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Brahmaputra Board
to be renamed
There is possible nothing that gives pleasure to a whole lot of long-neglected people of resource-rich but fund-strapped region in our country like the North-eastern region, other than a tidings tickling in from the national capital, New Delhi, relating to the Center’s toying with an idea of adopting a strategy to contain insurgency in the region or, of taking decision to resolve rising unemployment.
One such good news that may have gladdened a few hearts at least in the region, if not too many is literally all about the BJP-led Central government’s latest decision to get the controversial Brahmaputra Board revamped with an altogether new nomenclature and concept. Should the new Modi ruling establishment really implement it keeping in mind the interests of the flood-affected states in the region including Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in particular, the move will indubitably be a step in the right direction.
We get mindful of this news report when the Union Minister for Water Resources Uma Bharati divulged the information vis-à-vis her government’s decision that the Board would now have a new name “within a week or two” and the entire functioning and mandate would be changed. This piece of information the Minister had disclosed on February 11 while addressing the last meeting of the Board at Shillong.
Bharati, according to a source close to the concerned ministry, was of the view after the all-important meeting that the Brahmaputra Board would now have a new name “within a week or two” and the entire functioning and mandate would be changed. In addition to the source, she too, made it clear that the next meeting will be held under a new name and concept. She also observed that it would reincarnate with a new name and concept in which the views of every state will be incorporated.
That the decision that the view of all states in the region will be embodied in the doctrine is worth-praising. But the crucial question that is their in an inquisitive mind is: Will the new nomenclature that the Board will presumably take on within a few days time be avertable to the states like Arunachal Pradesh and Assam which are being affected with rose floods year after year? Which is precisely why will it be possible for the concerned ministry to reach a final decision pertaining to the news name of the Board within a fortnight when this piece of writing has supposedly been ready to be published?
Dwaipan Das Gupta
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