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Sivakasi's salesmen work overtime during Diwali - 11/11/2004
The Diwali sky may blaze with fireworks but it's business as usual for salesmen working in Sivakasi's fireworks units. For them, the festival of light comes only a month later - during Kaartigai.
This is how it's been since time immemorial, says A.P.Selvarajan of Sri Kaliswari Fireworks, a major fireworks manufacturer in Sivakasi.
Sivakasi takes care of 70 percent of the country's cracker needs, exporting goods all over - from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. While the bigger companies have at least a dozen sales executive in-charge of collections in the north, small and medium enterprises have the owners themselves or their sons travelling and collecting dues from retailers, a salesman said.
As a result, Diwali means staying away from home for many. A senior salesman who has been employed in a big business house says, ``For nearly 18 years, I have been working in the fireworks unit here. Like me, there are about 100 salesmen who travel across the length and breadth of the country before Diwali, collecting our dues.''
Sometimes, it hurts to be away. ``When I was newly-married, I didn't celebrate my `Thalai Diwali' (first Diwali after marriage) like other young couples did. I was in-charge of sales collection from our dealers in Chennai, I left my wife at home and was on tour,'' recalls Selvarajan.
``For men in Sivakasi, Diwali has always been much later - during Kaartigai. But it is a gala time for the young and old,'' he adds.
Another salesman Karti recalls, ``When I was married just 15 days before Diwali, I had to leave for the north. I had the opportunity to take a holy dip in the Kasi on Diwali day. I spoke to my mother and wife early in the morning. Though my mom was happy that I had taken a dip in the holy waters, my wife was in tears when she heard me wishing her a happy Diwali.''
Of course, there are modern-day conveniences. For instance, salesmen don't have to carry cash or any other instrument collected from the dealers. Says Ashok, ``We deposit the money in the nearest branch of our bank. Similarly, we draw money from the ATMs for our expenses.''
Those are small comforts that hardly make up for not being able to spend Diwali with their family. Their only consolation is Kaartigai.
Sivakasi to get explosives research centre - 11/11/2004 12:01:00 PM
The Tamil Nadu town of Sivakasi, famous for being India's "fireworks workshop", got an early Diwali gift Wednesday when the directorate of explosives announced a state of the art explosives research centre in the town.
Chief Controller of Explosives M. Anbunathan said here that the research centre at Sivakasi, 700 km from here, would begin working before next Diwali.
"Sivakasi has been chosen for setting up the research centre as 95 percent of the country's firecrackers are manufactured here," an official said.
He said the union government's decision for a research centre came after officials studied non-defence explosives research in foreign countries.
"The explosives research centre will help local cracker manufacturing units to produce quality products and to test their products and obtain certification," Anbunathan said.
Indigenous firecracker makers now have to comply with new pollution norms in the country and have this year produced fireworks that comply with fixed noise and toxicity levels. Hundreds of small manufacturers do not have the technology to meet modern-day needs.
The directorate of explosives has branch offices in Sivakasi and Vellore in Tamil Nadu.
Defaming as a profession, to doing down businesses and communities
Article by Mr. S Gurumurthy (New India Press)
Is it time to audit Non-Government Organisations, the NGOs, as they are popularly known? They claim more credibility than elected governments. More importance than nations. More durability than families. More relevance than communities.
The word NGO, coined in the West, is deceptive. At least here, it includes Gandhi Peace Foundation to Sankara Mutt to professional social outfits seeking foreign funds. For most NGOs, being so is as much, if not more, a profession as a mission. Most of them have a global agenda. Are driven by it. Are also funded globally. Many nations even fear them as the latest weapons of the West against the Rest. They can even bring down governments. Such is their power. What can ordinary mortals do if such NGOs target them? Here is a story of a hard working community in the small town of Sivakasi struggling for survival against globally funded NGO agenda.
