Raiz, Please see if you know someone back home - who might be interested in participating in the discussions (read email). Sanjoy Hazarika is organizing a public forum - the timeline being Oct last week/Nov first week. This could elicit a good response from the interested crowd. I happened to see Mr Nayan Sharma's article on River-linking @ http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=14&theme=&usrsess=1&id=23854. This is the NE page edited by Sanjoy-da. This comes in all the editions (all Metros) except the North East. One has the feel that Chandan-da and the others closely following the RiverLinking topic could actually contribute to this writers space. Its inspiring to see people (like Mr Nayan Sharma) taking some time off and writing about their opinions/ideas for the region.
Pankaj-da, please show this email to Atul-da. It will be nice if a few knowledgeable parties from Cotton College took part in the discussions on river-linking issues. Cheers, Partha Fairfax, VA --- Sanjoy Hazarika wrote: > Date: 23 Sep 2003 20:27:19 -0000 > From: "Sanjoy Hazarika" > To: "Partha Gogoi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Riverlinking > > yes,i know but they are lying through their teeth. > > and what business does the supreme court have to put a deadline > for thenproject (2016) which is costing over 11 times the entire > irrigation budget for india since independence?! > > and another point: these are old projects dusted off the shelf > which have been rejected by the centre's own environment ministry > in the past! and the prjects are about dams on rivers not river > linking!! > > and wait for this weekend's ne page: we have an assamese scientist > working on river waters writing on all this. > > finally, dredging would be cheaper and prabhu told us clearly that > it was a concept not a project. but it is a project otherwise why > a deadline of 2016? > > we at c-nes are trying to organise a public forum in assam to get > prabhu and others to respond to public concerns. if you xcan > sugest people who could come, let me know. this could be in end > oct. or in novemebr. > > i am currently a member of the assam govt.'s high power committee > on river linking to advise dispur on what position to take on > this. we had a meeting last weekend in guwahati and most members > appeared to agree with some of my views -- ie what benefits to > those who are river-depenedent and what does assam get out of > it? > > sanjoy da > > ===== Partha Gogoi Fairfax, VA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam
