The point here for the Assamese is
not necessarily to crack any gas. Most of the people care less what a Gas
Cracker does and where the gas will come from. The point here is to get some
people employed, get some contractors do business. So it does not matter any
whichever way: to have a Gas Cracker cracking gas and making a loss or not to
crack any gas and spend some Indian s white money in the project which will not
happen.
For the last 10 years, GOI is
trying to set up an Oil Museum in Assam named after KD Malavya Oil Museum in
Guwahati. I hardly see any news at all. It is also held up for a long
time because GOA could not give the required land. One senior guy in
oil industry from South India wrote to me, "Rajen, I have done
many projects for many states. But when it comes to Assam, I gave up
on this project. Nobody can move the Assam minstry. I failed."
Does anybody in Assam care? How
many in Assam know of these?
I say Hobo Diok
Kokaidew!!!
Jabo Diok!!!
Rajen Barua
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:51
AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] AT: Who runs
ULFA????????Seeking answers???
<Gas Cracker
but a Gas Cracker does not necessarily >
Sounds good! But that's about
it. I say This Gas Cracker cannot happen technically in the
end. Will go the same way as Brahmaputra Embankments or Bogibeel
Bridge.
- Which Gas will you crack?Methane
(NO!), Ethane(what % in associated Gas , and how will you
seperate-cryogenically?) Propane,Butane(everybody now wants LPG-would they
live on 10th floor and cook with Gobar Ghuti?), Naphtha(but IOC
will get more profits if they sell as jetfuel/diesel - with just a few
small changes)
- Say you beg-borrow-steal
and get to Ethylene-what then?
India has no mechanism to go by
plain logic. No mechanism to listen to my advice.
Even now I
am available.
Don't like it? Well, best of luck
to who doesn't.
mm
From: "Barua25" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "umesh sharma"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<assam@assamnet.org> Subject:
Re: [Assam] AT: Who runs ULFA????????Seeking answers??? Date:
Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:43:51 -0500
Umesh:
I have just thrown a number of
adults who might have immigrated during last 30 years. It does not matter
whether we are 300 or even 3000. It is still a drop in the bucket of 20
million. I was just trying to awake our people who seem to be
biased with a wrong mind set that brain drain is bad. Actually brain drain
helps a country like India where we have abundant of engineers and
technocrats. What we lack is managerial people. People who are coming here
are not the managers. Immigrants always help themselves and help the country
back monetarily. Like Momy said, we need to change our attitude.
Corruption is an attitude. An engineer going back from here cannot
help. The greatest advantage the Punjabis and the Hyderabdis have
against the Kharkhowas is that Assamese lack confidence. We even donot
have the courage to ask an MLA a question "Why we don't have
electricity why the roads are bad. This confidence will come only when
enough people will get out our Kharkhowa state and work outside like a guy
of Kerela, UP, Rajasthan, Gujrat or Punjab. We the
Kharkhowas even donot know how much export we can made of Bamboo products to
Delhi and Mumbai and USA which will help the villagers. Not that we donot
need a Gas Cracker but a Gas Cracker does not necessarily help our
villagers.
Rajen
Barua
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006
10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] AT: Who runs
ULFA????????Seeking answers???
Rajen-da,
good point. I thought there were more Assamese abroad (incl
their progeny) 300 is too small a number . I think there were over
3,000 Sikhs from Punjab in only Canada's Vancouver area 100 years ago. Do
you think migration in large numbers has helped Punjabis? On the other
hand, Hyderabadis have really made a connection between Silicon
Valley and Hyderabad -by setting up tech projects which are run out of
theri home town. Infosys Chief Narayan Murthy had suggested something
similar for Assam - in his recent visit at AEC -about setting up cal
centers initially. Maybe NRAs can help in that. Umesh
Sharma 5121 Lackawanna ST College Park, MD 20740 USA Current
temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada 1-202-215-4328
[Cell Phone] Canada # (607) 221-9433 Ed.M. - International
Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard
University, Class of 2005 weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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Original Message ---- From: Barua25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
muktikam phukan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; assam@assamnet.org Sent:
Monday, 25 September, 2006 8:01:06 PM Subject: Re: [Assam] AT: Who runs
ULFA????????Seeking answers???
