Dhemaji which at one point of time was an important township. I say with a heavy heart and felt for the people who are so bereft of basic need of life in contact to their compatriots in the rest of the world. I wonder why does this place remains so neglected till today when so many prominent personalities, eminent writers, journalists, doctors, top government officials, politicians, educationalists can trace their roots from this area.
2008 Budget: There is hardly anything of significance mentioned in the key sectors like Agriculture, Handloom & Sericulture, Tourism, Cultural Affairs, Forest conservation, Environment, Science & Technology, Guwahati Development etc.
Although the Budget shows a divert to growth in a balanced manner, it falls short of specific strategy to reduce unemployment which is perhaps the largest problem. We wonder how we going to meet the unprecedented order of deficit. The debt burden which currently runs at amount Rs 20, 000 crores will therefore expectedly go still higher in the coming fiscal.
Recent Budget for the fiscal 2008 - 2009 is more or less soft and people friendly and in conformity with guide posts of the election oriented Union Budget. It contains enough material on tax - expenditure policy to a higher growth path in his endeavour to narrow down its distance from the national economy.
CM has taken the right steps to grant for school infrastructure provided each institution get the same amount of grant. Such grants should always be need based and not ad-hoc type with populist connotations!. Because the absence of infrastructure is certainly not the same in the 429 provicialized high / higher secondary schools or all the girl's schools set up 75 years back. Again there seem to be no concern of the state govt. for enterprise building by local enterpreneurs of the state. It is quite understandable while preparing the budget concerning tax - sops proposals creation of some new posts, colleges and universities, constitution of development councils to six ethnic groups which have been on war path or grant of ST status, special packages to the tea tribes and minoritiesand the next parlimentary elections must have played a decisive role. The Budget for 'Aam Aadmi' remains to be seen as other than committing to implement the centrally sponsored rural developmemt schemes which are funded Centrally with a small State share no state government schemes of any reckening have been announced.
Asseration of ones identity would appear quite natural, especially in societies where primordial loyalities have dominant say over one's world view. Social movement have their foundations among people who feels deprived of soom good (s) or resource (s)
The decision of Govt. to set up a 3 more new medical colleges in Jorhat, Barpeta and Kokrajhar is a very good head start. Similarly an Engineering college with newer branches of engineering is a high pirority.
Dhemaji being geo-graphically disadvantaged, economically backward, having high rural and tribal population, absence of high technical institution should be the criteria to select it for awarding an opportunity to complete with progressive cities. It seems everything gone out of the window. Situated in a small corner of the state Dhemaji comes to limelight due to control miseries caused by flood every year. For uniform development of Assam in particular and of the county in general, no part of the county should be considered 'remote'.
Assam has only 3 Engineering college. Even after 60 years of independence, the north bank of Brahmaputra lacks any higher educational institute apart from Tezpur university. Professional institutes have a great role to play in the overall development of the society. An engineering college at Dhemaji could have designed to cater to local needs and face local challenges particularly those of Lakhimpur districts of Assam and neighbouring state of Arunachal Pradesh and in these backward areas. Better way for further development, infrastructure, attracting industries only then the 'backward area' and 'no communication' syndrome will disappear from the geo-graphical map.
This shortfall leads to deprivation of deserving candidates by forcing them to keep away from persuing higher education.
It is very sad that Dhemaji has been once again ignored in the recent Budget. May be it is truly a forgotten district?
PermalinkSubmitted by priya on Mon, 24/03/2008 - 03:17
State govt treats Budget preparation as a major burden as they have no idea on it. So they have no control on it. So a few govt babus prepares it with their own calculations heavily influenced by private parties. Political representatives from various locations have no idea how budgets are prepared. Common people's aspiration & demands not honoured.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Gogoi asked his ministers and officials to prepare district-level plans to deal with the draught-like situation in the state.
The instruction came up when Gogoi held a meeting of senior members of his ministry to deal with the drought-like situation in Assam. He stressed the need for taking water conservation efforts in all commercial and residential areas in view of the lack of proper rainfall.
The meeting was attended by Labour Minister Prithibhi Majhi, Agriculture Minister Nilamoni Sen Deka, Environment and Forest Minister Rokcybul Hussain, PWD Minister Ajanta Neog, Water Resources Minister Rajib Lochan Pegu.
Education minister Dr Himanta Biswa has been included in the 10-member committee set up by the Centre to give shape to the government's ambitious plan to roll out community colleges in the country from the 2013 academic session.
To be headed by Madhya Pradesh School Education Minister Archana Chitnis, the team will submit its report within two months, spelling out the concept and arriving at an appropriate milestones for its launch. The panel could also undertake a trip to the US.
