Rajib,
I may add a small footnote to the otherwise comprehensive dialogue of reassurance by Chandan.
You do not display your IIM expertize when you talk of another few shops at Gauhati:
can earn enough to invest
>>in 10 little shops (in Guwahati or wherever) that can
>>become 100 little shops in 10 years - that are giving
>>jobs to 500 people - I think that is awesome.
>
In which developed economy do you see somany shops on the same street selling the same ggods at the same price?
Want a taste of Guahati in 2025? Here goes:
Subject: Comprehensive Master plan for GMDA
A My Vision Of Guahati in end 2025 ( In response to The City Needs Your Ideas)
- Elite society all E-savvy each family connected by Hi-Speed Internet .Each adult assigned serious /responsible duties to be fulfilled on time no alibis acceptable. The entire Agro-Horti-Animal Husbandry- Human Health-housing-Energy Industry-Transport sectors covering (the so-called) NE is now regulated from this Command and- Control center called Guahati. The total population is limited to a maximum of 5 Lakhs. Every family lives in 12 storey housing blocks with Green all around.. Children walk to Primary school and Baby-chairs are
pushed to Creches. Comprehensive Medical-Dental-Gynae, all available within walking distance . For serious cases , and undertaker service, ambulances will pick patients/cases up in 10-15 minutes . Emergency service operated with helicopter. Each Housing enclave houses about 2000 including children (1 child norm).All are 1-room flats with bed,DesktopComputer, mini-fridge,microwave, Toilet/shower. Common facilities including Baths, Guest /Conference rooms, eating places are at ground floor. People stopped using private cars long back. Standard balanced diets in almost 20 Versions available prepared, frozen, Microwavable . All tastes are catered thus. A-La
Carte meals available at Restaurants in Social Centres through On-Line reservation. Social Centers located strategically to serve 1 Lakh. Includes Domestic Animals Farm, Wild Animals Zoo, Bird cage, Reptiles house, Aquarium. Brass band,
- Autobus is available within 1 km . Hydrofoil service at 50 to 100 km/hr takes you to Xodiya/Dhubri-both Banks. Airports reacheable by Hyrofoil boats and bus transit. Passenger Trains disappeared around 2020.There are now about 100 tunnel and overhead rail crossings over the high-speed goods rail lines.
- Seniors can opt out (after Medical Board ) of the city to live in Sunshine Retirement Colonies in districts of their choice. Their care are paid for- either from Retirement Fund, their family help, or from personal savings .Social Security is the last available resort.
- Gauhati-Build Inc. a company based in Byrnihat constructs and maintains all the safe earthquake resistant prefab houses, roads.
- Luit Development Authority- LDA- operates all River Transport, Bridges across river and prepared food supply for Guahatis 5 Lakh and for the Tourist Hotels.
- Travel outside for all residents are cleared/authorized/booked by Guahati Fahr Inc.
- Till their 15th birthday -children live in with parents and go to nearest standard school. After that they move out of Guahati to finishing Boarding schools and Higher study Centres located at Industry or border working locations. Teaching of one foreign language like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Russian, German, French, English, Spanish, Tamil, Farsi, Arab are district specific to enable speaking practice 90% time. At borders Local Ethnic bilingual speaking Expertize is mandatorysay Kachin, Shan., Mizo, Bhutiya, Bangla, etc.
From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Rajib Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Assam] To Be or not to Be
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:04:24 -0600
>Rajib:
>
>Take a good look at some of your own remarks here:
>
>> >I wish there were more that escaped. Not just
>>Chandanda. And I. And all others on Assamnet.
>
>
>**** What does it mean? Why are you glad to have ESCAPED? Is it NOT
>because, you had skills but were unable to make use of them in the
>desi-environment to
>improve your own and your near and dear ones' lives ? That those
>whom you trusted to create an environment for progress and
>prosperity not only failed, but that there was NO possibility in
>sight as well?
>
>
>> >They don't need to be IIT / IIM guys - at the end of
>>it most of us turn out to be clerks anyway.
>
>*** But it does not have to be like that, does it? What your
>preparation at IIT and IIM shows is that YOU have the ability to
>LEARN, does not matter what. That you have a desire to excel. That
>you are resourceful.
>
>And given half a chance, you would have done just fine in India, had
>the environment existed.
>
>Fact is that there are plenty more like you,who never had the
>opportunity to go PROVE to anyone that they have those abilities.
>Nor did/do they operate in an environment where there is a
>reasonable degree of opportunity to go fend for themselves
>successfully.
>
>Remember Steve Jobs? Bill Gates? They were college dropouts. I am
>sure yu can cite many more of those than I could.
>
>*** Question you ought to be asking therefore: How can Assam get
>there?
>
>I don't ask about India, because it, as you ought to know very well,
>is incapable of forging the political will to make the changes that
>are essential to create the environment for the able and the
>enterprising to better their lot, to be productive, and to hold out
>that hand of help for those who cannot fend for themselves instead
>of looking away and denying them their humanity.
>
>
>> >And if you are in the government - give law and order
>>and access to infrastructure and then leave these guys
>>to their self serving ways.
>
>*** The institutions of state that are entrusted with providing
>order in society, of providing accessible and trustworthy mechanisms
>for timely and just conflict resolution, for holding the responsible
>accountable, must be re-built,. from the ground up. Indian
>institutions have been dysfunctional, and getting worse by the day,
>with no hope for a turnaround even on the distant horizon. Again
>exactly for the same reasons.
