[Assam] Asom youths unaware of Govt policies: Survey (The Sentinel, 03.12.2007)

[mc mahant]

<As the country was projecting itself as an IT hub, the youth of Asom were found to be much ignorant about it. 36 per cent are not aware where the software is stored in a computer. Only five per cent use e-mails regularly, 54 per cent never used e-mail and 21 per cent of them want to, but do not know how to use the e-mail.>
 
 
 
I am not too sure about India being an IT hub!
Incident was today's.
I dropped into Guahati GPO to SpeedPost(EMS)  an article to Durban ,South Africa 2014.
The mouse- toting booking Clerk exclaimed :
"What is this you are writing--there is no country called South Africa"
My telling him that Sonia Gandhi and MMS have both paid State visits to South Africa a  couple of months back--did not impress him.
He grudgingly took a huge sum of money,booked the article and handed me a receipt--Durban-USA
I demanded to see the GPO Master. 
PM was baffled too. His ultramodern Flatscreen monitor had no SA either. I told him "Your Nation's Father M.K.Gandhi brought a copy of African National Congress from there(and so many lived here happily  ever after)' . This also  fell flat on him."Iam helpless" he pleaded.
"Oh no you are not helpless--you have all the genius sitting at Delhi-pick up and dial -speak--you are here to solve problems". He advised me to write  in the Sentinel!!!
"Sir , you do not know our Problems"--he pleads.
 
Finally after3 top officers battled with various discs and Rule Books the said --the best we can do is book it for Central African Republic,Kenya,Morocco,Botswana  or --presto hey-Namibia.
I said NAmibia then--but how will it go to Durban SA
They all were very hopeful "Sir do not worry--somehow it will reach".
I did not hear them say 'God is there'
Iam trying now to locate PMGeneral- in Delhi's -E-mailID.
 
The objects listed in Article below  may or may not be relevant in 2007. These can be looked up.
Not so when a" IT Hub Nation" battles  so hard to get a country called SA!
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> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:54:42 +0000> From: buluassam at yahoo.co.in> To: assam at assamnet.org> Subject: [Assam] Asom youths unaware of Govt policies: Survey (The Sentinel, 03.12.2007)> > > Asom youths unaware of Govt policies: Survey> > Guwahati, Dec 2: In a youth survey conducted by a magazine in Asom, it was found that the State’s youth lacked the knowledge of the Government policies and other major issues of national and international importance. The survey was conducted by a monthly magazine Jibon among 2270 students and youths in the age of 15-40 in more than a hundred villages and towns, with equal male-female ratio and proportionate urban-rural representation. According to the survey, 95 per cent youth was found unaware of the separate Ministry for North-east (Department for North East Region), with 46 per cent even demanding such a ministry be created. Seventy six per cent did not know where the North Eastern Council (NEC) was headquartered (in Shillong), with 29 per cent thinking such a council did not exist at all. Another 51 per cent did not even know that Irom Sharmila, whose hunger strike for past couple of years against alleged army excesses has drawn international attention, was from> Manipur, though 83 per cent knew where Kanaklata attained martyrdom. Though 90 per cent know that Baichung Bhutia is a footballer, at least six per cent think that he is the king of Bhutan. The youth were equally ignorant in international matters like what brought Mohammad Yunus of Bangladesh the Nobel Prize is not known to 75 per cent, while 13 per cent think he got it for being a freedom fighter. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Prize for micro-financing in the rural areas.> The survey also proved to be an eye opener when it came to lack of awareness among the State’s youth regarding financial matters. As many a 38 per cent could not answer whether the RBI can print money on its own to make the country owner, with 15 per cent thinking that it can do so on the Finance Minister’s directive.> Forty five per cent of the youth did not know what sensex is related to as five per cent related it to sex and another four per cent to heartbeat. Though 64 per cent know what is a credit card, 14 per cent think it is a card for availing banks loans and 10 per cent think it is a guarantee card against bank loans.> In yet another finding, 38 per cent youth had no clue how the money comes at the ATMs, with 13 per cent thinking that it came from the bank through satellite or wire and eight per cent thinking that ATM’s print currency. > As the country was projecting itself as an IT hub, the youth of Asom were found to be much ignorant about it. 36 per cent are not aware where the software is stored in a computer. Only five per cent use e-mails regularly, 54 per cent never used e-mail and 21 per cent of them want to, but do not know how to use the e-mail. In health matters the youths fared comparatively better with 93 per cent knowing that jaundice is a water-borne disease and 91 per cent knew that kissing does not cause AIDS. > The editor of Jibon Suresh Ranjan Goduka said such findings would help the policy makers to frame better youth policies so that they become aware of the relevant issues. (UNI)> > (The Sentinel,03.12.2007)> > > > > ---------------------------------> Save all your chat conversations. Find them online.> _______________________________________________> assam mailing list> assam at assamnet.org> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
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