[asom] Assam ranks as 'most corrupt' State
Who prepared this report? :-) The latest India Corruption Study 2007 conducted jointly by Transparency International and Centre for Media Study and released by Vice President Hamid Ansari on Saturday is embarrassing news for Assam, where corruption level was described as ‘alarming’. Another attempt to make Assam state (a colony?) toe the line. :-) Dilip Deka - Original Message From: Dibya [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: assamonline@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 10:11:10 AM Subject: [asom] Assam ranks as 'most corrupt' State Time for Gogoi sir with cronies to settle at Bangladesh.. - Monday, June 30, 2008 Assam ranks as 'most corrupt' State NEW DELHI, June 29 – Assam has earned the dubious distinction of being the most corrupt State in the country, on the basis of corruption in 11 vital services. Corruption level was alarming in four other States, as well. The latest India Corruption Study 2007 conducted jointly by Transparency International and Centre for Media Study and released by Vice President Hamid Ansari on Saturday is embarrassing news for Assam, where corruption level was described as ‘alarming’. The four States, which follow Assam include Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. The grouping of States on corruption reflects position of States in the context of eleven services. The eleven services included ‘basic services’ like PDS, hospital service, school education, electricity and water supply services and ‘need -based services’, like land records, registration, housing service, forest, NREGS, banking service and police service (traffic and crime)). The study does not include operational irregularities in the system and even corruption that does not involve citizens directly.The study covered all 31 States and Union Territories and is focused on the poorest and rural areas. It included below the poverty line people (BPL) in both rural areas and urban slums.The level of corruption in all the 11services studied in Assam and Madhya Pradesh was alarming. In Delhi and West Bengal, for example, corruption level was moderate in most services surveyed. Among smaller States of the north-east, like Nagaland and Goa, corruption level was alarming, whereas in Meghalaya and Sikkim, it was very high. In Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur the level was high, while in Tripura and Mizoram it was found to be moderate. The total bribe amount involved in a year in BPL households availing the eleven services is estimated at Rs 8,830 crore. Based on the incidence of bribe paid by sample BPL households, an estimate is made for the total amount paid as bribe by BPL households in the country during the last one-year in the eleven services. School education (up to class XII and government schools) among the 11 services studied stands last in the ranking meaning the level of corruption is the lowest among all. While police service stood number one. The land records and registration and house and plot, which are specially tailored for BPL households, stand at two and three respectively in the rank. The level and extent of corruption in police service was high in all States, as if it is universal – but the ranks of other services show variations across the States. Given the nature of need-based services, which are monopolistic or involve asset creation or volume, these services ranked high on corruption as compared to basic services.Releasing the report, the Vice president said the report brings to light the negative impact of competitive politics on targeted schemes aimed at the poor. It has reported instances of BPL, SC/ST and other vulnerable households of being told by political activists of a linkage between benefits and electoral preferences. “This, to the extent it is true, amounts to political corruption in its damaging form since it undermines the very institutions of democracy at all levels. A national consensus at its avoidance is thus imperative,” he opined. - http://bigindians.blogspot.com/2008/06/assam-ranks-as-most-corrupt-state.html Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[asom] aseen mumaideo is no more...
