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

[Krishnendu Chakraborty]

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-da,
It is probably none of those. 

The booking clerk and officials were focussed on
Speedpost and could not find SA in their list.  
As it happens in most Govt offices (even in US), they
have been trained on very narrow specifics and will
not deviate from that unless specifically
guided/asked.

Had Mukul-da asked him to check if it can be sent by
Registered / Ordinary post,  he would probably have
come up with SA immediately .


>>Well, yes KC is correct - it seems there is no
>>speedpost available to South
>>Africa. But there is regular/ordinary  service to
>>South Africa.


On 12/3/07, Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 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



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