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.
Floodwaters are still wreaking havoc in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts displacing thousands of people. The river Brahmaputra and its tributaries are flowing above the danger level striking panic among the people in both the districts. The recurrence of rains in the catchment areas seems to have added more woes these days. The district administrations have yet to set up relief camps for the affected in Jonai revenue circle of Dhemaji district and Subansiri revenue circle of North Lakhimpur district.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi raised a number of issues confronting the state as he met prime minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Monday. Talking to reporters after the meeting, Gogoi said that Dr Manmohan Singh and his successor Modi are not comparable to each other. He said that they were different persons and cannot be compared. Gogoi said, "I have to deal with a different regime."
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday said that BJP’s popularity is declining rapidly. Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Gogoi said that if this downward trend continues, it would be difficult for the party to keep its popularity in tact.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi is plain and simple. He was not hankering after any post. This was what he simply told reporters in New Delhi on Monday. Talking to reporters on dissidence against him, an irritated Gogoi said that he did not know who will lead the party in the 2016 Assembly polls. “The party will win the polls. It is not important who will lead the party. But Congress will win the election again,” he said. Gogoi arrived in the capital on Saturday to depose before the Antony panel on Sunday set up to examine the reasons behind the poll debacle.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is likely to take a final call on the simmering dissidence within the Congress legislature party.Top AICC leaders told Assam Times that a worried Gandhi is keen to settle the entire issue this week itself.But she has yet to discuss the Mallikarun Kharge findings with Rahul Gandhi who has arrived in New Delhi on Sunday. “Gandhi does not want Tarun Gogoi to go. But in the same breath she wants to keep the dissident legislatures calm. That’s why, she has been trying to strike a balance between the two,” said n AICC top leader who refused to be named before Assam Times.Notably, Gandhi is set to talk to Rahul Gandhi in a day or two to finaly settle the issue...
Security forces are still fanning in Chirang district in search of the youths who exploded two grenades in the district on Sunday. A massive search operation is underway to nab the culprits. Top police and civil officials of the district administration rushed to the spot and reviewed the situation. Unidentified militants struck again in the area leaving three people injured on Sunday in Chirang distrcit. Three people sustained serious injury when some unidentified miscreants lobbed a grenade in Bijni in the afternoon. Three motorcycle borne youths lobbed a grenade near Bolanguri bus stand at Kuklun Road area where three persons were left critically injured as they were working at a...
The All Assam Students’ Union on Monday has threatened to launch a massive agitation across the state if the Centre allows resumption of big dam construction. At the end of the day long satyagraha in protest against the move to the Modi government, the students’ body strongly criticized the Centre alleging its double standard role on the big dam construction in Arunachal Pradesh. They made it plain and simple that they won’t halt if the Centre is averse to listen to the voice of protest. Earlier in the morning, the student body leaders and activists thronged in the district and sub divisional headquarters and started staging dharna asking the Centre to stop the construction of the NHPC...
Security forces are fanning in Chirang district in search of the youths who exploded two grenades in the district on Sunday. A massive search operation is underway to nab the culprits. Top police and civil officials of the district administration rushed to the spot and reviewed the situation. Unidentified militants struck again in the area leaving three people injured on Sunday in Chirang distrcit. Three people sustained serious injury when some unidentified miscreants lobbed a grenade in Bijni in the afternoon. Three motorcycle borne youths lobbed a grenade near Bolanguri bus stand at Kuklun Road area where three persons were left critically injured as they were working at a garage....
A huge explosion rocked Chirang district on Sunday forcing security forces to step in. The incident took place near No 2 Bhetgaon area ten minutes after the Bijni town explosion where three workers sustained injury. But nobody was injured in the explosion. Minutes before it, militants struck again in the area leaving three people injured on Sunday in Chirang distrcit. Three people sustained serious injury when some unidentified miscreants lobbed a grenade in Bijni in the afternoon. Eyewitnesses told Assam Times that three motorcycle borne youths lobbed a grenade near Bolanguri bus stand at Kuklun Road area where three persons were left critically injured as they were working at a garage...
Bombs are back in BTAD areas. Unidentified militants struck again in the area leaving three people injured on Sunday in Chirang distrcit. Three people sustained serious injury when some unidentified miscreants lobbed a grenade in Bijni in the afternoon. Eyewitnesses told Assam Times that three motorcycle borne youths lobbed a grenade near Bolanguri bus stand at Kuklun Road area where three persons were left critically injured as they were working at a garage. Identified as Palan Mandal, Sujannam Das and Sujan Arya, the trio have been rushed to the hospital in a critical condition.
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