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December 13, 2005

Ranjeet Kumar writes - Dec. 18, 2005

I had so much hope with this NDA Government and Nitish-Modi. But after reading news about “Nitish opts for mass transfer of babus” in Indian Express, my hope is fading away. Many of the new SP/DMs are tainted officers. Looks like Nitish has looked at only cast while doing transfer. Or may be he was under pressure from some section for these transfer. This is not a good sign. Are we going to have new Laloo Raj with different CM? Is Nitish a wolf hiding in lamb?

Why he is doing that? Doesn’t he have any mercy on Biharis? God save our Bihar.

Asim Kumar Jhunjhunwala writes - Dec. 18, 2005

How about creating a Patna agenda task force to develop Patna in consultation with the government/semi-government and private honourable residents/individuals of Patna with the Chief Minister chairing the board, with specific agenda and timeline with responsibilities and accountability conferred upon board members.

The PATF (Patna Agenda Task Force) can meet periodically to discuss developments.

The board must not be more than 15 members representing 8 from govt. and 7 private industrialists/businessmen etc. This was put in Bangalore and was very successful with Mr S. M. Krishnas as the CM of Karnataka.

Ranjan Rituraj Sinh , NOIDA writes - Dec. 18, 2005

Nitish government is installed in BIHAR; let us hope that It won't crash like WINDOWS 95 operating system and the System will clean it to protect it from virus. Recent appointments of various IAS officers as DM shows there was a virus attack on Nitish government at boot sector.

Ranjan writes - Dec. 15, 2005

No doubt that improving law and order situation in Bihar is going to be a Herculean task for new elected Mr. Chief Minister. We all know that there are lot of loopholes in the law itself and the situation in Bihar has just reached its nadir.

With criminalisation of politics and lot of other issue its really a challenging one and will not improve just by putting some of gunman behind bar as there will be a lot of political back up to rescue him.

But there are ways and means and definitely nothing is impossible. Here, I wanted to mention one example.

BIT SINDRI (an Engg. College, now in Jharkhand) was having the same kind of reputation when it comes for campus placement for final years student. But our Director of that time Mr Singh took this challenge and showed that if you think you can, you can. That year he managed to bring companies like Infosys, HCL, Engineers India Ltd, TISCO, TELCO etc.. for the placement. But for that, he had to do a lot of ground work which he assessed and did it first like revamping the campus and infrastructure, regularising the session etc.

Intention behind mentioning these thing is that we all hope for a bright future for our New Bihar in spite of having a daunting task in front of all of us.

I must appreciate the few steps taken by our CM in few days

1)Meeting with all bureaucrats in Delhi and apprise them of situation and inviting them for rebuilding the state.
2)Inviting Mr. Ahluwalia for chalking out the strategy for the growth plan.
3)Meeting with PM and FM and requesting for a sufficient fund.

These things bring a ray of hope among all Biharis.
Good work CM and keep it up.

Dhananjay Bharadwaj - Dec. 15, 2005

Sushil Modi is now Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and he also holds one of the important responsibility as finance minister. He has lots of experience in finance on TV in talking about different ‘ghotalas’ such as ‘Chara Ghotala’, ‘Alkatra Ghotala’, ‘Khad Ghotala’, ‘Flood Ghotala’ and so on.. While I appreciated his talks on ghotalas but as Finance Minister we expect more from him and after he has taken over we are only hearing, “Khajana khali hai”. We all knew that but we are now interested in knowing how to fill that ‘khajana’. Trying to showoff like Narendra Modi is ok but I doubt if Sushil Modi has the luxury of Narendra Modi. It seems Sushil Modi is more interested in proving Pramod Mahajan innocent than lives and future of Bihari Students outside Bihar. I think Sushil Modi will have to abandon his old habits and start behaving as Minister or is he another Uma Bharti, good in politics and bad in governance, only fit to be in opposition? Rather than wasting time on securing the political future of Pramod Mahajan, Sushil Modi should work towards securing the financial future of Bihar.

T ShivRaj writes - Dec. 15, 2005

What next in the list of Shiv Sena and Mahajan? It was labors from Bihar yesterday, students from Bihar today, army-men and sailors from Bihar tomorrow? Words like 'dadagiri' from an ex-central minister shows how low Mahajan can go. It does not matter in what sense he used it. I wonder what Mahajan will say to Sushil Kumar Modi, the man from Rajasthan, who is now deputy chief minister and finance minister of Bihar? Can someone in Bihar say to Modi like 'dadagiri' from Rajasthan should behave better? Dharam Singh is chief minister of Karnataka, who unbelievably don't work with groupism in congress, born and brought up in Karnataka, but born to parents of Uttar Pradesh Rajputs. What about Raje, the chief minister of Rajasthan, but from Madhya radish's Gwalior Scindias? I am happy that it is JD that is a major partner in Bihar. Think what would have happened if BJP got 90 and JD 35? All these central office bearers of so called national parties will be playing in their spare time with Bihar.

Gandhi suggested to dismantle congress after 1947. I am making a suggestion to dismantle BJP after Advani steps down this month. For whatever it is worth, Vajpayee and Advani built a party without being in office. They built this party and toured many states and understand India better. With these two retiring, guys like Mahajan who tasted office and money, have no regard for Bihar or for other states. They will spoil all national values and institutions built over the last 50 years. Everyone knows Shiv Sena says these things, but a party like BJP that says they are a national party need to throw these guys out.

