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At a time when the entire worldis fighting the COVID19 pandemic andcountries are declaring lockdowns across the world, in a remote corner ofIndia, the entire North East is grappling with a natural gas leak in Assam andthe annual epidemic of the region the floods and landslides.
The Coronavirus pandemic hasclaimed 109 lives till date as per a dashboard specifically dedicated to theCoronavirus pandemic in various platforms. But, like every year since afterindependence, this year too the floods have claimed more than 110 lives both humanas well as animal lives in just over a month. Nearly 34 lakh people have beendisplaced from their homes and 60 lakh people affected by the floods in 34 outof 35 districts of Assam alone against only 18 lakh confirmed Corona casesacross the nation. If we add the numbers from Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram,Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura, this is definitely a huge pandemic for the nation. Sadly, the floods happen every year and there is no dashboardto show these numbers. In fact, these figures that I am quoting are a couple ofdays old as opposed to the live tracking of the COVID deaths in the state and acrossthe country.
This situation has not changed inover 70 years of independence and it is not even frontline news for the media.The people here start from scratch every year, build a home in 10 months justto be brought back to the streets or refugee camps once again. The sad realityis that these poor people are not even shifted to refugee camps. They set upcamps on the side of the roads near their homes at their own cost with whateverthey can salvage from the floods without even thinking of things like socialdistancing, mask and sanitization. I write this from what I have seen myself afew days back when I was travelling through a place ravaged by floods.
This is in stark comparison tothe Govt. funds that are received to set up specific quarantine centres invarious places, including 5 star hotels in the region and funds for thetreatment of each and every Corona patient. What is even more sad is that even thenews of Bollywood Starts contracting COVID and what they eat for breakfast during quarantineis more newsworthy than the lives of the 110 flood deaths
Various hastags for corona hasbeen created for solidarity, corona warriors have been celebrated with greatpomp and show, any corona warrior who has lost their life in line of duty havebeen compensated by various organizations making an exception to their ownpolicies. The Govt. has rolled out free LPG cylinders to the PM Ujjwala Yojna beneficiariestoo due to Corona.
I write about these things with aheavy heart because in the North East, Corona has come for the first time, butthe floods come every year no matter what, taking hundreds of lives in its wakeand the situation has become worse every year. Most of the roads in the plainsare flooded and roads in the hills have been washed away. Trains are gettingcancelled.I heard someone talking over thephone one day and the person on the other side was saying, Brother, Welcome tothe Mainland. He was travelling somewhere to North India. This is the reality of what the "Mainland" thinks about us.
Sadly, we were the only state that was not ruled by the Mughals as they couldn't invade our lands despite repeated attempts. We are the state with the highest GDP post independence. We are the state which gives the entire world it's tea, it's oil, its minerals and its natural beauty.
A few years back, I heard things were going to be better. I hope the people in the North East see those good days soon.
To leave you with some food for thought, I think some inspired intervention and proper planning can turn the sorrow of these lands into power for the rest of the country by harvesting the immense hydroelectric potential of the region, especially during the floods. This way everyone stands to gain.
I was crazy for you,
Those were the good days,
Then our ship hit the rocks,
Our smooth sail had come to sway.
Shipwrecked and alone,
Lonely on this island of love,
Came sailing, a boat of hope,
But it was to be you or me.
I feigned happiness,
As darkness came fast,
I knew i had to do the best for you,
I knew you would never let me.
Up to the highest cliff i went,
Took the plunge into the abyss,
Oh! how do I tell you
How hard it was to smash my heart to pieces.
But I'm always the selfish one,
I'm the one who fled,
God this darkness is killing me,
Shows you cant escape this darkness,even in death,
I'm dead, but I still am claustrophobic...No comments: HAPPY NEW YEAR
There was a blast in the sky,
Which lit up the small childs eye,Hed heard people all around say It was a happy New Years day.
A new day, which brings new hope, New dreams, a new beginning it was,Yesterdays gone, tomorrow is yet to come, Todays a gift, let whats bygone be bygone.
But the child thought to himself, Is this really what the New Year brings?Death and destruction is all it sings,Taking with it the life that bore him?
The cemented sidewalk hurt his back,His burns oozing blood his wounds turningblack,The bed of grass mattress he longed for inpain, He wanted to be back home again.
His family was slain by three horrendous men,Sleeping as they lay prostrate forever again,All as this petrified child watched aghast,Sobbing inconsolably said he, A Happy New year to me!!!A Happy New year to me!!!No comments: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 EFFECT OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN ON THE INDIAN ECONOMYWhen Uncle Sam sneezes, the world catches a cold
Starting with the sub-prime crisis in the United States in 2008 and recently with the Greek crisis dominating the global economic scenario, the world economy is in turmoil. During the housing bubble burst, India looked insulated from these events primarily because India is a savings driven economy. But as the US recession is spreading to other parts of the world with most of the euro-zone in crisis and with the worlds most powerful economy Germany registering a growth rate of just 0.1 per cent in the second quarter, India also looks to be in trouble.
