Re: [Assam] Assam red-faced over CAG report - Telegraph

2005-08-10 Thread Chan Mahanta
O'Ram: I would think that state govts. when they request para-military forces from the Center bear a certain cost. As far as the military operations, I seriously doubt if the state has to bear any. *** That itch of the trigger finger to shoot from the hip without doing the homework is

Re: [Assam] Assam red-faced over CAG report - Telegraph

2005-08-10 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Assam red-faced over CAG report - Telegraph Ram: It is disingenuous to suggest that I am attempting to criticize the CAG or its report. Suppose we assume that the Center slept these past 25 years, what happened to the GOA (all with Assamese interests), what did they do

Re: [Assam] Assam red-faced over CAG report - Telegraph

2005-08-10 Thread Rajib Das
I checked the balance sheet numbers on Assam Government website and did not find any indicators. I think one would accept if you used numbers and sources for those numbers instead of just referring to Sanjib Baruah. Assam has been and continuing to pay huge assessments for deployment of the

Re: [Assam] Assam red-faced over CAG report - Telegraph

2005-08-10 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da, Sorry for the delay, I was trying to get some research on the topic done:) It is disingenuous to suggest that I am attempting to criticize the CAG or its report. I was't trying to do that. And I am glad that you at least accept the report to be true, even though you would find the blame

Re: [Assam] Assam red-faced over CAG report - Telegraph

2005-08-10 Thread Chan Mahanta
At 9:47 AM -0700 8/10/05, Rajib Das wrote: I checked the balance sheet numbers on Assam Government website and did not find any indicators. I think one would accept if you used numbers and sources for those numbers instead of just referring to Sanjib Baruah. Well, then that is the final

Re: [Assam] Assam red-faced over CAG report - Telegraph

2005-08-10 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da, Because Rajib Das did not find any reference to it in the Assam Govt. web-site. Why would Sanjib Barua's stats be the only ones to glean from? And where do you think he would have got them? My guess would be: the Assam Govt. (Statistical Year Book, the published budgets, Home Ministry),

[Assam] Assam red-faced over CAG report - Telegraph

2005-08-09 Thread Ram Sarangapani
The Gogoi admin has been diverting and misusing Central funds meant for border construction, and thus unable to implement the Assam Accord. Comptroller and Auditor General of India revealed that funds to the tune of Rs 7.53 crore provided between 1999 and 2004 for the project by the Centre

Re: [Assam] Assam red-faced over CAG report - Telegraph

2005-08-09 Thread Chan Mahanta
The Center ought to send its own border construction team and get the job done. *** I think that would be jumping the gun. After all twenty five years is not that long. I mean for the Center to realize there is a problem, and that it has a duty to protect the borders, and not cry about

Re: [Assam] Assam red-faced over CAG report - Telegraph

2005-08-09 Thread Rajib Das
Does Assam Government pay for the cost of running military operations in Assam? If yes, is it the same model for other states in India where the military has a similar role? --- Ram Sarangapani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C'da, BTW, isn't the Assam govt. run by the same folks who hold the

Re: [Assam] Assam red-faced over CAG report - Telegraph

2005-08-09 Thread Ram Sarangapani
I would think that state govts. when they request para-military forces from the Center bear a certain cost. As far as the military operations, I seriously doubt if the state has to bear any. What is galling is the perinial need to make excuses for a state govt. which is not just shrinking from