Volume 40 No. 24 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA August 1, 2007 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 2.00 Disastrous consequence of monopoly takeover of retail trade must be thwarted at any cost India’s vast retail trade business somehow eking out a livelihood by about 96 per cent of which is by running these small retail unorganized retailers, is as big as businesses. A wide scale monopoly $213.33 billion contributing around raid of the sector, rightly 10-11% of India’s GDP and apprehended by one to all, will currently employs over 40 million virtually wipe out these tiny outlets people in about 12 million outlets. rendering millions jobless. Sensing While organized retailing refers to grievous danger posed before their trading activities undertaken by livelihood, the small businessmen licensed retailers including the engaged in retail trade have already corporate-backed hypermarkets and taken to the path of agitation. retail chains, and also the privately Recently at Ranchi, small traders owned large retail businesses, held a protest demonstration before unorganized retailing, on the other five Reliance Fresh Outlets which 5 AUGUST 1923 — 5 AUGUST 1976 hand, refers to the traditional were even ransacked by irate mob. ‘‘...By political power of people I mean developing such formats of low-cost retailing like the In Dhanbad also, small traders are conscious, militant committees comprising the people and the youth local kirana shops, owner manned agitating against opening of retail force in villages and in different areas of towns and cities who can general stores, paan/beedi shops outlets by the Reliance. Not only by themselves tackle all types of work on the basis of the (roadside beetle leaf/cigarette shops) those associated with this small revolutionary mass line using their own brains, and dare to confront most of which are located in less retailing but also the common any situation, who would exercise influence over people not with than 500 square feet (45 sq meters) people at large will be severely force or police help or hooliganism, but on the strength of their own of area, small convenience stores, affected if this sinister design does qualities, capability, personality, thinking and contemplation, their hand cart and pavement vendors, materialize. Hence all right thinking character and organizing capacity, who can correctly discharge their etc. Unorganized retailing is by far people ought to comprehend the responsibility while confronting all adverse situations. ...And you the prevalent form of trade in India grave danger looming large and have to understand that in order to change this capitalist social – constituting 98% of total trade, come forward to squarely confront structure, you will have to build up and develop people’s struggle while organized trade (mega and repulse the move. committees from the village up to the town and city levels — shopping parlours, big departmental people’s committees which will have to ultimately confront the state stores etc.) accounts only for the Chronicle of Monopoly power through struggles. The rallies and processions which are now remaining 2%. The government of penetration organized — we may have to move along this conventional India has now decided to allow big Before we proceed to analyze democratic path for a considerable length of time yet. In particular monopolists, both domestic and the implications of the move, let us situations, we may have to organize satyagraha, and also stage foreign, to enter into this retail have a quick glance at the scheme dharnas. But the whole object is to develop the struggle committees market in a very big way. This has of things being contemplated and through all this which can organize people everywhere — local posed a serious threat to the very slowly implemented by the Indian committees in the localities, district committees at the district level, survival of the owners and government subserving class provincial committees at the provincial level — and conduct the employees of the small retail shops interest of the ruling Indian task, guiding them like a disciplined army...’’ and kirana stores who after not bourgeoisie, an inalienable part of — SHIBDAS GHOSH being able to find any other crisis-ridden, decadent, moribund (Mass Movements and Tasks of the Youth) alternative means of subsistence are Contd. on page 2 Observe Comrade Shibdas Ghosh Memorial Day on 5th August in a befitting manner PAGE TWO AUGUST 1, 2007 PROLETARIAN ERA Monopoly takeover of retail will trigger mass-scale job loss Contd. from page 1 are also finding the retail sector All these monopoly operators primary producers by cutting out world imperialism-capitalism, the extremely attractive. ITC, for will procure the merchandize many layers of middlemen, develop arguments put forth by the power instance, plans to expand its fruit starting from foodgrains, vegetables the processing facilities and export that be in support of the move and and vegetable distribution network and other agricultural produces to the products to meet their global fallout of such step in other by opening 54 new outlets in select products of cottage as well as agro- requirements, farmers and cottage countries. A KPMG survey report metros in the next three years. The based industries and sell to end- industry owners would get better prepared for the FICCI stated that Bharti group of Mittals is consumers through huge network of prices and bigger markets while the organized retail, estimated as a $ 6.4 positioning itself as a player in the dazzling outlets. In other words, consumers would benefit in terms of billion industry in 2006, is projected agri-business sector. It has acquired they with their money power will be lower prices, better quality and to reach $ 23 billion by 2010. With 5,000 acres (2,000 hectares) in establishing control over both greater variety. The resultant rural the organized retail industry in India Punjab to carry out export-oriented sourcing and supply of essential prosperity may open up markets for poised for such an exponential contract farming. It is also planning items including foodstuff. other industrial goods and help a growth, the domestic monopolists a foray into horticulture in West more balanced regional many of whom have been running Bengal. Several formats of Dangling carrot of so-called development as also job creation in big departmental stores and organized retailing like prosperity other sectors. Similar gains would gorgeous shopping malls for quite a hypermarkets, supermarkets and While trying to defend the flow from higher exports when the long time, are now coming in a very discount stores are being set up by proposed move to handover retail global monopoly chains like Wal- big way with the intention of having big business groups besides the trade to domestic and foreign Mart are allowed in other sectors controlling stake in the retail ongoing proliferation of shopping monopoly, the government is such as readymade garments. In business right from raw material malls in the metros and other large advancing the argument that as of their bid to allay the apprehension sourcing to selling to the end cities. now nearly 70 per cent of the value that once monopoly takes over, consumers. The tycoons like Tatas, Not only domestic corporate of agricultural produces is monopolistic pricing practices will Birlas, Ambanis, Mittals and giants, even the foreign big capital expropriated by middlemen brokers set in forcing the producers and Goenkas have already begun to and MNCs are hankering after and hoarders. Once the sector is consumers to sell and buy at the make decisive inroads into the retail Indian retail pie. With the Congress- opened, the private monopoly level stipulated by it, the sector. Ambani-owned $5.6 billion led CPI(M)-backed UPA houses, by being continuously close government spokespersons and worth Reliance Retail Ltd. with its government