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AIR unaware of price hikes

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NK SINGH BHOPAL: The All India Radio authorities at Bhopal seem to be unaware of the sky-rocketing prices. To the utter dismay of the listeners, for the past few months, the prices of wheat have not been included in the food-grain price list daily broadcast by the Bhopal station of AIR. Though the Department of Economics and Statistics of the State Government supplies the wheat prices along with the prices of other commodities daily to the AIR, the latter find it more convenient to ignore them. The reason for this shut-your-eyes step is said to be the too-honest data' provided by the department. According to the figures available with the department, the prices of wheat in the 'open market' vary from Rs. 1.50 to Rs. 1.60 per kg. According to the rates fixed by the State Government -- which now controls the wheat trade right at the very beginning of the production pipe line -- it should not have crossed the Rs. 1 mark. Faced with this peculiar situation the AIR authorities w...
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MP organises dances while world mourns Bhopal victims

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NK SINGH

Bhopal: The day the world will be observing 'Bhopal Day', to mourn the dead on the 100th day of the worst industrial disaster in history, the Madhya Pradesh Government Culture Department will start a celebration of classical dances.

By a cruel coincidence, the State Government's Culture Department will organise its week-long Khajuraho festival of classical dances from March 12, the day the international environment groups, including the United Nations agencies, have decided to observe as Bhopal Day.

The Culture Department and ifs prestigious show-piece, Bharat Bhavan, the multi-arts complex at Bhopal, was the subject of a recent controversy because of its insensitivity towards the plight of the poor illiterate gas victims.

In a handout issued here on Saturday, the Madhya Pradesh Government has invited tourists from all over the world for the "most spectacular and exhilarating cultural experience of the year". Renowned dancers like Yamini Krishnamurti, Protima Bedi and Padma Subramanyam will participate in this seven-day "extravaganza of classical dance".

Ironically, the day the Khajuraho festival will be inaugurated by Yamini Krishnamurti, the Citizen's Relief and Rehabilitation Committee, set up three months ago to help the gas-hit people, will pay "homage to the gas victims" at the main gate of the Union Carbide Factory at Bhopal,

The committee, in a hand-out, has urged the people to observe Bhopal Day in their respective towns and villages to pay their respect to the 'martyrs'. Besides solidarity meetings in the shanty towns surrounding the Union Carbide Factory and a public meeting, a film on Bhopal disaster made by the avanti-garde filmmaker, Tapan Bose, will also be screened on the occasion.

Express news service

March 5,1985




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