Hi all members Let all of us mourn for a brave and very dynamic Assamese bureaucrat- Shri Ashok Saikia. He passed away on 30th December 2007 at Escort Hospital in Delhi after complication of open heart surgery.
He was an IAS officer in Delhi, OSD to Prime Minister Shri Atolji in his times and he was retired on 31st July 2007 after his assignment in Asian Development Bank as Executive Director. In Delhi, I met him in various social gatherings, programmes of Assam Association, Delhi and three other occasions when I personally met him to discuss something about Bhupenda's music, painting on Maa Kamakkhya and a rural development project for my village. I remember very few bureaucrats from Assam, even in Indian context, whose presence itself was filled with dynamism, inspiration, openness and vigour. There are a very few IAS officers from Assam who rose to the highest level through their competence. We really lost one of them yesterday. May his soul rest in eternal peace. Let us mourn with family members of the deceased and send condolence message to them. Sarat Barkakati