Kumar Vinay, Detroit, USA writes (December 14, 2005)

At last the law of Jungle is Over. I congratulate all my Biharwasi's on this.

Now that the cancer of Lalu-Rabri rule is over at least we should hope for development and law and order stability in our prestigious Bihar.

Once again I am overwhelmed by the defeat of Lalu Prasad Yadav, the CANCER which ruled our golden Bihar and was converting it to junk.

Ramachandran V. N. writes (December 14, 2005)

Your article regarding Ram Vilas Paswan's offer of cooperation to Nitish Kumar states that Mr Paswan may also be positioning himself. This is a little unfair to Mr Paswan as he made it clear in the dissolved assembly election as also the subsequent one that his sole aim was to reject what he termed as Laloo-Rrabri regime, holding their rule for the ills of Bihar. He even braved the pressure of the UPA on this and had his own fractured UPA to fight the election so there is nothing improper if he offers his cooperation to Nitish Kumar in rebuilding Bihar. In the post election scenario it is not unusual for new alignments if there can be areas of agreements as after all both his party and the JD-U/BJP combine had only one thing in common to remove a family rule either direct or by proxy. NDA should also be only too willing to have Mr Paswan back but the UPA can also ill-afford to seek Paswan's exit when some left parties have already expressed themselves strongly against any such move.

Deependra Das writes (December 14, 2005)

Dear Nitish ji,

Here is what I in particular and well wisher of Bihar think in particular. Law and Order and improving the basic infrastructure of Bihar should be your first and foremost priorities in the coming days. I think you should shortlist name of people whom you want want to be inside the bar in the real sense to improve the Law and Order in state and it should be acted promptly without any sort of political interference. Secondly, highest priorities should be given to improve the basic infrastructure such as improving the road conditions, improving electric supply and making sure to implement steps to generate revenue rather than go for loss in electricity and improving primary education.

As far gaining investor confidence to improve the overall economic and create new employment opportunities goes, it will and should come automatically after you can provide results in improving pitiful Law and Order and basic infrastructure conditions are improved in coming months. After all, people of Bihar have the talent and potential and they have proven it in public as well as private sectors throughout India and also in abroad to some extent. I am waiting for days when I can see companies like Wipro, Infosys and even Microsoft, IBM can feel confident, secure, profitable and worthwhile to open there offices in Bihar so that many unemployed or under employed youth in Bihar can grab the opportunities they deserve.

All the best and wish you luck in coming days to see "NAYA BIHAR".

Subodh Kumar from USA writes (December 13, 2005)

This is a question for the police department and our newly elected Chief Minister. While we all are very excited to have Mr. Nitish Kumar as our CM and get ourselves on the path to development after fifteen years of living under the suppression and tyranny of Mr. and Mrs. Laloo Yadav (I am surprised how Mr. Yadav can even try to refute these charges) and getting Bihar rid of crime and criminals is our first priority and basic necessity, I do not understand why it takes Bihar police so long (if at all) to find a criminal. They may have been very good at keeping RJD leaders in jail, which helps, but have done very little to control the crime and criminals who are not letting Biharis live their day to day life happily and move on the path of progress. These petty criminals still consider Bihar to be under their control.

I wonder why police having so much power and money behind them can not control these criminals. These are little frustrated people who live off the happiness of others as this is the only way they find any happiness. These are psychos, and having been born and brought up in Bihar, I do understand these criminals well. These are the weaklings who never had the guts to stand up and build something for themselves. This is why they destroy the worlds of others (that too with the help of guns, one on one would be difficult for these people).

I am frustrated with crime in Bihar, but I am more frustrated with the police in Bihar. What is keeping them from controlling or killing these criminals? These people do not deserve to live at all.

Hope this will go to our CM and the head of police department. The words may be tough but the emotions do represent those of every Bihari.

Vivek Chandra writes (December 13, 2005)

Antithesis and thesis leads to synthesis. Bihar has seen the worst and the only direction it can go is up. The days of land grabbers and murderers are numbered. Nitish might have inherited a bad infrastructure with a state which has been bifurcated with no industry and no electricity. But If Iraq can be rebuilt, why not Bihar. Political will supplemented with clear execution of projects along with safety for minorities and dalits is what the state wants. If Biharis can become IAS and IPS, I am sure they can revamp the state if they start thinking in that direction. The "pairwi" culture needs to be changed and efficiency needs to be improved.

Sujit Thakur writes (December 13, 2005)

I am excited and expecting loads of good things to happen in Bihar under Nitish.

This can never be a one man show. We all have to contribute in whatever ways we can. I am a Textile graduate. After completing the engineering my thought went like this.

1) Go to Tamil Nadu to get experience in power looms.
2) As jute grows in sizeable amount in my place in Bihar, so will install power looms to come up with products made of Jute.
3) This way I would be running a business I always loved and some people will be getting job too.

Now the other part of the thought:

1) How will I run my looms as there is almost no electricity supply.
2) What about the safety of man and machine? If I have to pay half of the company's income to rowdies and have to stay on toes for 24X7 for safety issues then it's of no use.

There are people interested in doing a bit for there birth place but in a finger-crossed position. Let the law and order improve, provide infrastructure and then leave it to the market. People will certainly take it forward. So the buzzwords for Bihar still lies in law and order and infrastructure.
 

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