Appeal to readers: need your urgent help on the IIT issue
October 1st, 2007
Dear all:
I was told that the CM’s office has not sent a letter to the PM after the announcement of 5 more new IITs were made. This while, other states have staked their claim. He was supposed to have sent a letter a month back, but apparently he has not sent it.
Apparently his office can not decide which one of the options to pursue: upgrade Burla (300 crores); IIT KGP campus in BBSR (800 crores); greenfield IIT 1000-4000 crores.
I can not believe that they are that indecisive.
Please send a short email immediately to the CM cmo@ori.nic.in withh cc to Industry Secretary indsec@ori.nic.in and urge them that the CM must send a letter to the PM on a new IIT followed by a vision document.
best regards
Chitta
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Follow-up to this: I had made the above appeal by email to certain groups. In response, many of you sent the mail on this. Thank you very much. I am being told that the emails have made the cmo office take notice. See the mention in http://tathya.in/story.asp?sno
My purpose of writing this is to convey that your emails are not thrown away without reading. They are being read and not thrown away. How else a journalist will get hold of them and write about it?
I hope they will take action soon.
Please participate in such email writing, if the cause resonates with you.
best regards
Chitta
Entry Filed under: Appeal to readers
3 Writeup
1. Debu | October 1st, 2007 at 8:15 am
” Your emails are not thrown away without reading. They are being read and not thrown away. How else a journalist will get hold of them and write about it? ” … Author Said.
Its a good analysis infact !!
How come Tathya came to know about the EXACT content sent to CMO by perspn like Priya Ranjan Mahapatra, President of the Orissa Society of Americas (OSA), New York chapter, Priyadarshan Patra, Secretary OSA, Professor Gopal Mohanty from Canada, Dhirendra Kar etc..
Or Tathya is CMO ????? Or CMO is open to everybody even to their emails ???? Infact a strange CMO if it opens its email inbox to public !!
2. Chitta Baral | October 1st, 2007 at 8:34 am
I don’t know about India. In the US, most correspondences to and from the government is supposed to be open to public. In India, there is RTI whose intention is to achieve something similar, but it is a more drawn out process. But since there is RTI, there is nothing wrong for a government office to show non-confidential correspondences to anybody, including journalists.
3. Ashok Nayak | October 4th, 2007 at 2:43 am
sent my request at both of your given email id,i think CMO will do right.At this time when KIIT rugby team has returned as world champion,it will help to our IIT loby.thanks