[Assam] Back to the village

[mc mahant]

Netters -Time for a change of subjects:

How about This--Changed lifestyle-back into time--

 

Back to the Assam Village

 

Indian Census says  Assam’s population in 1991 was 25 million

With gross land area of  70,000 sq.km. the average population density was 360/sq km.

There is big deviation from the average. Guahati and other towns have huge densities.

A study of migrating into city/town reveal following pattern:

·        Had a piece of land.Built a house- feels secure-better for children’s future.

·        Had easy money.Bought a flat.Have a job with assured salary-pension to repay with.

·        Have only a crowded joint family in the village home-see no future there.

·        Education of the newcomer was never utilized by city/town into which he/she came.

·        As newcomer could not contribute to economic growth, the city/town goes to dogs. Having a shop is not Economic Growth. And ASEB would not provide power to factories in city-and charges prohibitively. So no employment. Lately some Masala/spirit bottling industry has been licensed. And to villages- there is just no power . And villages are NO-INDUSTRY zones dictated by Delhi’s policies.

·        Then there is false hope of better City/Town “Education” and hope of getting jobs on strength of such “Education”.

 

How to repopulate the countryside?   {Let’s talk of Assam 2005 Boundary only}

 

·        By providing meaningful job/ education/housing/security and minimum  food/wages/ communication.  All  these must be created locally.Men,women,children –all must work  usefully-in corporate style.

·        First at the border- armed. To act as border guards too. 2Rows- 1 km apart- villages of 300. If there is 2000 Km total,we place 2x300x2 000= 12 Lakh there.

·        Secondly one row of new planned villages on both banks of all rivers/Beel/lake –less Brahmaputra. There are 200 such rivers each 40 Km long from border to estuary. So we can place 200x2x40x300=48 Lakh on these river banks.

·        3rdly in the redefined Brahmaputra/Manah/Kameng/Subonxiri Beds@ 300 /sq.km.In  about  6000  sq km we can place about 18 Lakh Farmer communities with set outputs and   provided inputs.

·        4thly surrounding each reserve forest and sanctuary: new Forest –improving villages- who will do just that-improve pristine forests, grow livestock and honey, run health recuperation centers and old-age homes .1000 such villages will have 3 lakhs engaged that way.

 

 

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