Reply to Nava Thakuria and the Assam Tribune
CLOUD NINE:meaning that one was blissfully happy, started life in the United
States and has been widely known there since the 1950s ...
Because the Sardarji declared spending 12000 Crores into Ultra-ModernTollways
in and Through Assam?
Roads to where? Same Roads since Ahom and British times. Roads for rapid
movement of 1/2 million soldiers? Against?
Roads from where? India ? To Bring in India's trinkets to barter and scoop
out all that Assam had ,has,will ever have?
Roads which will cause all hills to be denuded of all rocks. India's brainless
road -building technology needs 10 times what the world standards want.
Giant Roads blocking all water passage between Hills and River. With culverts
leaving 1 square meter cross section For clearing flood after using 100 cu.m.
RCC?
Roads causing destruction of topsoil on 100meter wide belt at left and right.
And of priceless old and massive trees.
Do we need any of these ?
Cloud Nine for Delhi Contractors,Indian Cement Suppliers, foreign machine
suppliers?
Not for the Assamese Nation.We are planned to be eternally a client- consumer
-copycat-colony!But we will not be that!
Cloud Nine --Really?
RUBI BHUYAN
ULFA
Nava Thakuria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
NE economic boom
Indias long-neglected North-East and its States have reason to be on cloud
nine. They have been assured an economic boom in the next five years by the
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahulwalia, and
profitable trading with South-East Asia by the External Affairs Minister,
Pranab Mukherjee. Both were speaking at a three-day conference at Guwahati last
week on Indias Look East Policy and the challenges for sub-regional
cooperation. The Eleventh Five Year Plan will allocate Rs 12,793 crore from the
Central Government for development fo roads in the region. Besides Rs 9,500
crore to Rs 10,000 crore will be invested for improving rail connectivity.
There are also proposals to provide rail heads to Meghalaya and Sikkim and
airports to Kohima, Itanagar and Sikkim. Ahluwalia even suggested a
Guwahati-based airline for operating within the region.
Equally promising was the first-ever North-East India Investment Opportunities
Week held earlier in Bangkok at the initiative of Mani Shankar Aiyar, Union
Minister for Development of North-East Region (DONER). At least eight MoUs were
signed in to road construction and agriculture, in a conference attended by 280
entrepreneurs from India and 150 from Thailand.
The Assam Tribne editorial
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Workshop on impact of globalisation in NE
GUWAHATI, Nov 4 A two-day regional workshop for journalists titled, Impact
of Globalisation in Northeast Emerging Issues was organised by Press
Institute of India (PII), New Delhi in Shillong recently. Besides a team of
Guwahati-based journalists, media people from Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram,
Arunachal Pradesh also participated in the workshop.
Various topics concerning the impact of globalisation in the north-eastern
region were addressed by different speakers through question-and-answer
sessions. The topics included, Look East Policy in general, Ecological
Impacts of Development, Conflict Situation and Media Challenges, Head of
Paradigm Shifts for the Development of the Region, Northeast in Globalisation
and Role of Economics, Freedom and Gender Concerns in NE and Media Reporting
of Economic Issues, a press release informed.
The speakers were Prof Manoj Pant (JWU), Dr B Panda (NEHU), Neeraj Vagholikar
(NGO, Kalpavriksha), Prof BKTiwari (NEHU), Suresh Kr. Nath (Cotton College),
Falguni Rajkumar (Secretary, NEC), Subir Raj (The Business Standard), JK Bhuyan
(Ch, Delhi), Akoijam Sunita (The Impal Free Press), TCA Srinivasa Raghavan (The
Business Standard) and Dr H Srikant (NEHU).
The workshop was inauguarated at NEHU Guest House on November 2 last by Prof P
Tandon, Vice-Chancellor of NEHU.
Earlier, OP Tandon of PII delivered the welcome address of the inaugural
session, the release added.
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