PWD engineers and contractor beaten by flood affected people
The irate flood affected people of Ranthali near Kalaigaon town physically assulted PWD officials of Udalguri Division namely Harekrishna Sarma,Asstt. Engineer; Tilak Sarma JE and one PWD contractor Hemchandra Daimari at 8.30 AM on June 28 near a flood damaged bridge at Ranthali. People also pushed down all the vehicles of the officials and contractors (one Maruti Alto, one Maruti 800 and one Honda Glamour bike) in to the deep flood water.
According to information the construction of RCC bridge at Gerua at the cost of Rs.6,42,89033/- on six and half KM long Ojagaon -Kalaigaon PWD road had started on November 26, 2008. But only twenty percent of the work has been completed during these three years, causing misery to people of several villages. The recent flood in Kalaigaon Revenue Circle nearly damaged the temporary weak foot bridge.Even the incomplete RCC bridge developed a few cracks. The stranded people including students started gathering at the site since morning of June 28. When the officials and contractors had arrived at the site irate people started arguing with them resulting the incident. Irate people also gheraod Pabitra Kumar Das, BDO, Kalaigaon who had arrived at the site half an hour later. All the injured officials and contractor had been hospitalised.
Random Stories
27 Mar 2017 - 12:17pm |
AT Staff Reporter
The golden jubilee celebration of Samalabari LP School concluded on March 26 with three days programme.The school has been the centre for learning among villagers besides class room teaching since...
23 Jan 2012 - 5:47pm |
Anup Arandhara
Punaram Mili, an employee of Assam Asset, is the first Assamese, who elected as president of All India Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Tribe welfare Association. He was selected from the 22 basin or...
13 May 2015 - 4:52pm |
Hantigiri Narzary
Hundreds of kisan from various parts of the district participated in a rally in protest against land acquisition bill today in Kokrajhar. The ralliest with banner, placards shouted slogans...
8 May 2013 - 10:15pm |
AT News
A prize money Enviro Quiz for4 high and higher secondary school students is being organised by by People’s Friend Foundation be held on June 5 at the District Library Auditorium, Guwahati. The...
Other Contents by Author
In another cruel human act in Udalguri district, a female leopard was beaten to death in Orangajuli TE on June 8 at 3 pm.The leopard which had by mistake entered human locality called Samosa Line (labour line) when hundreds of villagers equipped with dao and lathi attacked the panicked animal.A boy named Johan Kerkata was injured while attacking the animal.The forest officials arrived at the spot at 4 pm.But the agitated villagers tried to attack them,demanding compensation on the spot.Later the dead leopard was taken to Nonai Range Office for post mortem and cremation.According to forest officials the killed leopard was 30 inch tall and 35 inch long with the 30 inch long tail. Range...
The tragic death of another wild tusker at Hatigarh tea garden factory in Udalguri district has again proved the irresponsible attitude of the tea garden management in the matter of man elephant conflict in the district.So far more than ten wild elephants had been electrocuted in various tea gardens namely -Hatigarh,Nonai,Barangajuli etc in last two years. Nature lovers allege that tea garden management had never been serious in the matter,instead they just tried to pass on the responsibility to forest officials.The electrocution of the wild tusker aged 15 years occured in the night of June 4 at Bholakhuti line attached to the factory house of Hatigarh tea garden.The locals said that...
The District administration of Udalguri is ready to observe World Environment Day centrally at Udalguri on June 5. tOn 2nd June, the Deputy Commissioner, Udalguri Thaneswar Malakar Presided over an emergent meeting at his Office Chamber where D.F.O., Dhansiri Division Bankim Sarma,ACF Madhurjya Sarma,ADC Kulen Talukdar,ADC Manjit Brahma ADC Mihir Barua,SDO(C), Bhergaon Loknath Mahanta,EAC Pranjal Das,BDO Khoirabari Prabitra Das, AEE PWD(B) Udalguri Karuna Das, PWD Official Md.Ali,Hareswar Basumatary and Munin Sharma both from Dist.Admn attended the meeting. The meeting decided to revive the Mission Green Udalguri. In the eve of World Environment Day on June 5 sapling of various trees...