They suffered for long. Business down. Reputation gone. All pleas fell on deaf ears. Governments turned mute. Politicians shied away. The media eulogised the NGOs. Desperate, they did what no businessman does except as the last resort _ approach the court. The court did respond, and issued a warrant of arrest against a culprit, a minority religious head. But with Andipatti poll only days away, the police would not arrest him obviously.
Last Updated : 2004/11/11. Read Full Story...
Sivakasi modernises - A City of its own kind
Article by JOSEPH VACKAYIL (Financial Express)
But lack of a comprehensive national policy on fireworks hamper the growth of the industry
As yet another Diwali approaches, people of Sivakasi involved in cracker manufacturing are looking forward to a bright festive season. Almost 85% of the fireworks products in India are made by the 540 small, medium and large groups of factories located in this small town in Tamil Nadu.
According to A M S G Ashokan, general secretary, All India Federation of Fireworks Associations, the annual production is between Rs 500-800 crore, with exports from Sivakasi accounting for Rs 5 crore.
Last Updated : 2004/11/11 - Read Full Story...
Struggling Sivakasi Printing / Color Offset Printing units
Article by Mr. S. Sundar (The Hindu)
With units mushrooming not only outside the town but also the State, thanks to technological advancements, this `Kutty Japan' is no longer the most preferred place for printing.
``Printing units in Sivakasi are silent these days,'' says A. Kumaravel, president of the Sivakasi Master Printers' Association. Sivakasi ruled the industry as long as ``artist works'' such as painting and retouching remained a secret of the town. But automation of pre-press works, with the advent of computers, has made this ``highly-skilled'' work child's play. ``With colour scanners on hand, designing is now possible just on the (computer) screens,'' says R. Chockalingam, a leading printer.
Last Updated : 2004/04/21. Read Full Story...
Towards universal brotherhood...
Article by Sarah Vanstone (Sivakasi Times)
Today the Hindu people in Sivakasi live with a minority of Muslims and Christians. The Hindus are very open to other religions such as Christianity or Islam, reading the Bible or the Koran, and are often known to convert to other religions. The picture Deva, a local Hindu I interviewed, painted of modern Hindus was of a dynamic and tolerant people, who are prepared to mix with other religions in order to provide better for their families. It made perfect sense to me, as economic situation is something that all families are concerned with, and so everyone is always united in their common needs and aspirations. This seems to be the key to working and living together; people connect because they are neighbours, regardless of what religion they hold.
Last Updated : 2004/04/21. Read Full Story...
"Child Labour ….? In Sivakasi fireworks factories ……? It is a blatant lie.
Welcome to Sivakasi …. See for yourself." This is an advertisement on the Sunday Express, 3 March 2004, by All India Federation of Fireworks Associations. The advertisement continues, "We are workers’ children and not working children. Every child is our customer and no child is our worker. Fireworks are made for children and not by children. If you still have doubts, you are invited to Sivakasi, the Mini Japan of India. See for yourself, interview the District Collector, Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, Deputy Chief Controller of Explosives, and you can find that not even a single child is employed in any fireworks factory in Sivakasi. Sivakasi means Education and Hard Work. Sivakasi means Fireworks, Matches and Printing. Sivakasi means Social Services and Public Welfare Services".
Last Updated : 2004/04/20. Read Full Story...
Two arrested for taking bribe from dealer at Sivakasi - Dated : 2004/04/01
The vigilance and anti-corruption police today arrested two officials for allegedly accepting bribe from a dealer based at Sivakasi in Virudhunagar district.
Police said that the two - a deputy commercial tax officer and an assistant commercial tax officer - had ordered detention of two containers from Punjab meant for a dealer at Dindigul and had demanded that he should pay Rs 5000 as fine for 'violating sales tax procedures' and also Rs 2,000 as bribe for releasing the containers.
The officials were arrested when they were receiving the amount.
Both had been remanded to judicial custody for 15 days by the special court for anti-corruption cases here, police said
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