Though completely out of line and even irresponsible, the first-in-history downgrade of US Treasury bonds by Standard and Poor's did reflect the mood in the market. Though the assessment was based on wrong numbers, the fact that the debt of world's most powerful country that was home to its reserve currency was even considered to be of suspect quality was telling.
Today, India is much more integrated with the world economy through both the current and capital accounts. The most immediate effect of this global financial crisis on India is an out flow of foreign institutional investment (FII) from the equity market. This withdrawal by the FIIs led to a steep depreciation of the rupee. The banking and non-banking financial institutions have been suffering losses. The recession generated by the financial crisis in USA and other developed economies have adversely affected Indias exports of software and IT services. What is more of an issue is the fate of the $274 billion of foreign currency assets held by India. While $127 billion of these are held as deposits with central banks, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and the IMF, as much as $142.1 billion is invested in securities, consisting largely of government securities. With the uncertainty surrounding the value and soundness of public debt, the danger of the erosion of the value of those assets is now significant.No comments: Friday, September 17, 2010 Trials and Tribulations - IIII was surprised last summer, when last summer I met a very well bred young man of around 35 years of age, who later I learnt was an ex- ULFA member. He was from a formidable background, and was financially strong too. But he was not properly educated, so he used to roam about listlessly looking for a job. Eventually, on not finding a job, he joined the ULFA as he had no other option in hand. Luckily he realised his mistake on time, quit the outfit and is now a prospering businessman. If such well-fixed people can take such disastrous decisions, it is very easy for the impoverished to make such mistakes.
I have hardly seen a handful of Assamese businessmen doing well in Assam. Mostly its either Marwaris or Biharis (and I have nothing against them) doing good business in Assam. Why is this so? Maybe the Assamese people do not have acute business acumen like the Gujratis or Marwaris, but they are not disastrous businessmen. But surprisingly, they dont succeed. This is because as soon as an Assamese person starts a business, he has to start bribing first the politicians, then the ULFA and the SULFA people who keep on pressurising him that they will shut him down if he refuses to pay them a token sum, then comes various formalities to be fulfilled and lastly his investment. So, by the time he is fully operational, he is broke, thus forcing him to shut down. Surprisingly, these same politicians do not accept bribes from a non- Assamese businessman and the same ULFA and SULFA people do not take a token sum from the non-Assamese, and thus they can prosper much more than an Assamese businessman can. Moreover the Assamese people are very kind hearted and meek. So they easily give in if they are suppressed by their counterparts in business. Neither do they account for the profits and losses they are sustaining and eventually end up closing down the business or running an old battered business in a vile state.
An increasing threat to the Assamese community nowadays is infiltration from the neighbouring country. The Border Security Forces let these migrants into the country at `100-200 per person and the government is also acting blind to these activities. Are the votes of these people so important so important to the government? If even 80% of the population went out to vote, will these cross country votes mean anything to the government. It would not have- but now it would. Immigration across the border has become a serious issue for the Assamese people. Every year more and more immigrants are migrating into India in search of jobs and riches. These people initially start working as lowly labourers and then slowly settle down here. They start voting and after that become proper Indian citizens. There have been many isolated incidents in various parts of the northeast whence the people from a village are murdered overnight by a ruck of such immigrants and their properties taken oven. Now, the count of such people has reached such alarming numbers that after a few years, even the government wont be able to contain the situation. North- East is more of a breeding ground for these people and they are spreading to other huge cities as beggars. But just because the government can buy a few votes at `100 apiece, they havent bothered to interrupt this ominous process. The onus is on the government to do something about it, otherwise in a few years, the indigenous populations of these regions will disappear.
Another surprising thing that I have noticed is that none of the vegetables we eat in Assam have been grown in Assam. Neither are fishes fresh but imported from places like Andhra. A close relative of mine once wanted start his own fishing business. So he dug up ponds and started rearing fishes from rivers in these ponds. And every time he spent thousands doing this, all of his ponds were poisoned. Similar is the case with many local farmers who try to farm vegetables and fail and eventually give up ending up wording as daily wage labourers. Not only this, the prices of commodities are rising and have shot over the roof. But every day in Jorhat alone, due to an unavailability of a cold-storage, vegetables worth crores of rupees are thrown away as they get spoilt. Every rupee rise in price affects the expenditure of a poor family. Here the rates have tripled since the recession started and the government has not taken any initiative to figure out what to do.
