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.
Senior Congress leader Anjan Dutta will call on Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on Saturday to clear his position on the dissidence within the Congress legislature party. The former transport minister, who wants Gogoi to continue as chief minister is expected to urge the Gandhis to settle the entire issue soon to avoid further damage hardly two years before the assembly polls. Dutta, who was summoned by the party high command reached the capital on Friday and cleared his position before AICC leader Dr CP Joshi..
Asom Gana Parishad is all set to stage dharna in Guwahati on Monday in protest against the move to provide asylum to the Bangladeshi nationals who fled to the state to get rid of communal riot. Party leaders told Assam Times that the party leaders and workers would stage dharna at Dighalipukhui on Monday demanding governor JB Patnak’s intervention to stop the move. Apart from it, the party would stage another dharna on August 4 in Dispur in protest against it.
Tarun Gogoi will continue as chief minister till 2016 assembly polls. The formal announcement is expected very soon. This was what senior Congress leader Anjan Dutta said. Talking to reporters in New Delhi after his meeting with AICC leader Dr CP Joshi on Friday, Dutta said that he will support Gagoi as chief minister despite simmering dissidence within the party’s legislative body. The Amguri MLA and his Nazira counterpart Debobrata Saikia was summoned by the AICC leaders in New Delhi on Friday to take his view on the dissidence within the party. Senior minister and one of the close associates of Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is heading the ant-Gogoi camp however, said the high command is...
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday asked the policemen to firmly deal with human trafficking, witch hunting, financial fraud and cyber crimes. Interacting with senior police officials at the Assam police headquarters, Gogoi said that the law and order has improved a lot. But in the same breath he said that there are lots of works to be done. He asked the policemen to improve relations with the common people. Gogoi said that the police have to come closer to the people for better policing. According to the chief minister, the government would convert 12 existing police stations into citizen-centric model police stations in the first step. He said that the Government would build up...
After a brief halt poachers have struck again in Kaziranga where yet another rhinoceros was killed. Forest guards found the hornless carcass in Kohora during their routine visit sending shock and anger among the animal lovers. Poachers were believed to have used AK-47 rifles and handmade guns to kill the rhino on Thursday night. An axe was found near the carcass. Poachers have so far killed altogether 22 rhinos within the last seven months.
Disappointed dissident ministers and MLAs are trying to reach out to a section AGP, BPF and AIUDF legislators to form an alternative government in Dispur if Sonia Gandhi fails to dislodge Tarun Gogoi as chief minister this week. Dissident leaders told Assam Times that a section of AGP top leaders is believed to have given positive response to the development. A positive response would give the dissident camp 9 legislators. AIUDF sources further confirmed receipt of the request for support to Dr Sarma with 18 MLAs. Same efforts are on to take the BPF members on board. But the Gogoi camp has straightly dismissed the possibility saying that it is a figment of imagination.
The dissident ministers and MLAs on Thursday threaten to take a drastic step if party high command fails to dislodge Tarun Gogoi as chief minister by Saturday. Addressing a press conference in Dispur on Thursday, they said that they have been waiting for the party high command’s response to their demands. “If we are unheard we are ready to face any eventuality,” they said. They claimed that they have support of 40 legislators against Tarun Gogoi as chief minister. “We hoped that the party high command would go by the majority decision acting on the Malikarjun Kharge report. But Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi seem to have taken the side of Gogoi. We against urge the high command to go by...
Senior journalist Satish Chandra Sharma passed away on Thursday. The 68-year long journalist who worked with United News of India for nearly four decades died at a local hospital where he was undergoing treatment for the past few days Sharma started his career at the Shillong bureau of UNI in the sixties decade of the last century. He went on to serve as bureau chief at Gwalior and Guwahati, before retiring from Ranchi in the same capacity in 2006. He held various important positions as a journalist, including being the president of Guwahati Press Club and Assam Union of Working Journalists. His body was taken to the Guwahati Press Club in the morning.
The mortal remains of Pulin Das consigned to flames on Thursday a day after the veteran sportsman is no more. The veteran sportsman passed away on Wednesday. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi along with severa ministers, political leaders, parties and organizations paid their last respect before his body was cremated in the morning. Das breathed his last at 97 on Wedesday. The end came at 2 in the afternoon at the International Hospital in Guwahati where he was undergoing treatment. Born on November 1, 1918 the veteran sportsman brought glory to the north eastern region on several occasions. Das was only the living member of Assam’s first Ranji team of 1948. After his graduation,...
Japanese encephalitis starts wreaking havoc claiming 15 people so far forcing the government to step in. According to information, the victims include four children in the age group of two years to 15 years, and eleven adults in the affected districts. In a bid to contain the situation at the earliest, the health department preparing for preventive vaccination programmes across the state which will take time. The Centre is in constant touch with the state authorities to contain the situation.
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