There's a huge impact of G8 capital basically coming into a country like India in the natural resource sector in the name of bilateral funding, DFID, JBIC and all those. And what they are basically doing is that they are first going into policy reforms. Then they're promoting privatisation of resources like water. And then they are penetrating into taking control over the varied and natural resource base on which millions of Indian communities are actually surviving for their livelihoods. And in that process, what they're doing, they're restricting access to those varied and natural resources that the communities are living for centuries.
So what is happening basically if you go into sectors like health, water, education, the privatisation is the main aim and objective of this bilateral funding - the G8 capital. And even in sectors like forests and land, the commodification of land is basically where the capital is trying to promote. So what you see is going against the communities in mining, in forestry. You find communities are also reacting and responding against this kind of penetration of capital into their arena. And that's where the struggle today is and its going to have a huge impact and the struggles will increase in these sectors.
Souparna Lahiri is an activist in National Alliance of Mines Minerals and People in India