>Problem lies in our educated people migrating to USA and other
greener pastures after getting full advantage of the >govt provided
educational infrastructure (whatever little is available).
Damn these educated Assamese people
that migrated to USA seeking greener pastures. We could have saved Assam
had not these selfish 300 or so educated people (out of 20 million
population of Assam) migrated to USA. Damn!
What we 20 million minus 300 peopel
can do in Assam? Nothing.
Otherwise, we had everything
planned.
Damn!
Iake koy manuhe pate, isore
bhange.
I say : hobo diok
kokaidew!
Rajen Barua,
Houston
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006
6:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] AT: Who runs
ULFA????????Seeking answers???
Problem lies in our educated people migrating to USA and other
greener pastures after getting full advantage of the govt provided
educational infrastructure (whatever little is available).
Why can't these individuals stay back and try to
change the situation?
Left behind are those people who actually has to shout slogans
once in a while to get a refinery, a tea auction centre, an IIT et
al.
And ASOMIYA's in Higher echeleons of Natun Dilli --- for them it
seems they are actually from North India or Bengal. Only concern seems
to be to jerk off that asomiya climbing below me in the
ladder. Muktikam Phukan Momy Saikia
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dipankar,
Do
you really think that someone could be deprived of what they deserve
due to prevailing discrimination. However, I can appreciate your
point of view.
With all due respect to everyone who support
the cause of ULFA or are in the notion that central govt is
biased against the north east, do you really think establishing
your own rights by "snatching" it from either friends or enemies
is the right action.........
Its down to every individual at
the end of the day; govt can only support. Playing the blame
game is temporary and can never last long and yet the
repercussions are severe and permanent.
I wasnt brought
up in Assam and have rarely set foot on my land, so my opinion
might not be significant. However, blaming the govt. for the
complete situation of the state is not justified. If people of
Assam are so bothered with the face of Assams roads, the least
they could contribute is to construct the road and drains in the
periphery of their new homes. If each household would care to
spend the extra price of laying the road outside their dream
house, everyone would have better lanes to walk
through
With regards to your concern with no major
industries being set up in Assam since independence, why wait
for the govt to take the initiative. Be it a personal or govts
initiative to establish an industry, the results will always be
favourable for the people of the place in terms of more employment
opportunities and globalization of the state
I hope that
my personal opinion will not be misconstrued as my support for
the Indian govt (I am an engineer by profession and not a
politician so I am not radicalized)
I believe in everyman for
himself. Besides evidences from history prove that revolutions
and changes happens due to the initiative of one/more people
together, not due to any govts standalone decision.
So we
need to plan some course of action instead of passing the buck....If
our generation was to be trusted with the politics of the
nation, we would have nothing to complain
about....
Momy
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Dipankar Malla Baruah (Well Logging)) >Reply-To: "D M Baruah"
>To: "Momy Saikia" > , , >Subject: Re: [Assam]
AT: Who runs ULFA????????Seeking answers??? >Date: Mon, 25 Sep
2006 14:51:47 +0530 > >ULFA problem is the result of
large scale un-employment and common >sentiment amongst the
people of Assam that the central government is not >doing
enough for the development of Assam. The two major industries of
>Assam, Tea and Oil industry was started by Britishers.
People of Assam had >to do agitations for setting up
refineries for oil produced in Assam. After >independance,
there is not a single major industry set up in Assam. Assam
>is a major producer of tea, oil and gas in India. But Assam
is still one of >the poorest state. If you look at the
conditions of roads, primary health >and educational
infrastructure in Assam, it is amonngst the worst in India.