>
>Assam CAN and MUST build those up. But tell us HOW you forsee that
>happening under Indian rule.
>
>
>> >Even if someone with an H1B can earn enough to invest
>>in 10 little shops (in Guwahati or wherever) that can
>>become 100 little shops in 10 years - that are giving
>>jobs to 500 people - I think that is awesome.
>
>
>*** I am no economist, and I have no intent to dwell on a DETAIL
>here, but don't shop-keepers merely shuffle wealth? Somebody still
>has to CREATE it. And who do?
>The farmers do. The factory workers do. The road-builders do. The
>carpenters do.
>And that must come first, before the investment in shops would
>produce anything
>other than help change hands.
>
>So what is being done to improve Assam's agricultural productivity?
>To help transport produce to the markets? For storage? Where is the
>fertilizer? Where is the energy? Where are the roads and trains and
>the refrigeration facilities?
>
>Is the ULFA bogey a believable excuse for their absence?
>
>
>
>> >But
>>society does need all other kinds too. Mostly those
>>with the overwhelming desire - and the OPPORTUNITY -
>>to make more money for themselves.
>
>
>**** I don't believe that anyone would disagree with you on it in
>this day and age. But for these people to be able to make a
>difference, you need the STATE to create the environment. Why is the
>state failing to do it?
>
>You will need to look into that. And I can tell you this: it is NOT
>ULFA , because of which the environment does not exist. If someone
>wished ULFA away tomorrow, NOTHING would change, other than perhaps
>help the looters move in with even greater impunity.
>
>
>> >It increasingly looks
>>like the real escape at this point is back to India.
>
>**** I have seen and heard these wishful pronouncements for thirty
>five years. But little changes. I will believe it when I see that
>exodus.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>At 8:37 PM -0800 11/22/05, Rajib Das wrote:
>>Mikeda,
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>Am I happy I moved forward in life? (I do realize
>>however that I transferred my clerkship from India to
>>US - so this move forward is nothing more than a small
>>little step really). Absolutely.
>>
>>I wish there were more that escaped. Not just
>>Chandanda. And I. And all others on Assamnet. I wish
>>there were tens of thousands such escapees from our
>>region.
>>
>>They don't need to be IIT / IIM guys - at the end of
>>it most of us turn out to be clerks anyway. In as much
>>as the penchant for ABCD kids to become doctors in the
>>US is. Ordinary drop outs in the US have had a better
>>success rate in my industry at least.
>>
>>But really, Mike da? Attempting to solving problems in
>>the abstract without a self interest urging them on -
>>the socialist approach to things - does not seem to
>>have worked anywhere.
>>
>>It works best when personal desire - greed even -
>>drives people to do big things. So all these IITs and
>>IIMs and RECs and what have you - let them be there to
>>give the push to AT LEAST a few poor and lower middle
>>class men and women. Let them go out and be greedy and
>>self serving. Let them figure out how to earn more
>>money. Give them the environment and the level playing
>>field to do so.
>>
>>You say the IITs and IIMs are for solving the crises
>>in the lives of the multi-millions. I say wrong. It is
>>and should continue to remain the passport for these
>>individuals to go up in life that was never granted in
>>many many generations of many of these families.
>>
>>And if you are in the government - give law and order
>>and access to infrastructure and then leave these guys
>>to their self serving ways. Experience around the
>>world has shown that the problems of the multimillions
>>have been solved that way better than packing off
>>these guys into rural areas to ponder over problems or
>>work in giant inefficient PSUs as clerks.
>>
>>Even if someone with an H1B can earn enough to invest
>>in 10 little shops (in Guwahati or wherever) that can
>>become 100 little shops in 10 years - that are giving
>>jobs to 500 people - I think that is awesome.
>>
>>I guess there is an idealogical difference with you. I
>>hold folks like you in high regard - those courageous
>>folks that do indeed step away to solve the problems
>>of the multimillions. Society needs your kind - at
>>least a few of the truly real and honest ones. But
>>society does need all other kinds too. Mostly those
>>with the overwhelming desire - and the OPPORTUNITY -
>>to make more money for themselves. In most societies
>>the greedy ones are the overwhelming majority.
>>
>>Now this "escape with the H1B visa thing"! This escape
>>is increasingly a false one. By the time we are old,
>>America and IT will be like iron and steel. Or rather
>>coal - an old sunset industry. It increasingly looks
>>like the real escape at this point is back to India. I
>>just wish instead of escaping to Pune or Bangalore one
>>could escape to Guwahati with one's potential to
>>assuage his / her greed intact :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--- mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>---------------------------------
>>Rajib Das wrote:
>>
>>
>><<If the IITs were not to be there, I am sure many
>>like
>>C-Da and I and almost everyone else would not have
>>escaped the clutches of our small town / lower middle
>>class / rural surroundings.>>
>>
>>How about those high lifing today witout ever nearing
>>IIT's,IIM's,?
>>And those High lifers from B grade schools
>>And those who couuld not cross Matric?
>>And those multimillions who are written off?
>>IIT's ,IIM's are all for solving the crises in the
>>lives of those Multimillions
>>
>>And Rajib is happy that he escaped with his HIB visa
>>
>>Surely!
>>
>>
>>
>>
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