Comments on: Neyveli and lignite

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:54:00 +0000

Hallo, I am dutch and remember best the swimming pool and the bowling court of the NLC between 1966 and 1969 when I did the groundwaterinvestigations for the UNDP project there.
Indeed the best jackfruit over there!!
Who remembers still mr. Baratan??
(NLC) and who my counterpart mr.Loganathan, then with the PWD in Madras or Chennai as I should say now.

Arend Bosscher, Lindenstrasse10
48455 Bad Bentheim, GERMANY

By: Magnus Astrum

Magnus Astrum — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:36:00 +0000

Wow.. Suprised to see a post on Neyveli. It is indeed a completely different place to live. Compared to the arid surroundings, one would feel it to be much plush and greenier.

Abi, Jawahar School used to have the reputation of being ‘assembly line’ in the eighties, but overall the educational scene in Neyveli itself can be seen in a better light now.

By: Wicked Angel

Wicked Angel — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:15:00 +0000

For some reason the word Neyveli reminds me of the treasure trove of kids magazines I found in my great grandmum’s cupboard years ago. I think they were magazines probably from the 40s and had ads for the lignite in them. I had a great summer reading those magazines, got to try and remember the name of the publication and also the brand name of this lignite which they were advertising. I am sure my dad must know, got to ask him.

By: Abi

Abi — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:39:00 +0000

Neyveli brings to my mind just two words: Jawahar Vidyalaya. It has now developed a reputation for being an assembly line for producing top notch students who are all over India.

By: NaiKutti

NaiKutti — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:17:00 +0000

yeah, not many industrial towns lately!!… jamshedpur is different because it is like a totally private place, where the role of government is almost negligible… buy neyveli was a bit different where people would earn their money for their bread from the company but all services were government provided..

but the jack-fruits are just awesome…:-)

and, i would like ur views on my comment on the “more about the under-age maid”…plz…

By: Anil The Great

Anil The Great — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:07:00 +0000

I am not an avid Jack Fruit eater so no comments on that. As for the factory-towns, I guess they have done great good to lots of places like Jamshedpur, Nevyeli, KGF etc but no more. The sad part is that when such facotry or minig areas get closed due to Government order, the whole town stands still, they feel like becoming orpaned. They feel paralysed and the whole town becomes grief-stricken. It takes a long time for the towns to come to terms with the reality and look for other pastures to earn their bread and butter. Government does no help to relocate those people.

Now such towns coming up in the country have reduced given that there are better business avenues available(less risk , high gain) and secondly , that the most prominent areas have already been explored, and so it requires more research and analysis to find a new gold mine. But there is a HUGE growth in the Oil sector and that should develop the whole township like Krishna-Godaveri basin and other such places adding a new chapter to the Factory-towns in this country.

I prefer mangoes to jack-fruit, anytime :)

-ATG

By: ontheface

ontheface — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:26:00 +0000

Niha, I can’t find your email address. Send me a quick note to onthe_face@yahoo.com – please, darling. I want to ask you something.