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

[Ram Sarangapani]

Mukul da

>From the site that Babul Gogoi sent

http://www.indiapost.gov.in/Netscape/foreigntariff.html

South Africa is obviously there in the dropdown. I suspect the clerk at the
post office (and possibily the other officials) either do not have the
latest software or are not computer literate.

--Ram


On 12/3/07, mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> <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!
> mm
> > 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,
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