CHENNAI: Former Lakshadweep administrator Omesh Saigal has advocated Union home minister Amit Shah to draw the draft Lakshadweep growth regulations, 2021.
In a letter addressed Shah, Saigal, that functioned as Lakshadweep secretary for three decades, ” said the Union government should not frame any rules or regulations without consulting with the regional individuals.
Saigal said a Number of the provisions of the draft action are all’foolish and reveal that It’s not tailor-made for island land but picked up out of a town such as Delhi’.” It (draft) talks of’systematic and progressive evolution of rural and urban regions (the biggest island has a population of 12000),”’further forces for acquisition of property (nearly all of the 10 islands are in fact abadi regions where land cannot be obtained ),’growth of the cities and country side’ (such phrases may only be employed by someone, that hasn’t been on the oceans ) and so on.
There are lots of such howlers such as’farming of dirt’ (it’s 99% sand)…,” explained Saigal.
He explained the new administrator in five years at office has”obtained several extreme but damaging measures” that have bothered normalcy from the island.
“He (new secretary ) has shut Anganwadis, sacked dozens of workers, who labored for several decades, prohibited meat from colleges, forged dozens of sheds of cyclists, which have been constructed as per incorporated scientific strategy ready with a Supreme Court-appointed committee, also introduced into a goondas behave in a land that’s had no offense for a minumum of one century, also shut dairy farms, amended Panchayati principles according to his whims, also tinkered with PWD contracts.
And most disturbing of all of the terms of the draft Lakshadweep Development Regulations 2021,” he explained.
Saigal has produced two movies about Lakshadweep for the Films Division of India along with a sequential,’Sagarika’ to get Doordarshan around the island.
He’s written a novel entitled,’Lakshadweep’ for its National Book Trust.