declaring a year back to local suppliers and customers, other protagonists of the proposal brand ‘Reliance Fresh’ has started that retail sector would be opened would be in a better position to point out that the best safeguard will opening retail shops selling fruits, further for foreign direct investment control and monitor the entire be in the form of permitting all vegetables, groceries, etc. to be (FDI) in a calibrated manner, there supply chain including the global monopoly chains to set up added with Fast Moving Consumer is a bee-line of giant foreign designing of products, the quality of shops so that the competition among Goods (FMCG), pharmaceuticals, retailing companies like Wall-Mart inputs, the manufacturing process, them ensures better prices for footwear, household goods, of US, Tesco, Mother Care, Body the quality of output, the consumers and suppliers alike. consumer durables, etc. at Shop and Debenhams of UK, Metro standardization, labelling and Supporters of FDI in retail also competitive prices in Hyderabad, A G of Germany, Carrefour SA of packaging, transportation, argue that it will bring a new Bangalore and Ranchi. In Calcutta, France and Swoprete Holdings of warehousing, the distribution shopping experience to the growing it has already managed to bag from South Africa as well for making network, changing product mix (that middle class with modern malls and the Municipality the order of forays into Indian retail. UK’s Mark is array or combination of products) complexes all around. renovating big market complexes & Spencer Group and Dubai-based quickly in response to changing seemingly with the objective to Life Style International have already global fashions and establishing the Mode of the fleecing operation convert the same into its exclusive set up shops in India. Metro A G of right kind of captive suppliers i.e. But whatever is the extent of outlets displacing several hundreds Germany has also begun its the tie-up with the suppliers like the euphoria sought to be created by the of the existing vendors. Reliance operations. US giant Wal-Mart is peasants or cottage industry owners bootlickers of ruling capitalism over has also a plan to invest $5.6 billion slated to come through an alliance will be so strong that they will not monopoly invasion of retail, the (Rs.25, 000 crores) for opening with Bharti group. At a session with be selling their produces to anyone international experience has been 4000 retail outlets in 1500 towns the US India Business Council else). This exclusive supply chain ruinous so much so that all such talk across the country. Significantly, the (USIBC) Delegation organized by and infrastructure, which the private of doing away with middlemen same monopoly house controls two the Confederation of Indian monopolists would develop for their intervention, price manipulation and Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Industry, Mr Ron Somers, President, local stores, would yield significant escalation as well as availability of near Bombay. Reports indicate that USIBC, said that the US was now cost economies (i.e. saving on fair remuneration to the agricultural warehouses to feed the retail outlets waiting for the opening up of the account of lowering of procurement producers and bringing order to the will be located in the SEZs. retail sector so that a chain of costs) that can be used to procure currently flawed operation would Reliance has already established a markets could be set up in India to supplies to the global markets. turn out to be a cruel joke and a big significant presence in the lower reach all parts of the country. These Under marketing system of big hoax. The most catastrophic fallout end of the supply chain by entering steps would lead to new alignments capital since there will be no of private monopoly-dominated as the food procurement business, and opportunities for co-operation middlemen involved, the primary well as FDI driven so-called particularly in Punjab and Madhya between the two countries. A senior producers or the farmers will get the ‘modern retailing and supply chain Pradesh. In fact, it procured official of a US-based private equity opportunity to sell their produces to integration’, has been large scale significant quantities of grain after fund said, “Retail is an interesting the big businessmen. On the other job loss because as apprehended the last wheat harvest in Punjab, area and we continue to look for hand, with the middlemen removed, and experienced by all, such even as the state procurement opportunities. We began by there will be no price manipulation transition can only take place by agencies stayed away, resulting in investing $90 million in one venture in between and hence goods will be destroying the traditional retail the government’s controversial in 1997 and then took up another available to the consumers at a sector providing sizeable decision to import wheat this year. similar opportunity. Both much lower and fair tariff. Thus, to employment. Within no time of Big business houses such as the investments were done by creating the extent the large monopolists retail being under the grip of A.V. Birla group, ITC and the Tatas India-specific funds.” establish a direct linkage with the Contd. on page 6 PROLETARIAN ERA AUGUST 1, 2007 PAGE THREE CPI(M) bogged down deep in scams Kerala instances re-expose CPI(M)’s sliding down the bourgeois vile politics A series of reports of scams involving CPI(M) and a number of Santiago Martin to introduce two associate of CPI(M) leaders and the its highest state leaders and functionaries have come out in national new lotteries in the state and party. While the case with and state level media, and have naturally stirred up heated and serious plunder at least Rs 15 crores daily. Damodaran acting as defence discussions particularly among the left-minded people of the country. Do not all these things point to counsel was heading towards a The party’s General Secretary, Prakash Karat, has himself admitted it deep-rooted collusions and standstill, things took a different in the People’s Democracy, the party organ, and the party’s polit connivance? Is it not that the huge turn. Not long after LiS had been amounts flowing from branded closed and sealed, another firm by bureau and central committee had to take action against two top most criminals are rewards for or in lieu name ‘Jyothis’ came into existence leaders of CPI(M) in Kerala, Mr. Pinarai Vijayan the state secretary of unholy favours received or almost under the same and Mr. V. S. Achuthanandan the veteran polit bureau member and anticipated? Can it all be simply proprietorship and started the Chief Minister of the state suspending them from the polit bureau washed off by returning Rs 2 crore operations in the same line as that of for violating “..the clear directive of the polit bureau and the central or by expelling a functionary of the LiS. Within the last 4 months, committee” (People’s Democracy, June 03, 2007). The scams involve, party newspaper? ‘Jyothis’ has accumulated deposits we will add details later, unlawful transactions of crores of rupees Now, why was the managerial worth Rs 10 crore and has made its between shady personalities and the CPI(M) functionaries; the party functionary of the party’s mark as having put an insertion on is torn asunder with allegations and counter-allegations between newspaper expelled? As admitted the front cover of the DYFI’s different groups led by the top leaders that even go to the extent of by the General Secretary of the organ in Malayalam. It is so open street fights, burning of effigies, blocking of ministers by own party himself, the person, palpably clear that a firm could not men etc.; the rank is left baffled, people horrified, so much so that K.Venugopal, the Deputy General have come to these points without the central committee and the polit bureau find no option but to Manager of Deshabhimani, and a high-level