Other members include Brij Mohan Agrawal, P K Shahi, Sikander Singh Malooka and Abdul Gani Malik, Daya Ram Parmar, P Palaniappan and Rajesh A Tope. Joint secretary in HRD Ministry A K Singh would be the...
Defence laboratory unit in Assam is currently focussing the research and development studies on Nanotechnology, Agro biodefence, herbal medicines and identification of malaria-risk zones.According to information, as part of the year-long golden jubilee celebration several programmes have been chalked out which include orations, national seminar, peace expedition, quiz competition among school children, health and hygiene awareness camps.The Defence Research Laboratory was set up after the 1962 Chinese aggression to address the problems faced by troops in forward areas, is celebrating its golden jubilee.
Police arrested two persons on their way to Kaziranga National Park, along with arms and ammunition have been arrested in Assam's Jorhat district.
The duo, who were travelling on a motorcycle, were arrested during a routine check at Jorhat Bye-pass on National Highway-37 on Monday midnight and a rifle, a magazine, 12 rounds of live cartridges, a silencer and mobile phones have been recovered from their possession.
Identified as Bishnu Pegu and Nagen Pegu, they were on the way to Kaziranga National Park (KNP) after procuring arms and ammunition from Nagaland. They have been booked under Arms Act and Wild Life Protection Act.
Assam water resources department has accepted a proposal to implement an indigenously developed cost effective anti-erosion technology using plastic nets. The technology was developed under the guidance of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, and a pilot project was carried out in 2007-10 under the sponsorship of North Eastern Development Finance Corporation.
According to Polygon Foundation General Secretary D Hazarika, the technology relies on the use of plastic nets tied to concrete blocks fitted into the soil near river banks to check erosion. He said they proposed to use the technology for anti-erosion measures in some of Brahmaputra's tributaries like Jiyabharali and...
Dilemma over selection of the Chef de Mission of the Indian Contingent for the London Olympic for last few months ended on Monady as the selection committee of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has named Olympian Ajit Pal Singh for this post. The IOA constituted a seven member panel to decide on this subject unable to come to conclusion between vice-President IOA Tarlochan Singh and the President of Indian Weightlifting Federation Birendra Prasad Baishya. With an unexpected step IOA has decided to appoint the captain of the hockey team that won the World Cup in 1975, and keep both Tarlochan Singh and B P Baiahya as observer. There will be three observers for Indian delegation to London...
Veteran civil rights activist P V Rajagopal on Sunday urged Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to take steps in land reform in the state at an earlier date.
Talking to reporters in Guwahati he said that it was urgent to work for land reform by Gogoi as he was a member of the National Land Reforms Commission. Rajagopal, also a member of ofthe NLRC, is now in Guwahati as part of a nationwide land rights yatra. He said that not a single meeting of NLRC was held in the past five years.
A hardcore anti-talk ULFA cadre was killed at an encounter with security forces on Sunday in Tinsukia district. But the banned insurgent outfit has denied death of any cadre in the encounter.
Sunday’s encounter took place at Dikak Sonjan in the afternoon. The incident took place when policemen on checking duties on the street asked a group of ULFAmen to halt when they were riding on a Tata Sumo.
One of the armed cadres started firing at the police team. When police retaliated, the armed youth died on the spot. Police seized a pistol from the vehicle inside the vehicle. Meanwhile, ULFA has denied any encounter with security forces in Tinsukia district.
Two policemen were injured when ULFA militants triggered a powerful grenade at Doomdooma in Tinsukia district on Saturday.
The incident took place when a group of security personnel went to Doomdooma market at night and found a suspicious packet at a vegetable shop. The beg exploded with a huge sound when the policemen were inspecting the packet. They were identified as Anil Nath and Prabodh Sonowal. Meanwhile, in an e-mail to the media, ULFA anti-talk faction's publicity department member Joy Asom claimed responsibility for the bomb blast.
ULFA’s anti–talk faction steps up activities a week ahead of their Foundation Day slated for April 7. The outfit claimed to have killed three Assam Rifles jawans at an encounter in Sivasagar district of Assam on Saturday.
But the security forces claimed that a hardcore ULFA cadre belonging to the Paresh Baruah led faction was seriously injured during the encounter with security forces along the Assam-Nagaland border in Sivasagar district. The encounter took place at Takubasti under Charaideo police station bordering Nagaland. The heavy exchange of firing took place in the evening when a five-member group of the outfit opened fire on an Assam Rifles patrol party. A hardcore...
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