With active initiation by the various Tiwa (Lalung) organisations, mainly by All Tiwa Students Union (ATSU), a new political outfit has come up in Assam with the name and style of Sanmilita Ganamancha.
According to the reports reached here, a conference of various ethnic groups was convened at Morigaon on May 15 last under the aegis of ATSU, which adopted the resolution to give birth the political wing with a view to ensure and safeguard the rights, hopes and aspirations of the local populace living within the Tiwa autonomous council area.
The conference with Rimal Amsih, President of Tiwa Cultural Society, Bhogeswar Teron, President of Karbi Students Union, Khagen Bordoloi, President of Tiwa Yuba Chhatra Parishad and Prahlad Mosrong, President of ATSU in the chair however have stressed the need of all round development of the people irrespective of caste, creed and religion living within the territorial council.
The conference which was attended by the representatives of 25 various organisations, however, through a resolution demanded the State Government to hold the council election on the basis of a genuine voters list. It is worth mentioning that the gazzette notification for the Tiwa, Thengal and Deori autonomous council polls has been issued on wednesday last and the date of poll is slated for June 7 this year.
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The Assam Government has declared local holiday on June 7 in the areas falling under Deori, Thengal kachari and Tiwa Autonomous Councils within respective districts of Nagaon, Morigaon, Kamrup (Metro), Jorhat, Golaghat, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Sonitpur, Sibsagar and Tinsukia for the ensuing general elections to the councils.The declaration is made in respect to all the state and central Govt. offices, public sector Undertakings, Corporations, Boards, Banks, Educational Institutions etc. The Govt. has also declared dry day in these areas from 4 pm of 5th june to 4 pm of June 7 and on the counting day.
The Government of Assam vide notifification issued on June 4, has appointed 27 senior officials as the Election Observers for the purpose of conduct of election to the General Councils of Tiwa, Deori and Thengal Kachari Autonomous Council to be held on June 7, 2010.
As per notification, Apurba Kumar Phukan, Executive Director of Assam Sarba Siksha Abhijan; Shyam Jagannathan, Secretary, P&D; Ganesh Kumar Kalita, Commissioner of Labour; Rajeev Lochan Duara, Director of Social Welfare; Sohrab Ali, Addl. Secretary of Education (S); C R Kalita, Addl. Secretary of Power (E) and Amarendra Nath Bora, Director of Financial Inspection were appointed as Election Observer for the Tiwa...
With a view to sort-out the on-going border disputes between Assam and Meghalaya, the chief ministers of both the states Tarun Gogoi and Dr. Mukul M. Sangma in presence of the ministers and senior officers held a high level meeting here at Assam secretariate on June5 evening.
The meeting decided to conduct a judicial enquiry concerning Langpi incident by a sitting judge of the high court.
Official sources also informed that the meeting, however, constituted a joint commitee comprising the chief secretaries (CS)of both the states to prepare the modalities of the proposed discussion between the states within the next 45 days which will be followed by a meeting of the chief minister...
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The programme took off with the welcome address by Dr. B.P.Sarma, DGM(Medical), Guwahati Refinery and Organizing Chairman. Thereafter, the program was formally inaugurated by renowned Urologist of the North East, Prof. S.C.Dutta. In his inaugural speech, Prof.Dutta spoke of the development of this branch of medical...
Keeping in view to assist the meritorious but poor students of the state, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will soon be declaring a new special scholarship scheme which is not only meant for the position holders but for those who could not secure 1st division but meritorious and needy. Besides this, the top grading schools will also be given fiscal aid from the Government.
According to the sources attached to the CM secretariat, the new scheme is aimed to provide financial help to those students who could not secure 1st division but are meritorius and needy.
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A crucial meeting of the outfit held here at the Guwahati central jail which was attended by the jailed and released ULFA leaders opined that the organisation will soon be holding a meeting to finalise its decision to have or not to have peace talks with the Govt. minus it's Commander-in-Chief Paresh Barua.
In a press communique issued after the meeting, the ULFA publicity secretary , Mithinga Daimary stated that the need of the hour is to have a congenial atmosphere for the proposed talk with the Government.He also demanded the release of the...
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According to the reports, the agitators on thursday staged a sit-in-demo in front of the Sonapur revenue circle and blocked the National Highway 37 to register their protest. Later, Govt. representatives when assured the agitators to postponed elections...
Showing a noble gesture to the society, the All Assam Students Union (AASU) has decided to provide helping hand to those meritorious students, who topped in the recently declared Board exams and performed well, despite of all odds.
Informing this in a press communique, AASU general secretary Tapan Kumar Gogoi on Thursday stated that Geetika Talukdar, who topped the list of the successful students in the 10+2 level in Arts stream had no electricity facility at her home.Bringing smile to Geetika and her family members, the Barpeta unit of the organisation on Thursday have arranged electricity connection at her home and have decided to provide all help to continue her higher studies.While...
The United Liberation Front Of Assam (ULFA) on Friday has denied media reports of the arrests of its Commander-in-chief Paresh Barua and the finance secretary Bhaity Barua alias Apurba Barua.
In a press communique issued today, the self-styled lieutenant colonel and the publicity secretary of the banned outfit, Anu Burhagohain clarified that the arrest of ULFA supremo Paresh Baruah was denied by Bangladesh, Home Ministry officials and the ULFA as well. Even Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi denied having any knowledge of this.
"They (Paresh and Bhaity) are safe "-stated the release.
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