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>Now all of a sudden you want accountability from both GoA and GoI. I am
glad to see that at least *you* are changing your >tune--that GoI might have
some responsibility here.
Chandan:
This is the problem when people try to make
point.
We mis communicate.
You are trying to make the oint that the system is
wrong and GOI should be responsible.
I am trying to make the point that not only GOI but
GOA and people of Assam need accountability.
I am not changing my tone.
Only thing you never had the time to listen to my
tone (or tune).
My tune is people of Assam need to wake up and be
courageous.
We should avoid all side issues which create
confusion. No body is shielding GOI.
Rajen
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:27
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Re: Credibility Of
MoWR!!!
Rajen:
You and Ram and other good Indians have been doing a fabulous job of
shielding the GoI; the entity that holds the powers, that has usurped the
resources and is the entity that is responsible for establishing and
maintaining the institutions of democracy that functioning societies depend
upon, to make sure that their elected governments are doing their job; from
being criticized or blamed for its inability to live up to its
responsibilities.
Now all of a sudden you want accountability from both GoA and GoI. I am
glad to see that at least *you* are changing your tune--that GoI might have
some responsibility here. Not that I do not hold GoA respnsible, but I believe
in going after the 'haati-swr' before I go after the 'bengena-swr'. I am not
one to suck-up and piss down, if you hadn't noticed all these years in Assam
Net. I might join you , should you be able to articulate a halfway coherent
means for achieving that. For what I have seen and read all these months and
years in Assam Net, all you guys have proposed is railing about how wrong I am
to point out GoI's dereliction of its duties. Too bad you all have gotten so
used to looking thru self-imposed blinders, that you are terrified of looking
at the real world. And it took Dinesh's views, a non-Assamese's version
of events, put you in the defensive.
But if you can demonstrate, unequivocally, that you are willing to take
your blinders off and look at issues for what they are, you can count me in on
your side. But I am not one who believes in a make-believe world, like you all
have demonstrated, time and again, that you are beholden to.
Sorry I had to say it like it is.I know it sounds harsh. But comes a time
one has to say it like it is.
Take care.
c
At 10:53 AM -0600 3/3/05, Barua25 wrote:
Chandan:
I see Chandan
Mahanta, a NRA, shouting in the net and trying to make GOI
accountable.
What we need is the
people of Assam to hold both GOA and GOI accountable for their lapses and
not to let them go.
That is what Ram
and I have been shouting for in the net.
Are you willing to
join us in trying to help people of Assam do that?
That is why I asked
you in my last mail, what point you are trying to make by blaming the
system.
We have 2
options.
We can shout and
try to make point
or
We can try to help
people of Assam.
I am for the
later.
Rajen
----- Original Message -----
From: Chan
Mahanta
To: [email protected]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; D K Mishra
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:26 AM
Subject: [Assam] Re: Credibility Of MoWR!!!
For those who might be interested in holding their governments
accountable.
cm
At 12:14 AM +0600 3/3/05, D K Mishra wrote:
The data about irigation in
different states , as provided by MoWR are
fake and misleading. I can
say this on the authority of data supplied by
WRD of Govt. of Bihar.
The annual reports of GoB suggets that,
Major
irrigation
projects in the state (with command areas in excess of
10,000
hectares) include the Kosi and Gandak in North Bihar, and the
Sone canal
network in South Bihar. There are a number of medium-sized
schemes,
defined as those with commands between 2,000 and 10,000
hectares, and
hundreds of minor irrigation projects. However, as of
2003, irrigation
potential (area connected to the irrigation network)
was only 2.8
million hectares and the area actually receiving water
from the networks
was limited to 1.6 million
hectares.
Scrutiny of records show that
both irrigation
potential and actual irrigation (area receiving water)
increased in
the state until 1990 when it attained its peak of 2.148
million
hectares after which actual irrigation saw a steady decline even
as
potential irrigation continued to rise. Between 1990 and 2000
(when
the state was bifurcated into Bihar and Jharkhand), there was
additional
potential irrigation of 113,000 hectares but actual
irrigation fell by
653,000 hectares. The area irrigated by surface
networks has stabilized
around 1.6 million hectares for the past ten
years. Considering that
404,000 hectares was under irrigation in
Bihar at the time of
Independence in August 1947, the increase in
actual irrigation of 1.2
million acres over the past 56 years is not
a noteworthy achievement. At
that rate of average
growth of
actual irrigation, it will take about
230 years to achieve the
irrigation targets and if we only consider the
growth rate in the
past 15 years of misrule in Bihar, the targets would
never ever be
achieved since the growth has been negative. One can only
extrapolate
as to when the irrigation department of the state would
cease to
function.
According to the water resources department
(Minor
Irrigation), irrigation potential of 222,000 hectares had been
created
by 2000 of which 84,800 hectares is through surface
irrigation schemes
and 132,200 hectares is by lift irrigation and
energized rural pump
sets. However, reports indicate that the surface
irrigation schemes have
not operated at more than 60 per cent
efficiency while the lift
irrigation schemes operate at a maximum
efficiency of 10 per cent.
Ageing machines, erratic electricity
supply, incompetent management and
indifference of users are stated
to be the causes of underutilization of
these
facilities.
There were a total of 2,316 Lift
Irrigation
Schemes in the state of which 679 are defunct because
of electrical
problems, 104 do not function because of mechanical
problems, and 826
schemes suffer from a combination of both these
defects. Another 221
schemes have fallen into disuse because of the
shifting of the river
course away from the sump well or due to
sand-casting (intake covered by
sand). Thus, only 482 schemes, or
less that 21 per cent are
operational.
There are 5,558 State
Tube Wells (STW) in the state with
a command area of 307,000
hectares. Of these, only 5,122 have received
electrical power. In the
case of STWs, too, the operation record is poor
- 2,886 sets are
inoperative because of electrical faults, 85 because of
mechanical
trouble, and 302 because of defects in the power
supply
transformers. As a result, according to the annual report of
the Minor
Irrigation Dept, against a potential of 112,000 hectares,
State Tube
Wells irrigated only 19,468 hectares of land in
1999-2000.
Bihar (now
Jharkhand) Hill Area Lift Irrigation
Corporation (JHALCO) established in
1975 under Tribal Sub-Plan
commissioned 394 Lift Irrigation Schemes in
the tribal areas of
Jharkhand. According to reports, 284 of
these
schemes are no longer functioning. Not surprisingly, if
the rains are
delayed by only a week the state faces
drought.
Actually, both the
data, whether it is given by Delhi
or by Patna are fake if the farmers
are to be believed. They do not
trust the irrigation establishment and
most of agriculture is based
on their own enerprize. The Irrigation
Department claims all the
development to its credit.
I am sure, the
situation in other
states too, may not be as rosy as presented to be.
There is a need to
strengthen the counter-research to blast the bogus
claims made by the
irrigation bureucracy.
Dinesh Mishra
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