Dear Mike These aids are misnomers. Some are actually in the form of investments in which Indian businesses are joined. Some of the Conservative MPs. opposed these fundings but the Prime Minister ignored their advice.I emailed some of these information in two instalments but the moderator said it was not possible to accommodate them.Regarding technical education, I think whatever has been continued will be fulfilled.In any case,Indian students nowadays prefer to go the States for higher studies.
Politicians should keep their mouths shut when unpleasant situation arises. . Often they do not mean what they say. It looks as if Pranab Mookerji .the Indian Finance Minister would have . welcomed a bigger sum. As regards the jets, India Government says that India's old stock has to be replaced. -bhuban -----Original Message----- From: assam-request <assam-requ...@assamnet.org> To: assam <assam@assamnet.org> Sent: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 6:30 am Subject: assam Digest, Vol 79, Issue 5 Send assam mailing list submissions to assam@assamnet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org r, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to assam-requ...@assamnet.org You can reach the person managing the list at assam-ow...@assamnet.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific han "Re: Contents of assam digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: [assam] New York Times on News of India & on Education in USA on Sunday (05 02 2012) (Bhuban Baruah) 2. Re: assam Digest, Vol 79, Issue 4 (mc mahant) 3. Building Social Business, (Nava Thakuria) 4. The official website of Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha . (Buljit Buragohain) 5. Pragyan: PRAGYAN December, 11 issue (Pragyan Tinsukia College) 6. LC Jain, Assam and Mega Dams (Sanjib Baruah) 7. Re: [assam] Human Rights Watch Notes Abuses By Security Forces (Bhuban Baruah) Attached Message From: Bhuban Baruah <bbar...@aol.com> To: assam@assamnet.org Cc: friendsofassa...@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Assam] [assam] New York Times on News of India & on Educationin USA on Sunday (05 02 2012) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 01:45:19 -0500 (EST) ear Friends: India Ink, New York Times, has this Sunday (05 02 2012).come up with three ditions of the Newswallah: Long Read, Bharat and Bollywood. I always try to top my urge to omment but one I failed to is that Guwahati's moral police will ensure there s no showing of love between a young man and young woman in public laces.Valentine Day is no longer confined to the cities of the West; Would here be extra police in the metropolis of Guwahati on 14 February next? The home page of the New York Times has the following articles on Education: Foreign Students Pay Top Dollar at U.S. Colleges. Editorial: Reining In College Tuition. -bhuban. Attached Message From: mc mahant <mikemah...@hotmail.com> To: assam assamnet <assam@assamnet.org> Subject: Re: [Assam] assam Digest, Vol 79, Issue 4 Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 13:32:44 +0530 essage: 3 ate: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:30:37 -0500 (EST) rom: Bhuban Baruah <bbar...@aol.com> o: assam@assamnet.org ubject: Re: [Assam] [assam] India tells Britain: We do not want your aid essage-ID: <8ceb1de6cfd469b-22b8-19...@webmail-d006.sysops.aol.com> ontent-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ear Friends: n today's Telegraph (U K) there are two very important articles bearing on ndo-British economic ties.I regret I am not able to give the web links, I tried hough. It is the unday Telegraph today (05 02 2012). The following two headlines given on the ery opening page of today's issue will lead you nicely to the articles. ndia tells Britain: We don't want your aid. urbulence ahead with India's Jet deal I have 2 Q's: *********** What will happen now of India wanting to introduce Br4itish system of igher Technical Education-- spending300Bn Pounds-- much ballyhooed some onths back. B. Turbulence ahead India'sJetDeal: Why was Dassault selected? What will appen to Obama's offer of F17-F18's .And where is the enemy? Can the enemy be ouched? This years Republic Day Showoff commentaries highlighted " This can arry our Nuclear Warheads and deliver to Beijing" . So why Jets? mm Attached Message From: Nava Thakuria <navathaku...@yahoo.com> To: northeastjour...@yahoogroups.com Cc: assam@assamnet.org Subject: [Assam] Building Social Business, Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 03:32:28 -0800 (PST) uilding Social Business, the concept developed by the Bangladeshi Nobel aureate Muhammad Yunus is discussed here in an article published by The Assam ribune today http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/showpage.asp?id=feb0512,6,417,915,666,930 Attached Message From: Buljit Buragohain <buluas...@yahoo.co.in> To: assam@assamnet.org <assam@assamnet.org>; friendsofassa...@yahoogroups.com <friendsofassa...@yahoogroups.com>; northeastin...@yahoogroups.com <northeastin...@yahoogroups.com>; silc...@yahoogroups.com <silc...@yahoogroups.com>; axomiya_stude...