Articles by Mukundan C Menon

foreign collaboration in industry. The number of foreign collaboration approvals was 359 in 1974; it declined to 271, 277 and 267 in the next three years; then it shot up to 307 in 1978 and 267 in 1979. ' Foreign investment in the collaboration cases approved was Rs 671 lakh, Rs 321 lakh, Rs 727 lakh and Rs 400 lakh in the four years to 1977; it increased to Rs 941 lakh in cannot be said that the increases in

August 23, 1980 points out, there have been instances where port authorities have allowed lessees with monthly leases to build pucca structures on the land which would have a life of 50 years and more thus tacitly accepting that it was indeed a long lease or permanent lease. The BPT estate office points out that it is not the tenure or the, terms of a lease which defeat the port's attempts to reacquire vacant land for its own use. The problem is the difficulty in evicting "even the smallest tenure like casual occupations". Iron merchants in Masjid Bunder who had small storage yards there have subsequently been moved to the outer suburbs, But the lands have not been recovered by BPT. Instead the storage yards now have shops and commercial buildings on them. The difficulty in getting evictions is mainly legal, according to the estate office. So the situation is that BPT turns a blind eye while lessees convert their leases into permanent ones. At the same time BPT complains that it does not have the legal instruments to pursue cases in court successfully and, has been pressing for the amendment of the Public Premises Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants Act 1971. In order to prevent misuse of leases the ministry of shipping and transport had directed that only short- term two or three year leases be entered into in future. But the BPT finds that such a proposal would be futile unless there is a master plan laying out areas for future port trust use. But this master plan does not exist.

LABOUR Delhi Textile Workers' Strike Mukundan C Menon DESHIE the change of government from communal Janata to 'lett of center janata (S), and despite Raj Narain's public assurance at the Ram- ina Ground meeting on the eve of the change, the two-month old total strike of delhi textile workers, involving 25,000 workers and affecting around 1.5 lakh people, still continues without a soitution in sight Everyone expected an initiative to end the strike from the Ciiarau Singn government before August 20, the day it was billed to seek a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha, However, the issue of Delhi textile workers aemands was missing in the coauuon government's 27-point programme, put together specifically for cornering as many crucial votes as possible on the 20th.

Trivandrum, compared to the other three cities, in the second, fourth, and fifth questions. How is this to be explained? Was the survey conducted differently in these two cities? Have Tamilians and Malayalis suddenly lost their ability to think and speak? Or

engaged only in formulations should also get the benefit under FERA. That certain types of formulations require high skill and careful manipulative technology is not denied. But this technology has now percolated to many Indian sector factories also and in any event there are experts who can assist in the setting up of such formulation lines and guide related research. It is therefore doubtful if our country can afford the continuance of long-term high foreign equity participation for formulations in factories producing no ON September 4, 1978, the District and Sessions Judge of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, MAP Mohammed, sentenced the former DIG of Kerala Crime Branch, Jayaram Padickal, former Crime Branch Superintendent, Murali Krishna Das, and former Crime Branch Dy SP, K O Kunjiraman Nam- biar, to one year's rigorous imprisonment in the famous P Rajan murder case. The prosecution case, in brief, was that two students of Calicut Regional Engineering College