administrative and party known close confidant of both support, that the government is intervene. The question that haunts serious-minded people how could Pinarai Vijayan and Kodiyeri compelled to close down ‘Jyothis’ such things happen with a party that proclaims itself as Marxist, at Balakrishnan, the Home Minister, too. So this was the episode of LiS, least a disciplined cadre- based mass party. But first, we may have to was ‘entrusted with an important the firm from which the CPI(M)’s look back at the facts in some details to find the answer. responsibility’ by the party and he party daily functionary, Venugopal, A few cases are there in the list. solve the problem? Background asked for a bribe and received took a bribe of only rupees one Number one, an amount of Rs 2 events concerning Santiago Martin rupees of 1 crore (reportedly the crore. crore has been received by the party, bring out the gravity of the case, far first installment of a total of 3 A third case relates to some CPI(M), or rather its party from being so simple. crores) to get a government decision Manichan, a dangerous and newspaper in Malayalam, V.S.Achuthanandan, then opposition in favour of the persons concerned: notorious abkari contractor, from Deshabhimani, from some Santiago leader, raised a voice against the this was the charge leveled against whom a dozen prominent CPI(M) Martin a lottery operator and a collusion between the online lottery him. The amount was given by LiS, leaders had reportedly received criminal offender wanted by the tycoons including Santiago Martin a fraudulent money chain firm. LiS lakhs of rupees during the last LDF police in connection with more than during the last UDF ministry, on the is charged with the criminal offence rule under E.K. Nayanar. That the 60 cases of lottery swindles! He has ground that apart from doing fraud of cheating the public with money reports had substance, is proven gone in the hiding for the last few and snatching off an amount at the doubling offers and of flouting from the fact that CPI(M) had then months and the police are in search rate of Rs 30 crores per day on Reserve Bank Regulations. The to expel Mr. Sathyanesan, their of him nationwide. It is during this account of the outside lotteries, they Kerala police raided office of LiS, Trivandrum District Secretary from period that the transaction has been were evading tax to the tune of Rs captured all the records, then closed the party on this charge and put the made between him and CPI(M). In 9,000 crores in tacit understanding and sealed its offices. Prosecution abkari contractor Manichan behind face of questions and criticisms with the UDF government. He procedures were also started. In a bars for his proven criminal even from the rank, the General promised that once LDF span of 3 years before its closure, activities connected with illicit Secretary has tried a case of defence government came to power, this this swindler firm had amassed a liquor trade. But all the other with the argument that the deposits money would be recovered and all fabulous sum of 600 crore from the important leaders of the CPI(M) “were solicited from advertisers” the foul plays stopped. And what public. The case against LiS, were absolved by the party with the for the party newspaper, happened under LDF ministry? The investigations and litigation same explanation that “receipts Deshabhimani and that “receipts Finance minister disclosed in the proceedings, all proceeded were issued” and hence no were issued” for that. He even adds Assembly by way of answering a sluggishly. In a few months of LDF corruption was involved. that the money is going to be question that Rs 8760 crores lottery rule, the investigation officer was While even the General “returned” and the functionary of tax dues were yet to be recovered changed more than once, each time secretary of the party himself the newspaper expelled from the and 80 percent of that amount was the charge being passed over to admitted foul play, the party played party. Let us leave aside the from Santiago Martin! Added to it! lower ranked officers. Even the a different tune. Kodiyeri question that, if and when the The advocate who used to appear on investigating officer was attacked Balakrishnan, the Home Minister transaction of crores of rupees behalf of the lottery mafia in chains in the court premises reportedly by and Central Committee member of smacked of a corrupt deal, whether of cases, suddenly became the the juniors of the advocate of the CPI(M), issued statement in the issuing a receipt on any date Government Pleader under LDF and defendant, when the former was State Assembly that there were no whatsoever is anything new or started representing prosecution. going to the court to hand over the evidences other than newspaper unheard of in this land of corruption Subsequently, in no less than 34 case file, asked by the latter. The reports before the government to called India. Does giving back the cases the government lost; the latter advocate of LiS was M. K. charge sheet K. Venugopal or money of a corrupt deal (otherwise did not stand enthusiastically to Damodaran, who had been the anybody else involved in the scam. why should it be returned) write off appeal further for these lost cases. Advocate General during the former Ordered by the High Court, a CBI the corruption from the account? On the contrary, the government has LDF ministry, under E.K.Nayanar enquiry was started with the cases. Does expulsion of a functionary again permitted the very same and thus, obviously a close Contd. on page 4 PAGE FOUR AUGUST 1, 2007 PROLETARIAN ERA Never a Marxist party, CPI(M) now pursues singular goal of serving capitalists Contd. from page 3 not, an aqua-based amusement park than a scam; it is an unashamed methodology. We have with us There had been another CBI enquiry and a tourist resort! Hence, the somersault even for Achuthanandan ample examples from the erstwhile ordered by the last UDF ministry drive released by Achuthanandan and his party. While in the Soviet Union, China or elsewhere. against Mr. Pinaryi Vijayan, the evoked some enthusiasm among opposition, CPI(M) was And there may be and there are State Secretary of CPI(M) in people. But by the time the vociferously against accepting ADB forces and parties who have never connection with Lavlin Case eviction drive against the land loan. Achuthanandan then warned reached anywhere near Marxism, wherein a contract worth of several mafia entered its third month in that ADB officials would be chased howsoever loud they may have hundreds of crores of rupees was July, it came to a standstill and the away from the state when LDF came proclaimed to that end. Long back, awarded to SNC Lavlin, a Canadian Chief Minister himself was on the to power. But now swallowing even on seeing the attitude, firm, while Vijayan had been the defensive, despite a personal visit to everything and in spite of all group behaviour, conduct and culture of Power Minister between 1996-2001, Munnar to try and revive the feuds, they have accepted huge the leaders and cadres of CPI(M)- allegedly violating all rules and operation by putting the spotlight amounts of loan with all anti-people CPI, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, the regulations. The CBI, however, fell on what he described as large-scale conditions attached with it, such as founder General Secretary of SUCI, back from acting apparently under encroach-ment by the Tata Tea abolition of free supply of drinking and one of the eminent Marxist pressure from the central leadership company. In his words, the Tatas water, metering of public taps, strict thinkers of the post- Lenin days, of CPI(M), the close friend of have been running a parallel imposition of user charge for each have elaborated on several Congress since long. On demand government in this town, hogging and every services rendered by the occasions and from all aspects and from the High Court, the