[Assam] Number of NRIs from Assam, NE in US insignificant (The Assam Tribune, 30.06.2008)

[Buljit Buragohain]

Number of NRIs from Assam, NE in US insignificant
By A Staff Reporter
 GUWAHATI, June 29 – The ‘Indian Diaspora’ has played a major role in shaping India’s political and economic history. They have played a key role in the current robust foreign exchange position of our country. This was the observation made by Ramgopal Sarangapani, a senior analyst of the Texas Workforce Commission, Austin, Texas, USA while delivering a lecture on ‘Entrepreneurship – The American Way of Life’ at the North Eastern Regional Institute of Management here recently.

According to a Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters (FASS) press release here, Sarangapani, a post-graduate in economics from Gauhati University, who did his MBA from Sam Houston State University, Texas and a specialist in data warehouse and database development systems analysis and design, however, maintained that the number of NRIs from Assam or the North East, in comparison to states like Kerala, Punjab and Gujarat, was very insignificant and of relatively recent origin.

The NRIs from the State and form other parts of the NE region are mostly professionals and of upper middle class background. Therefore, it would be unrealistic to expect huge investment from them. But since they comprise mostly professionals and trained experts, the NE region can expect a leveraging its growth rate by harnessing this ‘knowledge bank’, said Sarangapani.

He observed that these NRIs could act as catalysts in the development of the region through knowledge and skill transfer and facilitating investment by large foreign corporate houses.

Sarangapani delivered the lecture, which was organised in collaboration with the FASS and dwelt on the various aspects of creating and sustaining successful enterprises. It needs mention here that small enterprise sector in the USA is a dominant sector.

(The Assam Tribune,30.06.2008)


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