As long as the powers that be consider money, power, votes ( the order - your preference ) above the need to preserve one's cultural heritage and identity, absolutely nothing will work.
A better approach is to manage the opportunities that encourage migration. The construction industry is one of the major employers of Bangladeshi labor. How about publicizing the benefits of pre-mixed concrete and mechanized concrete pouring ? To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:48:57 +0000 Subject: [asom] validate Work Permit idea in Assam I am referring to Shantikam Hazarika's email (appended). Probably, the Work Permit idea was "dead horse" in Sanjoy Hazarika's Rites of Passage book even before its printing, because Sanjoy Hazarika did not validate Work Permit usage in Assam in his book - implementing it would not do good in Assam. So how to validate Work Permit usage in Assam (just a suggestion) would be to find its pros/cons if implemented. Suppose Sanjoy wants to bring Bangladeshi to Assam on Work Permit. What is the minimum annual income of an individual enabling him to pay exactly Rs 100 as Income Tax to GOI? Suppose they are day labour (immigrants coming to Assam are very poor day labour) How much GOI will make as Income Tex from a day labour? Rs. 0.00 (am I right?) Actually Shantikam, in order to make this discussion "rational and practicable" we need to validate Work Permit idea to see its pros/cons should it be implemented in Assam. Without validation I cannot see how you can be confident to find "takers" or to claim you are not "flogging a dead horse". Rabin From: shantikam hazarika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:27 AM Subject: Deportation of Bangladeshi To: rabindeka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sanjoy Hazarika in his Rites of Passage also talked about work permit but there were no takers. Unless we are willing to discuss what is rational and practicable, it is pointless to keep on flogging a dead horse. Shantikam Hazarika Director, Assam Institute of Management PO Box 30, GUWAHATI 781001, India HOME PAGE: www.aimguwahati.edu.in --- "rabindeka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Friends, I fail to get the brainstorming part in this thread :-') An idea was to issue Work Permit but none come forward with a likely amount a day labour will pay per year to government as income tax. Finding what might be the worst case can be brainstorming too, lets continue on this thread. (I include Mrinal's email as well especially XLS file he posted cannot be downloaded from yahoogroups archive if you do not have yahoo ID so I am making it easy for all to download) http://deka7kl.googlepages.com/c-16.xls http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/4442