@yahoogroups.com <axomiya_stude...@yahoogroups.com>; assamsoci...@yahoogroups.com <assamsoci...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [Assam] The official website of Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha . Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:52:20 +0530 (IST) The official website of Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha : ttp://srimantasankaradevasangha.com/ Attached Message From: Pragyan Tinsukia College <pragyan.ts...@gmail.com> To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world <assam@assamnet.org>; XOBDO groups <xo...@googlegroups.com> Subject: [Assam] Pragyan: PRAGYAN December, 11 issue Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:26:30 +0530 Dear Friends, e regret for our late appearance with PRAGYAN December, 11 issue (Volume x; Issue ii). Due to some technical reason we couldn’t make it on ime. Still, e are happy to inform you that in this issue we’ve tried to present a good umber of writings on Science and as we always do, try to focus on some ocially relevant issues, in this issue we’ve focused on International Year f Chemistry and Forest. That made the issue one of the biggest in size. r Arindam Adhikari tried to explain what the Lotus Effect is, while Pinky urakayastha expressed her concern on Indian Forest. Baikuntha Das and anandra Khaund tried to explore relation between Forest and people epended on it. lease, find the issue here in any link: 1) ttps://sites.google.com/site/pragyan06now/about-pragyan/pragyan-06-02-the-text/pragyan-06-02the-text/pragyan--06-01/Home/pragyan-august-2011/pragyan-december-2011 )http://www.scribd.com/doc/80405231/Pragyan-December-2011 )http://pragyan06now.blogspot.in/2012/02/pragyan-december-11-issue.html Sushanta Kar xecutive Editor , Pragyan *** **** ****** Read and Write in PRAGYAN eb: http://sites.google.com/site/pragyan06now log: http://pragyan06now.blogspot.com/ A Quarterly Journal of Academic, Intellectual and Career Pursuit from insukia College. e believe not on the Bondage of knowledge, But in Its Freedom. Attached Message From: Sanjib Baruah <bar...@bard.edu> To: assam <assam@assamnet.org> Subject: [Assam] LC Jain, Assam and Mega Dams Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:33:16 -0500 (EST) Assam Tribune, February 5th 2012. ttp://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/epaper.asp?id=feb0512/Page6 .C Jain, Assam and mega dams Dr. Sanjib Baruah There are often references to the World Commission on Dams [WCD] and its 2001 eport Dams and Development in the discussions on Lower Subansiri and the other ydropower dams in Arunachal Pradesh. But one rarely hears of one of the eport’s key authors -- the Commission’s Vice Chair, Gandhian activist and conomist the late L. C Jain. ain who passed away in November 2010 was once India’s High Commissioner to outh Africa and a former member of the Planning Commission. hat makes the absence of any significant reference to Jain surprising in this ontext is that Jain was a well-known friend and well-wisher of Assam and ortheast India. Prior to joining the WCD he chaired the Indian Planning ommission’s committee on development options for Assam for putting into effect lause 7 of the Assam Accord. Indeed in his remembrance essay on Jain published n this newspaper, a retired senior civil servant from the region and former ourism Secretary M. P. Bezbaruah calls Jain a “true friend and crusader for he Northeast” known for “his personal advocacy of NE development as one arm to ight the divisive violence.” he WCD was established jointly by the World Bank and the World Conservation nion (IUCN) in 1997 in response to the controversies over large dams that were aging in many parts of the world. As a major funder of dam building projects, he World Bank was at that time embroiled in a number of those controversies. he WCD’s mandate was to “review the development effectiveness of large dams and ssess alternatives for water resources and energy development” and to “develop nternationally acceptable criteria, guidelines and standards for the planning, esign, appraisal, construction, operation, monitoring and decommissioning of ams.” It is a matter of remarkable good fortune that a person who had Northeast ndia’s best interest in mind and a person who was intimately familiar with the evelopmental challenges of Northeast India’s was a key figure in the WCD. One an venture to guess that Jain’s knowledge of Northeast India had indirectly ound a place in its deliberations. As a result Dams and Development has perhaps ore relevance to our region than any such global document. The 12-member WCD with South Africa´s Water Resources Minister Kader Asmal as hair and L.C. Jain as Vice-Chair was designed as what is sometimes called a multi-stakeholder process,” that is it tried to include individuals who are representative of the diversity of perspectives" on the question – that is ndustry representatives and large dam advocates, as well as their opponents. he Commission had the support of a full-time professional Secretariat, a 8-member advisory Forum, and numerous experts from a variety of academic isciplines. It built a