>Hope ? On the basis of what? Past performance? Attitude? Ability?
Determination? What?
Do you have anything better than
this 'hope'?
RB
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:56
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Study on Assam
-Centre for Policy Alternatives
>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 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 -----
From: Rajen
Barua
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; [email protected]
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 -----
From: umesh
sharma
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:56 AM
Subject: [Assam] Fwd: Study on Assam -Centre for
Policy Alternatives
shall we read and discuss?
Umesh
Centre for Policy Alternatives
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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:
http://www.cpasind.com/reports/13-Left-Behind-Case-Study-Assam.pdf
Other studies by our Center are also available at www.cpasind.com.
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: [email protected]
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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2005 13:54:03 -0400 (EDT)
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