GUWAHATI, May 16 � The Guwahati Senior Citizens� Association (GSCA) has expressed resentment at the degradation creeping into the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) in which a coterie of people is now playing with the administration of the State by indulging in nefarious monetary deals in the selection of the candidates � something widely reported in the media.
Initiating the discussion, GSCA president DN Chakravartty said that the APSC, which had a glorious past with persons like Kameswar Das, Jadav Prasad Chaliha, Aghor Bhattacharya, Boneli Khongmen and SN Barkataky, started witnessing shameful days with the advent of persons of low calibre since the past two decades.
The GSCA unanimously urged the State government to look into the matter without waiting for RTI or things like that, and to reconstitute the commission with persons of impeccable integrity.
GSCA member in-charge of administration and coordination, Tabiul Hussain; member, finance, Krishnakanta Lahkar; and member, public relations Hemchandra Sarma submitted their reports on the association�s activities.
The meeting was followed by release of a book by Anuradha Sarma Pujari titled Jalsabi in which the writer dwelt on the mental agony of a family in which the elderly mother had become a victim of dementia.
Addressing the function, �Prajnaratna,� Nirupoma Borgohain, while speaking highly about the book, dwelt on the social changes which were responsible for a large section of elderly people falling victim to ailments like dementia.
Psychiatrist Dr Jayanta Das, while lauding the sincere depiction of the agony of a victim of dementia and the sufferings caused to the family members by such socially-inflicted diseases of modern times, said that dementia which is now the fourth most deadly modern disease, would be the second most deadly modern disease by another five years and would turn out to be the deadliest modern disease two decades hence.
Dr Das said that it is indeed a riddle that while modern civilization had forced children to loneliness on the one hand, the elderly sections of the people also had also been thrown to loneliness due to rapid disappearance of social connectedness.
Tabiul Hussain praised the writer for her dexterous treatment of a subject very close to the hundred million elderly people of the country.
DN Chakravartty also praised her for the masterly treatment of a subject hitherto untouched by Assamese writers.
Nikumoni Hussain compered the event, while Ananta Hazarika of Banalata, the publishers, welcomed the guests.
