The Assam government ha come in for sharp criticism for the burning situation in Udalguri and its four neighbouring districts where as many as 60 people were killed besides leaving more than 200 injured.
An all party delegation comprising members of AGP, AGP-P, CPI, CPM, BJP and AUDF on Monday visited the riot hit areas of Udalguri and Darrang districts. However, during the visit, the delegation had to face an embarrassing situation and left the Bhakatpara refugee camp After visiting these areas, the CPM held a press conference and blamed it all on the government for this orgy of violence and demanded Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s resignation for this utter lawlessness. AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary said there is no administration in BTAD areas and there is no relief, safety and security for the inmates if the relief camps in these areas. AUDF president Badruddin Ajmal has strongly criticised the role of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
The Nationalist Congress Party has strongly criticized the government for its failure to bring the situation under control. The party has alleged that they government is trying to escape the responsibility only by citing the involvement of third force in the violence.
The NCP leaders, who visited the riot hit areas on Sunday, talked to reporters on Monday and said the government is trying to cover up its failure to contain the situation in Udalguri and Darrang.
NCP Assam unit president, Dhirendra Dev Adhikary, and general secretary Akshay Rajkhowa said they have not seen even a single security personnel guarding a few refugee camps in the district.
A special court in Guwahati received chargesheets against 55 government officials, filed by three investigation agencies - the Chief Minster's Special Vigilance Cell, Vigilance Cell (Anti-corruption) and the CID - in 17 cases on Friday.
On March 7, the special court ordered the superintendents of the three agencies to file chargesheets against 255 government officials, including six IAS officers accused in 21 corruption cases, within 10 days of time.
The 255 bureaucrats did not face trial earlier as the state government has not sanctioned their prosecution for many years.
On Friday, the Chief Minster's Special Vigilance Cell furnished chargesheets in five cases against 14 officials...
Union Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has pumped in more money to develop the northeastern Region.
In his general budget, he has from the revised amount of Rs 1664.27 crore to Rs 1929.33 crore, a jump of Rs 265.06 crore.
The plan outlay under the head of northeastern areas has also been lifted from a meager Rs 3.65 crore in 2011-12 to Rs 73 crore.
The biggest jump is in the central plan outlay from Rs 91 crore in 2011-12 to Rs 205 crore, which include Rs 60 crore as outlays on industries and minerals, Rs 45 crore for roads and bridges under NE States Roads Investment Programme, which is a huge hike from just Rs 0.35 crore in the last budget allocation
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Security forces apprehended an ULFA bomb expert and seized a powerful IED in two different places in Assam on the ULFA Army Day' on Friday.
Indentified as Tapan Phukan alias Bhabani Khaklary, the ULFA bomb was arrested from Solmari village in Lakhimpur district. He was trained in Myanmar.
On the other hand, security forces seized a powerful IED, weighing more than one and a half kg during a joint operation by the police and army in Teestapara area in Dhubri district.
Meanwhile, security was tightened throughout the state following a directive by the union home ministry on ULFA's 'Army Day' on Friday.
DGP Jayanta Narayan Choudhury said that three districts -- Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Sibsagar -- were areas of concern and put on maximum alert while Goalpara and Dhubri districts were vulnerable. He said several youths had been picked up and police pickets posted in vulnerable districts.
The outfit observes 'Army Day' on the raising of its armed wing in 1979 under 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Barua who now heads the anti-talk faction.
The general budget has hardly anything for Assam and its other north eastern states. Industry chambers of the NE have termed the union Budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today as a 'stereotype' with nothing specific in it for the region.
FINER said the decision to increase service tax and lack of stimulus for the industry would curb weak growth. FINER Chairman R S Joshi said that there were no measures in the budget to revive industry. Instead standard excise duty has been hiked.
Assam's tea industry is very much upset with the union budget on Friday. The industry fails to get any stimuli in the budget.
The industry had hoped the budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in parliament Friday would look into issues concerning the tea industry, one of the major revenue earners for the state.
The Union Budget seems to have brought some cheers for Bodoland. Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Fridau announced Rs 50 crore as special package for developmental projects in Bodoland Territorial Council.
Rongali Bihu 2012 will be celebrated in Dubai on April 6. The event is being organised by Assam Society UAE for the 14th time. For details, please contact: assam.dubai@gmail.com or phone: 050-275059.
There seems to be no trace of Dr MC Agarwalla two days after miscreants kidnapped the doctor from his residence in Guwahati.
Security forces engaged in the search operation on Wednesday have recovered the vehicle. It was found abounded at Suprakuchi along the Nalbari-Bagsa inter district border on Wednesday.
Notably, a group of 12 miscreants armed with sharp weapons forcibly lifted Agarwalla from his Athgaon-based residence on Monday evening.
The Centre has sounded alert on Assam a day before ULFA’s Army Day on Friday.
A Home Ministry letter on Wednesday has instructed the Assam government to tighten security in the state apprehending strike by the outfit’s Paresh Baruah faction. Security forces are in place in all sensitive installations, crowded places, markets, railway stations and tracks to foil any attempt by the extremists to disrupt peace.
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