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.
Journalists’ Forum Assam in association with Nature’s Beckon has organized a citizen’s meet to discuss about the menace of increasing incidents of man-wildlife conflicts in Assam. The meeting, scheduled to start on 11 am of March 14 at Guwahati Press Club, is expected to adopt some resolutions which may be sent to the policy makers in due course of time.
Environment organizations and also interested citizens are invited for the meet to share their experiences and relevant suggestions.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced a set of measures to give the education sector a fresh lease of life.
In his budget, the chief minister proposed a women varsity in Jorthat, 21 poly technique institutes, scholarship for lower primary and high school students and Rajiv Gandhi school for poor students.
He said government proposes a 50 crore rupee fund to uplift the primary education sector. He said the government would give away free computers for 50 per cent mark holders in the HSLC examinations.
More and more tigers are roaring in Guwahati these days. A full grown leopard unleashed a reign of terror in Guwahati on Monday. The leopard who was believed to have come down from the nearby dense jungles managed to intrude into the CRPF camp in Ninethmile area in Guwahati in the morning.
It suddenly stormed into a room where a constable houses. Immediately after spotting it, the tiger was confined to the room. Later forest department officials lifted it to the Assam State Zoo.
Good news for Sonapur. The local residents in the tiny and beautiful spot in the outskirt of Guwahati have reasons to cheer.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has proposed a UNO research centre in his budget table in the Assembly on Monday.
Apart from this, the chief minister announced a new golf course in this place.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi doles out a number of sops when he tabled state budget for 2012-2013 on the floor of the House on Monday. Gogoi, has claimed that the NSDP figure grew by 5.30 per cent.
In his budget speech, Gogoi proposed 21 new polytechnique institutes, a film archive to be named after Dr Bhupen Hazarika, Dr Indira Goswami Chair in Gauhati university , Sati Joymoti award. He proposed to hike the amount of pension for freedom fighters to Rs 8000 per month.
In a bid to encourage the agriculture sector, the chief minister proposed loan for farmers for 2 per cent interest. Apart from these, he announced a Rs 10 crore special project for PWD.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has tabled a Rs 293.44 crore deficit budget for the year 2012-2013 on the floor on Monday.
Gogoi, who also holds the finance portfolio has claimed to have improved the state’s financial health. Details awaied.
Railway security forces have apprehended altogether nine illegal Bangladeshi migrants from Guwahati station Saturday. They were detained after they failed to produce valid document when sought. They said that they entered into the Indian territory in Tripura on Thursday and that they arrived in Guwahati en route to Alipurduwar. RPF officials said that they crossed the border on March 7 and reached Agartala and from there they headed to Badarpur in Karimganj district. The Bangladeshi nationals will be produced before the Foreigners' Tribunal on Monday.
Burma Centre Delhi would soon launch a forum involving all north east MPs to raise the issue of Myanmar in a better way in Parliament.
According to information, the forum will be made on the lines of the Indian MPs’ forum for Bangladesh, which is doing great work on various bilateral issues between the two countries. The forum will create a congenial atmosphere for talks between the two countries through people-to-people interactions and even problems like economic influx to the prosperous region can be taken up.
The Manas National Park is set to get two orphaned one-horned rhinos from Kaziranga n Sunday under the International Fund for Animal Welfare-Wildlife Trust of India.
The rhinos were being shifted from Kaziranga National Park to Manas National Park on Saturday night under tight security. Named as Maju and Raja, they were under care of the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation in Kaziranga, where they were hand-raised by experienced veterinarians.
Both the incidents occurred in Kaziranga National Park. According to information, the one-horned rhinos are being reintroduced in Manas National Park through translocation from Pobitara Wildlife Sanctuary and Kaziranga National...
A primary school was completely gutted devastating fire broke out in Dhubri on Saturday. The incident took place in the evening in the heart of the town. The fire was spotted at around. Fire tenders were rushed to the spot. But by then the entire school building was gutted in fire.
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