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"Bhukute koltw nopoke."
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Bhukute kol-thwka nopoke.
Is 'bhuku' also a Bengali word or only Assamese.?
Just curious.
Barua
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:56
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Re: Credibility Of
MoWR!!!
Gentlemen,
Tempers are flaring again. Keep your cool.
The following shows some of the important things that happened in USA
from 1776 to 1850, a span of 75 years. If you want to read the details , go to
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/aj7/speeches/ajson4.htm.
Read the state of the nation speeches to take a peek at USA of those
years.
India has been independent for 58 years. We have to make corrections for
the globalization that has taken place when you compare USA of 1776 to India
of 1947. I would've liked to but couldn't find a similar list for India
in the last 60 years.
Nation building and prosperity of a nation happen at a rather slow pace.
"Bhukute koltw nopoke."
Dilip Deka
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- Thomas
Paine, Common Sense 1776
- Charles
Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 1776
- The
Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
- Jefferson's
draft of the Declaration of Independence
- The
Final Text of the Declaration of Independence, July 4 1776
- Jefferson's
notes on Slavery
- Adam Smith, From The Wealth of Nations, 1776
- Of
Colonies
- Albigence Waldo
- From the diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777
- Draft
for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, by Jefferson 1779
- Thomas
Paine, The American Crisis, 1780-1783
- The
Articles of Confederation, 1781
- From the
diary of Ebenezer Denny, 1781 describing the surrender of Cornwallis at
Yorktown
- Letter
of Samuell Searls - May 12, 1782
- Paris
Peace Treaty, 1783
- Treaty
with the Six Nations, Fort Stanwix, October 22, 1784
- James
Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance -1785
- The
Annapolis Convention, 1786
- The
Complete Federalist Papers
- The
Constitutional Convention debates and the Anti-Federalist Papers
- The
USA Constitution
- The
letter presenting the Constitution
- Treaty
with the Six Nations, Fort Hamar, January 9, 1789
- Madison
speech proposing the Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789
- Bill
of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution
- Thomas
Paine - The Rights of Man (1791-1792)
- Proclamation
of Neutrality, 1793
- The Jay
Treaty, 1794
- Thomas
Paine, The Age of Reason - 1794
- The
Greenville Treaty with a number of Indian Tribes, 1795
- The
Northwest Ordinance, july 13, 1787
- The
Canandaigua Treaty of 1794
- Treaty
between the United States and the Oneida, Tuscorora and Stockbridge Indians
living in the country of the Oneidas 1794
- Virginia
Resolution - 1798
- Kentucky
Resolution - 1799
- George
Washington
- On
recruiting and maintaining an army, 1776 (Letter to John Hancock)
- First
inaugural address, 1789
- Second
inaugural address, 1793
- Farewell
Address : 1796
- Annual
Message,1790-01-08
- Annual
Message, 1790-12-08
- Annual
Message,1791-10-25
- Annual
Message,1792-11-06
- Annual
Message, 1793-12-03
- Annual
Message, 1794-11-19
- Annual
Message, 1795-12-08
- Annual
Message, 1796-12-07
- The
Sedition Act of 1798
- John Adams
- Inaugural
address, 1797
-
- Thomas
Jefferson
- First
inaugural address, 1801
- James Madison
- First
inaugural address,1809
- James Monroe
- First
inaugural address, 1817
- Cases of John
Marshall
- Marbury
v. Madison (1803)
-
- Treaty
made at Buffalo Creek in the State of New York, January 15, 1838 with the
representatives of the Nations of New York Indians
- John Q. Adams
- Inaugural
address,1825
- Andrew Jackson
- First
inaugural address, 1829
- The
Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
- William
Barret Travis: Letter from the commandancy of the Alamo, 1836
- Martin van
Buren's Inaugural
address, 1837
- William H.
Harrison's Inaugural
address, 1841
- James K.
Polk's Inaugural
address, 1845
- The
Seneca Falls Declaration 1848
- Zachary
Taylor's Inaugural
address, 1849
- Benjamin
Drew, The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada Related by
Themselves
- Excerpts from
"The Fugitive Slave Act" 1850
- From the
Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895
- The
opinions of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case
Chan
Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Anjan:
> If we are given the franchise to elect our legislators, why are we
content to >sit back and watch the non-performance of the elected rather
than take positive >steps to correct our initial mistakes (of electing
the wrong people).
*** I know you are younger than me, but still, you have seen govts.
come and govts. go in Assam and in India. Question is what positive changes
have you seen with the turnovers?
You tell me and I will shut the heck up :-).
All of you good folks, who speak glowingly of and never forget to
demonstrate to the world your fealty to and admiration of democracy as
manifested by 'elekshuns'. That is fine to show what good folks you are.No
doubt you are a few cuts above the not-so-good folks of Assam. But that is
not the point. I am not questioning your goodness. Question is how on earth
do the not-so-good folks folks of Assam who elect the non-performers to
govern them,accountable? And how on earth do the
better-than-the-Assam-folks, Indians hold their central govts.
accountable?
You guys show me something halfway realistic, I will join you and Rajen
and Ram
and all the other Indians and sing your praises. But I take a very dim
view of people who can't see what sits on their faces :-).
Take care,
c
At 8:58 AM +0800 3/4/05, Anjan K. Nath wrote:
Rajen,
How very true. If we are given the
franchise to elect our legislators, why are we content to sit back and
watch the non-performance of the elected rather than take positive steps
to correct our initial mistakes (of electing the wrong people).
As I have said a few times too, we should
try and help our people and NOT simply be arm-chair
critics.
How would you like to join the
North-East-India forum. We have a lot more intersting and positive
discussions going on. Your contributions
would definitely help.
Anjan
----- Original Message -----
From: Barua25
To: [email protected] ; Chan Mahanta
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; D K Mishra
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Re: Credibility Of
MoWR!!!
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 year! s 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 tota! l 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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