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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html
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Apart from the politicians messing up and selling off
Goa's land to the highest bidder, there are other
reasons for land being such a pressure point for
the Goans.
It is that, unlike rest of India, Goans havent
diversified and tried to get into other industries
in a big way to make money.
Today, worldwide it is intellectual property, not
land, that is driving wealth creation. Sure natural
resources
based issues such as those of oil prices are
important.
But a significant amount of population has gotten into
trading (globalization brings about new avenues of
business here), services (financial services,
advertising, entertainment other services), IT and IT
enabled services etc etc. In fact,
India is booming with jobs with supply of skilled
human resources not keeping pace with demand.
India has seen a number of below-40 billionaires in
the last few years, many of them making money in
financial
services/ stock market etc.
The biggest brand in the world today is Google a pure
IP based company, a company that was started only 12
years back. The founder of Facebook a company valued
at $15 bill dollars is hardly or not even 25.
Once Goans start making money in these areas, they may
be able to look at the land issue in a slightly
different perspective. Not that land is not important,
but one may be able to look at things more logically
than in a completely emotional manner.
Comments of course welcome....
regards,
Samir