CBI has almost all the lands here. The Tatas, govt./municipalities/corporations, angularities of analysis, that those resumed fresh investigations. How in their turn, are reportedly enhancement of building tax, licence parties have never grown as Marxist far will these enquiries go, or preparing for a legal battle, barring fee, professional tax etc. parties. He showed it in clear terms whether they will end in a blank the political implications of the Accordingly every day newer “The kernel, the living soul of any note as it had been in case of many move. The end is yet to unfurl; the burdens are being imposed upon lofty ideal, any philosophy or any other CBI enquiries, are yet to be truth that has emerged is the common people. worthy ideology lies in its cultural, seen. But that will not dispel the lucrative illegal land business in The above few instances, though ethical and aesthetic standard. truth from people’s mind that Kerala that involves CPI(M) major among many others, represent Marxism is a lofty revolutionary CPI(M) is now bogged to its neck thoroughly. tips of iceberg. They have become ideal. Its kernel, the living soul of into the quagmire of vile bourgeois Bitter groupism centring round daily scores with CPI(M), people this noblest revolutionary ideal also politics. different top leaders of the state now find it from their experience . is ingrained in cultural and moral Few other events in recent years with or without patronage and Not only in Kerala, in West Bengal values”. Hence anybody professing have created so much excitement, encouragement from the central or in Tripura wherever CPI(M) have Marxism must be reflecting the concern and divisions in Kerala leadership is now exposed to each been in power, be it for a record highest and noblest culture and society and politics as the eviction and every knowledgeable person in time or not, they do not lose any ethics of the day and never the drive launched by Chief Minister Kerala. Particularly evident are the time to spread out with their efforts contrary as reflected by the leaders V.S. Achuthanandan in May this Nayanar-Pinarayi axis of north ‘to catch as much as they can, while and cadres of the parties like year against illegal encroachers of Kerala and the Achuthanandan axis in power’. So they have fast plunged CPI(M)-CPI. Since then, years have government land, especially in of south Kerala. However, on into the filths of ugly corrupt rolled by. Those parties have Munnar and surrounding areas in questions of huge sums of money bourgeois politics. They are now assumed governmental powers, Idukki district. Avowedly, as per the the difference seems to level out at reaching the depth of it, as it is reigned for long and tasted the Chief Minister’s announcement, the one stage. Thus Achuthanandan becoming apparent everyday and flavour of power and pelf! Now, drive was meant to distribute a raked up, among others, a Rs. 1,061 everywhere they rule. We have with the intense desire to stick to the portion of the land thus recovered crore Asian Development Bank discussed about Kerala here, we will seats of power and for that, with a among landless agricultural loan affair, apparently for urban discuss about West Bengal instances view to satisfying and serving the labourers, farmers, tribal people and development programmes in the elsewhere to drive home exactly the masters, the ruling capitalists- others; to protect ecologically area ruled by the five CPM led same point. And you cannot say that monopolists, with a view to fragile land; and to draw up a municipal corporations. The CPI(M) are doing it just in the same earning certificates from them master plan for development taking agreement was cleared by the manner as any other bourgeois party and with a view to becoming their into consideration its ecological Local Self Government department does. CPI(M) do it in a far refined blue-eyed boy, they are now ready viability and tourism potential. handled by a pro-Pinarayi Minister, way, with their deeds more to plunge to dip down to any Illegal encroachments of without proper discussion and intelligently contrived and executed. depth of filth, corruption, squabble government land through a thriving knowledge of the cabinet and The question that still unsettles and squandering of peoples’ alliance among real estate carrying certain clauses which were many-a-left minded people is how wealth. businessmen, land dealers, corrupt anti-people, as Achuthanandan could such degeneration, such The Kerala instances unveiled government officials, politicians and accused. Here again the General degradation occur to a party known have placed the task on people political parties in Kerala are not a Secretary of the party had to come as Marxists. From our party, we there : they must build up strong new phenomenon and have stepped out to justify the ADB loan, citing have repeatedly indicated that mass movement against these up particularly since the nineties of the example of West Bengal, also Marxism cannot be practiced with blatant, shameless acts of the last century, with Kerala’s rise run by CPI(M), which has taken a labels fixed on one’s names or corruption, nepotism or such other as a major tourism destination. fatter loan from the ADB. At the appearances. Marxism is a science, vices. In tune with that, left- and Even CPI(M), the party itself, has same time, keeping the group it can be acquired only by pursuing progressive minded people must now coome to own apparently the factors in mind, he had to caution the definite scientific methodology come out throughout the country to wealthiest commercial empire in Pinarayi, saying that the loan terms to reach the truth. A party or a force tear apart all illusions about these Kerala with assets nearing almost should be transparent and that once became Marxist in the forces, to shun with harbouring any Rs. 5,000 crore with interests convincing to the people of Kerala. truest sense of the term, can slip tinge of doubts about if and whether ranging from high rise luxurious Only that they were not, the leader down from its position and even they may still be accepted as a flats, a state-of-the art TV channel, should have admitted it in clear become anti-Marxist, if it does not Marxist, even a progressive force newspaper, magazines, and what terms! But the ADB loan is more keep up with following the correct for the society. PROLETARIAN ERA AUGUST 1, 2007 PAGE FIVE Thirty years of CPI(M)-rule in West Bengal — Claims and Realities On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the CPI(M)-led Left Front administered regions. Also it is has assumed a formidable government of West Bengal, veteran leader Jyoti Basu was conceit among the 5 most backward states proportion, with 12 lakh people in personified to remark that people of the world are surprised to find a in the country, along with Bihar, the state already afflicted there; “Marxist” government continuing in power inside a capitalist set-up for Jharkhand, Arunachal and UP. Do thousand more patients are counting over three decades together. The CPI(M) bigwigs like Prakash Karat, not the CPI(M)’s claims sound like out their days. There is still no General Secretary of the party and Buddhadev Bhattacharya, the Chief sheer tall talks, in view of the fact proper treatment offered by the Minister of West Bengal Government in their write-ups published in that before 1977, West Bengal government. ‘People’s Democracy’ dated 24.6.07 have explained in some length the ranked 2nd in the country, in Every year, nearly 2500 people “magic” behind, i.e. “the set of policies and measures implemented by the education, whereas it now ranks no die of thalassamia – the total left front government … that made the Left Front Government distinctive”. less than 19th i.e., below states like number of patients being nearly 30 No doubt, the success of a government implies improvement in different