While inviting foreign multinational companies, our leaders give some reasons:Foreign multinationals invest “initial capital” in the country. They bring “higher technology” into the country. They make “quality products”. They create “employment”. They introduce “competition” in the market. They increase “export”.
Let us see how much they hold good.
1. Foreign multinationals bring “higher technology” into the country:
2. They make “quality products”:
No foreign multinationals bring the recent technology to India. Zero-tech, means where there is minimum technology required, is the area in which more than 90% of the foreign multinationals are working on. They are making and/or selling alu chips (Ruffles), tomato chatni (Maggie), packaged drinking water (Aquafina, Kinley), carbonated water (Pepsi, coke), salt and atta in the name of Annapurna, masalas, tooth paste (Colgate, Pepsodent, ColseUp), soaps (Rexona, Lifebuoy, Ayush, Camay, Johnson & Johnson, Lux), detergents (Rin, Wheel, Surf, Arial) – all these can be made in every village! When there were attempts to bring hi-tech items, they sent us back empty handed. In 1980s, Indian PM Rajeev Gandhi asked American president Ronald Reagan to give Supercomputer and Cryogenic engine (core part of the rocket). They refused to give. Then he asked Russians. They said ‘yes’ for Cryogenic engine. But Ronald Reagan scared Russian company of marking it as blacklisted. Russians rejected the agreement. Then, Rajeev Gandhi asked CSIR scientists to make them. Only after that, its sister concern C-DAC made Supercomputer called PARAM-10000 and DRDO made cryogenic engine, which is used in the recent rocket launches by ISRO.
If we see the technologies came to India, majority of them are redundant and rejected technologies in the developed world. Union Carbide of “Bhopal gas tragedy” fame and like companies made our land, water and air polluted. Hundreds of chemicals companies along the Gujarat and Maharashtra coastal belt made that region a hell. Today, technology is a weapon. Nobody gives the current technology to anybody. Everybody has to develop their own technology. It’s wisely said, “Technology is local, while Science is global”. Semiconductor theory is Science, which is everybody knows. But, manufacturing of microchip is the technology. If India has to manufacture microchip (core part of any Personal/Embedded Computer), somebody of India has to start. Otherwise we won’t see personal computers available at 7-8 thousand rupees, which should be the actual cost in India. Note that Indians can manufacture at cheaper costs. That’s how software industries are bagging money.
A friend of mine said, “Indian tooth pastes like Meswak, Neem, Babool, Promise are no good; foreign tooth pates such as Colgate, Close-up, Pepsodent are okay”. Then I asked him, “What’s so special in Colgate and all?” He said, “don’t be so ignorant, you wont get sour taste and you get good lather which cleans the teeth”. After gathering some information I came to know about some facts. To get good lather, they mix Sodium Laurel Sulphate (SLS), and Sodium Saccharine to get good taste. These two chemicals don’t help in cleaning teeth or mouth. On the other hand SLS is harmful to skin and the development of eyes. And the good taste makes the kids to swallow it. Swallowing these toothpastes is highly harmful. On Colgate pack in USA, there will be a warning, “Warning: Keep out of reach of children below six years of age. In case of accidental ingestion seek professional assistance or contact poison control center immediately”. It also contains a suggestion, which says that give only pea sized paste to kids. But here they don’t display any warning message on pack. The advertisements show the usage of paste all along the bristles.
These huge companies make everyone believe what they say by rigorous advertisements. These are 100% idiocity. Everybody laugh at the advertisements, but buy the same as that brand name comes out of your memory when go for purchasing. It’s irony that the educated class is the most influenced by these meaningless ads. I have seen many kids enjoy watching ads and they feel good when you bring those products home. I don’t want to say much on Pepsi and Coca-cola as you might have heard about them a lot. They are just carbonated water (mixed with Carbon-dioxide). Give up these dangerous things. Be natural, have fruit juices, flavored milks, tender coconuts, butter milk, lassi and plain water instead of these "soft" drinks. Many of us are so ignorant that they believe foreign companies always make good things.
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