Atul Kumar <atul.kr@...> wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:32:10 +0530
From: "Atul Kumar" <atul.kr@...>

People are willing to work hard and looking for opportunities. Infrastructure
is improving in correct way. All Roads in Patna are getting Pucca Nullahs to
avoid waterlogging during rainy seasons. For the change, anywhere you go, there
is optimism around.

Roads are clean. Clean & small City buses are available everywhere. Bandhs &
hartal are not everyday affairs. Even villages are getting electricity for 6-7
hours from Bhutan and that too at good voltage during day time. During night, it
is almost uninterrupted.
It was after a long time that I have not heard of any major kidnapping
demanding ransom in crores while being there. BPSC just conducted some major
interviews. Talk in the town is that it was most fair interview without money
changing hands. People are getting recruited, but in contractual positions, so
they will not be lethargic & corrupt. I felt it from the moment I landed in
Patna and kept it confirming throughout my vacations from other sources. You can
feel changed air very much.

Bihar & Jharkhand now have seven mobile operators (Airtel, Aircel, Reliance GSM,
Reliance CDMA, BSNL GSM, BSNL CDMA, Tata Indicom) providing their services with
Airtel, BSNL & Reliance having almost 100% coverage.

Now, what is needed is some good industrialization & job creation. Momentum has
started, but it cannot be sustained till there is job-creation in private
sector, strictly not in Govt. Also, too many educational opportunities will add
just noise. What we need is job for everyone, not for educated elites only.

On different note, we should pray that CPM & Budhadeb bhattachaya are able to
drive the industrialization in Bengal. We are too far from Delhi, which allowed
NCR to develop and consequently other adjoining states. We are far away from any
port in absolute land-locked, flood-ravaged region. The nearest sea-port which
connects Bihar to Global Village is in Kolkata and if Bengal develops, Bihar too
will develop under "Hinterland effect".







Lt. Col. (Retd.) Bajrang Bihari Singh
Sec-5, Plot - 452
Vaishali, Ghaziabad
U.P.
Phone- 0120-2772949

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