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

[Ram Sarangapani]

Yes, I agree, that makes more sense.

--Ram da


On 12/3/07, Krishnendu Chakraborty <krish_gau at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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