Assam is known for its highest power tariff structure where the consumers have been bearing the brunt. This was what FINER has observed when it welcomed the move to revise the structure for 2015-16.
In a statement, FINER said that the move to decrease the tariff for agriculture by 30 paise would help the entire sector yield good result.
Notably, FINER has been dead opposed to the idea of increasing the power tariff by APDCL, APGCL and AEGCL. It moved the AERC opposing the move.
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On the occasion of his birth centenary this year, Jyotiprasad Medhi Award in Mathematical Sciences is announced by his family. Professor Jyotiprasad Medhi was a world renowned scholar in Statistics who was born on 1st July 1924 in Ramdia, Assam. He received his D.Sc. (with Tres Honorable) from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1956 and returned to Assam to teach at Gauhati University where he later became the Head of the Department in Statistics, Dean of Faculty of Science, and Acting Vice-Chancellor. His textbooks on Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory are widely used for teaching in many academic institutions around the world. He passed away on 3rd February 2017 at the age of 92...
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