial background, "but that is something we have never wanted to acknowledge," said Clement Alexander Price, 62, professor of history at Rutgers.
"For a long time, the races (in America) have been joined at the hip." A further refinement: Obama's African ancestry is not traceable to an American descendant of slaves, but to his Kenyan father who in 1959 arrived in the United States, where he met and married Obama's white mother. So the candidate's pedigree, like his new standing in history, is unusual.
"It is one of those exquisite moments in American history," said Johnnetta B. Cole, 71, former president of Spelman College and an anthropologist, "that teaches all of us, especially the young, what is possible in this country."
Ultimately only history can determine what is historic. Obama's status in history will depend on future events that are today mostly unknowable, though the first whether he will or won't be elected president in November - will be known relatively soon.
Even if he wins, the important presidencies are the ones that change the country and its politics, said David Blight of Yale. A President Obama's place in history "would depend so much on whether he truly can develop a new coalition" that creates a new politics.
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News anchors and pundits deploy the term with abandon, but what do actual historians think?
"I think this will be in a class by itself," said John Hope Franklin, who at 93 is the dean of the American historians who think and write about race.
Obama's campaign "is the most radical, far-reaching, significant (undertaking) by any individual or group in our history," he said. "This strikes at the very heart of national ideology on race and the political patterns of this country's history."
Obama's candidacy is ‘monumental,' said Manning Marable, 58, professor of history at Columbia.
"It can redeem American history from the specter of race that has plagued us for nearly 400 years."
"Race is the original sin of American democracy," said William Chafe, 65, professor of history at Duke, so "this will be historic in a thousand ways."
It could be, added Alan Brinkley of Columbia, "a very important event in the effort to put race to bed as an issue."
These scholars were all talking about the phenomenon - unexpected for all of them of a black man becoming a leading candidate for president in 2008.
They agree that this is something big, even if it is too early to know just how big. And several of them agreed that it is also something complicated.
So Obama began his first speech as the presumptive nominee in St. Paul on June 5 night with eloquent thanks to "my grandmother, who helped raise me ... who poured everything she had into me and who helped to make me the man I am today." She is Madelyn Dunham, Obama's white grandmother.
Race in America has never been a blackand-white matter. Many Americans have a mixed racial background, "but that is something we have never wanted to acknowledge," said Clement Alexander Price, 62, professor of history at Rutgers.
"For a long time, the races (in America) have been joined at the hip." A further refinement: Obama's African ancestry is not traceable to an American descendant of slaves, but to his Kenyan father who in 1959 arrived in the United States, where he met and married Obama's white mother. So the candidate's pedigree, like his new standing in history, is unusual.
"It is one of those exquisite moments in American history," said Johnnetta B. Cole, 71, former president of Spelman College and an anthropologist, "that teaches all of us, especially the young, what is possible in this country."
Ultimately only history can determine what is historic. Obama's status in history will depend on future events that are today mostly unknowable, though the first whether he will or won't be elected president in November - will be known relatively soon.
Even if he wins, the important presidencies are the ones that change the country and its politics, said David Blight of Yale. A President Obama's place in history "would depend so much on whether he truly can develop a new coalition" that creates a new politics.
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Labels: American historians, Americans, Barack Obama, black vote, Columbia, Democratic nominee, Democratic presidential nominees, history, Republican Party, US
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Workers from India suspend hunger strike with rally outside Department of Justice
Approximately 100 workers from India who came to the post-Katrina Gulf Coast in 2006 with H2B visas under a guest-worker program, held a rally and press conference outside the Department of Justice in Washington,D.C., June 11, to demand the Attorney General grant them "continued presence" under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
Led by the Indian Workers Congress, the organizers used the occasion to suspend a 29-day hunger strike undertaken by some 20 workers, five of whom were hospitalized according to a release from the California based advocacy organization National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR).
After the workers broke the fast in a ceremony blessed by several faith leaders, a delegation of supporters went into the Department of Justice and met with Constituent Relations Associate Director Julie Warren, who they said had agreed to set a meeting between the workers and the DoJ Civil Rights Division for the week of June 16th.
"Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act because we recognized that modern day slavery exists and that workers trafficked into the United States should be able to place their faith in the United States justice system," Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is quoted saying at the rally, one week after he and 17 Congressional colleagues, including Washington, D.C. Rep.
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Led by the Indian Workers Congress, the organizers used the occasion to suspend a 29-day hunger strike undertaken by some 20 workers, five of whom were hospitalized according to a release from the California based advocacy organization National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR).
After the workers broke the fast in a ceremony blessed by several faith leaders, a delegation of supporters went into the Department of Justice and met with Constituent Relations Associate Director Julie Warren, who they said had agreed to set a meeting between the workers and the DoJ Civil Rights Division for the week of June 16th.
"Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act because we recognized that modern day slavery exists and that workers trafficked into the United States should be able to place their faith in the United States justice system," Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is quoted saying at the rally, one week after he and 17 Congressional colleagues, including Washington, D.C. Rep.
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Labels: Department of Justice, H2B visas, hunger strike, Indian Workers Congress, NNIRR, rally, suspend, Trafficking Victims Protection Act, US, Washington, workers
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