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A Rs 6000 Crore project which could generate over 100,000 direct employment opportunities and 400,000 indirect ones. The nation’s 4th largest IT/ITES firm, a $ 4 Billion company. Ordinarily, one would expect the inauguration of the former and the announcement that the latter is being allotted land to set up operations to have made the headlines and to have been carried in the TV news. Right? Correct?
WRONG!
Apparently, the media in Kerala has decided that such mere tid-bits of news do not deserve to be reported. Of course not, especially not when there are earth-shaking items such as the cow elephant which fell into a well, or the latest casualty list from the ongoing slaughter on our ever so wide National Highways or some juicy lil’ scandal or the other. News of events which could have a significant bearing on the economic future of the State, of each one of us does not deserve more than passing mention on the news or a couple of columns in some inside page right next to the Obituaries!
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the media of Kerala made a total no-show out of the launch of Technocity. Except for the notable exception of The Hindu, Business Line and ET , no other newspaper carried any significant report of the inauguration of Kerala’s largest IT infrastructure project. One needn’t compare this to the “Live” broadcast of the foundation stone laying of a bus terminal in another city a couple of days later to realize that there are some very vested interests at work here.
Not that the media brigade was not present at the inauguration function. Yours truely was there, and could not fail to notice the proliferation of cameras – TV and still – and the ubiquitous OB vans. Yet, mysteriously, all that footage and all those snaps seems to have vanished!
A lot of us have felt the same thing, that the media which cries itself hoarse about the “lack of development” in Kerala has shot itself in the its….ahem….family jewels by choosing to ignore this bit of real development news. TDF has registered its protest strongly by sending an open letter of protest to all the concerned media houses. Request all of you to join this chorus of protest, to tell the powers-that-be who imagine they can control our perception of reality by screening out inconvenient truths and feeding us the hype that the desire to perpetrate. Together, let’s tell them……
Author Info: Ajay, http://tvmrising.blogspot.com/
Good one Ajay…the media would have given the hype, if the inauguration didnt not happen or if this Technocity intitiative ran into some scandal. It seems all the media have a common agenda.
Achayan kure paisa kondu cochiyil ittitund. pavam smart city vannathum illa. Techocity varunnath pinne sahikkan pattumo?
Baaki ulla eraan moooli pathrangalkk ivide balaalsangam pidichu pari, kolapaathakam ithoke aanu sradha..
ennitu oru statementum kerala is not an investment friendly state polum…
All printed medias in kerala is total bullshits…. They don’t have any responsibility to the community or their stupid subscribers and readers. they are kind of mafia and they will decide what to put in news( even if that is not an important one)
I still remember, many disturbing news and pictures these newspapers especially the Manorama putting for getting more subscription. That kind of news and pictures( murder,rape, or accidents ) makes our day desperate and sad.
They have to see how the national newspapers like Hindu doing the business.those disturbing news will be inside somewhere and they wont make it as a sensational news.
Malayalees are total ass**les and they don’t need anything important in their life. they just need to overhear the gossips and see murder stories and if possible the photos with their morning tea.
Get lost the Malayalam Dailys and f**k off all Mallus
I am not sure if we can call it big news. Direct employment….When did Kerala government start offering IT jobs…..You mean will be able lease out space to private IT companies who in turn will offer jobs…Assuming private companies will be flocking to Kerala for this.
Technopark after more than 15 yrs in existence has been the home of around 200+ companies who together are employing 20000 direct employees.
I am not sure how technocity will be able to offer 100000 in such a short time. Where are these employees coming from. Local colleges in and around kerala? Ask the current companies in Technopark how many non local talent they have been able to attract to Trivandrum.
I think it is time the kerala government took a reality check. The technocity project has been funded mainly by banks with the government putting the current technopark as collateral.
If there are not enough takers after the infrastructure is built, it will be kaput 🙂
Secondly you mentioned the fourth largest IT player…meaning HCL technologies. They have been granted 2 acres primarily for setting up an “R&D” center. I am very well aware about the R&D capabilities of the once upon a time hardware company. In short there is none. It is a services company (read “body shop”) with little or no product base.