APL expansion to start on Friday
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal will lay the foundation stone of the APL Expansion project in Namrup on Friday.
Disclosing this at a press meet on Tuesday, APL managing director Ratul Bordoloi said " the manufacturing cost for the new APL Expansion Project is Rs 1338 crores and it will be becompleted approximately within 3 years . After the completion of the project it will produce 500 TPD of Methanol per day.”
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Along with other parts of the state, the people in Namrup paid tribute to the October 30 serial blast victims with shock and anger. Led by local AASU unit, the people remembered the victims with 55 earthen lamps in the evening. Namrup AASU President Kalpajit Gogoi and General Secretary Manash Jyoti Changmai said,”terrorism has no place in a civilised society and the government must root out this worst form at any cost.” Prominent leaders from different fields attended the programme and lit up the earthen lamps.
Uncertainty over the proposed fourth BVFCL unit refuses to die down in Namrup. A huge public gathering on Monday resolved to mount pressure on the government for the plant a couple of days after many workers opposed it. Organized by the Fourth Plant Demand Committee, the meeting discussed in detail the plan to go ahead with thr demand. The speakers deplored the lack of sincerity from the workers who recently gheroed the authority demanding the release of their payments even by dropping the fourth unit. The meeting urged all sides to forget the differences and join the demand. BVFCL Daily Bazaar Committee, Namrup AASU, Human Rights and Anti-corruption Forum Namrup, Namrup...
Congress leaders and workers in Namrup on Sunday accused the BJP led Sonowal Government of doing precious little to uplift BVFCL . In her address, party leader and former Naharkatiya MLA Pranati Phukan said the BJP led government at the Centre and state were least interested to develop BVFCL. She said that the government has stopped the schemes meant for the poor people. She further strongly condemned prime minister Narendra Modi for comparing women to a gas cylinder suggesting that he had no respect for women. Nitul Nahardeka President of Namrup Yuba Congress, Umesh Gogoi, President of Jeypore Block Congress, former minister Atuwa...
Organic tea cultivation is yet another option that can boost the entire industry. It can change the face of the state’s economy within a short spell of time. This was more of less of what the experts said at a workshop in Namrup on Saturday. Poribekh Suraksha Santha organised the workshop on organic tea and farming in collaboration with Assam Yuba Parishad Naharkatia Subdivision and Komar Gaon Yuba Sangha in Komar Gaon Open Public Stage . The workshop was inaugurated by Mitali Boruah Gogoi, Secretary of Namrup Poribekh Suraksha Santha under the chairmanship of Tileswar Borah Secretary of BVFCL Fertilizer Union Namrup. The workshop is ...
KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi is undergoing treatment at the Assam Medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh where he was admitted a couple of hours back on Friday. Gogoi, who had been languishing in Dibrugarh Central Jail since he was arrested for his objectionable speech at a meeting, was rushed to the hospital in the morning. After a two hour long medical test, the doctors suggested the authorities to admit him for a better treatment of skin infection which he complained inside the jail. A month after he was arrested for his objectionable speech, Gogoi later was arrested under the National Security Act.
A filthy surrounding in and around the BVFCL Fertilizer unit has raised serious doubts over the sincerity of the authority to keep the area clean. BVFCL Fertilizer, the single unit in India which runs on Natural Gas and has its own Marketing Complex (BVFCL Daily Bazaar) with 30 permanent shops. But cleanliness is nowhere seen with foul odours of vegetables, Meat and Fish shops making it difficult for the people stay calm. Lack of proper drainage system is to be blamed for it where the residents of the Sec - C area have been bearing the brunt. Smrity Rekha Kalita. President and Samiron Boruah, Secretary of Human Rights and Anticorruption Forum Namrup, said "...
At a time when one after another government claims to have changed the face of the state’s health sector, Namrup presents a different picture. The huge area in Dibrugarh district has been battling for the minimum healthcare and medical facilities causing huge inconvenience for lakhs of people these days. Even a single gynecologist is not available in the entire Naharkatiya area amid the much hyped schemes to encourage institutional delivery. “We have seen a number of maternal death cases in the area in the absence of a gynecologist. A gynecologist is the need of the hour. Otherwise, no hope,” said Bittul Baruah, Dibrugarh district Ahom Royal Youth Federation president. Hiren Gogoi, a...
Celebration of 33rd Foundation Day of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) was held in Duliajan Bihutoli on Saturday. Founder President and former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said "Now AGP is much stronger than other consecutive years." On the issue of deportation of foreigners, Mahanta said that foreigners staying after March 25, 1971 must quit Assam. AGP President Atul Bora, MLA of Naharkatia Naren Sonowal, State water resource Minister Keshav Mahanta, Bhabendra Nath Bharali former MLA Jorhat, Renupoma Rajkhowa MLA Teok , Phani Bhushan Choudhary MLA Bonaigaon etc. and many more others were present in the event.
Assam Press Correspondent Union (APCU) Naharkatia subdivision branch and Namrup Press Club held a condolence meeting on Wednesday in Namrup Press Club to pay tribute to senior journalist Bolen Bora. Members of Namrup Press Club, APCU Naharkatia subdivision branch members and other guest were present in the programme. Bora (58) died on Monday at Nagaon due to sudden critical illness. Started his career as a photo journalist in 1985, Bora worked as press correspondent for Ajir Batori, Natun Dainik, Amar Asom and Dainik Asom. He was also a founder and editor of Kolongpar, a weekly Assamese. Bora was also president of APCU Nagaon District committee.
Akon Chandra Buragohain (89), a retired State BVFCL Officer, social worker, founder of Namrup Music College , B.ed College, Namrup College, Namrup Tai Kristi Kendra breathed his last at Aditya Nursing Home at 7.00pm on Sunday due to old age illness. He was born on 1928 at Sibsagar Panibeel Lanka Gohain Gaon. He completed his studies in Naira H.S. School and Shillong Edmund College. After graduation he joined as Block Development Officer at Naharani, Naharkatia subdivision. Later he joined Namrup BVFCL in 1963 as a security officer. He left behind his wife, four daughters, son and grand children. Namrup Sahitya Sabha, Namrup Samalaya Kobi Chakra, Namrup...
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