The Civil Society Alliance – Assam, a solidarity group committed to the cause of promoting and defending indigenous peoples’ rights for peace, justice and equality is expressing to voice its deep concern regarding the proposed financing development model of privatizing the historical monuments of Ahom Kingdoms of Sivasagar district and kaziranga National Park of Assam being crafted through the ambitious ‘adopt a heritage’ in the state. CSAA believe that this kind of aggressive project pose greater challenge to sustainable and people-oriented development which institutionalize the private control over the resources and divert the government attention from addressing the social concerns in a new form of advancing neoliberalism. It is also a thought-provoking matter of concern now for the indigenous people because such privatize sector move may facilitate human rights violation, including land grabbing and displacement of the native community in the long run.
The Alliance group is also deeply concerned about increasing private sector involvement in the state in various forms are becoming an increasingly important actors in social development process. This kind of PPP model which is known is also a privatization by other means in the state run system which has gained momentum since the failure of privatization programs initiated by the International Financial Institution (IFI) such as World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other bilateral and multilateral institutions across many counties earlier.
In a solidarity statement, CSAA would also like to urge that Government of India to comply its international human rights commitments and obligation of Rights of Indigenous Peoples as drawn in United Nation Declaration of the Rights of the Indigenous People, adopted by the General Assembly in 2007 (UNDRIP, Article 11) that Indigenous peoples have the right to practice and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artefacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature.
The Civil Society Alliance – Assam, a collation of NGO, Community Based Institution, indigenous Peoples Organisations & social activist, being connected to this land by virtue of aboriginal are urging to withdraw the current proposal of privatizing modality of corporatizing the historical monuments & national park of Assam instantly to address the negative consequences in order to defend the community control over the basic services and resources for development justice. The alliance also would like to urge the Government for its policy towards the use of development resources for private financing implementation to replace with greater and more democratic public sector leadership with the enforcement of regulatory mechanisms to ensure transparency for people. The press release has been shared which is being endorsed by North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS) – Jorhat, United Women Rights Protection Forum, - Upper Assam, Chutia Yuva Sanmilan, Assam – Jorhat District Committee, People Right Forum - Dhemaji, The EAST, Tezpur and Social Activists of the state.
The Tarun Gogoi government completes two years in office. The Chief Minister claimed to have improved in the law and order situation in the state over the past 12 years.He added that the government has been able to bring almost all insurgent outfits to the negotiating table.
Assam has reasons to smile. Two youths bring pride for the state after they scaled the Mount Everest on Saturday.The first North East Indian Mount Everest expedition has scaled the final summit for Mt. Everest from the Everest Base camp. The team comprising 22 members from the region ensured the landmark victory at 5-30 in morning.The North Eastern Council and the Manipur Government sponsored the team consisting entirely of climbers from the region have Tarun Saikia and Manish Kumar Deka from Assam. The team reached Camp-III on May 15 which is located 24,000 feet above the sea level. The 11 climbers who reached Camp-III are N Ching-khein-ganba from Manipur, Kazi Sherpa from Sikkim,...
Guwahati police have arrested a Maoist activist in the city on Saturday. Known as Prasanna Rabha, the youth was picked up from Udalbarka during a combing operation in the area four days after his sister was arrested. Police claimed him to be close associate of central committee member Aklanta Rabha who was arrested last month.
The Board of Secondary Education announced the results of the High School Leaving Certificate and the Assam High Madrassa Examinations on Friday. Altogether 2,59,149 candidates emerged successful out of 3,66,476. The percentage of successful candidates stands at 70.71%.Ijaz Ahmed from Pathshala Shiksha Pith in Barpeta tops the HSLC examinations. Second position goes jointly to Gourika Bang, Little Flower School, Dibrugarh; Manas Jyoti Sarma, Anand Vidya Niketan, Nalbari; Pingal Pratyush Nath, Sophy Mercy School, Sibsagar , Saurav Paul, Don Bosco High School in Sonitpur. Nayan Jyoti Sarma, Sankardev Shishu Vidya Niketan, Nalbari secured third position. The fourth position goes to Bhargav...
Its high alert across the state as cyclone Mahasen is likely to hit the north-eastern states during the next 12 hours.
Areas near the Brahmaputra are on high alert and have been closed for the next 2 days and fishermen have been restricted in these areas.
Control rooms have been set up in several district headquarters to help the victims if required. The storm surfaced over the Andaman and Nicobar islands on May 10 and was moving in north-west direction but on May 14.
Decks are clear for Board of Secondary Education, Assam to announce the results of the High School Leaving Certificate and the Assam High Madrassa Examinations on Friday.The results will be available to the respective schools around 12 noon. The centres would be able to collect the results from Inspectors of Schools. Results are being dispatched in sealed covers to all the district headquarters. The centre in-charge will collect their respective results in the morning on Friday at 12 o’clock they will open the sealed envelopes. The results would also be available on the websites – www.resultassam.nic.in, www.indiaresults.com, www.examtec.com, www.myresultplus.com, online.assam.gov.in, www....
Maoist activists are spreading in the nook and corner of Guwahati. Jalukbari police on Thursday claimed to have intercepted a lady Maoist cadre in the city in the wee hours. Identified as Kabita Rabha, the women cadre was arrested from Udalbakra area in the city. A CD along with some incriminating document were seized from her possession.
A beefed up security in Guwahati is of no use when bombs are found in the hear of the city.Police recovered an IED at Lalmati area hours after Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee left the city. Basistha police recovered the powerful IED from a vehicle after it was noticed by a passer by.
Protest over the NHPC-owned mega dams in Gurukamukh seems to have escalated further when KMSS blocked 14 trucks carrying turbines halfway.KMSS activists sent these trucks back to Guwahati on Wednesday night from Amoni in Nagaon district on way to Gerukamukh via Tezpur.
Police team probing the chit fund scam continues to grill Candan Das a day after the Jeevan Surakhsa boss was brought to Guwahati.Das is facing a number of cases n Guwahati and many other parts of the state. The owner of a chit fund company was arrested from Barasaton Tuesday night on charges of swindling investors' money. Das along with his wife Sangeeta Das were held in a joint raid conducted by officials of CID and that of Barasat police station.
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