<only questioned about annual flooding >
Has he a clue?He knee-jerked at DCon "Global Warming"!!!<.Unless these areas
are taken care of by the government,economic prosperity is impossible,even if
you build thousands of engineering colleges.>
Again he is Clueless.
That is why he repeats this invitation often:"Let ULFA come and run the place".
But he never said-"I shall retire to my village forthwith"
mm
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:36:20 -0500From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Re: [Assam] Day2: Assam 2007: Pt2; engg colleges, NRAs & C
Hi RS,
My attention was drawn to the following remark,made by Umesh Sarma.He wrote and
I quote " after the negative reception he received at Boston conference where
he was only questioned about annual flooding "
In my considered opinion,the problem of flood is the most menacing natural
calamity,experienced by the state every year particularly since the great
earthquake of 1950.The stagnancy of economy of the state owes much to this
recurrent menace.For example,in the course of last ten years,the total damage
caused by floods to crops,habitation of people and lives of cattle is estimated
at over Rs.1000 crores.
The dream of setting up of 111 engineering colleges in Assam is okay ( how many
medical colleges will be needed to look after the ailments of these folks,I
wonder ?).But then,one must remember that 76% of Assam's population is
rural-based,who eke out a living from their poor surroundings and where
facilities in the area of power,basic education ,health care
benefits,roads/communication/transport etc.are non-existent.Unless these areas
are taken care of by the government,economic prosperity is impossible,even if
you build thousands of engineering colleges.
KJD
On 7/4/07, Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Thank you, Umesh for providing an exhaustive account of Assam 2007.
any mecal colleges
--Ram da
On 7/3/07, umesh sharma < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Hi,In the Day 2 of the meeting (on Sunday July 1st, 2007) we arrived just in
time to have the lunch (got value for money - the $110 we had paid each for the
Assam 2007) - I was able to identify the dish with the shrimp (and avoided a
painful alergy outbreak ) . At the same time meeting of Assam Society was going
on - I could make out the sentences in English which were focused on non-profit
work and fund-raising (of about $2,500 only) and projects been sponsored and
monitored in Assam. Later Partha-da Gogoi presented a passionate presentation
for the self-help groups and business initiative and mentoring for engineering
students etc http://www.nepif.weblet.in/ North East Professional Institutes
Forumunder the leadership of Assam Institute of Management
http://www.aimguwahati.com/ -- which was later shown in front of the Chief
Minister --alongwith a presentation slideshow of http://www.pearllifeline.com/
funded and spearheaded by an NRI/NRA
http://www.assamtribune.com/may0507/Photo4.html who advised US President George
Bush on medical stuff.
http://www.posoowa.org/2007/06/30/a-need-for-expanding-engineering-education-facilities-in-assam-for-economic-growth-and-human-development/After
that was the persuasive presentation for promoting engineering college by
Jugal-da Kalita based on research by Jugal-da (IIT , Phd UPenn - Ivy League
Univ, Prof Computer Science, Colorado) , Umesh-da Tabildar (IIT , NASA, USA ),
Jukti-da Kalita (IIT, IIM, PhD Columbia) , Mantu-da Bhaishya ( BITS, Pilani ) ,
Ganesh-a Bora (PhD Kansas - Agriculture engineering) , Durba-da Bhattacharya
(Prof Computer science - Tejpur Univ, Assam) --- with comments on it by Gautom
Barua (Director IIT- Guwahati Computer Science) and other IIT profs and
Dipankar-da Medhi (Prof Computer Science at Kansas and AssamNet Co-founder) The
Chief Minster was in a state of bliss --- especially after the negative
reception he received at Boston conference where he was only questioned about
the annual flooding of Guwahati (he later spoke of Global Warming which might
lead initail floods by melting of glaciers followed by drought - when no more
glaciers). He said that he is so pleased with these presentation which have a
positive note and aim to improve the situation of Assam. Main Points of the
engineering college presentation -- Orissa has 13,000 employed by Infosys for
computer work -- even though has much worse travel connection than Assam.
Gautam Barua (IIT - G director) was told by Infosys Chief (Nilekani is IIT
batchmate of Gautam-da ) that Assam only produces 750 engg grads compared to
13,000 by Orissa - and Infosys wants 80% of its employees to be local -atleast.
Second, Assam has 2.5% of India's population but only 0.2% of its engineering
colleges and only 0.17% of its engineering graduates. I agreed with Jugal-da
that engineering education might act as a "pull" in improving basic education
(at school level) . Later during lunch Jugal-da, Partha-da and others were
having lively discussion with the CM. The CM had declared that his govt had
declared already that the year 2007 was the Year of Education and passed a Bill
(confirmed by his ADC later to me) to open privately run engineering colleges
etc. Jugal-da however, told me that he was not able to lay hands on any such
Bill being passed by Assam govt - but may have been introduced. I was within
one feet of the CM and even made eye contact but I conceded to the stalwarts
waiting to talk to him - who could have more immediate impact or
synergy.Partha-da in his very professional approach showed that it was
possible to have business outreach delegations to US -- since backward states
like Jharkhand and Uttranchal have been making waves in US. Utpal-da Brahma
(IIT, IIM and National Defense Academy selected ) was of the opinion that
first local Indian companies need to be invited to Assam and based on their
performance MNCs would get attracted to invest (FDI) in Assam. There are
more than one way to skin a cat , however!!!!Jugal-da and Partha-da rightly
noted that NRAs have yet to get involved with entrepreneurial ventures and
thus, professional education is the key to economic development of Assam -- a
fact whole heartedly agreed to by Assam Chief Minister. He did say the Assam's
economy was growing at 3% before his tenure and now is at 6% and want it to go
up to 8-9% to catch up with rest of India - and negated my question
(anonymous) that corruption was on the rise otherwise how could current growth
be possible. (My comment - Indian embassy in DC has now opened doors for anyone
seeking corroption of any other info - under RTI - Right To Info Act)Any
comments?UmeshUmesh SharmaWashington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell]Ed.M. -
International Education PolicyHarvard Graduate School of Education,Harvard
University,Class of 2005http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu
info)http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the
above 2 are used )http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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