Reading the rejoinder to Thakuria and Assam Tribune by [EMAIL PROTECTED], was
it really very difficult to guess who the author was?
Shantikam Hazarika
Director,
Assam Institute of Management
PO Box 30, GUWAHATI 781001, India
HOME PAGE: www.aimguwahati.edu.in
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 17:07:28 +0000From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Assam] NE economic boom
Reply to Nava Thakuria and the Assam Tribune CLOUD NINE:meaning that one was
blissfully happy, started life in the United States and has been widely known
there since the 1950s ...Because the Sardarji declared spending 12000 Crores
into Ultra-ModernTollways in and Through Assam?Roads to where? Same Roads
since Ahom and British times. Roads for rapid movement of 1/2 million soldiers?
Against?Roads from where? India ? To Bring in India's trinkets to barter and
scoop out all that Assam had ,has,will ever have? Roads which will cause all
hills to be denuded of all rocks. India's brainless road -building technology
needs 10 times what the world standards want.Giant Roads blocking all water
passage between Hills and River. With culverts leaving 1 square meter cross
section For clearing flood after using 100 cu.m. RCC?Roads causing destruction
of topsoil on 100meter wide belt at left and right. And of priceless old and
massive trees.Do we need any of these ?Cloud Nine for Delhi Contractors,Indian
Cement Suppliers, foreign machine suppliers?Not for the Assamese Nation.We are
planned to be eternally a client- consumer -copycat-colony!But we will not be
that! Cloud Nine --Really? RUBI BHUYAN
ULFA
Nava Thakuria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
NE economic boom— India’s long-neglected North-East and its States have reason
to be on cloud nine. They have been assured an economic boom in the next five
years by the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh
Ahulwalia, and profitable trading with South-East Asia by the External Affairs
Minister, Pranab Mukherjee. Both were speaking at a three-day conference at
Guwahati last week on India’s Look East Policy and the challenges for
sub-regional cooperation. The Eleventh Five Year Plan will allocate Rs 12,793
crore from the Central Government for development fo roads in the region.
Besides Rs 9,500 crore to Rs 10,000 crore will be invested for improving rail
connectivity. There are also proposals to provide rail heads to Meghalaya and
Sikkim and airports to Kohima, Itanagar and Sikkim. Ahluwalia even suggested a
Guwahati-based airline for operating within the region.Equally promising was
the first-ever North-East India Investment Opportunities Week held earlier in
Bangkok at the initiative of Mani Shankar Aiyar, Union Minister for Development
of North-East Region (DONER). At least eight MoUs were signed in to road
construction and agriculture, in a conference attended by 280 entrepreneurs
from India and 150 from Thailand.The Assam Tribne editorial*************
Workshop on impact of globalisation in NEGUWAHATI, Nov 4 – A two-day regional
workshop for journalists titled, ‘Impact of Globalisation in Northeast –
Emerging Issues’ was organised by Press Institute of India (PII), New Delhi in
Shillong recently. Besides a team of Guwahati-based journalists, media people
from Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh also participated in the
workshop.Various topics concerning the impact of globalisation in the
north-eastern region were addressed by different speakers through
question-and-answer sessions. The topics included, ‘Look East Policy’ in
general, Ecological Impacts of Development, ‘Conflict Situation and Media
Challenges’, ‘Head of Paradigm Shifts for the Development of the Region’,
‘Northeast in Globalisation and Role of Economics’, ‘Freedom and Gender
Concerns in NE and ‘Media Reporting of Economic Issues’, a press release
informed.The speakers were Prof Manoj Pant (JWU), Dr B Panda (NEHU), Neeraj
Vagholikar (NGO, Kalpavriksha), Prof BKTiwari (NEHU), Suresh Kr. Nath (Cotton
College), Falguni Rajkumar (Secretary, NEC), Subir Raj (The Business Standard),
JK Bhuyan (Ch, Delhi), Akoijam Sunita (The Impal Free Press), TCA Srinivasa
Raghavan (The Business Standard) and Dr H Srikant (NEHU).The workshop was
inauguarated at NEHU Guest House on November 2 last by Prof P Tandon,
Vice-Chancellor of NEHU. Earlier, OP Tandon of PII delivered the welcome
address of the inaugural session, the release added.
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