Good suggestion. To play the game one has to learn the rules of the game.
Dilip Deka
Guwahati, Tuesday, March 2, 2004
LETTERS
Sir,� The Assam government should immediately start a rigorous training programme for the engineers of both the departments of Irrigation and Water Resources to enable them to learn the modalities and criteria adopted by the Central government agencies for checking and clearing the development schemes submitted by these departments. These engineers should also be taught without delay how to prepare computerised schemes.
Training for the engineers in these two departments has become necessary in the interest of the State as it is found that taking advantage of even minor flaws, many engineers in the Central agencies like the CWC and WRD neglect schemes from these departments without considering their public importance and raise flimsy objections for delaying and not giving clearance to even crucial irrigation and flood control schemes.
It is not to say that our engineers in these two departments lack the technical competence for preparing schemes. In fact experience wise they are far more competent than the engineers of these central agencies.
Most central government engineers sitting in Delhi have no idea about how the rivers of Assam actually behave, how the NE terrain responds to the different types of natural onslaughts like heavy rain, flood and landslides, how the soil conditions change very frequently in the same course of river and how the whims of the mighty Brahmaputra every year shapes and reshapes courses of the tiny rivers in the basin. They have no first hand knowledge and experience of the highly unstable Assam alluvium and little knowledge of the difficulties of the very small weather window available for execution of the works in the region. And yet they can put unnecessary objections to proposals to delay even very crucial projects and our engineers can do nothing.
With compulsory training programme, our engineers will be able to prepare excellent project reports. Then they will be able to boldly face the Central authorities whenever any query is made. As a result Assam will get central money much more quickly. �Yours etc., A CONCERNED ENGINEER.
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