[Assam] Fwd: Study on Assam -Centre for Policy Alternatives
Rajib Das
rajibdas at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 31 01:07:05 EST 2005
Does the report talk about the economic value, in
specific dollar terms, of the many liberation wars
that our "boys" have thrust on us civilians?
More specifically, if the GOA were to bumble along the
way it is and has and if the liberation wars were not
inflicted on us, what would the delta be from where we
are today?
If this report does not talk about it, is there any
other report?
--- barua25 <barua25 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Re: [Assam] Fwd: Study on Assam -Centre for Policy
> AlternaYou missed another chance to tell what the
> Black Box is. So Black Box remains a Black Box
> except for some people who are in the Black Box.
>
> RB
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chan Mahanta
> To: Barua25 ; mc mahant ; cmahanta at charter.net
> Cc: umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu ;
> assam at assamnet.org
> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 7:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Study on Assam -Centre
> for Policy Alternatives
>
>
> >Black Box which nobody has seen?
>
>
>
>
> *** That will depend upon one's concept of what
> NOBODY is comprised of. If the population of Assam's
> intelligence is to be measured by Rajen Barua's
> information ( or ignorance) on a particular matter,
> the statement might be valid.
>
>
> But would that be even remotely valid?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 1:27 AM -0500 10/30/05, Barua25 wrote:
> Dear Mukulda:
> During the last 50 years, I have not seen such a
> report (may be my fault). When you say some people
> know much more than what is reported here, do you
> mean some kind of Black Box which nobody has seen?
> There may be many knowledgebale people. Knowledge
> by itself is of no use unless there is a way to use
> it for the betterment of the country. Knowledge
> must be utilised with leadership to guide the
> people, to negotitate with the GOI, to bring the
> results to the table. The rest of the NE states seem
> to be doing that. In case of Assam, we are yet to
> see that leadership. Leadership cannot grow out of a
> Black Box. People cannot support a Black Box.
> RB
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: mc mahant
> To: cmahanta at charter.net
> Cc: barua25 at hotmail.com ;
> umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu ; assam at assamnet.org
> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 9:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Study on Assam
> -Centre for Policy Alternatives
>
>
> Some people know much more than what is listed
> in this report-since 1960's.
>
> This report does not venture into the realms
> of CURE.
>
> Some other people know the' modus operandi'
> for cure.
>
> Back them if you love Assam and want to save
> India from disintegratingto a bombed out heap.
>
> mm
>
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net>
> To: "Barua25" <barua25 at hotmail.com>,
> <umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu>,<assam at assamnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Study on Assam
> -Centre for Policy Alternatives
> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 20:56:14 -0500
>
> BLOCKQUOTE { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
> PADDING-TOP: 0px } DL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
> PADDING-TOP: 0px } UL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
> PADDING-TOP: 0px } OL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
> PADDING-TOP: 0px } LI { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
> PADDING-TOP: 0px }
> >Let us hope this report will let our
> political leaders and all know what to ask for.
>
>
>
>
> Hope ? On the basis of what? Past
> performance? Attitude? Ability? Determination? What?
>
>
>
>
> Are we trying to have it both ways?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 8:27 PM -0500 10/29/05, Barua25 wrote:
>
> LEFT BEHIND -A CASE STUDY FOR ASSAM:
>
> The Report is very eye opening and
> revealing for the people of Assam. The Report
> basically addresses the ecomnic development of Assam
> during the last 60 years, and specially it addresses
> there main area: etroleum, TEA and Timber as well as
> other factors like literacy, mortality rate, human
> condition etc.The following are some briefs:
>
>
>
> LITERACY During the last decade, Assam has
> the lowest improvement rate of 19.6% which is the
> 3rd from bottom.
>
> INFANT MORTALITY RATE: Again Assam is 78
> per 1000, one of the worst, even worst than Bihar.
>
> HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX: HDI is a holistic
> indicator of education, health and income. On a
> scale from 0 to 5, Assam rants 0.348, and ranks 26th
> in India.
>
> LAGGING ECONOMIC GROWTH: During the last
> decade, Assam;s growth rate was only 2.47%, the
> lowest in the NE and far lower than the Indian
> average of 5.98%, and far lower even considering the
> East India average of 5.75%.
>
> POVERTY: About 36% of people in Assam live
> below poverty line, far worse than Indian average of
> 26.1%.
>
> PER CAPITA POWER CONSUMPTION: Assam has
> the per capita power consumption of only 95 KWH
> against the Indian average of 355 KWH. During the
> last decade, the growth rate in Assam is almost 0.
>
>
> ASSAM'S ECONOMY: Three main areas need
> drastic reform:
>
> TEA: Assam produces about 420 million kg
> of Tea with an annual turn-over of around Rs 3400
> crores. However since Tata Tea and Brooke Bond
> control about two third of the industry and since
> they are registered outside Assam, all central taxes
> goes to Maharashtra and West Bengal and not to
> Assam. This is only one of the problems.
>
> PETROLEUM INDUSTRY: Assam produces about 5
> million tonnes of crude oil per yearIt is only in
> 2003 that the oil royalty has been increased to 20%
> The Report suggest a Russian model according to
> which Assam will get about 5100 croese annually.
> (This
=== message truncated ===>
_______________________________________________
> assam mailing list
> assam at assamnet.org
>
http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
>
__________________________________
Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click.
http://farechase.yahoo.com
More information about the assam
mailing list