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.
Tea planters called for a single hotline phone number along with deployment of drones and unmanned aerial vehicles to ensure adequate security for executives and workers of the industry.According to North East Tea Association, the government should provide the tea industry a single hotline phone number in every tea growing area so that well-equipped and well-manned police and paramilitary forces arrive at the spot within 30 minutes of receiving a phone call.
Normal life in Assam remains crippled on fourth day following an indefinite economic blockade imposed against Nagaland.The blockade was imposed after armed miscreants killed a farmer during a firing incident in the Naginijaan area near Mariani in Jorhat District along the Assam-Nagaland border, worsening the unresolved boundary row.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh extended his best wishes to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on the successful completion of second year of the third consecutive term anniversary of the Congress government on Saturday.Dr Singh, in a message said, Assam has seen all round progress and development during the third consecutive term of the Congress Government.
The U.S. Consulate General invites the media to a press interaction with well-known American urban planning expert, ROBERT E. BROSNAN, Director, Department of Community Planning, Housing and Development, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.Robert Brosnan’s Press InteractionDate: June 7, 2013Time: 12:15pmVenue: NECRD - IGNOUNear Nayantara Supermarket, Six Mile, Guwahati - 781022With rapid urbanization, preserving the environment poses many challenges and governments, industry and civil society need to play a responsible role in this effort to ensure that development is more sustainable. The ‘Green Building’ Movement in India is advancing at a rapid pace...
Amid escalating tension along the Assam-Nagaland border in Mariani, a section of Naga miscrents unleashed a reign of terror in Sivasagar. Miscreants destroyed tea plants at an area of 7 bighas in Geleky area on Tuesday. Security forces arrived in the spot. But by then the miscreants managed to flee away.
A warlike situation is in sight along the Assam-Nagaland interstate border. Police and paramilitary forces are on high alert to avert any incident of fresh incidents of attack by the Nagaland miscreants.Security forces are concentrating mainly on Mariani following the killing of a worker by assailants suspected to be from Nagaland at Naginijan tea garden in Jorhat district. Additional troops have been deployed after the incident that took place yesterday.
Amid escalating tension, Mokokchung District administration has promulgated Section 144 CrPC from 12 noon on June 3 in and around - Saringyin, Aonokpuyimsen, Tsuremen and Akumen- bordering Jorhat district, till further orders. Nagaland state had earlier sent one platoon of 10 IR(NAP)Battalion to aid the district administration control the situation and after Monday morning’s incident, two more platoons have been sent as reinforcement. Nagaland home minister is set to leave for New Delhi soon to discuss the border issue and that the state government was closely monitoring the situation.
An Asom Gana Parishad delegation was on a fact finding visit to Mariani a day after Naga miscreants shot dead an Adivasi cultivator.Led by former minister Atul Bora, the delegation visited the border near the tea garden to take stock of the prevailing situation.A farmer succumbed to bullet injuries in Naginijan area on Monday morning. The deceased Sanjay Bhumij was ploughing in a paddy field when some unidentified miscreants fired at him from the Nagaland side.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has asked the Nagaland government to immediately arrest the Naga miscreants who shot dead the cultivator at Naginijan area on Monday.Talking to reporters before leaving for New Delhi on Tuesday he said that the Nagaland government must hand over the miscreants to the Assam government. He said that his government won’t sit idle if these are allowed to continue. Gogoi, however, announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh to the next of kin of the labourer who died in the shot out.
Tarun Saikia and Manish Kumar Deka were accorded a heroic welcome as they reached their homes in Guwahation Tuesday.Both the mountaineers, who were the first Assamese duo to have scaled the Mt Everest were taken to the city with a huge procession after they landed at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Internation Airport. The Assam Government received both the heroes at the Lokapriya Gopinath BordoloiInternational Airport immediately after their arrival. Several other organisations also greeted the duo and joined the rally along with their family members. Then mountaineers were taken to RG Baruah Sports Complex to be felicitated. The Assam Government ...
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