Uttaranchal, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, thousand. Number of doctors, aspects of public life, viz., education, health, agriculture, industry, Mizoram, Manipur, Maharashtra, nurses and health workers in the employment, workers’ welfare, condition and security of women and Himachal Pradesh, Goa etc., all hospitals for thalassamia patients, children and the people in general, socio-cultural life, law and order these being under “non-progressive” are more often than not insufficient. situation etc. Here, in our write-up we would like to make a short and “non-left” rule? What is more, the 20-bed assessment of the claims made by the CPI(M) in such spheres, as against Reportedly, among the recorded thalassamia hospital started in 2001 the realities to be found in the state. number of Primary Schools in the at the initiative of Thalassamia providing direct employment to state as many as 1900 cannot be Foundation, had to be closed, while The claims of CPI(M) over 50,000 professionals have been traced another 2000 have no proper government remains inactive. The bigwigs of CPI(M) have built.” So far as the industrial rooms, 35,000 posts of teachers are In view of the miserable claimed that “A mass literacy development and investment are vacant. At high school level, this situation of health vis-à-vis the programme has been continuing in concerned, their claims goes, “West number is 40,000. The government government declaration of handing the state over the years. West Bengal provides attractive facilities seeks solution by appointing over 1200 rural health centres to Bengal has achieved 76% literacy to investors’’, who, ‘‘are now teachers on contractual basis with a private owners – do the CPI(M)’s rate.” The government also claims convinced of the pro-active role of pitiable pay of Rs.1000-2000 per claims ring true? In the same way, to have accorded priority to the our government.” According to month. In colleges too, appointment such reputed institutions as the implementation of Sarva Siksha these leaders, industrial investment of teachers on contract is rapidly Jadavpur K.S. Ray T.B. Hospital Abhijan. Their claim further amounts to Rs. 2000 crore in the coming into practice. As reported in and Niramoy Clinic are being sold extends to number of schools state. While promoting private the Times of India (21 June ’07), the out to private or corporate owners having extended and the school investment, the government is number of school drop-outs in the as conditions for securing foreign drop-outs rate being on the decline. committed to, “defending the age-group of 6 and 14 is 9 lakh 61 aids to the amount of 1200 crores ! Moreover, “In new areas colleges interests of the working class, and thousand, as against Bihar’s 6 lakh In agriculture, to start with, it are being set up and the growing their trade union rights.” “West 96 thousand. Also, despite crores of may be pointed out that out of 10.58 number of students passing from the Bengal”, the leaders claim, “ranks rupees being spent on the much- lakhs of hectares of land, the Left institution indicates the gradual first among all states in respect to flaunted Sarva Shiksha Abhijan Front government claims to have improvement of educational both the number of working units scheme, 58 blocks in different distributed, the bulk, i.e. 6.25 lakh standards.” and employment generation in the districts of the state are reportedly hectares was distributed before In health their claim goes – small-scale sector.” steeped in the darkness of 1977, i.e. before the installation of “West Bengal has a comprehensive Concerning rights and interests ignorance. the Left Front into power. health care system. The state of workers, reference may be made The “comprehensive health Despite the government’s claims government caters to the health care to Mr. Bhatytacharya’s claim, which care”, the CPI(M) leaders speak of, of redistribution of land to farmers needs of 72% of its people.” goes, “In every movement in the are imperceptible, what with people etc., the facts tell otherwise. Owing In agriculture, the CPI(M)’s interests of the working people, in dying of Dengue, Malaria and such to increased expenditure incurred in claim to achievements include ‘land every general strike and all India other once-eradicated diseases, not farming including Panchayat tax- reforms’, ‘decentralization of protests, It is the democratic to speak of deaths from dog-bites or hike (amounts to 180% hike) power’, ‘institution of panchayati movement in West Bengal, that has snake bites in the villages. Even sustenance and medical cost hike, raj system’ and ‘accomplishing lent its strength to the all India anti-venom — an ordinary abnormally increased charges of agricultural production’. The movement.” medicine, is not available in the manure and pesticides, increased CPI(M) leader also claims to have The chief minister concludes, village hospitals and health centres. charges of electricity etc., in some acquired over a lakh acres of land “defending the left front Charges have been imposed on district or the other in the state, and distributed the same among 25 government is imperative for all hospital treatment, yet out of 112 farmers in West Bengal are every lakh landless and small peasants”. those who cherish democratic life-saving drugs supplied earlier, other day reported taking their own “Small and marginal farmers now values and wish to see a left and government has stopped supplying lives, since they find it difficult to own 84% of the total agricultural democratic alternative to the 80 of them. Required number of retain their lands under the given land” and “land distribution has led country.” doctors, nurses and health workers circumstances. The rate at which to increase of food grains cannot be availed of; so also proper land-owning peasants, their lands production’’. Irrigation facilities The Reality infrastructure, instruments and lost are getting transformed into too, are claimed to have enhanced. Let us start with education. The medicine are often not available sharecroppers – is clear from a State The CPI(M) leader claims, report published on 1st February, at either. Census Report published in 2001 : “West Bengal has a pioneering role Delhi, by the National University of The infant death ratio in villages No. of land owning peasants in providing unemployment benefits Education, Planning and places West Bengal in the 8th declined from 38.4% to 25.4% to the workers of locked-out Administration under the Ministry position in the country, (51.4% by No. of sharecroppers increased industries.” West Bengal has of Human Resources, shows – West 2003) superceding Andhra Pradesh, from 41.6% to 49.6% achieved, “remarkable growth over Bengal occupies the 32nd place Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, Punjab, In fact, the number of the last decade, 250 IT companies among 35 states and centrally- Tamil Nadu etc. Arsenic poisoning Contd. on page 8 PAGE SIX AUGUST 1, 2007 PROLETARIAN ERA In absence of socialist camp, world capitalism is unbriddled in loot and plunder Contd. from page 5 but to come to them, they fix the industrial consumer goods. So, large despotic capitalism. monopoly capital, there has been procurement price of the scale recession and stagnation is Posing as if opening up the large scale job loss in the sector. agricultural produces as well as stalking capitalist productive system sectors hitherto kept under the According to a 2004 paper by which crop should be produced and in which the motive of production is control of the government as areas Andrew Shepard, an economist with what fertilizer or pesticide should be not to meet the crying needs of the of essential services that warrant the UN Food and Agriculture used. If these big monopolists find people but to earn maximum profit availability to the people either free Organization, large supermarkets tomorrow that a particular crop or by robbing the labouring masses. of cost or at minimal price, would