[Assam] [WaterWatch] Digest Number 1375

[Chan Mahanta]

>  > Can you suggest operational steps?
>  >May be GoI and GoB should conduct a joint session with civil engineers,
>dam experts and other relevant people.


****Perhaps the operational steps should be suggested by the experts 
who promote them. No?



>  >May be GoI and GoB should conduct a joint session with civil engineers,
>dam experts and other relevant people.

****Call me a cynic, but  I am quite amused by the thought.  Don't 
they do that already? Have they not been doing that for decades and 
with their combined intellectual prowess and technological ingenuity 
( forgive my sarcasm) been causing what they have?

It does not take a whole lot of savvy to know why Indian governance 
does not work--never did and as it stands will never do. But the 
thought expressed clearly indicates that the awareness is missing 
here.

Not that nobody knows why it is so. Right here, in this forum, this 
governmental dysfunction has been detailed by people with first hand 
knowledge. But it takes a little effort to read, understand and  take 
note.

Unfortunately  when we are so immersed in our own righteousness and 
certitude, backed up by information collection skills we are so adapt 
at  and so proud of, it is not hard to imagine how we are reduced to 
citing what the west does as the ultimate argument ; never mind the 
realities of India.

But it is not too late. One can begin to try  to understand WHY 
Indians are unable to do what other have been doing routinely for 
centuries, in spite of its huge information reservoir ( I am 
purposely avoiding a term like 'knowledge' or  'skill' here--because 
information possession , the ability to cite chapter and verse of 
what others might have written or said or done is not wisdom, not 
even knowledge and does not necessarily translate to an ability to 
perform).

What is it about India that prevents it from solving the humblest of 
problems, never mind the big ones?

Can our best take that on?  Perhaps if we can put our fingers on it , 
we can begin to find ways to deal with it.  Surely the Institutions 
of higher learning has not done that.  Just look at all the brilliant 
graduates of IITs, IIMs,IIMSs' taking the world by a storm but are of 
no consequence at home.

Why?


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At 12:05 PM +0000 9/6/08, WaterWatch at yahoogroups.com wrote:
>There are 7 messages in this issue.
>
>Topics in this digest:
>
>1a. Re: Kosi's tragedy: Blunder after blunder   
>     From: V Ranganathan
>1b. Re: Kosi's tragedy: Blunder after blunder   
>     From: Bhavanishankar Benkipur
>
>2a. Re: Letter to  Prime Minister  on Flood Catastrophe in North Bihar
>     From: Chandan Pandey
>