It sure is typical of them Indians and sad to read the title - Assam getting
just 13 lakhs as against over 550 crores by Chattisgarh.
Then again I read this: “Asom and other States of the North-east didn’t send
any project proposal to the NCDC during the last 2/3 years...."
What has the government been doing? Going around the world asking for
investment money from the few little dollars from the NRAs?
BTW, where is Chattisgarh? If it was not mentioned with this news (and if
Googling was not this easy), I would have thought it was in Bangladesh. And I
get irritated when some/other Indians ask me where Assam is!
“In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble
like a blade of grass”
- Lakshmana
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:30:49 +0100From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL
PROTECTED]: [Assam] Asom gets Rs 13 lakh against Rs 551.28 cr for Chhattisgarh
NCDC funds (The Sentinel, 14.10.2007)
Asom gets Rs 13 lakh against Rs 551.28 cr for ChhattisgarhNCDC funds Our
CorrespondentNEW DELHI, Oct 13: The eight States of the North-east, including
Sikkim, got a meagre Rs 6.17 crore (Rs 13 lakh for Asom) during the fiscal
2006-07 from the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC), while
Chhattisgarh alone got Rs 551.28 crore, said NCDC Chairman Kantilal Bhuria
while talking to newsmen here today.When asked as to why Asom got such a small
amount, the NCDC Chairman said: “Asom and other States of the North-east didn’t
send any project proposal to the NCDC during the last 2/3 years. The Ministry
is always ready to pour in funds to the States for development projects in
livestock, industrial goods, handicraft, village and rural craft, agricultural
credit, rural sanitation and other sectors under cooperative societies, but if
the State governments and the cooperative societies do not come forward, what
can we do? My department sent several letters, but the State Government didn’t
respond to our letters. Perhaps the State Government is not aware of NCDC
projects.” NCDC Deputy Managing Director G Panmei, on the other hand, said that
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar created an NCDC cell for the North-east
in New Delhi so as to ensure rapid development of the cooperative sector in the
north-eastern States that get liberal assistance to the extent of 95 per cent
of the project cost, including the subsidy component of 33 per cent. According
to Bhuria, the north-eastern States that have been marked as special category
States, get 100 per cent subsidy under the ICDP Scheme.During the fiscal
2006-07, while Chhattisgarh got Rs 551.24 crore, Andhra Pradesh got Rs 480
crore and Tamil Nadu got Rs 347 crore from the NCDC.
(The Sentinel,14.10.2007)
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