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.
KMSS seems to have targeted Rockybbul Hussain capitalizing on his failure to stop rhino poaching in Kazirnaga.Led by its president Akhil Gogoi, hundreds of KMSS activists staged dharna on Monday at Dighalipukhuri demanding the forest minister’s resignation immediately.Talking to reporters, Gogoi said that if Hussian is allowed to continue in the helm of affairs, Assam will have to pay heavy price. They further threatened to intensify the protest if rhino poaching is not strictly dealt with.
BJP leaders and activists staged dharna across the state on Monday demanding action against the persons involved in the vote rigging in the last three phases of Lok Sabha polls.The BJP leaders and activists staged dharna across the state on Monday demanding action against theIn Guwahati also hundreds of the BJP leaders staged dharna in front of the state party headquarters raising the demands for action against the persons involved in the vote rigging in Jalukbari along with and Karimganj and Dharmapur.party activists in large number thronged in front of all the district headquarters at 11 in the morning and staged dharna for several hours. They further alleged role of Congress in the vote...
Guwahati Police claimed to have captured a top Garo insurgent leader in Guwahati hardly a week after he escaped police at an encounter with Meghalaya police.Identified as Tensang Sangma, the UALA sergeant major in East Garo hillls of the neighbouring state was arrested during a joint operation at Beltola area in the city on Sunday night.The dreaded Garo insurgent leaders was arrested when he was landing in the city along with two girls for treatment of leg injury he sustained during a recent encounter with Meghalaya police. A number of sensational cases is believed to have been pending against Sangma. Meghalaya police are all set to take...
Repolling is going on at the Barnijora booth on a brisk noteon Monday where over 1500 electorates are seen waiting in huge queue to exercise their franchise again from 7 in the morning. A sensational rigging expose by a private satellite news channel forced the Election Commmission to order repoll in this booth under the Jalukbari assembly segment. Notably, a VDP member who got deployed outside the booth managed to go inside it and allegedly pressed the EVMM button on behalf of a few voters in full view of the polling officials on Thursday. The voting will end at 5 in the evening.
The Bornijora polling booth presiding officer Paresh Hazarika fell critically ill hours after he was remanded to judicial custody on Sunday.Hazarika fell on the ground as soon as he along with five other persons arrested in connection with the vote rigging were brought to the jail in the evening.Hazarika was rushed to the hospital where his condition is said to be critical. He along with four other polling officers and a VDP member were arrested by the Baihata police on Saturday morning and on Sunday the Rangia sub-divisional magistrate remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.
A lower court in Rangia sent six people to jail a day after they were arrested in connection with vote rigging at a polling booth in Guwahati constituency where they were deployed on Thursday.Identified as presiding officer Paresh Hazarika and polling officials Rakhal Chandra Choudhury, Abhay Nath Bezbarua and Rupam Malakar at Bornojora booth, they were remanded to judicial custody after Baihata police produced before the Rangia sub-divisional magistrate on Sunday.Apart from them police produced Bimal Boro, the VDP member who pressed the EVM button on behalf of a few voters. Boro and Bidyut Saikia the video grapher where sent to jail.Police did not seek them in their custody and the public...
Repolling is over in altogether 15 booths covering four Lok Sabha constituencies on Sunday. The fresh polling was by and large peaceful. There was no report of any incident during these 10 hours.Voters in large number were seen waiting to vote in the polling booths till the end of the polling which began at 7 in the morning.The booths include three in Guwahati, nine in Kokrajhar and two in Nagaon and one in Mongoldoi constituency where polling was disrupted because of EVM malfunctioning.Guwahati polling booths include No 1 Hengrabari LP School, No 180 Ganeshpara School and Ramchariny School under West Guwahati Assembly segment.The repolling comcluded peacefully at 5 in the evening.
KMSS on Sunday demanded immediate arrest of Guwahati returning officer Ashotosh Kumar Agnihotri in connection with the vote rigging in Jalukbari on Thursday.Addressing press conference in Guwahati, KMSS president Akhil Gogoi alleged that the incident did not took place without his knowledge.Gogoi also demanded repoll in the entire Jalukbari assembly segment and a CBI probe into the entire incident in view of clear evidence of rigging.“Earlier we raised doubts over the functioning of the electronic voting machines. But the election authorities hardly listened to us,” said Gogoi.
The Asom Gana Parishad alleged that a section of government employees were engaged in rigging at Bornijora booth in the Lok Sabha polls which is a fit case for CBI probe.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Sunday, party president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said that these incidents have turned the entire poll process into a farce.Mahanta further opposed the arrest of the person who photographed the entire incident in his camera at the polling station when a VDP member allegedly pressed the EVM buttons on behalf of a section of voters.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday promised all possible steps to preserve the remains of historic building a day after it was ravaged by fire in Guwahati. Visiting the debris of the site in Fancy Bazar, Gogoi ordered a high level probe to ascertain the cause of the fire that gutted nearly 20 houses on Sunday wee hours. Talking to the reporters, the chief minister said that the enquiry would cover the alleged delay in the arrival of fire brigades into the spot.
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