Why was the coach, I travelled in, in such a dilapidated state? Why are none of the heads of any of the oil companies from the North-east? Why are people losing businesses and homes everyday to people from other places? Why are the people still quiet over the atrocities the face every day? Why havent the people spoken out against the ridiculous rates of unemployment prevalent here?
It is because people here have stopped complaining and have stopped trying to alter their future. They have become mere puppets .They are meek and the voices of people around them are drowning them in the sea of voices. Even if they try and do something good, they are pulled down by their companions and they never try again to stand up and get back to the top. If the government at this point raises the price of fuel to a ridiculous `350/l, or maybe the price of pulses shoot up to `150/kg, well, we can expect the people to express great discontentment and yet purchase the same thing that very day. Why this lacklustre attitude on the part of the people? Initially it started with the division of one state into seven by the centre the famous British policy then came the suppression of the region, and next we can easily expect the wiping out of the whole region at this rate. The more the government suppresses, the more the people assume a prostrated position. Lazy as they are, the people the people just need an excuse for not working .One day people hear rumours of an Assam Bandh, the next day is a complete shutdown. How will the economy sustain if every alternate day is a holiday? How will the region progress if its own people who promised to free the region from the shackles of slavery become the shackles themselves? How will we live if we are not even counted amongst the population? Cowering down is not the solution to this problem. Its time the people realize their potential and come out of their shells of slumber. It is time to give the government a jolt that even we are a part of this very country. Its time to say were here at last to receive all that we are due. Give us the POWER.No comments: Friday, September 3, 2010 Trials and Tribulations- IIAfter much ex cogitation, I have deduced that it is not possible to clap with just one hand. If the government repeatedly ignores this place, well, the people have a role to play. A very popular adage goes that Democracy is a government of the people, for the people, by the people.
Oil reserves, coal reserves, abundant water, arable land, good rainfall, good climate, breathtakingly beautiful places, ideal working condition and surplus of many other assets are at our disposal. Yet we are among the most backward of the states. Let us talk about Oil reserves. More than 1/4th of Indias oil needs is catered to by supply from the North-east. Various oil and natural gas companies have set base in Assam ONGC, BPCL, IOCL, OIL, NRL just to name a few. Yet surprisingly none of these companies are headed by a person from this region. Ive lived in the capital, Ive been to the south, and Ive met people from nearly all states of India by now. But never have I found the level of intelligence at par with what prevails in the north-east. Then where are these young and talented people disappearing to? All the other states are galloping towards development at a fervent rate and we are dawdling behind. And the most surprising fact is that the development of a state depends on the oil, power and production. And we are capable to produce all of that.
Coal is another very important resource that is available in the north-east. Though not of the best quality, it can be used for many development purposes. Yet all of this coal is mined and exported to other states for use in power plants. The North-eastern region is one of the most power deficient regions of the country and has just a couple of thermal power plants.
Just a few weeks ago, there was an article in one of Indias leading dailies and there was talk of a paradigm shift of energy to renewable sources and other options available. The most stressed upon energy resource was not oil, not solar but Shale gas and you can obviously guess where we can find it. Yes, again the answer is ASSAM. Shale gas is a very useful source of energy and has immense potential in the future after all the oil in the world has depleted. This is an interesting future prospect and the government should contemplate this issue.
The mighty Brahmaputra that flows right across the heart of Assam has one of the strongest currents. Yet no effort has been made to make use of that current in power production. If power is efficiently generated from the fast currents of the Brahmaputra, all of north-easts power squabble between the states will be over. The Chinese are thinking to do the same thing and all the Indian government is doing to prevent this is hurl shoes at each other in the parliament, walk about openly holding a wad of notes and abuse each other trying to bring each other down. Not only that, the Brahmaputra plain is one of the most fertile regions in the world. If this region would have been some other state like UP or Bihar, it would have become the agricultural hub of the country. And now the scenario is entirely different. Farmers here are struggling because of imported vegetables from dry places like UP, Bihar, Andhra, Punjab and Haryana where farmers struggle every year due to a deficit of rainfall. The Assamese farmers hardly produce crops enough to sustain their own family, and for the rest of the year, work as labourers doing petty jobs in rich neighbourhoods at a meagre amount. They have large acres of inherited land which the government is confiscating with the excuse of building roads and buying them out at trivial prices. Not only that, the are continuously losing land, and many even lost their families, to the immigrants from Bangladesh who come in herds and drive them out of their own land. There has hardly been an effort on the governments parts to stem this illegal immigration as this helps them to increase their vote bank every year. Scores of local farmers are losing fortunes, have been destroyed, and many killed in an effort to make a living out of farming. And yet the government is unmoved. What is most appalling is that? Will filling their own pockets with truckloads of money help their future generations to sustain themselves? Have they never realised the fact that food, shelter and clothing is the basic necessity of all human beings and when nobody knows how to do this, even seas full of money wont help.
