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NORTH EAST COLORS AGARTALA By Dr Syed Arshad Hussain FRIDAY 9th JULY 2021 Remove the impasse Journey towards super power erely a good intention is not enough to perform good work. The executor must continue some follow-up steps to ensure that the good- iMntentioned decision is executed smoothly and comes to lags behind emerging world in research and development the benefit of the intended person or persons. Raising this issue becomes necessary in view of a recent government decision to take a bypass way to remove the impasse over promotions in government services that remained stalled way behind other powerful nations when it comes to policy vision, execution, and expenditure for the last several years. The stalemate was the outcome of a stay order issued by the in R&D sector. Towards research activities, India spends 0.65% of its GDP, whereas, global spending following a case challenging the government policy of averages around 1.8%. While the United States spends around 3.1% of GDP on R&D, Germany 3.2%, reservation in promotion. The stay order issued by the apex court has caused Taiwan 3.5%, Israel 4.9%, Japan 3.2% and China spends 2.2% (Wikipedia). serious problems both for the employees concerned and the government. Many of the government employees gone for retirement without getting a promotion they deserved ccording to an index of 158 countries particularly in information technology and an attempt to analyze the present scenario by government agencies and three by non- while many others were sulking over the prospect of a in United Nations Conference on Trade computer science are occurring so fast that it is revealed that research and development (R&D) profit bodies. similar fate. On the other hand, the government also was and Development’s (UNCTAD) difficult to portray the world at present. The sector is the key area India must focus with All economic players, including the suffering from not having adequate officials in the upper TAechnology and Innovation Report 2021, India emergence of globalization and the intellectual respect to the emerging world. If we look into Government, therefore, need to take note of echelon of the administration as the people are going for ranked 65, which is far behind several of its property rights regime have made ‘knowledge’ the UNCTAD’s report most of the top ranked some interesting trends and warning signs superannuation but the vacancies could not be filled up as Asian counterparts. United States, Switzerland a big resource and it is believed that in near countries are spending higher percentage of already brought out in studies by reputed the promotions remained stalled. The government decided and the United Kingdom are the best prepared future only those countries would excel which their GDP on R&D. The top overall performers consultancy firms such as World , to take the bypass way of giving ad-hoc promotion subject for frontier technologies. Most of the best- possess a wealth of knowledge. In this respect are typically associated with high innovation Deloitte and McKinsey etc. to the final verdict of the apex court. prepared countries are from Europe, except the a strong science base in our country, and GDP. When it comes to investing in As stated by the World Bank, 69% of all The decision reflects the government’s good intention Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore and the particularly within the young generation is very science and innovation, India lags behind not jobs in India are under threat due to but while implementing it found many complications in United States. Some transition economies, such important. Development of applied science and only the West, but also Asian countries such as automation. A study by EY and Nasscom the way. Such complications first came to the fore while as Russia, also perform well on the index. The technology of a country is directly linked with China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and predicts that by 2022, around 46% of the promoting some civil service officers. It was found that report provides a "country readiness index" basic science as the later is the base of various Singapore and so on. workforce will be engaged in entirely new jobs due to not maintaining ACR properly many officers were that assesses the progress of each country in applied science as well as research & According to Nobel Laureate Dr. Venki that do not exist today or will be deployed in deprived of promotion though they were not liable for the using frontier technologies, considering their developments leading to various technologies. Ramakrishnan, Cambridge, UK, “No country jobs that have radically changed skill fault. Now, another section of officers who are working in national capacities related to physical Analysis reveals that India has 366 R&D can be successful in the 21st century without requirement. various TCS feeder posts fears that they may be deprived investment, human capital and technological personnel per million population, compared being a technologically advanced, knowledge Learning from the US and China, India, for no fault of them. A section of them suggested that effort. with 1,366 in Brazil, 2,358 in China and 6995 based society. This requires significant therefore, needs to focus its energy to boost preparing a common seniority list can give them justice. Frontier technologies are those that take in Germany, according to the United Nations investment in science and innovation, an area funding and research initiatives so that the It is the suggestion of a section and can’t take at their face advantage of digitalization and connectivity. Educational, Scientific and Cultural where India is lagging even its Asian country’s ambition to become a superpower is