>Most of the people of Assam had the access to moblile phones
only recently. > Most of the time people dont have
electricity here. Big things come to >assam only when people
agitate. > >These are a few things that one can realise
while staying in Assam. It is >easy to talk of peace and
prosperity staying in a foreign land. Taking the >gun or
going ULFA way is certainly not the right way to solve the problems
>of the state. But we should realise that every problem has
got certain >reason. I dont support the ULFA millitants when
they kill people or collect >ransoms. But I still feel that
Central Government should stop doing step >motherly treatment
to Assam. Let more industries set up here, let more >youth
have jobs, let people be happy with the basic ammenities of life,
>ULFA will not have enough people joining them and the
problem will solve by
>itself. > > > >----- Original
Message ----- From: "Momy Saikia" >To: ; >Sent:
Monday, September 25, 2006 1:38 PM >Subject: Re: [Assam] AT:
Who runs ULFA????????Seeking
answers??? > > >>Can't understand why some
people choose violence over peace????????? Do
>>you >>support the cause of ULFA militants? Do
you think Assam would be better >>place if separated from
the central government or is it a thought of
the >>juveniles who have lost directions in
life?????? >> >> >>>From: umesh sharma
>>>Reply-To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>To:
assam@assamnet.org >>>Subject: Re: [Assam] AT: Who runs
ULFA? >>>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:28:23 +0100
(BST) >>> >>> >>> >>>
Some talk about peace some indulge in war.... >>>
Umesh >>>Guwahati, Sunday, September 24,
2006 >>>--------------------------------- >>> >>>
TE manager shot dead by ULFA >>> >From Our
Bureau >>> DIBRUGARH, Sept 23 - The manager of
Hollonghabi tea estate near Digboi, >>>Haren Das was
shot dead from close range by suspected ULFA
militants >>>outside his bungalow late this evening. He
was rushed to the AOD hospital >>>at Digboi, where he
was declared dead on arrival. >>> >>>Another
report says that suspected ULFA militants caused a terror
this >>>afternoon at Bordumsa Bazar near Pengeri, after
they opened fire into the >>>air. No one was hurt in
that incident. >>> >>>
------------------------------- >>> >>> >>>Guwahati,
Sunday, September 24,
2006 >>>STATE >>>--------------------------------- >>>
Policeman killed in ULFA shootout >>> >From Our
Bureau >>> DIBRUGARH, Sept 23 - A police sergeant of the
Borboruah police station >>>here, Ranjit Sonowal was
gunned down by ULFA militants at Jokai on
Friday >>>morning. He died on the spot. A team of
policemen had gone to the house
>>>of >>>one Deba Dutta to seek him out
when the incident occurred. Dutta earlier >>>delivered
an extortion letter to the management of the Sessa tea
estate, >>>belonging to the Goodricke Group, demanding
Rs 30 lakh. >>> >>>The police received a
tip-off that a group of 15 ULFA militants
have >>>sneaked into Jokai on the previous night, and
went prepared, accordingly. >>>Sonowal, who was armed
with a Sten carbine, was at the rear door of
>>>Dutta's >>>house when he was shot at by
three fleeing militants, all armed to the >>>teeth. He
died on the spot. The police have arrested Deba Dutta
for >>>harbouring militants and acting as their courier.
Dutta's wife and a >>>teenaged daughter have also been
arrested. Dutta was earlier with the
>>>CRPF, >>>and was dismissed from service
for misconduct. >>> >>> >>>Umesh
Sharma >>>5121 Lackawanna ST >>>College
Park, MD 20740 USA >>> >>>Current temp.
address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver,
Canada >>> >>>1-202-215-4328 [Cell
Phone] >>>Canada # (607)
221-9433 >>> >>>Ed.M. - International
Education Policy >>>Harvard Graduate School of
Education, >>>Harvard University, >>>Class
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