It is high time the government realises that the power hierarchy atop which they are sitting starts from the poor people and the farmers who toil day and night to grow the eatables which these politicians very conveniently eat to their full and are nearing everyday to the point after which they will burst if they eat. They waste crores of rupees on piffling campaigns, waste truckloads of food every day, waste many clothes every day, yet do nothing for the very people who work like donkeys to fulfill their needs. These people for many days of the year go hungry to bed with their small kids, who, even before they know how to speak start begging for their living? Is it even sane to be so blind to the sufferings of these people? Growing huge cities are not a benchmark of what a government has achieved, because these huge malls can be afforded by those people who already have stashed loads of money in their accounts.
An ideal example is Kerala. In Kerala we will not find huge cities, neither will we find despicable slums. All the people here have more or less an equal standard of living. Neither are the people at the brink of destitution nor are they filthily rich. Each family has enough so that they can at least afford to buy food, clothing and shelter. Similar is the case with Tamil Nadu.
Why is there such widespread corruption in the north-east? Why are there not enough righteous people who would lead the way so that at least the community can sustain itself? Why are the Assamese farmers selling their land to support their family? Why are more and more Assamese youths joining hands with the ULFA forces? Why is there such unemployment that young guns even consider joining these terrorist outfits?No comments: Thursday, August 26, 2010 Trials and Tribulations- IWithin a week of arriving in my college I received two appellations Chinki and Chang. Chang was the more popularly used sobriquet. Though I was called Chang more out of affection than regional bias another chum of mine was nicknamed Chinki owing solely to his looks. I have wanted to pour my heart out on the polemic issue of why the North East has been in a state of shambles for a long time now and why it has a very bleak future ahead.
I am not what most people would expect me to be a vernal twenty year old. I say this because in this very short span of twenty years, I have had the great fortune of travelling to a great many places in India, courtesy, my amicable parents. And I have accrued a great deal to my small bag of experience. So, today I would like to let my heart speak. This will be a series of posts which I would like to write out in a few parts.
Just this summer I was travelling home from Chennai, and I had my tickets booked in the second tier AC compartment. This boogie as explained to me later by one of the chief mechanics of the railways was running since 1970. And the service life of one bogie was supposed to be 25 years at the most. I was really elated as I was about to travel in an elite class for the first time alone. But it was not meant to be. The AC in the bogie could not sustain that single nights journey. Let alone the three nights we were supposed to travel in it. So, the second morning, as we reached Vishakhapatnam, a venerable group of elderly men in the next compartment asked me to accompany them to lodge a complaint with the station master of our quandary. They were two Telegu families travelling to West Bengal with their family. They passed on their message to anybody they chanced upon, especially all men.
So, early in the morning as we reached our destination, we went to the nearest railway officer to remonstrate them of our predicament. But all our pleas fell on deaf ears. To add salt to injury, the train left the station even before we could bring the station master to light of our situation. So, we boarded the train and started pulling the chain. But, guess what? There were only four of us doing this work for 30 people in our compartment. And barring me, all the rest were not from the north-east. And I was only a 40% NE guy as I had spent 95% of my last six years outside the region. The four of us tried very hard- I even found a guy my age and vilified him as to why he should join us, but to no avail. So, after the Telegu family debarked in West Bengal, I was the only one left behind all on my own. I tried for some time until this lone battle I was waging came to an abrupt end because of a great loss I was trying to cope with at that time. Surprisingly, all my comrades from the north-east continued with their journey without a quetch.
This was the day I empathized as to why North-East was in such a deplorable state.
The train boogie is a metaphor as to what the politicians in our country, over the years, have given the north east used things and recalling the ornate speeches before every election, it makes me abhor the political system. What did we do to deserve such disregard?
Let us deliberate as to why this region is in such a deplorable state. Is it only due to the ingemination of the government or is there more to the story? Why is terrorism so prevalent in this region and why are disputes eonian in this place? Why is infiltration perpetual in this place and why are the people still poor here? Why are Assamese led business disasters? Why is the region not flourishing the way it should have after literally every possible resource is present in the north east? And how is it possible that the only thing that the region excels in where it is the best in India is CORRUPTION?No comments: Older PostsHomeSubscribe to:Posts (Atom)Total PageviewsFollowersAbout MeSHEKHAR JYOTI DUTTAView my complete profileBlog Archive 2020(1) August(1)!--[if gte mso 9] ![endif]--!--[if gte ms... 2015(2) January(2) 2012(1) January(1) 2010(4) September(2) August(2)
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