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Thanks for sending the news clip, Mahesh Da.
Somehow I missed it.
Way to go, Jukti. People like you always have
been making the region more confident, proud and also, knowledegeable.
Sincerely,
-- A. Sarangapani.
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Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 11:32
AM
Subject: [Assam] Today's Assam
Tribune
Guwahati, Sunday, November 9,
2003
�NE youths have
capacity to shine anywhere�
By Ajit
Patowary
GUWAHATI, Nov 8 � Assamese youths or for that matter, the
youths of the entire NE region, have the capability to shine even in the most
unfamiliar condition. The only thing they need is the conviction that they
could emerge as the leaders for the entire humanity, let alone their
compatriots in India in matters of professional or any entrepreneurial
ventures. On many occasions, this has been proved convincingly by the youths
of the region, be it in the battlefields or in the administrative or foreign
services, or in other areas where excellence is the key to
success.
A senior officer from the Union Department of Science
And Technology the other day described the people of the State as the injured
lions licking injuries. They will soon be on their feet roaring, he said. He
was commenting on the present situation in the State. For the perseverant ones
we have the story of Sri Jukti Kumar Kalita, the Vice President, Marketing
Strategy of the Merrill Lynch, New Jersey, U S A. The US company is one of the
leading private client groups in that country dealing mainly in shares
and bonds with an annual turnover worth around US Dollars 25 billion and a net
profit worth US Dollars around 3 billion in a year.
No there is
no scope for becoming sceptic. Sri Kalita started his education in an Assamese
medium school and even up to the middle level he studied in the Assamese
medium schools. For Sri Kalita, who is currently in the State on a
vacation, told this correspondent of Wednesday that he was initiated to the
world of learning at the Natun Bazar Nimna Buniyadi Vidyalaya, Nagaon. He then
studied in the Nagaon Boys� High School. From there he went to the Ramkrishna
Mission Vidyapeeth, Deogarh, Bihar (now in Jharkahand).
The
Assamese students are as intelligent as the students from other parts of India
are. Students from the colleges like Cotton College can be deemed to be as
competent as those from the renowned universities and colleges even from the
Western countries, he said. But, the problem lies in the fact that the youths
of the State and for that matter NE region, are not aware of the opportunities
available elsewhere in the country and abroad. No doubt, they are also
vulnerable to the affliction of homesickness in most of the cases, which
fetter them against venturing out of the State.
But, when out of
the State, these people perform in a manner, which cannot be fathomed sitting
here. The Assamese professionals in the USA enjoy incomes that are several
times that of the average Americans. Most of them are in salaried jobs and
only a handful are entrepreneurs or businessmen, Sri Kalita
said.
Several of the Assamese entrepreneurs started high-tech
companies in mid1990s and they are doing well even now. Some of them did very
well in late 1990s. But, right now, like many American entrepreneurs they are
struggling due to the recession in the USA. But the professional Assamese
people are doing well. Some of them, following the recession, lost their jobs
no doubt, but are re-employed now in a fruitful manner. The professional
Assamese community�s performance in the USA is in no way inferior to the other
professionals from the rest of India, Sri Kalita, a Ph D in marketing from the
Columbia University, New Jersey, said.
But he has some words of
caution for the aspiring youths from the region, who are dreaming professional
careers in computer sector in the USA. The difficult economic condition and
increased out sourcing may lead to, in the future, less opportunities for the
Indian graduates of computer science in that country.
However, it
should not adversely affect those who specialise in other areas of science and
technology, he said. Following the recession in the USA and adoption of
stricter immigration laws by the US Government, he said, the aspirant Assamese
professionals should now opt also for the countries like Japan, Korea,
Malaysia and the countries in the Middle East, which also offer opportunities
for the talents from the foreign countries.
Even for the
entrepreneurs of the State, good markets are available for their products in
the South Asian countries and Japan and Korea and also in the Middle East,
very much within the reach of the entrepreneurs of the State or the region,
Sri Kalita said. On the issue of India becoming an economic super power, he
said, its annual growth rate should shoot up to 10 per cent from the present
six per cent. For that we must develop the infrastructure � like roads,
electricity, railway network and the ports first of
all.
Simultaneously, we should also improve the judicial and
social systems�like, the patent law, right to property, quick and just
settlement of legal cases and security laws and preventive measures against
corruption, rights of women and measures for poverty alleviation, among
others, Sri Kalita said.
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