value. But the government must recognize the existence They include artificial intelligence (AI), the Organization (UNESCO) report. With 10,073, counterparts”. not damaged. Science, technology and of a problem and must find out a solution to remove the internet of things, big data, block chain, 5G, 3D Iceland has the highest number of R&D India is way behind other powerful nations innovation (STI) policies should be linked with apprehension from the mind of the concerned. printing, robotics, drones, gene therapy, personnel per million populations. when it comes to policy vision, execution, and industrial policies, so that new technologies The task is not very easy and at the same time not nanotechnology and solar photovoltaic etc. Well, according to Science & Technology expenditure in R&D sector. Towards research can re-invigorate traditional production sectors insurmountable. Some solution must be devised as the According to experts “frontier technologies” Indicators (STI 2019-20), based on the data activities, India spends 0.65% of its GDP, and speed up industrialization and economic frustration due to long deprivation from promotion caused are expected to redefine our world, especially compiled by Department of Science & whereas, global spending averages around structural transformation. among the employees is not helpful for running a good our post-pandemic future. Technology (DST), Govt. of India, about 5.1 1.8%. While the United States spends around All states, industry and labour unions administration. It is true that it may not be possible to give Although if we recall the long and lakh patent applications were filed in India 3.1% of GDP on R&D, Germany 3.2%, Taiwan should work together to optimize the potential a hundred percent justice to all sections of the employees chequered history of education and training in between 2005-06 and 2017-18. Out of that, a 3.5%, Israel 4.9%, Japan 3.2% and China of these technologies for faster productivity. from these long-pending complications. The employees pure and applied sciences dating back to over whopping 76% were filed by ‘foreigners spends 2.2% (Wikipedia). Average salary of an Niti Aayog has to meticulously lay the must accept this fact and the government also must take a 2,600 years, India has had flourishing tradition resident abroad’ (as the government classifies Indian researcher is 22% lower than the roadmap for research and development firm stand on it. It will lend a great service to society if the of scientific research and technological them) and only 24% came from Indian citizens. average minimum salary paid by well known towards frontier areas of science in India as government can remove the impasse. development. Taxila (6th century BC) one of Definitely a troubling sign, this pattern needs IT and firms to fresh graduates well as a legal regulatory framework so as to the earliest universities in the world, attracted to be reversed as soon as possible. across the world (McKinsey). They also ensure a sustainable development. Government students from across the globe. Major fields of The silver lining here is that the equation pointed out about the lack of proper policy and can also set up a high-powered Commission to studies at Taxila included philosophy, does seem to be changing, at a slow pace. work environment as well as dismal condition recommend measures to accelerate R&D in MESSEGE mathematics, astronomy, medicine, surgery Between the time period 2006 and 2010, only of academic administration. India to touch the required level in near future and metallurgy. Unfortunately, most of the 18% of patents were filed by Indians. However, Out of a total global R&D expenditure of not only in terms of budget but also to create a knowledge was lost at the later stages. The in the following five years the figure jumped $1143 billion, the percentage claimed by the healthy balanced ecosystem where researchers glorious tradition of original thinking, to 24%. Another significant jump was observed US is 33.6, Europe 24.5, and Japan and China can work with full devotion and concentration. Love isn't something you find. Love is something that adventure of ideas and creative innovations in the next three years, between 2015 -16 to 12.6 each, while India’s share is a meager 2.1. finds you. was completely snapped. 2018-19 wherein the share of patent In India, Government sources pick up 75-80  Author is Associate Professor – Loretta Young It is well known that development of applications filed by Indians increased to 30%. per cent of the R&D expenditure, and only 20- Department of Physics, Tripura science and technology is vital for the progress India definitely doesn’t lack talent. India is 25 per cent spent by private sector and a mere University, Suryamaninagar – 799022, of any country. It is a major vehicle for one of the major supplier of human resource three per cent by universities. Whereas the West Tripura, India Bombay enhancing the quality of human life. The across the globe who are excelling in their break-up of percentages for OECD countries is https://sahussaintu.wordpress.com/ developments in science and technology, respective field. Then where is the problem? In 69 by private enterprises, 18 by universities, 10 Email: [email protected] he , also known as the BSE Ltd, was formed in Mumbai (then Bombay) on July 9th 1875. The BSE Ltd, the oldest stock By Dewali Deb By Navneet Mishra eTxchange in Asia had a very humble beginning under a Banyan Tree in Mumbai’s town hall. The stock exchange was started by four Gujaratis and one Parsi and gradually Why Amit Shah was the group grew. As the number of brokers Persianate Bengal & the was continuing increasing given additional the venue of their meeting changed many times. In onobibir Juhuranama, are the texts pro - It appears that for the Bangla speaking Muslims: Bangladesh 1874, the group finally duced and circulated as Literature and indicates its name, its identification with Ben - charge of Ministry moved to Dalal Street and in performances in the mangrove region of Bonobibir gali, a language, came into being seeking a sep - 1875 the group became an the Sunderbans that stretches across the border arate identity from the urdu speaking West official organization known B Juhuranama does of Cooperation? between India and Bangladesh. The premise Pakistan. On the other hand 'nama' is a Persian as The Native Share and that theoretical constructs which use 'borders', not belong to any word, enabling the multivalency of the word Stockbrokers Association. 