Where is the Re-notified Buffer Zone Notification?
By Zubair Ahmed
Did anybody ever see a copy
of the re-notified Buffer Zone? Is it a secret document that the ANI Admn is
keeping it under wraps? Why it was not uploaded on public domain for
suggestions and objections, if any? Who decides what is good or bad for the Islands – a select group of bureaucrats? Why political
parties are not asking for a copy of it for their perusal? Is it meant to just satisfy
the Supreme Court or to implement in the Islands ?
Is it an accepted norm in our Islands to
impose notifications and regulations without any consultation? Had there been a
tsunami, if the re-notified Buffer Zone Notification was put on public domain?
What if there are further discrepancies in the latest version of the
controversial notification? Who vetted it?
Are the villages, Islands and sea out of bound of the latest version of
Buffer Zone as mentioned in a press note issued by Congress party? Did they
have a glance of the secretive document? Or was the timing of the Press Note a
coincidence as usual?
Whether the new edition also encompass the site of Barefoot at Collinpur and Dew Dale Resorts in
Baratang? Whether the 5-km radius has been reduced to a pragmatic 500 mtr? If
Baratang is out of Buffer Zone, can Dew Dale restart their business? Is
Collinpur village out of the Buffer Zone? If so, can Barefoot have their resort
at the Beach site?
What was wrong with the
Buffer Zone Notification of 2007? Was that prepared by any mentally deranged
person, read bureaucrat? Was that prepared during intermittent power cuts? If
it was a brave and brilliant step to protect Jarawas, why retreat now? If it
was an intelligent step, what is the latest definition of intelligence?
Will the ANI Admn be able
to justify the violations inside Buffer Zone Notification 2007? Or will they
wait for another international NGO intervention?
Are we entitled to know the
underlying principle behind the idea of a 5-km Buffer Zone? Do the Islanders
count as human beings, sorry citizens of a democratic country? Or like we call the
territory a mini India
Will anybody come up with a
white, blue or black paper on the whole issue? How dare I ask so many convenient
questions? Is there anybody listening?
We are dead.
ReplyDeleteIt is therefore foolishness to expect a dead to "learn" (from mistakes), "evolve" or for that matter "react" to outside world stimulus (needs).
We are dead.