The harm brought about by the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) all over the country is immense. It has displaced people, brought in mysterious diseases and increased peoples miseries. The film, “Coast Under Attack” documents one such disaster taking place in the coastal land of Andhra Pradesh where the Andhra government has cleared a series of projects taking over people’s land.
The film was shown to the Post-Graduate students of Communication on Thursday. The film maker, Saraswathi Kavula too was present and interacted with students.
The film deals with how the coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh are affected by the big companies set up under SEZ. The film also shows how the companies assure thousand of people jobs, but later turn their back on them employing only few and giving them low salaries.
“The whole concept of development is lopsided. It is an imperial concept that we have borrowed. If a farmer wants to cultivate his land and be happy, why should someone disturb it,” said Ms Saraswathi, the film maker.
She further said that urbanisation was not a solution for India simply because of the size of the population which would be impossible to manage. “Setting up smaller rural-based industries is more important than SEZs,” she added.
She called up students to be pro-active. “Stop buying food from Reliance Fresh, Pepsi, Coca Cola etc and buy more local product as far as possible. Only this way you will drive such companies out of your place,” she said.
Speaking about the film, Deepu from the Pedestrian Pictures said, “It is a fabulous documentary which successfully brings out the economic invasion by the transactional companies on rural India.” Roshan, a II year MS Com student said, “The documentary was good; it could be the first step towards boosting alternative media. It is informative for studies.”
- Shaista I MS Com
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