“High school leaving Cerificate Examination is no doubt a turning point to a student to decide his future career. If a student inculcates self confidence in him or her, his confidence would be rewarded in the long run.” This was said by Thaneswar Malakar, deputy commissioner of Udalguri district on June 2 last at a felicitation programme arranged by the Udalguri town based private school Ramswaroop Agarwalla Memorial school on the occasion of felicitation to the outgoing successful HSLC candidates who brought glory to the school with 13th rank an star marks along with seven other first divisioners.
Addressing the students and guardians and teachers of the school, the...
People of Kalaigaon and Tangla have expressed satisfaction at the success of students of several schools in the HS and HSLC examinations.Although situated in most remote disturbed areas and hit by frequent bandhs,students belonging to both private and provincialised schools have shown satisfactory performance in the examinations.In the HS (CBSE),JNV,Kalaigaon schooltopped the success list with 98.5 percent success.Out of 67 students,66 passed.Devika Devi secured 90 marks in average.Madhab Sarma,Principal JNV Kalaigaon told media persons that the students of the school had performed better than previous years.Students of Kalaigaon College too have done very well this year in HS (AHSEC)...
The newly built computer building of Vocational Training Centre (VTC),Kalaigaon has been inaugurated at Kalaigaon on May 19.Major Arvind Kumar of 2 Field Regiment under Red Horns Division formally inaugurated the new building in presence of Major Sammir Bankankar and other distinguished people.The construction was done under the supervision of Lt Col S Giri of 2 Field Regiment,Mangaldai.On the occasion Major Arvind Kumar requested people of Kalaigaon particularly students and youths of the locality to take advantage of the VTC services so as to make computer science as a profession.
He also said that Indian Army had ben helping the people of Assam for all round development.According to...
The media fraternity of Udalguri district have appreciated the district civil and police administration for initiating a few novel steps during the Assam assembly election and counting of votes on May 13. No occurrence of any kind of pre or post poll violence has justified the steps taken by Thaneswar Malakar,DC and Debajit Deuri,SP of the district.Both print and electronic media personal from places like Kalaigaon, Khoirabari, Bhergaon, Tangla,Udalguri,Mazbat and Orang have expressed satisfaction at the special arrangements for the polling and counting.The Media Centre, headed by Executive Magistrate Palas Ahom Rajkumar, had been equipped with television ,fax,computer with internet...
The results of the assembly election which was held in April.2011 has been declared on May 13 in Assam.Congress has won three seats in Darrang district while its ally BPF won three seats in Udalguri district.The remaining one seat has been won by AGP.In the 126 strong Assam assembly Congress won absolute majority by winning 78 seats alone.Its partner BPF won 12 seats, while AUDF (Muslim party) won 18,AGP won 10 and BJP won 5 seats respectively.
In 64 No.Paneri LAC, Kamali Basumatari of BPF (38202 votes) defeated nearest candidate Santias Kunjur of Congress (37647 votes).there were total 10 candidates.In 65 No. Kalaigaon LAC, Mukunda Ram Choudhuri of AGP (42525 votes) defeated nearest...
“Science has social responsibility and the scientists involved in scientific activities should always bear in mind that their creations must be used for the welfare of mankind.” This was said by Dr. Hiralal Duarah, the former vice chancellor of Gauhati University while addressing a well organized congregation of child scientists coming from various schools of Udalguri district here at the science exhibition organized by the office of the Inspector of Schools of Udalguri district on Saturday at the Harimu Bhawan at Udalguri town under the ‘Inspire Awards scheme’ sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Government of India to inspire the school children...
On the occasion of first Udalguri Youth Festival,2011,organised by 315 Field Regiment (KARGIL) under Red Horns Division, a pageant show was arranged on April 25 in Harimu Bhavan in the evening.Boys and girls of Udalguri district showed their talents by participating in large numbers.Uryed Narzari and Hemasri Boro showed their talents by winning the coveted Mr. Udalguri and Miss Udalguri title.
The prizes with crowns and medals on the occasion to Mr. Udalguri and Miss Udalguri and first and second runners ups for the titles were presented by Brig. VK Tiwari of Red Horns Division, Colonel Sunil Upadhyay, commanding officer of 315 Field Regiment (Kargil), Mrs. VK Tiwari, Mrs. S Updhayay...
Comments
Pages
Add new comment