[Assam] Demands for Separate states in India

[Rajib Das]

Actually I would say this is indeed. 

The intent, will and ability to re-engineer anything -
including governments, companies, communities and
families - is ALL about the reallocation of resources.
 
> *** Is this some kind of an irrefutable or
> unchangeable natural law 
> :-)? What does RESOURCE have to do with the ability
> to re-engineer a 
> state's governance?

The fractured polity you talk about is really today a
work in progress towards a re-engineering. It just
isn't quite happening with priorities, speed and
directions many of us would want for different
reasons. 

The behemoth elephant called India is dancing pretty
well for many people within India (including many in
the NE) to align themselves to the idea of India. At
least - relatively speaking vis a vis the idea of an
idependent Assam, it is more attractive primarily
because it offers glimpses of a better availability of
resources for more sections of the people. This
behemoth, once moving, moves at more speed and
attracts more resources to fuel that movement.

> India is incapable because of its deeply fractured
> polity, and its 
> behemoth-like size.

Like I mentioned earlier, in as much as small nations
can survive, so can big nations. In fact, bigger ones
such as India can rally more people and more resources
behind an elightened agenda.

It is ALL about what that enlightened agenda does to
the availability and the reallocation of resources :-)

> But Assam, in spite of its diversity, is a far more
> manageable 
> entity, that can and will close ranks behind an
> enlightened  agenda. 

No doubt, the Assam Agitation was a great example it
could be done. Unfortunately for the advocates of
independent Assam, the ideas of the agitation
floundered and was not followed up with a really
better allocation of resources. Instead what it
wrought, followed up with a decade and more of
destruction of resources.

Fortunately for India, its ability to re-engineer
itself in the early nineties meant availability of
more resources to be allocated across larger cross
sections of people. 

It is no suprise which idea is winning today.

> The 'andwlon' was a good example that it could be
> done. Unfortunately 
> the 'andwlon' leadership had a divisive agenda, was
> uneducated about 
> how to form a government and reform it to move
> forward. They young 
> folks thought that changing of the guard was enough
> to take them to 
> the promised land. It was a profoundly  faulty
> perception as it 
> proved to be in very short order.
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> At 7:11 AM -0700 8/26/06, Rajib Das wrote:
> >This is where it turns to the realm of the
> >non-existent.
> >
> >>  *** An Assam that is free to re-engineer its
> >>  governance with tools to
> >>  exact accountability and set up deterrence
> against
> >>  non-performance,
> >>  can immediately turn things around on this
> front.
> >
> >An Assam will never be free to re-engineer from the
> >ground up in as much as GOI is not. Everything
> >extracts a price. The revolution that will
> supposedly
> >foster in a free Assam will extract a price. Those
> >that support the revolution (and I don't mean what
> I
> >think are the non-existent toiling masses) will
> >extract a price. Those who will need to switch over
> >from their current political cocoons to help the
> >revolution foster the "freeness" will extract a
> price.
> >There would be too much of the extraction going by
> the
> >track record of the "extractors".
> >
> >>
> >>  A governmental bureaucracy that is not sustained
> by
> >>  a treasury that
> >>  steals from those who PRODUCE and re-distributes
> to
> >>  the
> >>  non-performers  in the form of life time
> employment
> >>  regardless of
> >>  productivity would immediately react to the fact
> >>  their "xaandoh-khwa
> >>  baali tol-jowa" ( the demise of the golden
> goose)
> >>  situation.
> >>  All of a sudden the bloated and un-productive
> >>  bureaucracy will be a
> >>  thing of the past.
> >
> >Is that a mission statement of free Assam or
> >Chandanda's free wish? If all that is there in free
> >Assam, I doubt it will ever happen. If GOI cannot
> >re-engineer thusly with its bigger resource base, I
> >doubt it will ever come to such a pass in a free
> Assam
> >with a proportionately much lower resource base and
> a
> >long line of "extractors" of very doubtful track
> >records already waiting to appropriate resources.
> >
> >>  Ensuing social turmoil?
> >>
> >>  Some of it is bound to happen. Everything has a
> >price.
> >
> >I am sure Manmohan Singh must also be sitting in
> his
> >high chair, wishing he could re-engineer the
> >government and throw out government employees and
> >wishing away the "ensuing social turmoil" with the
> >flick of a hand. Unfortunately I am sure he
> >understands that social turmoil would devour him.
> >
> >And no, the case would not be any different in a
> free
> >Assam.
> >
> >
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