Hello Mr. Noel N. Tata and Folks!

 Hello Mr. Noel N. Tata and folks!

Here are some pointers to what I observed with regard to status of small scale fishers in couple of places in coastal Gujarat during my recent short visit to the State. 

The below one concerns your company plant at Mithapur, Gujarat. 

This need your urgent attention not only to stop dumping industrial waste in Arabian Sea waters but also to dismantle the pipelines installed, remove all the industrial waste already disposed on sea bed and restore coastal ecology regime that has been badly ruined through your company acts of ommisikns and acts of omissions, with or without sanction of law. 

The damage created is there for everyone to see and can best be phrased through Latin legal maxim: Res Ispa Loquitor. 

The most formidable threat to fishing communities in and around Okha has been the dumping of Industrial waste in Arabian Sea within Marine Protected site. 

Multiple pipelines find the way in waters if Arabian sea releasing high temperature industrial waste almost four kilometers inside the Sea. The industrial plant is known as Tata Chemicals Limited is part of larger Tata investment into Tata Salt city - Mithapur. 

Fishing has taken a toll. Continues disposal of waste has already covered up more than 5 kms of space from the site of industrial plant inside the Arabian Sea Waters. Mangroves destroyed, Corals submerged. More are under massive threat as Tata tragedy aggrevates. 

The education level of masses here is deliberately kept at mediocre levels for efficient installation of exploitation structures that comes so close to modern day slavery of humans and barbaric tortures nature. 

No one is courageous enough to protest and raise their voice except ex-employer of Tata Chemicals - Devrambhai Charan Ghoda, pastoralist with affinity to Gujjars. Devrambhai has been erupting like volcanos against Tatas and have taken major steps to bring this issue to media and government attention including President of India. He has been on indefinite hunger strike recently when police intervened and stopped his tirade. He plans to resume it again at different site - in front of Gujarat State Pollution Control Board, Gandhinagar. Tatas are carrying on absulute mayhem against Marine ecology and proportions might just push vast patch of Sea onto swamp. Brutality of Tatas here is unexplainable. Thinkness of layers of chemical waste on sea bed more than 20 meters over the eight decades. 

Tatas can donate so much for the good of nations but here in Gujarat they are destroying the same nation they claimed they are building. Tragic Tatas. What's gone wrong with Tata leadership? Why are Tatas behave so insensitive, so arrogant, so brutal to Arabian Sea, marine ecology and fishers who depend on fishing?

Above is short narrative I share with you all with a plea that you act reverse your eco-hostile tirade against  nature and people. Sooner you, the better it is. 

If you neglect then consequences might really go on unpredictable way and your negligence shall be solely accountable and responsible for the same.

Sebastian Rodrigues 

General Secretary 

National Federation of Small-Scale Fishworkers (NFSF)