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 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.
Guwahati has escaped a huge explosion that could have resulted in large scale death and destruction when security forces seized a huge quantity of explosive in Paltanbazar.The explosives weighing over 50 KG were intercepted from the possession of a person during a search operation of railway security forces in Paltabazar station on Sunday. Acting on a tip off, GRPF personnel conducted a search operation at the Railway station where they seized the explosives from the possession of a person who is believed to have hailed from Darjeeling.Investigation is going on.
At least 7 people were killed and nine others have been critically injured when a truck carrying them slipped into a deep gorge in Bajali district on Sunday.The incident took place early in the morning at Saderi on the National Highway No 152 when the truck was on its way from Pathsala to Dumuni .It slipped into the gorge after the driver lost control over the truck. Local residents extricated the bodies and rushed 5 persons to the Barpeta Medical College Hospital while 6 others to a local hospital in Bajali.One person died on the spot while five others were rushed to the hospital where they succumbed to their injuries. All the injured have been battling for life.
Properties worth crores of rupees along with a 108 year old building reduced to ashes when a devastating fire broke out in Guwahati on Sunday.The fire broke at Lakhtokia area in Fancybazar in the wee hours where as many as 70 houses were gutted.The fire was believed to have originated from electric short circuit which later engulfed many houses within a short period of four hours.The burst of domestic LPG cylinders further compounded the problem. A 108 year old building where former President Fakaruddin Ali Ahmed housed for many decades also gutted in the fire.Over ten fire tenders took over four hours to bring the situation under control. The real extent of damage is yet to be ascertained....
Amid tight security, repolling is underway in altogether 15 booths covering four Lok Sabha constituency on Sunday.Voters in large number are waiting to vote in the polling booths which began at 7 in the morning.Long queues of voters were seen in a section of polling booths even from 6 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 Ramchiary School under West Guwahati Assembly segment.The repolling will continue till 5 in the evening.
The Election Commission will conduct repolling in Bornijora polling booth after it confirmed vote rigging on Thursday.Official sources in Guwahati said that repolling would take place from 7 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon in the booth under the Jalukbari assembly segment.The commission ordered repolling after the chief election officer apprised it of rigging by a local VDP member who pressed the EVM buttons on behalf of a few voters in full view of the presiding and polling officers.BJP and AGP separately demanded repolling in the booth alleging massive rigging on Thursday.
A day after the rigging expose at the Bornijora polling booth, a BJP delegation alleged the role of a powerful minister.A BJP delegation including the Guwahati candidate Bijoy Chakrabarty alleged before the chief election officer that a power minister in the Tarun Gogoi cabinet is behind the entire exercise.Later talking to reporters the BJP leaders said that the voters are quite disappointed with these incidents where an unauthorized VDP member was allowed to press the EVM button on behalf of a section of voters.
Police have picked up six polling officials deployed at Bornijora booth in North Guwahati where a VDP member pressed the EVM button on behalf of a section of electorates in full view of them on Thursday.Police swung into action a day after a private satellite channel beamed the entire story with exclusive footage of the alleged exercise at the booth in Jalukbari Assembly segment.Kamrup (Rural) DC, Dr J Balaji, further lodged two complaint against Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma and Congress candidate Manas Bora suspecting their roles in the entire incident.
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