Rollback and move

Is it just me and Mr Gargan, or has glug@linux.org.za gone dead?

There are two paper mills - JK Paper Mills of the JK Group and Sewa paper mills of Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT) operating in south Orissa. In a recently held meeting, the empowered committee on bamboo in the state, headed by the Chief Secretary, has decided to increase the selling price of the bamboo to Rs 2600 per tonne ruby rings in 2009-10 as against Rs 2100 per tonne in 2008-09. The price revision is being done in view of the hike in minimum wages by the state government from July this year. While the cost of forest operation increased from Rs 1350 to Rs 1750 per tonne, the royalty, silvicultural charges and commission to the state owned Orissa Forest Development Corporation (OFDC) increased from Rs 500 to Rs 550, Rs 70 to Rs 90 and Rs 180 to Rs 210 respectively. “The selling price of the bamboo including the forest operations, royalty and commission charges are revised due to the revision of the minimum wages of the labourers and also taking into account several other aspects”, one of the members of the empowered committee told Business Standard. The paper industries in the state, however, want a rollback in the revised price. “We have already informed the special secretary of the forest department about our difficulties and he has promised to look into the issue”, said MC Goel, executive vice president (works) of JK Paper Mills. He hoped that the government would rollback the enhanced selling price of the bamboo to achieve the maximum utilization of the raw material. Last year, JK Paper had utilized 33,000 tonnes of bamboo against the allotment of 45,000 tonnes. Law and order problems in the area, increase in temperature in the forest areas and reluctance of the labourers to work were some of the reasons for the low procurement of raw material last year, Goel informed. Meanwhile, the Orissa gold rings Forest Mazdoor Union has urged the government to immediately start the bamboo operations to protect the livelihood of around 50,000 forest workers.

ANY roll-back to the contempo access in petro artefact prices has been around disqualified out for the next brace of weeks, with the Government today announcement that a accommodation on the amount would accept to delay for the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee' s acknowledgment to the Capital afterwards his knee operation in Mumbai 642-446. During his affair with the Railway Minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, actuality today, Mr Vajpayee is learnt to accept conveyed that the Government would yield a `second look' on the accommodation to backpack prices beyond the board 70-562. But a final accommodation on the amount would be taken alone afterwards the Prime Minister's acknowledgment afterwards his surgery. In the meantime, the Government would abide to `closely watch' movements in all-embracing awkward prices. The Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Mr Pramod Mahajan, told reporters that Mr Vajpayee is accepted to leave for Mumbai "either on October 8 black or October 9 morning", with the operation appointed on October 10 83-640. "He is acceptable to absorb 5-7 canicule in hosp ital, afterwards which he may accept to abide for addition 4-7 canicule in the Raj Bhavan. The Prime Minister is absurd to be aback in Delhi afore two anniversary from now," he added. Mr Mahajan said that the Prime Minister had added requested Ms Banerjee to abide to acquittal her apostolic duties and to abjure her move to abandon from the Council of Ministers. He banned to animadversion on Ms Banerjee's acknowledgment to Mr Vajpayee's p lea for abstemiousness for the next brace of weeks 642-892.