the first step in solving a problem is owning up to it - that there is indeed a
problem.
The minister did the right thing - he came clean.
Now the isue is of finding solutions. Right now anyone can get a birth
certificate in India -as a matter of fact most Indians don't have one
-including most AssamNetters (atleast I don't have one but can get it from the
Indian municipal office of the city of my birth 35 years ago) . I use my 10th
grade pas certificate showing my birthday as a proof of my DOB - like most
(educated ) Indians.
Same way any illegal can get the birth certificates mad -infact I overheard or
just heard some volunteers of a US based Indian nonprofit AIDIndia ( I am NOT
their volunteer) saying they themselves take the harassed Delhi slumdwellers
to get documents made for them. I rerted "they might be illegal Bangladeshis"
---their young local leader said- so what if they are illegal -aren't Nepalis
working in India.
So ways have to be found to clamp down and streamline the birth certificate
process.
I think that would be a first step.
Umesh
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Re: [Assam] AT: Its impossible for
Centre to d eport Ba Wow--what is this?
Assam's legitimate owners can't do anything about it.
Assam's true representatives won't say anything.
What is going on?
No wonder then Assam's intellectuals are turning the heat up on them
'self-appointed' lot. Urohor khong boga dharit xorar procesta ?
:-).
Its impossible for Centre to deport Bangladeshis
From Our Spl Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Aug 8 Quite oblivious to the raging controversy over deportation
of illegal Bangladeshi migrants in the North-East, Union Rural Development
Minister, Raghu Prasad Singh today all but gave up his hands, stressing that it
was impossible for the Centre to expel the Bangladeshi nationals from India.
The Ministrys admission came at the end of a press interaction through
tele-conferencing organised by his Ministry with the media in Guwahati. A
question by media in Delhi whether jobs under National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act (NREGA) currently under implementation in seven districts of
Assam, has also gone to illegal Bangladeshi migrants, led the Minister to
respond by saying that his Ministry was helpless in such matters because if a
persons name is enrolled in the Voters List then it was entitled to be
enrolled for jobs.
The Rural Development Ministry has no mechanism to detect such illegal
migrants, who are availing of Central Government funds, he said.
The Minister further asserted that India was a big country and people were
free to come and go. He explained the helplessness of the Centre by stressing
that Bangladesh Government was not willing to accept these illegal migrants as
their citizens. What can we do if Bangladesh is not ready to accept them, he
said.
We cant just pick them up and dump them into the river, he argued.
You in the media take over power and we will give you five Bangladeshi for
deportation. My bet is that you cant do it, Singh said.
We have accepted over 1 lakh refugees during the war and fed them regularly,
he said. Dismissing the problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh as BJPs
propaganda, the Minister said it was ploy of the saffron party to mislead the
country. Riots, regionalism, casteism is what the party is known to propagate,
he asserted.
Replying to a question, the Minister did not rule out the possibility of some
of the Rural Development funds falling into the hands of ULFA. That is why the
Ministry has asked the States to be vigilant about fund leakages, he said.
Umesh Sharma
Washington D.C.
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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
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