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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 may be compared to a suggestion by me of Rs 4000 crores
in an email earlier). The present rate is less than Rs 2000
crores.
TIMBER: The ban by
the Supreme court on Timber, destroyed about 300 plywood factories in Assam.
In fact the Assam's economy is so bad that
according to the report one is forced to ask the question, why the situation has
been allowed to slip to such a bad condition.
The report highlights the fact that in
almost all factors, the North Eastern states are better than the Indian average
such as health, education, income, power consumption,. Against this background,
Assam shows an exception as being the worst in India. In indicates, the gOI is
funding the other NE states heavily depriving Assam. The annual per capita
disbursement owas only 58crosres compared to the NE average of 124
crores.
Overall the state of affairs in Assam not
only shows GOI's depriving Assam but also shows an utter lack of political
leadership in Assam even to persent its legitame case. Compared to Assam, the
rest of the NE staes, it seems has the leadership. The report states . it is
indeed unfortuante that neither the political leaders in power nor the
opposition leaders have raised these issues with vigour.
To say the least, this report is
highly important for all in Assam. Let us hope this report will let our
political leaders and all know what to ask for.
RB
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:28
AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Study on Assam
-Centre for Policy Alternatives
Umesh:
Thanks for posting the Report and for
the link to the site. I congratulate the authors for preparing such a report
showing the state of things in black and white. It seems to be a professional well written Report on the
perspective of development of Assam and definitely we can discuss the details.
Looks like it is much needed Report
which we needed long back to know the truths.
I am sure the report will be (and should
be) used by the people of Assam to gain grants from the
center.
But before that let me put my
perspective on the report.
The Report proves my point which I have
been stating all along. Assamese donot know their problem. It is a report
written by non Assamese (again) to show the Assamese, Halo Assamese you
have problem. Why such a report could not have been written by the Assamese?
Why everytime Assamese had to depend on the Indians to tell them what is
Assam's problem?
Does it show the poor state of our
intellectual resources of the Assamese?.
I hope in the following two areas, the
people of Assam will produce some professional report before some non Assamese
do that.
1) Perspective of the Brahmaputra Flood
control
2) The Illegal Immigration Issue from
Bangladesh
Best of luck to all
RB
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:56
AM
Subject: [Assam] Fwd: Study on Assam
-Centre for Policy Alternatives
shall we read and discuss?
Date:
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:57:06 +0100 (BST)
From: Centre for Policy
Alternatives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:
Study on Assam
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Rajen Barua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: m c
mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Sirs
I am attaching with this mail a study on Assam conducted by the
Centre for Policy Alternatives. Mr. Guruswamy and myself are the authors
of the report.
We hope you find the report both interesting and useful and invite
your comments/criticism on the same.
Best Wishes
Ronald Abraham
PS: This report is also available online at:
umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Mukul-da,
I am glad that you have taken the initiative in introducing me to
Mr Guruswamy. I am currently in Washington and can stay here till June
2006. I am planning to work with poor kids -in school education -across
the globe.
I am no expert on economic development issue - but I do agree
that Assam's economy has gone down - after independence -as per eco.
data - most likely due to carving out of separate nations from British
India - such as Burma, Bangladesh etc -which closed trade routes an
markets.
It is likely that Assamese businessment - then as now - were not
skilled in identifying other markets -- they can (and could) try to
follow Japan's shinig example - which has no resources of its own
-except the human resource. Japan is an inspiration for any nation which
need to adapt to changing circumstances. Japan rose from the ashes in 30
years, Assam sank during the same period.
Negotiations can provide some room for movement but can Assam based
individuals reinvent their working - Japan style. Negotiations cannot
replace the footwork needed to establish a strong economy in Assam. I
wonder how barren Rajasthan or Japan are managing.
Regards.
Umesh
mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Umesh Dear,
You need to get close to a powerful (literally and
figuratively)ex-Harvard man -Mohan Guruswamy- who heads a top Central
Govt organisation -"Centre for Policy Alternatives".Tell him if you
want to work with him. His E-mail Id is above.
He was here 2 weeks back and spoke on one thing
only --"Assam had been cheated all these years-why don't you go
and negotiate?"
Look who is talking!
mm
From: umesh sharma
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: assam@assamnet.org
Subject: [Assam]
Harvard MBA Newsletter: Redefining Economic Downturns -ofAssam since
1947??
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 02:26:00 +0100
(BST)
At India's independence Assam's per capita income was 40% above
All India Average -- now it is 30% below. Is it any kind of economic
downturn - due to - break up of British empire in India -
separate Burma, Bangladesh etc. - and is it due to lack of
access -to Bangladesh & SE Asia trade routes,
ports and industries etc? Any remedy?
Situation has been addressed at length - by Sanjib-da
Baruah earlier in a paper I read once on the net by him. Any
comments on possible - political and entrepreneurial
solutions?
Umesh
HBS Working Knowledge
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To:
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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:54:03 -0400
(EDT)
From: HBS Working Knowledge
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Subject: Newsletter:
Redefining Economic Downturns
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