Rajib-da,
I do not know what business you invested in in Assam but perhaps Assam tea is
still a profitable.
umesh
Rajib Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I find Dipak Jain's arguments that
insurgency cannot
be termed as "a" reason for lack of development
fallacious.
To encourage investors from outside, you need
stability and law and order. And yes, insurgency in
South / Central America does indeed act as a deterrent
against investment - look deeper into regions of a
country plagued by insurgency and you will see which
way investments flow. We all know India attracts
investment even as we have insurgency in Assam.
Dipak Jain might be traveling home to see his folks
and did not find security issues. I did. I also
invested in a business in Guwahati. And found that
consumers will spend less when bombs are going off
every other day.
That the State Government needs to be selling more
despite the insurgency obviously is unquestionable.
However, I find using words like "people need to dream
or aspire more" etc. snooty. Like everywhere else in
India, people have more than enough of dreams and
aspirations. They are not constructed of anything
different or inferior. If only the insurgents and the
government left them alone to follow their dreams and
aspirations.
--- Mridul Bhuyan wrote:
> I wholeheartedly support the view.
>
> Mridul
>
> uttam borthakur wrote:
> Dipak Jain is correct.
> Insurgency cannot be termed as 'the' or 'a'
> reason' for lack of development.
> It has been used as an 'excuse' by the persons who
> want Assam to remain a hinterland, to abuse
> subsidies, to divert dedicated fund, and in short to
> hide the loot. Without giving it a thought, some of
> our own have been repeating this prevarication as
> the truth.
>
> umesh sharma wrote:
> well said DJ (Jain)
>
> Umesh
>
> Bartta Bistar wrote:
>
>
> 'Insurgency poor excuse for Assam's
> underdevelopment'
>
>
http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=12596
>
> By Aroonim Bhuyan, New Delhi, Oct 21: Insurgency
> or terrorism cannot be given as an excuse for the
> lack of economic development in Assam, says renowned
> US-based management guru Dipak Jain.
>
> "I don't think insurgency can be cited as a reason
> for the lack of development in Assam. What we need
> is a change in the attitude of the people,"
> Assam-born Jain, dean of the Kellogg School of
> Management, told IANS in an interview.
>
> Elaborating, he said, "We people in Assam are too
> self-contented. We seldom venture out and we do not
> let others come in too."
>
> Jain's long career in education began as a student
> in Tezpur, Assam. After earning his bachelor's
> degree in mathematics and statistics from Darrang
> College, Tezpur, he earned his postgraduate degree
> with a gold medal from Gauhati University in 1978.
> He taught at the university for the next five years
> before leaving for Dallas in the US to pursue his
> PhD in marketing at the University of Texas.
>
> When it was pointed out that people from Assam,
> especially students, are venturing out of the state
> these days, he said: "True, but that is more out of
> compulsion. However, I would say that coming out
> should not mean not returning. They should work
> outside, gather experience and then return home and
> use what they have learnt in the development of
> their home state."
>
> Stressing that the people of Assam should
> encourage investors from outside to put their money
> in the state, Jain, 50, said: "Today, we are living
> in a globalised world. Countries are seeking out
> other countries as partners in progress. There is a
> great movement of people across the globe. So, how
> can you develop without letting outside investors
> come in?"
>
> Jain, who was here to deliver a lecture on
> 'Branding India in the Global Context' at the
> Foreign Services Institute (FSI), said the working
> conditions in Assam were much better than in many
> other parts of the world.
>
> "Look at the climate. Isn't it wonderful? And
> there is so much of human resource too."
>
> When told that the law and order situation in the
> state was acting as a deterrent to investors from
> outside, Jain said that it was a "much over-hyped
> issue".
>
> "Insurgency and terrorism in Assam has been
> over-hyped by the media. I keep going to Assam to
> meet my family. I never felt insecure in anyway. It
> is not at all as it has been made out to be," he
> said.
>
> Reiterating that insurgency cannot be a factor in
> keeping away investors, he pointed to Central
> American countries in this context.
>
> "Look at the countries in Central America racked
> by insurgency. But have they stopped overseas
> investors from coming in? In fact, working
> conditions in those countries are much tougher than
> in Assam. As I said, it is all about the attitude of
> the people."
>
>
> Jain had been an advisor to the vice president of
> El Salvador at one point of time.
>
> Asked if he would take up an advisory role for the
> Assam government, Jain recalled an interaction with
> Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi during the latter's
> visit to the US last month for the Pravasi Bharatiya
> Divas in New York.
>
> "We had a very good meeting. The chief minister is
> very receptive to new ideas," he said.
>
> The state government has to play a more active
> role in promoting the state to the outside world,
> said Jain.
>
> "The government should hold events and invite
> investors from outside. If they are concerned about
> the law and order situation, they should be given
> security cover and taken on a tour of the beautiful
> state," said the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor
> of Entrepreneurial Studies at the Kellogg School.
>
> Jain, along with four other Assamese residing in
> the US, has written to Gogoi, suggesting that a new
> set of educational institutions be set up in Assam.
>
> "It is actually an initiative of Jugal Kalita, an
> Assamese residing in Colorado. We have suggested
> setting up new business management courses in Assam.
> It would be one of the best ways to harness Assam's
> human resources," Jain said.
>
> Asked if he had any particular sector in mind that
> could be a thrust area, he said: "Tourism and
> establishing manufacturing bases. If developed and
> promoted well, Assam can be one of the best tourist
> spots in the world. And there is tremendous scope
> for establishing manufacturing bases."
>
> He also lauded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
> Look East policy.
>
> "It is one of the best initiatives to be taken.
> Why look at the US and European markets when the
> Southeast Asian markets are so close by?"
>
> When told that the Ministry of Development of the
> Northeastern Region has roped in Thailand as partner
> to help in the development of the region, Jain, who
> was appointed advisor to the prime minister of
> Thailand in 2003, said, "That is good. But don't
> forget Vietnam. Thailand is already developed.
> Vietnam is still developing and its situation is
> similar to the northeast. There can be mutual
> synergies between the regions if a partnership is
> struck."
>
> "But, above all," he concluded, "the people of
> Assam should learn to dream, to aspire. That is the
> best way to develop the state."
>
>
>
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