Shankardev Shishu Vidya Niketan School at Dadara near Hajo is ready to get another facelift with the financial support from Guwahati Round Table 235, the Guwahati chapter of Round Table India (www.roundtableindia.org). The completed phase two section, comprising three classrooms, verandah & staircases with a total area of 2,750 square feet, will be inaugurated on 8 January next. Kamrup (rural) district magistrate Vinod Seshan has consented to inaugurate phase two part on Sunday in presence of district police chief PS Mahanta. “The foundation stone for development was laid on the 7 February 2016, where the project was planned to be completed in a phased manner with the first phase has already been completed. It was inaugurated by Assam education minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma,” informed Parveen Goyal, chief of Guwahati Round Table 235.
Addressing the media persons on Wednesday, Goyal also added that they would soonstart the construction of phase three and expected to get it completed by the end of 2017. He described his mother organization as a non-religious and non-political entity. The Round Table India has over 4,500 chapters across the country comprising young businessmen, entrepreneurs, technocrats and other professionals. Mukesh Chokhani, secretary to the Guwahati chapter of Round Table India disclosed that they adopted the Dadara Shishu Niketan school under its flagship freedom through education project. He also added that they planned to develop around 10,500 sqft in the school premises with a total outlay of rupees 80 Lakhs.
Project conveners Avishek Kejriwal, Shwet Agarwal, Rahul Sethi with few others were also present on the occasion. Soon after the press meet the Guwahati Round Table 235 office bearers donated two galvanized steel chairs for Guwahati Press Club, which were accepted by the GPC secretary Nava Thakuria in presence of other member-journalists.
Despite the shocking serial attack on innocent people in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts, Assam is gearing up for Christmas celebration to mark the birth of Jesus Christ.Churches, shops and markets are wear a fresh look on Wednesday evening when the Christians across the state are celebrating the X-Mas evening.Churches in the various places are teeming with the people who are all prepared to attend the mid night carol songs on the eve of the much-awaited day. Special prayers would be held tomorrow morning in the churches. Assam Times House greets the Christian people on the occasion. In a statement released on Wednesday evening, all time editor Babul Gogoi hopes that the festival would...
The Assam government has confirmed that the death toll in the serial NDFB-S serial attacks in Sonitpur, Kokrajhar and Chirang districts has gone up to 68. According to chief minister Tarun Gogoi, the dreaded attack took place in two places in Sonitpur where the toll stands at 37.He said that 25 others were killed in Kokrajhar district while the toll in Chirang district is 3. The deceased included 21 women and 18 children.Senior ministers Nilamani Sen Deka and Basanta Das have been camping in Kokrajhar district and Chirang while Rockybul Hussain, Prithbi Majhi and Tanka Bahadur Rai are monitoring the situation in Sonitpur district.
Three Adivasi people were killed when security forces sprang upon a huge crowd who took to the streets in Dhekiajuli on Wednesday in protest against the NDFB-S attacks where 37 killed in the district.Armed with bows and arrows thousands of Adivasi people came out to the streets demanding measures to ensure their safety and security. Suddenly, the protesters turned violent when policemen tried to disperse them for defying the indefinite curfew.A section of the protestors started attacking the security forces forcing them to resort to firing and lathi charge where at least 6 protesters sustained bullet injury. Three seriously injured protestors later died in the hospital. The clash continued...
Simmering tension in Kokrjhar and Sonitpur have forced the authorities to clamp in definite curfew in both the districts where NDFB-S militants killed over 50 Adivasi people in five serial attacks on Tuesday. Additional forces have been deployed in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur to firmly deal with the situation. People in the trouble torn areas are keeping themselves confined to their homes while security forces are patrolling on the streets. Shops and markets, schools and colleges, banks and offices are remaining closed for an indefinite period. The authorities have further issued shoot at sight order against the miscreants.
Bloodbath is back to Assam where NDFB-S militants mowed down no less than 50 people, mostly Advasi, in five dreaded serial attacks in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts. The simultaneous attacks in Serfung guri and Ultapani in Kokrajhar and Biswanath Chariali and Dhekiajuli areas are believed to be the backlash of the ongoing crackdown against the militants in both the districts. But how the militants managed to launch the dreaded attacks amid the combing operations? Does it suggest intelligence failure? The answer is precisely ‘yes’. Intelligence failure is not new for the government to be blamed for dastard killing of dozens of innocent people. Sources told Assam Times that there was...
Union home minister Rajnath Singh is on a stock taking visit to Assam today a day after NDFB-S militants killed over 50 Adivasi people in its five dreaded attacks in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts.Immediately after landing in Guwahati, the Union home minister is leaving for Sonitpur district where the militants killed at least 40 people in Dhekiajuli and Paboi in two attacks in the evening.Then he is leaving for Kokrajhar to assess the situation where the militants killed at least a dozen Adivasi people to retaliate the combing offensive against them.During his day long visit, Singh is scheduled to take stock of the situation at a meeting with met Chief minister Tarun Gogoi towards the...
The death toll in the five incidents of attacks in Sonitpur district has crossed 50 with the recovery of more bodies on Tuesday. The dreaded serial attacks were reported simultaneously from 6 to 7 in the evening.According to information, at least 40 people, all Adivasi people, were killed in Sonitpur district alone. Most of these bodies were recovered from the Paboi reserve forest areas till 9 in the evening. In Batashipur also, NDFB-S killed not less than 5 people forcing security forces to intensify operation along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.Security forces are intensifying a full scale crackdown against the militants along the Indo-Bhutan border after the militants killed 4...
A full scale operation is in progress against NDFB-S after the militant outfit unleashed a reign of terror by targeting the Adivasi people in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur district on Tuesday. Army, police and para military forces are intensifying the combing operation to nab the militant who killed not less than 38 people in four attacks in two districts simultaneously in the evening. Indo-Bhutan border has been sealed to prevent the militants from sneaking into the neighbouring country. Police sources told Assam Times that the dreaded attacks are nothing but the retaliation of the ongoing intensified crackdown in Kokrajhar where at least four militants were killed this week alone. Police has...
Dispur steps up welfare activities for the tea garden workers just one and a half year ahead of the 2016 Assembly polls. In a bid to heal the wounds of ration suspension, the Assam government has set up a panel to consider better wage for these people. A minimum wages advisory board will coordinate the work of the committees and sub-committees set up for tea plantation workers. sources told Assam Times that during the next 2 years, the board will also examine the report of the committees and also advise the government in matters related to fixation or revision of minimum rate of wages for tea workers. The board comprises Chief Secretary as Chairman, Commissioner and Secretary for...
At least forty people, mostly Adivasi, were killed when suspected NDFB-S militants fired upon the people at two remote villages in Sonitpur district on Tuesday.The dreaded attack took place at Simangapara near the Paboi reserved forest area bordering Arunachal Pradesh in the evening. Armed militants sneaked into an Adivasi village at around 6 in the evening and started indiscriminate firing where at least 15 people were killed. Then they left the hamlet.Security forces arrived in the village. But it was too late for them to deal with the militants. Police officials told Assam Times that the attack is being launched to retaliate the intensified offensive by the security...
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