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.
An earthquake of mild intensity rocked Guwahati and its adjoining areas on Wednesday.The mild quake was felt at around 4-30 in the morning.The quake pressed panic button among the people in Guwahati were a section of the people in the high rise buildings started coming out to the streets. Details are awaited.
Governor JB Patnaik approved Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's recommendation to drop Ardhendu Dey and Siddeque Ahmed from the council of ministers. Patnaik further cleared Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma’s resignation acting on Gogoi’s recommendation.
Caught in a grim crisis, chief minister Tarun Gogoi gets more tougher with the dissident ministers. Gogoi on Tuesday dropped ministers Siddique Ahmed and Ardhendu Dey a day after dissident leader Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma put in his papers as education and health minister. The chief minister dropped the duo from his council of ministers for publicly taking on him and supporting dissident activities. This may follow action against the duo from the party high command.
Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma’s resignation has been accepted. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has suggested Governor JB Patnaik to accept the health and education minister’s resignation leter he submitted on Monday. Dr Sarma on Monday put in his papers saying that he was not physically and mentally prepared to work under Tarun Gogoi as chief minister. After the receipt of the letter, Gogoi sent the letter to the party high command seeking final seal of approval.
Normalcy is back to Rangapara town a day after the Sonitpur administration imposed curfew following a clash between police and protestor. Talking to Assam Times, district administration officials said that curfew has been lifted from 10 in the morning on Tuesday. The district administration was maintaining a strict vigil to prevent any further incidents. Indefinite curfew was clamped after police lathicharged protesters, who were holding a road blockade demanding improvement in communication facilities to the place. The agitators, comprising 25 organisations were protesting alleging pathetic condition of the Misamari-Balipara road.
Japanese Encephalitis continues to wreak havoc in the state where the death toll has gone up to 52. Barpeta district remains worst affected after the death toll has gone up to eight apart from the rise in then number of confirmed positive cases which stands at 54. Barpeta is followed by the rural Kamrup district with 34 cases. Four patients died. Darrang, Sivasagar and Nalbari have all registered six deaths. Nalbari has recorded 20 confirmed positive cases while Kamrup (metro) district has recorded 31 positive cases but no deaths so far. The total number of positive cases registered in the state is 323. This is for the first time that lower Assam has recorded so many...
Normal life in Dima Hasao district comes to a grinding halt from Tuesday after 48 hour came into force in the morning. Schools and colleges, shops and markets, banks and offices, mostly, are remaining closed under the impact of the bandh called by the NC Hills Indigenous Students’ Forum and the NC Hills Women Forum. The two organizations have given the band call demanding bifurcation of NC Hills into two autonomous districts, payment of seven months’ pending salary to the council employees, implementation of all the minority development schemes and speedy investigation into the Rs 1,000 crore scam. Talking to Assam Times, the leaders of the organizations alleged that the name of the...
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi is preparing to accept Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma’s resignation a day after the education and health minister quitted the cabinet. Reliable sources told Assam Times that the chief minister has sent the copy of Dr Sarma’s resignation letter to AICC conveying his decision to accept it. Dr Sarma put in his papers on Monday saying that he was not prepared to work under Tarun Gogoi as chief minister.
The dissident ministers and MLAs are running the risk of stern action from the party high command. State Congress committee on Monday has urged the AICC to take stern action against outgoing education and health minister alleging anti party activities. APCC along with 13 ministers have jointly urged the party leadership to take action against the dissident MLAs and ministers who accompanied Dr Sarma in his journey to the Raj Bhawan. The Gogoi camp finalized their strategies after they met at the residence of social welfare minister Akon Bora.
AICC on Monday downplayed Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma’s resignation saying that it would have hardly any impact on the ruling party. Hours after Dr Sarma put in his papers as health and education minister, AICC spokesman Manish Tewari said that the developments would do any harm for the party. Tiwary said that there was nothing really to be worried about it ad that everything got sorted out amicably.
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