comprehensive knowledge base of large dams and it losely examined many dam projects in different parts of the world and consulted xtensively with people involved in those projects and those affected by them. The WCD’s report Dams and Development launched in 2000 by Nelson Mandela ecognizes that “dams have made an important and significant contribution to uman development, and the benefits derived from them have been considerable.” owever, it concludes that “in too many cases an unacceptable and often nnecessary price has been paid to secure those benefits.” In its view, otwithstanding significant gains from such projects--for instance in terms of he production of hydropower--a very high social cost have been extracted ecause many dam building projects had failed to recognize the complex nature of ivers and river ecosystems. For instance, the dramatic changes to “rivers, atersheds and aquatic ecosystems” and their adverse impact on “downstream ivelihoods” have been inadequately understood and as a result, thousands who epend on river ecosystems have been impoverished because of losing their raditions sources of livelihood. To ensure that future dam building projects do not extract such a heavy social ost, the WCD’s report proposes a policy framework that decisively breaks away rom the idea that decisions on dams are primarily the domain of technical and conomic experts. Consistent with Jain’s bottom-up and participatory view of evelopment, the WCD’s report emphasizes the need to ensure that the affected eople have a chance to make “informed choices” and that they should be active arties in negotiations and not just passive victims or beneficiaries. Dams and evelopment even recommends that dam building decisions should be made only with he “free, prior and informed consent” of the people affected by dams and that heir acceptance of such projects be “demonstrable.” It will not be hard for anyone familiar with Jain’s work to see the impact of is thinking in Dams and Development. As a Gandhian, Jain did not like entralisation of power. Despite being a member of the Planning Commission imself, Jain has gone on record to say that in “more than 60 years after ndependence, centralised planning had not made a dent on poverty.” He omplained about power in India being “concentrated in the Bhawans of New Delhi: ojana Bhawan, Rail Bhawan, Udyog Bhawan, Krishi Bhawan,” adding that “we have orgotten to build the Janata Bhawan.” Jain even advocated the dissolution of ndia's Water Resources Ministry and the empowerment of local bodies “to embark n a massive rainwater harvesting program” instead. Jain received the agsaysay Award for “his informed and selfless commitment to attack India’s overty at the grassroots level.” We in Assam got a sense of Jain’s faith in participatory development in the eport on Clause Seven of the Assam Accord. "Our entire thinking,” said the eport’s introduction, “has been influenced by one major factor: a fairly well nformed and fervent demand for development for the people at large – students, olitical parties, women’s groups, voluntary organisations, economists, inisters, administrators, entrepreneurs – with whom we had the privilege of nteracting. This magnitude of popular awareness and interest in development is rare social force. Constructively used, it can be the most precious capital or the development of Assam." That officials in NHPC or the Power or the Water Resources Ministry would find CD’s proposals on how to go about making decisions on building dams nacceptable is not surprising. Dams and Development has been criticized by any traditional dam-building experts and enthusiasts of mega hydropower rojects. Both India and China, the two countries that have emerged as the orld’s most prolific dam builders in the 21st century, have rejected the eport’s recommendations. India’s official critique of the report charges that the WCD’s report had made a dam decision subject to veto power of the local people settled on the river anks.” Rather than privileging the preferences of people living in the river alleys or those directly impacted by dams, it suggests that “people who are to enefit from a project are also to be considered as stakeholder." The writer is Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, New York. Attached Message From: Bhuban Baruah <bbar...@aol.com> To: assam@assamnet.org Cc: .friendsofassa...@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Assam] [assam] Human Rights Watch Notes Abuses By SecurityForces Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 01:11:41 -0500 (EST) ear Friends: Today's India Ink, New Work Times (06 02 2012) has only one new entry: Human ights Watch Notes Abuses By Security Forces. he rest are repeats.(My view: Kashmir is a cancer in Indian politics and overnment. I have no answer to the wider issue of Kashmir's separation from ndia. But there is no lack of ble politicians and administrators in a vast country like India. And there is he Parliament.). -bhuban _______________________________________________ ssam mailing list s...@assamnet.org ttp://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
