Till someday before there was only one thing disappearing with

the setting of the sun- the power supply of the ASEB. Now there
are more to provide company- the BSNL network and the power
voltage.

In a 100 m of overhead wire one may find atleast three joints

anywhere in Asom. Each month one of these would snap and
then follows a full day of ‘no electricity’. After that one may go
on dropping applications in the complaint box, dialing the
number of the control room (which will often go on ringing
without response)- No help, No power!

Now-a-days, costly digital meter-boxes are installed in most

households, service tax of the department has also been
increased, still the situation is same, no development in the
basic need- production of electricity. The pace of production
doesn’t increase at the same rate of the number of new
connections provided each day-No regular development!

A common story of the newspapers of Asom is that students

don’t get to study under electric lamps, even before the exams.
I would add by saying that they don’t even get the kerosene
required for the lanterns! In a state where at an average area of
each 100 sq. kms. one can dig up oil, the administration fails to
provide kerosene for its brilliant students, what a joke!
No support in education!

There is more to add; a student in Asom may also have to sleep

with an empty stomach- no gas cylinder at home. This is a story
of the same state where unused natural gas is burnt at
Gaurisagar, Rudrasagar, Sivsagar, Tengakhat every year; but no
fuel to cook a hand-full of rice, no kerosene to light a lamp in a
place where there is no electric-connection and also where there
is! Yesterday, PET’s NewsLive revealed a story ‘Black market of
Blue kerosene’. Kerosene which are provided to be supplied in
the rural areas of the state are sold at Rs. 40 / litre against the
original cost of Rs. 13 / litre, how sad! No fuel!

India is speaking.. But what about the

ििििििििििि ििि ििि िि..
disturbances in speaking. A person with a BSNL connection in
Asom is familiar with all sorts of error messages that his cell
phone can pop-up. Thanks to BSNL, one may easily see such a
message while having an important discussion over the phone.
‘Out of Coverage’, ‘No network connection’, ‘Error in
Connection’, etc or just a ‘!’ sign- inserted a BSNL SIM and one
can be much sure to find one like that. No network!

The main fact is that we don’t even have the time. No time for
studying, no time for completing the day’s works, no time for
carrying out official works,কাইৈল আহক, আিজ এেকবাের সময নাই , no time to go to
the bank. Finally, no time for dying also. Still atleast we have
time for going round and round around the college, time for
going on haha-hihi, hi-bye on road sides, time for stunts on the
bike, time for tick-tuck-tick-tock in the cell phone, time for
forming unions and call Asom bandhs, Tinsukia bandh and also
for making way through the highways in hundreds and ‘Ei jui
jolise..’, ‘Tarun Gogoi Murdaabaad.. Jindaabaad..’ No time, but a
bit!

At a time when all the roads in big cities of the country gets a
‘day in night’ experience, we are deprived of it. We have to sit in
homes in a plunge of darkness for hours. No technology!

If we don’t have good marks and money, even the government

colleges have no seats for you. No seats!

Oh, we have something- pride of the dying tea industry, illegal

refugees or IBM (Illegal Bangladeshi Migrants)- a name preffered
by most of my friends, now-and-then called bandhs, study-void-
students and lots more. I think it will not matter much even if we
don’t have these, but we have and will stay forever! Yo, we have
something!
It’s 2010, my friend. We are so buzy. We have no time, nothing
to support ourselves.

Only that we have the oil resources and the Asom tea- we can
rest in peace. Oops sorry, সুজলা-সুফলা আমার সকেলাের মরমর অসমভূিমত শািনও েয নাই! No
peace!