Takes me back to my childhood days waiting eagerly to receive the copy of 'Xafura' every month, and more eagerly to read 'DamnPehar Doorbeen that used to be one of the first dishes on the plate to be gobbled up by me and my sister. Aseen Mumaideo managed to entertain and educate our entire generation of Moinas:) with his uncanny sense of humour! Once I remember a friend guessing during a debate about Aseen Mumaideo's identity that he must be Dr Bhaben Saikia himself! May his soul rest in peace! Diganta Saikia South Woodford London
[asom] Forced bandhs banned
Forced bandhs banned http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/10/06/stories/2006100600831100.htm The Supreme Court of India has banned bandhs, but political parties still organise them. It was almost a decade ago, in July 1997, that the Kerala High Court delivered a path-breaking verdict declaring forced bandhs illegal. People cannot be made to participate in bandhs under duress, the court had said. Organisers of bandh trample upon the right of the citizens protected by the Constitution, observed the court. In simple terms, the judiciary laid down the rule that political parties and trade unions have a right to protest, but the citizens have an equal right to not support their action, explains K.V.A. Iyer on www.harthal.com. The Kerala High Court has twice in a span of four years, delivered judgements curbing the right of trade unions and political parties to call for bandh. The Supreme Court in November 1997 in the Communist Party of India vs Bharatkumar and others upheld Kerala High Court's order making bandhs illegal. Kerala-watchers know how the bandh and hartal (strike) jinx has cost the State dearly in terms of lost investments in BPO, and unhealthy impact on health tourism. The Bombay High Court went one step further, when on July 23, 2004, it imposed a fine of Rs 20 lakh each on two political parties, viz. the BJP and the Shiv Sena, for organising a bandh in Mumbai on July 30, 2003, as a protest against bomb blasts in the city. The petitioners had claimed damages of Rs 50 crore on the basis of GDP (gross domestic product) loss to the city for one day of stoppage.. Another case that drew upon the strength of the apex court's ban on bandhs was that of the residents of the Gulberg Housing Society in Ahmedabad, in 2005. They claimed damages of Rs 64 crore for the loss of life and property sustained by family members during the Gujarat bandh called by three organisations, viz. the BJP, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). You may remember that the VHP called for the Gujarat bandh soon after the Godhra train incident of February 27, 2002. Bandh, as an issue, isn't closed. It may remain open, as long as citizens continue to take up the legal route and claim compensation for compulsory stoppages such as what happened on Wednesday in Karnataka.
[asom] Assam Crud
Please go ahead I am with you. BKPait Manager: ISOM 7886 Mr. Manas [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/30/2008 7:58 PM Dear Friends, Have we stopped our discussions in the forum for the issue? Let's take this issue honestltly. We can make it happen. Thank you, Manas
[asom] Ulfa ceasefire
ULFA leaders are not Ahoms. They come from a branch of Sutiyas, called 'Moran' and are by religion disciples of 'Dinjan sattra'- motoks. -manoj --- On Sun, 6/29/08, rabindeka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: rabindeka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [asom] Ulfa ceasefire To: assamonline@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008, 7:54 AM Some Journalists in Assam on karma chameleon :-') Rajeev Bhattacharyya wrote, The 28th battalion was responsible for killing of Hindi speaking people over the past few years and was active in Northern Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. But what's significant is that the proposal has come from Ulfa's 28th battalion, a group that has so far been waging an armed battle against the security forces in Assam. more - http://www.timesnow.tv/NewsDtls.aspx?NewsID=10597 --- By the way: It was Tarun Gogoi to claim immediately that the other group of native-Assamese leadership killed Bihari. Then media people on karma chameleon in all newspapers. I recall, U.S. Embassy in India that time offered to investigate it as they suspected something else. But Tarun Gogoi refused, and there were no professional investigation. Couple of weeks after the killings Assam Police submitted their annual budget (huge amount) for that year. And we know, Assam Police has the brutal history of innocent killing, perhaps as worst as historic Chaodang bahini. So can we tell whether Tarun Gogoi's Chaodang killed or Pradip Gogoi's? Here we clearly see the repulsive-mannered engagement between two groups of same native-Assamese - this community may have altered soft-genetic patterns by now. There might be other parties as well in killing Bihari. Historically native-Assamese adored Bihari calling them nuniya read hemkosh am not kidding :) First Burmese installed Ahom King was killed by a nuniya of King Mother. Have you noticed since Independence of India among all Chief Ministers currently Assam Chief Minister is the most powerful (in terms of number of portfolios at hand)? --- Question: So Mr Bhattacharyya how did you conclude that Ahom led ULFA group killed Bihari, but not by Ahom led Assam Police, or others? karma chameleon :-')