'nations', and 'hybrid' as categories of literary one religious 'nama', appended to a number of generic mod - nion Home Minister Amit Shah, who From 1946 to 1980, the analysis, divert the intent of literary expression, els. For example, the 'saqinama' emerges as a has been given additional charge of stock market was dominated and proceeds to locate texts from the genre in domination. Her powers, her genre embedded in Nizami Ganjavi's 'Eskander the newly created Ministry of Coop - by Sir Phiroze Jeejeebhoy, who was its chairman from the Bangla literary system, Bangla being the nama'. Or the 'Farsnama', the long poem, one eration, has long been associated with the co - 1966 until his death in 1980. Sir Jeejeebhoy had worship, and her origin are U shared language is generally conceptualized as addressed to or spoken by a horse, one example operative societies in Gujarat. enormous influence over brokers and the government distinctively differentiated by religious beliefs simultaneously located and of which survives in the oeuvre of Amir Khus - His Gujarat model in the cooperative and helped avert many critical situations owing to his and national 'identity'. legitimised in the two cultures. rau. Or the 'Siasatnama' a genre began in the sector has hogged headlines in the past, as he knowledge and vast experience. By 1956, the BSE Hence in the history of Bangla literature, 11th century Persia with Nizam-ul-mulk. Or was once called the father of the cooperative became the first stock exchange to be recognized by the texts whose form and language embody the Is - with 'Pandnama' following the style of the 'an - movement in the state. His work in the coop - under the Securities Contracts lamist culture of pre- partition Bengal are cate - language which is differently contextualised in darz' or wisdom literature, part of the pre-Is - erative sector in Gujarat is remembered even Regulation Act. By 1986, the BSE had developed the gorised as Islamic Bangla, rather than simply as the histories of each of the communities in the lamic Iranian documentary heritage. today. BSE SENSEX which made it easy for the BSE to Bangla of a particular region. In this region too, two nations that they inhabit in the plural liter - It appears that Bonobibir Juhuranama does The ministry of cooperation has been measure the overall performance of the exchange. In as elsewhere, language and literature, are ary field. Bonobibir Juhuranama, form a part of not belong to any one religious domination. Her created to provide a separate administrative, 2000, the BSE used this index to open its derivatives shaped by the prevailing conditions of human the multidimensional 'nama' tradition that en - powers, her worship, and her origin are simul - legal and policy framework to strengthen the markets, trading SENSEX futures contracts. The life and the literary resources available to ex - tered India through contact with the 'Persianate' taneously located and legitimised in the two cul - cooperative movement in the country and development of SENSEX options along with equity press them. The literary culture of any modern culture. The culture embedded in the use of the tures. Her devotees belonging to both religious, will help deepen cooperatives as a true peo - derivatives in 2001 and 2002 expanded the BSE’s sub continental language like Bangla is histori - Persian over the past millennium throughout an live in quotidian intimacy sharing dangers of the ple based movement reaching up to the trading options. Since its inception in 1857, the BSE was cally plural, as it is one nestling culture. area much larger than any territory we could difficult terrain and the struggles of poverty. Ul - grassroots. an open-floor trading exchange, the BSE switched to an Bonobibir Juhuranama, is a genre compris - call Persia or Iran. A survey comprising texts timately, plurality is spawned not by abstract The ministry is likely to have the same electronic trading system in 1995. This transition took ing texts written in Bangla, a language spoken named 'nama' in classical Persian literature belief, but by actual life conditions and prac - importance as the Ministry of Agriculture only fifty days in the making. This new automatic, in two nation-states of the Asian subcontinent. shows that the 'nama' as a form is the model for tices, with each party negotiating and rearticu - and Rural Development. screen-based trading platform called BSE On-Line They originate in a geographically contiguous a literary record of historical and social conven - lating specific taboos so as to participate in Amit Shah has been the convener of the trading (BOLT) currently has a capacity of 8 million area divided into two nationalities and two na - tions. The story of Bonobibi, enacted every year quotidian community life. An integral part of Bharatiya Janata Party's National Coopera - orders per day. The BSE has also introduced the world’s tional cultures across an international border. It in January on the Indian side of the border by Bonobibi culture is the establishment of the tive Cell (SAIL) in