Re: [Assam] Well-oiled Assam sits pretty - Telegraph -media wars-Bhaskar

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:02:27 -0800

Rajen-da,
 
This is a sweet bit of news about Dwraka-Assam connection. I still have got the coral rocks here in DC which I picked at India's loveliest beaches at Dwarka. However, I may add that noone really wants to educate anyone else about business practices and create rivals.
 
Some enterprising ones can slip in as employees and spy on their work -- like Times Of India chiarman Mr Puneet Jain did at New York Times in early 1990s while in NYC seeking cure for his daughter's illness . He worked as a trainee for six months there ( read an article on this in Businees Today in a file at Indian Express Newspapers) and came back to set up a similar structure -revamped his office -after a very public/controversial firing of the then TOI Editor  .
 
He created a new position Managing editor and made the managing staff superior to editorial one and introduced commercialization -- and within five years reaping more net profit that TELCO  ($100 million) the biggest Indian company then. Similalry, at Jaipur the Hindi daily Bhopal HQed -Dainik Bhaskar created media history by beating on day one -in circulation - longstanding monopolist Rajasthan Patrika in Dec 1996. It was  about six months after I had started working at Jaipur office of Indian Express.
 
My dynamic boss who had given me my first job -  Mr Jaiswal had been offered the position that top marketing position there but  it seemed almost imossible to all that anyone could make a dent in R.Patrika's game. D.Bhaskar had used latest door-to-door market survey techniques to win customers alll across town as well as freebies incl lower cover price in keeping with national norms.
 
However, R.Patrika soon struck back limiting the impact to only jaipur. Its editions elsewhere hence were spared.
 
Dainik Bhaskar is now India's most widely read newspaper and perhaps in the world.
www.bhaskar.com I went to Bhopal partially to learn from their strategies firsthand - in their hometown. It seems everyone in Bhopal is having a similar psyche and have a national -global outlook - perhaps becos based at center of India with trains going from one part of the nation to another always going thru its station or some nearby one.
 
Further, Bhaskar was battling ownership battles in its founding office at Jabalpur -- so the founder's nephews saw fit to conquer the rest of the world -perhaps like Alexander (thegreat) and his family feuds.
 
Every state's situation is unique but indepth study by working in the environment of successfully gujaratis  (or getting guest faculty from IIM-A ) can perhaps help.
 
Umesh
 


Rajen Barua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Umesh:
Seeing the words Dwarka reminds me the following cultural connection between Assam and Gujarat.
As you know Aniruddha, the grandson of Sri Krishna came to Assam (in fact he was seduced to Assam) and he married Uxa (Usha) daughter of Ban Oxur of Tejpur. This happened in the Dwapor Yug about 5000 years ago.
In Assam this legend is very strong. What I did not know is that this legend is also apparently strong in Gujarat.
In fact the some Gujaratis say that Uxa of Assam went there and was influential in teaching dance and music to the Gujaratis. This is very interesting.
I am interested to know if anybody knows more about this aspect.
In any case, we Assamese now can legitimately ask the Gujaratis to teach us Entrepreunrship skills which apparently we lost.
RB
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Subject: Re: [Assam] Well-oiled Assam sits pretty - Telegraph

Ram-da,
 
Thats a great bit of news. Now ULFA supporters need to do some serious soul searching about how to improve the state's economy -- maybe by using the Guwahati-Okha (Dwarka) railtrack to peep at how the western most state in India can teach Assamese about business.
 
It is an open secret that Rajasthan's handicraft , gems and tourist trade has been created solely by Gujaratis who migrated 50 years ago to Jaipur etc. But enterprising Rajasthanis and now Sindhis -- tricked them to learn the business -- and are now equal partners in export -some having branches and offices in as many as 60 countires across the world incl 5th avenue New York, where my cousin works for one of them in gem and jewellry trade.
 
Assam does need to develop skills -- and not get hung up on oil. How about opening a small refinery with Assamese ability.
 
Umesh 

mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So produce all their need in Gujarat and in  the Bay of Bengal and leave Assam sitting pretty!mm

From:  Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:  Assam Organisation <[email protected]>
Subject:  [Assam] Well-oiled Assam sits pretty - Telegraph
Date:  Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:26:58 -0600

Assam gets Rs. 894 crs compared to Gujarat Rs. 1,131 crs. Output Assam 4.5 mill.tons/year, Gujarat 6.1 mill. tons/yr.
ONGC is producing about 6.1 million tonnes of crude a year from its fields in Gujarat. There is not too much of a difference between the recoverable crude reserves in Assam, which are estimated at 163.68
million tonnes and Gujarat, where the corresponding figure is 173.99 million tonnes.
 
But,
 
There is not too much of a difference between the recoverable crude reserves in Assam, which are estimated at 163.68 million tonnes and Gujarat, where the corresponding figure is 173.99 million tonnes.  - Telegraph
 
and
 
However, the unrest in Assam is a stumbling block in raising the level of oil production. A higher crude output would enable the state to rake in a larger royalty for its development works as well.- Telegraph
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Issue Date: Monday, January 23, 2006
Well-oiled Assam sits pretty
S.P.S. PANNU
 
New Delhi, Jan. 22: Assam has received annual oil royalty of Rs 894 crore, next only to Gujarat, which took home Rs 1,131 crore during the financial year ended March 31, 2005.
However, disturbed conditions have affected the annual crude output in Assam. The output has remained at 4.5 million tonnes in recent years.
ONGC produces 1.2 million tonnes of crude, while the output of Oil India Ltd (OIL) is higher at 3.2 million tonnes in the state.
ONGC is producing about 6.1 million tonnes of crude a year from its fields in Gujarat. There is not too much of a difference between the recoverable crude reserves in Assam, which are estimated at
163.68 million tonnes and Gujarat, where the corresponding figure is 173.99 million tonnes.
However, the unrest in Assam is a stumbling block in raising the level of oil production. A higher crude output would enable the state to rake in a larger royalty for its development works as well.
ONGC chairman Subir Raha hopes to increase the company's crude output to 5 million tonnes in the next three years and is ready to allocate Rs 3,300 crore for exploration and development work in the state. However, this depends largely on the law and order situation in the state, he added.
The recent extortion letter and the subsequent threats by the ULFA to the oil companies do not augur well for the investment climate in the state. "The oil companies will be forced to put their expansion plans on hold if such a situation continues," a senior ONGC official said.
According to recent data compiled by the petroleum ministry, Tamil Nadu figures in the third spot with Rs 102 crore as oil royalty during 2004-05, followed by Andhra Pradesh with Rs 77.25 crore.
Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura figure next on the list with Rs 11 crore and Rs 3 crore, respectively. Interestingly, in the case of Arunachal Pradesh the royalty received in 2003-04 was close to Rs 21 crore and this fell to half the amount in the following year. Assam had received a royalty of Rs 703 crore in 2003-04.
Rajasthan, where Cairn Energy has discovered some small and mid-sized fields recently, has emerged as the third state with 11 million tonnes of recoverable reserves of oil.
Arunachal Pradesh, with 5.21 million tonnes of recoverable reserves, ranks higher than Andhra Pradesh, which has only 4.72 million tonnes in reserves. Nagaland, which has recoverable reserves of
2.69 million tonnes, does not receive any royalty as the companies have not been able to produce any oil due to the civil unrest in the state.
The total onland recoverable reserves of oil in the country have been estimated at 369.56 million tonnes. There are also 32.53 million tonnes of oil off the eastern coast.

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