push small farmers out of business agricultural raw material has a Stricken with such an insoluble eradicate all malfunctioning and under the plea that they do not come market ( i.e. potential for being sold crisis, the capitalists are shying usher in a new era of fair equitable up to expectations in terms of to intended buyers having away from all essential productive distribution of necessary goods and volume, quality and delivery. In a affordability to buy at the price activities and closing down the vital services to the citizenry, the recent Oxfam study, a decade ago fixed) at home or abroad, they could existing industrial units. The ruling monopolists are pitching for coffee farmers used to earn $10 compel the peasants now under their resultant job less coupled with liberal handover of such areas like billion from a global market worth captivity to abandon cultivation of mounting unemployment in absence education, health, civic amenities, $30 billion. Now they receive less essential food crops and instead of set up of any job-creating power etc. to them for running than $6 billion in a global market engage in plantation of such industry is further depleting the under private ownership on over $60 billion. So the much marketable stuff on a ‘contract purchasing power of the people commercial basis. Takeover of trumpetted increase in scale or farming’ basis. The farmers are thus causing further shrinkage of the retail service by monopoly efficiency following monopoly compelled to sell at the prices so market. This is the vicious cycle of capitalists is a latest innovative penetration instead of raising the determined and forced to cultivate capitalist economy now in its instrument of oppression by the incomes of the coffee farmers has only such crops which have market decadent moribund stage. So a huge ruling capitalist class unbriddled in substantially lowered the same. The among the upper class consumers or capital in the hands of the ruling extending its loot and plunder in lessons are clear. Bulk procurement profitable for exporting outside. To capitalist class is becoming surplus newer domains and in newer form. by monopoly retailers plays havoc bind the farmers in such conditions and idle. In capitalism, capital is In order to ensure that profits soar to with primary producer’s margins. It the big capitals arrange loans and nothing but a means of exploitation the maximum, it has been a is also understood that emergence of advances for the farmers from their and it can not sit idle. While a consistent endeavour on the part of giant private retail chain in own sources and also supply them substantial portion of this excess the ruling monopolists to reduce Malaysia slashed the number of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides . capital is finding way to stock cost of operation by harnessing vegetable suppliers from 200 in Thus the farmers are booked for market and other speculative latest sophisticated technology and 2001 to just 30 in 2003. selling their produces to those activities as well as to usurious drastically curtail if not reduce to The mode of the fleecing particular mega-retailers and to business, the ruling capitalist class zero the manpower requirement. So operation as has been seen none other else. These giant is desperate to find newer avenues the retail chains under monopoly worldwide can be described like monopoly houses thus emerge as for securing maximum profit by control are all capital-intensive this. Initially, to swallow the viable sole or monopoly purchaser of squeezing even the last drop of instead of being labour intensive traditional shops of consumer goods agricultural products as also seller blood from the toiling people. It has and in the plummeting job they allow the consumers some of the same. This is a normal been from this perspective that opportunity in crisis-ridden lucrative concessions for the time predatory strategy used by large world imperialism-capitalism capitalism, there is no alternative being severely undercutting small capitals to drive out small and embarked on the ravaging economic avenue for absorbing the huge retailers. The consumers too are dispersed competition, form a big policy of globalization- labour so rendered surplus in the allured with pomp and corporate empire in agriculture liberalization-privatization. It is to course of ‘modernizing’ retail sector extravaganzas of the air-conditioned while the peasantry and small-scale be further understood that earlier under monopoly grip. As a result, shopping malls, show-rooms, super producers face destitution and the ruling capitalist class could not there is galloping rise in the number markets and all that and thus ruination at their alter. dare to roll out such a ruinous of jobless people. This is how trapped by the big business lobbies. agenda of globalization because of monopoly takeover of trade is With their incredibly deep-pockets, Retail takeover—predatory strong public resistance and spelling disaster in the life of the these retail giants can afford to move of exploitative capitalism existence of the socialist camp as a common people. withstand a lower margin , even Obviously a question may be countervailing force. But following losses for the time being till they raised as to what prompted the dismantling of the socialist camp, Consequences will be equally establish monopoly control wiping monopolists to extend their paw to considerable weakening of ruinous in India out all competitors. As a result, the the retail sector so aggressively. To international revolutionary working In this backdrop and with medium and small shops are forced get an answer, we need to class movement because of capitalist system bestriding the to shut their windows in no time. understand some of the essential domination of revisionist forces in country like deadweight, the Indian And in consequence, the common features and spate of happenings in various countries and consequent experience will be no different if people fall prey to the clutches of the economic-political sphere. low ebb in the democratic mass not worst. If the private the monopolists who then dictate World imperialism-capitalism is movement, that public resistance monopolists, both domestic and the prices of the daily necessities. now in the grip of intense market against imperialist-capitalist indigenous, grab the retiling sector, Same is the position of the crisis—to be more precise, an machinations has also been vast number of families will be foodgrains growers, small-scale hourly crisis endemic of the very enfeebled. In absence of formidable pushed under the poverty line. For producers and cottage industries. capitalist system. The relative people’s resistance, the ruling example, published reports indicate Initially the farmers get a better stability of the capitalist market has monopolists have found an open that in India current retail sales per value of their produces from these vanished long back. As an inevitable ground for implementing all their employee is about Rs.78, 000 monopoly houses. So they sell to outcome of ruthless capitalist new-fangled sinister designs with whereas in Wal-Mart the same is these big capitals and gradually exploitation, purchasing power of alacrity. Eyeing on the retail service Rs.74.18 lakhs, i.e., about 95 times become dependent on them. Once most of the people has almost has come in this sequence of of that of an average Indian worker the monopolists find that the touched the bottom rendering most extending predatory paw to the because Wal-Mart applies highly primary producers have no other go of them incapable of buying service sector by the gasping Contd. on page 7 PROLETARIAN ERA AUGUST 1, 2007 PAGE SEVEN