Gujarat. He was also the first centralized exchange-based internet trading system is likely, a matter of debate that the literary sys - Bengali Speakers, both Hindu and Muslim, is Bonobibi at her 'thaan', a place sacred to her. youngest chairman of the Ahmedabad Dis - to enable investors anywhere in the world to trade using tem is formed through the fusion of at least two the source of this culture. Two extant published Idol worship is common to Hindus but taboo to trict Co-operative Bank (ADCB) at the age the BSE platform. The BSE also offers many other literary language traditions which came into texts by this name are by Abdul Khater and Muslims. This form of worship in both Bengal of 36. During his stint, in just one year, Shah services to capital market participants, which includes contact in pre-colonial times, one 'local' and the Muhammad Muhsi. Besides these, handwritten in India and the Sunderbans region in not only broke even the bank's loss of Rs risk management, market data services, education, other 'received' as a result of contact with others play scripts are used by professional performers Bangladesh may prove grist to the mill for the 20.28 crore but also brought in a profit of Rs clearing and settlement. The BSE has a nation wide that lasted for many centuries and changed in to stage the story told in the Bonobibir Juhu - assertion of syncretism, that is, proper borrow - 6.60 crore. For this achievement in the coop - presence and serves customers around the world. The nature, but did not approximate the contact that ranama, Bonobibir birth, her arrival and estab - ing of other cultures or incomplete conversion erative sector in Gujarat, Amit Shah was stock market systems and processes are designed these areas later had with European colonizers. lishment in the mangrove forest and the of Islam. For the domestic well-being, the wor - called the father of the cooperative move - keeping in mind the importance of safeguarding market The texts are written and performed in what is miracles she performs to protect her devotees shipper observers 'brata' as the 'mangal kavya' ment. integrity, driving the growth of the Indian capital market marked as a minority culture in one nation, and from natural and man-made dangers that lurk and the 'panchali'. When the period of obser - Some states have cooperative depart - and stimulating innovation and competition across all the state culture in another, and the practises as - therein. There may have been a number of 'pun - vance is over, the ceremoniously recited 'pan - ments, but till now there was no separate market segments. sociated with the texts performance and trans - thi' or handwritten texts, manuscripts which chali' - the emergence of the deity, her initial ministry for this at the central level. The The Day in History : mission are common to the language, economy, form a part of two printed texts. Abdul Khater exploits, there by establishing her as a deity to Ministry of Cooperation is likely to stream - and livelihood of the inhabitants common to explains that all his acquaintances who live in be worshipped by individuals. This religious line the 'Ease of Doing Business' processes • 1789: In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes both nation-states. the swampy Sunderbans often asked him to function is here fulfilled by the story of Dukhe, for cooperatives. itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins To begin with, Bonobibir Juhuranama, form write the story of Bonobibi and get it printed so a poor orphan boy abandoned in the dangerous The country has cooperative based eco - preparations for a French constitution. part of the plural culture growing out of the that they did not need to travel far to hear about tiger and crocodile infested mangrove forest. nomic development model, according to worship of Bonobibi, the Lady of the Forest. her. "Hearing this, I feel pain in my heart, I Dukhe's mother had told him, whenever he which every member works with his own • World War II: Continuation War: Finland wins 1944: This culture is shared by two communities, his - think it through and finally, decide that since the found himself in trouble, he should call upon sense of responsibility. A senior official of the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever torically defined in the opposition to each other, 'keccha' of Bonobibi is one of the highest order, Bonobibi, the Lady of the Forest, she having the government said, "The formation of the fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws Bonobibi's devotees, Hindu and Muslim forest so I (shall) gradually try to compose it'. The di - been sent by Allah to the forest of Sunderbans Ministry of Cooperation will bring prosperity its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive dwellers, seek her protection as they go into the vinity of Bonobibi lies in the universal accept - to protect the weak and the poor. Dukhe does so in the agriculture and rural sector. That is position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk mangrove forests, the Sunderbans, stretching ance of her special powers by the people of the and is saved from the clutches of the tiger. why the government has taken this historic Offensive. across the border between two 'post' colonial mangrove region and the existence of a book as decision to realize the dream of people. It • 1955: The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a South Asian nations_ Bangladesh and India. an artefact consolidates this power.  Author/ poet can be contacted will work towards the welfare of farmers and reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare. Living across international borders they share a Bonobibir Juhuranama, written in Bangla at Twitter @dewali_de making their businesses self-reliant."