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Chandan:
If we may ask you back, what is your
solution?
Or none?
If 'None', then that itself calls for you to
shut up.
Because we are looking for solutions
here.
We all know the problems.
If you are telling the ppeople of Assam their
problems, you are not telling them anything new.
They all know their problems.
Rajen Barua, Houston
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:58
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Re: Credibility Of
MoWR!!!
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 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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