relief to the people from the Pseudo-Marxists endorsing predatory spiraling price rise. Our contention was that the government should undertake full responsibility of both raid of monopoly capital on retail procuring and distributing Contd. from page 3 consequences for smaller retailers. tax concession and other benefits. foodgrains and other essential items automated technology and business Either way, it will be a pillaging Ambanis-owned Reliance has and private ownership of both process to drastically cut labour cost assault of monopoly capital seeking already started its work for opening wholesale and retail should be yielding maximum profit. India has to maximize profit by capturing a retail chain all over the state totally banned. With all private 35 towns each with a population new domain of business bringing in including 200 outlets for trading banned, the chance of price over 1 million. Internationally, Wal- its wake plight and penury for the agricultural commodities. As manipulation, middlemen Mart handles a turnover of over 80, toiling people. mentioned earlier, the CPI(M) intervention, hoarding, black- 330 rupees [$1.82 billion] per store Mayor of Calcutta Municipality marketing, creation of artificial with 10,195 employees. If Wal-Mart Double-dealing of the CPI (M) Corporation has already handed scarcity and supply of sub-standard were to open an average store in What is worth noting in this over a municipal market to the stuff would be appreciably each of these cities and they reached regard is that not only known Reliance group and is going to hand minimized if not removed the average Wal-Mart performance trusted representatives of the ruling over other two other markets to the altogether. It was only that way the per store, it would mean throwing bourgeoisie like the Congress or the RPG and Reliance groups primary producers could receive out about 4, 32,000 persons from BJP, even the pseudo-Marxists like respectively. In a letter to the remunerative price and essential the small retail arena. If large the CPI (M) and its associates who licensed stall holders of the provisions made available to retailers were to grab 20 percent of by the grace of the ruling class and aforesaid municipality market consumers at fair price. Even today, the retail trade, a turnover of 800 its pliant media are projected as agitating against allowing Reliance we consider this to be a most billion rupees [$18 billion] on Marxists are also extending all out to take custody of the market legitimate demand. But the CPI (M) today’s basis with just 43,540 support to this nefarious design. premises in the name of summarily rejected the proposal persons would knock out nearly While feigning opposition to the development, the CPI (M) mayor under the plea that it would harm eight million persons employed in entry of MNCs and Indian corporate has given a open threat to them by the retailers. There is no reason to the unorganized retail sector. In houses in retail trade that it would saying that any sort of non- believe that the CPI (M) leadership other words, assuming four have an “adverse impact on the cooperation would be taken as a was so blunt as not to understand dependents per person, around 32 livelihoods of a large section of serious violation of the licensee the rationale behind the proposal. million dependents will be people who are engaged in agreement to be followed by its The cause lay somewhere else. At straightaway on the roads. This unorganized retail across the consequences. He mayor also did that time, the monopolists were means a foreign company will buy country”, the CPI (M) calling itself not categorically rule out allowing more interested to have their big from India and abroad and at the leftist but pursuing an utterly non- Reliance to retail agro-products strangler hold on wholesale outset sell low in the domestic leftist line only ended its from the renovated market distribution of essential items. market severely undercutting the responsibility by putting forward to compound. With the patronage of Introduction of all-out state trading small retailers. It reminds one of the Congress-led government the CPI(M) front government, RPG would have immensely hurt their what Nick Robbins, the noted running on is support merely “a group of Goenkas has already interest. So the CPI (M) in order to historian, wrote in the context of the proposal’’ to adopt stringent opened Spencer Express Store in the protect the monopoly interest East India Company, “By regulations on the organized sector state as an retail outlet of consumer floated the alibi of retail protection controlling both ends of the chain, in retail trade which included, inter goods. The CPI (M) government has to oppose the proposal. Today, the company could buy cheap and alia, recommendations like also promised Reliance of all types when the retail distribution has sell dear”. ‘Licensing by local bodies’, of legal and economic help become the favoured destination of Incidentally, some of the large regulation and monitoring’, fixing including exemption from stamp the monopolists and the small Indian retail chains wary over the ‘population size per retail format’, duty and registration charges for retailers are facing the axe, the same competition from foreign firms are facility of ‘adequate parking place’, their millions of square feet of retail CPI (M) is concurring to the hostile trying to scuttle full scale entry of location ‘outside city limits’, so on outlets, processing-cum-distribution takeover of the sector by the big overseas corporate bigwigs by and so froth. The CPI(M) centers, cold storages, vegetable capital throwing aside the question raising various issues through their leadership knows very well that terminal markets etc. throughout the of protecting the small retailers. political representatives in the such fig leaf restrictions are all state. The government has Clearly, it is the compulsion of cabinet and the legislatures and in paper suggestions having hardly any announced 100 per cent electricity subserving monopoly class interest the process making efforts to role in preventing predatory pricing, duty exemption for them for next that has prompted it to take both the generate a tacit support in their below cost sales, hoarding, five years, 100% exemption in toll stands at two points of time. There favour by inciting nationalist ‘monopolistic practices in credit, tax, etc. The CPI(M) Chief Minister is nothing surprising in it. More the passion. While the Indian bourgeois input and output’ etc. by the retail Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has CPI (M) surrenders itself to the state in the aggregate interest of giants. That the CPI (M) leadership assured Wal-Mart of acceptance of class interest of ruling monopolists, capitalism is opening up retail trade is not at all opposed to private their proposal for opening retail more difficult it would be to even to foreign players as a part of the monopoly in retail is amply testified chain in the state. The story of its masquerade itself as social- globalization policy which also by the fact that in the state of West double dealing does not end here. democrat, the force of compromise allows Indian monopolists to invest Bengal where it is in power for last Just a few days earlier, Dinesh between labour and capital. At the abroad and harvest super-profits, thirty years with the full backing of Mani, CPI (M) leader and Mayor of same time is also true that this ought interest of some individual the ruling bourgeoisie whose Kochi municipality in Kerala inau- to be the outcome of compromising monopolists aspiring to make big spokesmen now hail the CPI (M) gurated local retail chain showroom social-democratic politics. fortune in domestic retail might get chief minister of the state as best of a domestic major and then joined hurt and so is the rumbling here and performer and most investor- the small traders’ protest march to People must thwart this there. It ought to be understood that friendly (read monopoly-friendly), it fight such domestic majors. heinous move such opposition to FDI in retail by is openly inviting not only the One more incident we