Baideo, Sorry to reply you so late. In fact I tried to reply you on the day I received your mail. It didn't go then for some reasons unknown to me. After that somehow I was not able to reply you. Anyway I am trying to reply your mail now.
Yes, you guessed it right - I am from Guwahati only. In last 2-3 years some developments have been going on in Guwahati. The roads condition have improved a lot specially after the Asian Car Rally. The GNB road is being widened. Till 1 year ago, we thought it was next to impossible. But, since the activities are going on in this rainy season, the GNB road condition is becoming bad. There are 2 big storm water drains being constructed - one at Noonmati where a canal is also constructed through a small hillock and the other is at Narengi. Authorities have planned to drain out the excess water during the rainy days to Brahmaputra. One can hope that the flood problem will be reduced once the drains are completed. The communication to upper Assam from Guwahati have also imporved in recent days. One can travel upto Tinsukia in 6-7 hours by Volvo buses. Though I am not sure the fare will be around Rs. 360. We have Jan-Satabdi train running from Guwahati to Jorhat. It has A/C chair car facility. The Rajdhani Express is now extended to Dibrugarh. One can also go upto Ledo by Inter-City Express (train) which is an overnite journey. I think you already know that we have now local trains to Nagaon and Bongaigaon. The office goers are the daily commuters there. Job oppurtunity in private sectors have slightly increased mainly for the lower grades. The higher qualified people have to venture out to Bangalore, Hyderabad etc. for better oppurtunity. However, one good sign is there - qualified people will no longer sit idle here. They will promptly go outside Assam which was not the case in the eighties and nineties. That is all for today. There will be lot of things which we could not appreciate from here. Those things could be noticed from your angle. Kindly let us also know some of your views about Guwahati/Assam these days. I dont know whether you will be senior to me or not. Since, most of the netters are calling you 'baideo' - I am doing the same. For your reference - I am of 1978 matric batch from Assam. Regards Gautam CHoudhury --- "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --------------------------------- Glad to hear from you and to know that you liked the one-stop site for all the newspapers, Gautam. Thank you! I am guessing you're from Guwahati? How is everything there? Would love to hear anything and everything about it. I know banks open twice a day nowadays, with a break in between and State Bank does not have an ATM machine that takes cards from other banks - but only their cards, if you have an account (and money in it, of course! :)) with them. About types of buses that run in and out of town, fare rates, how long it takes to reach Dibrugarh from Guwahati (for example) - since the highways are much better now, anything! Didn't mean to put the pressure on you, but the questions go to everyone. And you can ask me questions too. Since we have this wonderful net, might as well take advantage of it and communicate with each other.... way to communicate with people from afar but with common background/interests, couldn't be any better. Thanks again. - A. Sarangapani Houston, Texas. --------------------------------- From: Gautam Choudhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, assam@assamnet.org Subject: Re: [Assam] newspapers of the world Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:46:24 +0100 (BST) >Thank you Alpana Baideo. This is really a useful >website. It is surprising to find that though there >are so many newspapers published from Assam >thesedays, a few only have there web-version. > >Gautam CHoudhury >--- "Alpana B. Sarangapani" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >--------------------------------- > >Hello again, Everybody: Just wanted to share this web >site that includes the newspapers of the world, with >you. Many of the new Assamese newspapers (and the >English ones) are included (like, The Assam Tribune, >The Sentinel, The Telegraph, Aji, Ajir Oxom etc., but >no 'Doinik Oxom' and 'Oxom Bani'). Anyway, here it is: > >http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > assam mailing list > > assam@assamnet.org > > >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________________________________ >Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages >Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
