International Women’s Day was observed at Gram Vikash Parishad’s Head Office, Rangaloo jointly by Jan Sikshan Sansthan, Nagaon, Gram Vikash Parishad and Social Welfare Department of Nagaon on 8th March 2011. To mark this auspicious occasion a day long programme was held. Officers from different departments of the district and well known persons were present in the open session presided over by Md. Siraj Uddin Ahmed General Secretary of Gram Vikas Parishad. Valuable speeches were delivered by the eminent guest speakers including Mrs Jarjina Begum (Retired Subject Teacher), Moni Deepa Saikia (District Social Welfare Officer), Rosie Kalita (Additional S.P. Nagaon), Dr. Roslin Zahan (Professor Nagaon Girls College), Based Ali (Asstt. Teacher Rangoloo High School), Abdul Munnaf (President, Gram Vikas Parishad), Rumi Begum (Senior Supervisor Kathiatali ICDS Project), emphasizing over the main objective of observing Women’s Day, women empowerment and awareness.
On this occasion tree plantation, devotional song, drawing competition and a one act play performed by JSS & GVP staff written and directed by Kajol Choudhury were one of the important parts of the day long programme including open session. Few eminent social workers felicitated on this occasion were Nagaon Zila Mahila Congress Committee president Mrs. Eliza Ahmed, District Social Welfare Officer Ms. Moni Deepa Saikia and senior advocate and former lecturer of Nagaon Law College Mrs. Deepa Saikia.
More than three hundred women participants were gathered in a slide presentation based on International Women’s Day celebration theme of the year 2011, ‘Equal access to Education, training and science and technology, pathway to decent work place for women’ Md. Siraj Uddin Ahmed, Chairman of Jan Sikshan Sansthan, Nagaon & General Secretary. Gram Vikas Parishad.
Mritunjoy 108 workers took part in the open session and spoke about the first aid- precautionary measures to be taken at emergency.
Two small tea growers sustained injury when a group of NDFB(S) militants attacked them in Sonitpur district on Monday. According to information, a group of four armed militants attacked the tea planter at Mainasiri in Urahaloga in the wee hours for failing to pay the money they demanded earlier. Identified as Baula Basumatary and Rugi Basumatary, the duo have been undergoing treatment at the Rangapara hospital. This has forced the authorities to launch combing operations to apprehend the militants.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday proposed a Dredging Corporation to firmly deal with the perennial flood and erosion problems in the state.In his budget speech, Gogoi said that this will be apart from recommendations for 41 Centre-funded schemes worth Rs 1,387 crore.He said,” in view of the critical erosion problem, channelisation of River Brahmaputra, Barak and its tributaries and reclamation of lost land has become highly necessary. I propose to set up a Dredging Corporation for this purpose."
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi said that the budget this year will be Rs 1,385.77 crore. In his hour long budget speech in assembly, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said, “Rs 52,696.81 crore is on revenue account and the remaining Rs 4,614.58 crore is under capital account.” The 2014-15 budget estimate shows a receipt of Rs 57,311.39 crore under the consolidated fund of the state. He said that adding Rs 3,29,365.94 crore receipt of under public account and of Rs 50 crore under contingency fund, the aggregate receipts amount stands at Rs 3,86,727.33 crore. The total expenditure from the consolidated fund of the state in 2014-15 is estimated at Rs 58,104.54 crore, he said. According to Gogoi, “...
Security forces are fanning across the state in search of ULFA and NDFB(R) militants who are believed to have been waiting to strike in the run up to the Independence Day. Policemen deployed on the roads have been checking the two and four wheelers along with the trucks and passenger buses. Massive checking is underway at the railway and bus stations. Vital roads and bridges, Oil and gas installations are being heavily guarded to thwart attack by the militants who are believed to have entered the state to make their presence felt. Security forces have been maintaining close vigil in the areas along the inter state border to prevent the entry of...
With a series of populist measures chief minister Tarun Gogoi tabled his state budget for 2014-15 in the assembly on Monday. Gogoi, who holds the finance portfolio read out his budget speech after the end of the question hours on the floor. His populist measures were on the expected line in the wake of his party’s humiliating defeat in the recent Lok Sabha polls hardly one and a half years before the assembly polls. Gogoi refrained from tabling his full fledge budget n March because of the general poll in April and May. He tabled only the vote on account on the floor in March.
Dibrugarh police have arrested three students on Sunday hours after they gangraped a teenaged girl bear a railway station. Those arrested have been identified as Kalyan Dutta and Pranjit Dutta -- both graduation students of Lahowal College, and Karan Gogoi, a Higher Secondary student of Aniruddha Dev College. Police are looking for Raju Gogoi of Lahowal College who also raped the girl. The incident took place in the wee hours when the 15-year-old girl, along with a teenage boy, her next-door neighbour, had gone to Dibrugarh station to board the Brahmaputra Mail. The accused students caught the girl and the boy who accompanied her. The boy was thrashed and the girl was...
Four students gangraped a minor girl in Dibrugarh district on Sunday 24 hours after a youth killed a college girl in Nagaon. Sunday’s incident took place in the wee hours when the 15-year-old girl, along with a teenage boy, her next-door neighbour, had gone to Dibrugarh station to board the Brahmaputra Mail. The accused students caught the girl and the boy who accompanied her. The boy was thrashed and the girl was gangraped near the station to be rescued by a police patrol party. She was immediately rushed to the Assam Medical College where the rape was confirmed. Investigation is going on. ///
A prominent Naga organisation warns the authority not to allow the outsiders to disturb the settlements of the Naga people along the Assam- Nagaland interstate border. Known as the United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas,the organization raised a six-point resolution demanding immediate setting up of border guards in all border villages to protect the people and their land. The organization also demanded that all bilateral and tripartite agreements made between Assam and Nagaland be reviewed and settle the border dispute on the basis of historical facts. /
Some sensational revelations are believed to have come to light in the probe in to the gory incident of Nagaon where a local youth in a remote village killed a college girl on Saturday night. The incident that sends shockwaves and utter anger took place on Saturday at Kawaimari village under Rupahihat police station in the wee hours. The accused is her neighbor who stormed into her house hours before. The the body of the college girl belonging to the economically backward class was found from a jute field. Investigation was on.
The Kamrup Chamber of Commerce demands withdrawal of tax on agricultural farming in the soon to be tabled state budget. The major demand as steps to encourage the organic farming figured in the pre budget meeting with Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi who is presenting state budget in the assembly on Monday. KCC leaders told Gogoi that the withdrawal of tax on agriculture would will encourage investment in this sector. KCC wish list include cold storage in all the districts. Citing examples in the West Bengal, the KCC leaders said the neighboring statehas over 500 cold storage and in Assam there is just 17 such storage. The meeting stressed potato cultivation on the the river bank of...
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