feel is This raid on retail by the some individual monopoly houses domestic monopoly capital but even worth mentioning in this regard. monopolists has been taking at a purely from commercial foreign MNCs like Metro Cash & Way back in the sixties, we had time when the ruling capitalist consideration has nothing to do with Carry, Wal-Mart etc. offering them raised the demand for introducing class, in the aggregate interest of people’s interest. Whether it is Wal- all governmental support in the all-out state trading in essential capitalism, is bent upon Mart or Reliance - has the same form of infrastructure development, commodities in order to give some Contd. on page 8 Regd. No. 13932/67 Postal Regd. No. SSRM/KOL/RMS/WB/RNP-145/2007-09 P. R. (FGN) No. SSRM/KOL/RMS/WB/RNP-145/FGN-036/2007-09 Thirty years of CPI(M)-rule in West Bengal : Claims and Realities Contd. from page 5 peddle their flesh on streets of the compensation as well as job this government was installed, sharecroppers have risen over the metropolis. alternative for occupation prove to recorded unemployed numbered 17 years, contrary to the CPI(M)’s As Human Resource be all but false – as exemplified by lakhs, whereas they are now not less claims (it was 50.5 lakhs in 1991, Development report reveals, the experiences of farmers giving up than 70 lakhs. The National Survey now it has gone up to 1 crore). difference between rural and urban lands earlier at Rajarhat, Barasat, report shows up to 2003, the These hapless people are compelled per capita consumption is higher in Bakreswar and other places. number of workers losing jobs was to forego their attachment with the West Bengal than the All-India The Chief Minister’s claims of 40 times the number of people land and are rendered destitute. pattern. having arranged irrigation water for securing new jobs. With 56 Desperately looking out for jobs, Left Front government has 70% of agricultural land is also far thousand factories closed, more than any odd jobs at that, they drift hiked charges of electricity for the from true, Government has arranged 13 lakh of families face starvation away out of their village, district, underground water used in such water for 30% lands only. It is and untimely death. state and even out of the country. irrigation. Nor does the government on non-government initiative that As the statistics show, With governments planning to ensure that the farmers get fair price the rest of the water is arranged. previously there were some 40,054 abolish land ceiling, acts are being for crops. The rural market is open So far employment is small industries, 29,000 of which changed, permitting thereby rich to land sharks and agents. The concerned, West Bengal presents a have closed shutters (ICSI, Oct-Dec. farmers and land investors to seeds supplied by the government picture no more encouraging. 2004) develop farms over several thousand turn out to be unyielding. Farmers, According to the National Sample In election manifesto of the of bighas. Fertile land is being therefore, are pushed to destitution Survey Organisation, over 10 years, Front, it was proclaimed that converted into fisheries and real and death. Government is thus there has been a decline in Provident Fund and Health estates, water-bodies are destroyed responsible for making agriculture employment from 63.3% in 1993-94 Insurance Scheme will be further and the result is that rural economy unprofitable enough as to find to 62.7% in 2004-05, in agriculture. extended to provide social security based on agriculture is all but grounds for pursuing farmers to Likewise in industries too, to landless sharecroppers and shattered. In 1981, the number of hand over their lands. Capitalist employment by new appointments workers of unorganised sectors in khetmajoors (agricultural labourers) looters (including Tata, Salem etc.) has over the years, got reduced from urban and rural areas. How baseless in West Bengal was near 37 lakhs. are eager to invest, with farmers, 16.1% in 1993-94 to 13.5 in 2004- it all seems to talk of P.F. and Health In 1991, it steeped up to 50.5 lakhs more often than not unwilling to 05 in rural areas and from 30.2% in Insurance, when the bulk of people and now it is round about 75 lakhs part with their lands, tempted, 1993-94 to 2.7.6% in 2004-05 in go jobless! – doubled. Rural women too, out of confused and even subjected to urban areas. 30 years back, when (To be Continued) job, go off to work as domestic help oppression of police and goons. In to urbanites, the worst fated of the case of land acquired by lot having no other option but to government, promises of Protest against Sex Education at school level at Allahabad Monopoly capital in Retail Trade The UP State Committee of Chief Minister, demanding Contd. from page 7 starvation or turn into beggars, or AIDSO and AIMSS organized a big withdrawl of the scheme was concentrating economic wealth in pushed to theft, burglary and surfeit protest demonstration of students, submitted to the DM. The statewide the hands of a few monopolists. At of such other anti-social and youths, women, intellectuals and protest compelled the government to the same time, it is ensuring that internecine activities. This is how as guardians in front of the DM Office agree to delete contentious portions gradually, all political power is a fallout of implementation of a at Allahabad on July 14 against of the book on sex education; concentrated in the hands of the sinister design of the exploiting proposed scheme of including sex AIDSO and AIMSS decided to bourgeois state so that the people ruling monopolists, millions of our education at secondary school level. continue the movement till total are crippled to assert their political countrymen, our brothers and sisters A memorandum addressed to the cancellation of the scheme. rights to protest against savage will not only be wrenched, wretched economic assault and all other and pauperized but dehumanized as menacing attack on every walk of well. Thus if the retail sector is their life. This is the grand fascistic captured by the monopolists, the design of the ruling capitalism to concomitant evil will encumber one prolong its despotic class rule. This to all – producers, retailers and grand design is fostering one after consumers. No one will be spared another anti-people move to spell from the poisonous bite of disaster in people’s life. monopoly onslaught. So it is high The consequence of monopoly time that all sections of the takeover of retail will be devastating toiling people and the thinking in every respect. We know that populace comprehend the gravity of finding no other means of income, the situation and come forward to many million Indians are virtually take up cudgels against such a forced into small retailing setting up planned attack by the ruling class a tiny shop or resorting to hawking and its obedient servants of different to somehow make both ends meet. hues. They must organize If today these small retailers and themselves to build up mighty hawkers are unsettled and ousted, or resistance movement throughout the the poor primary producers are country unitedly to foil the AIDSO, AIDYO and AIMSS jointly organized a massive protest demonstration forced to distress sale at monopoly conspiracy and stall the impending against introduction of sex-education in school level curriculum before the DM dictation, they will either die like catastrophe. That is the call of the office, Jaunpur, UP on July 14 and submitted a memorandum addressesd to the cats and dogs on the street out of hour. Chief Minister demanding withdrawal of the scheme. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF : NIHAR MUKHERJEE Edited & Published by Sukomal Dasgupta from 48 Lenin Sarani, Kolkata 700 013 and printed by him at Ganadabi Printers and Publishers Private Limited, 52B, Indian Mirror Street, Kolkata 700013. Phone : 2249-1828, 2244-2234 E-mail : [email protected] Website : www.suci.in