Following Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's instructions,who is currently in USA tour, a high level team of Assam Government headed by Revenue Minister Dr. Bhumidhar Barman and Health Minister Dr.Himanta Biswa Sharma alongwith state chief secretary Naba Kumar Das, Principal Secretary (Home) Subhash Chandra Das and Director General Of Police
Shankar Barua visited disputed Langpi area on Assam-Meghalaya border on Saturday to take stock of the situation. It is worth mentioning to note that on Friday last, two persons were killed in police firing and more than 20 injured in an armed clash between Khasi and Nepali communities at the weekly market of Langpi area. Both Assam and Meghalaya stake claim to the village which is on the border of Kamrup and West Khasi Hills districts of the two states respectively.
Official sources today informed that the situation in the area is under control but still tension prevails.
Talking to this scribe, Revenue Minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman informed that on Friday after the incident occurred, he had a conversation with the Meghalaya Chief Minister Dr. Mukul Sangma over telephone and stressed on the need to sort-out the dispute over Langpi area. Dr Barman also informed that Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi soon after his arrival from USA tour, will have a discussion with his Meghalaya counterpart.
Health Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sharma said that within a day or two Chief Secretaries of both the states will have a talk on the ongoing dispute over Langpi and the fresh incident and accordingly a probe will be ordered. Mentionably, a joint committee had earlier been formed with Dr. Sarma and Meghalaya Minister Prestone Tyngsong at its head to resolve the dispute.
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The Government of Assam vide notifification issued on June 4, has appointed 27 senior officials as the Election Observers for the purpose of conduct of election to the General Councils of Tiwa, Deori and Thengal Kachari Autonomous Council to be held on June 7, 2010.
As per notification, Apurba Kumar Phukan, Executive Director of Assam Sarba Siksha Abhijan; Shyam Jagannathan, Secretary, P&D; Ganesh Kumar Kalita, Commissioner of Labour; Rajeev Lochan Duara, Director of Social Welfare; Sohrab Ali, Addl. Secretary of Education (S); C R Kalita, Addl. Secretary of Power (E) and Amarendra Nath Bora, Director of Financial Inspection were appointed as Election Observer for the Tiwa...
With a view to sort-out the on-going border disputes between Assam and Meghalaya, the chief ministers of both the states Tarun Gogoi and Dr. Mukul M. Sangma in presence of the ministers and senior officers held a high level meeting here at Assam secretariate on June5 evening.
The meeting decided to conduct a judicial enquiry concerning Langpi incident by a sitting judge of the high court.
Official sources also informed that the meeting, however, constituted a joint commitee comprising the chief secretaries (CS)of both the states to prepare the modalities of the proposed discussion between the states within the next 45 days which will be followed by a meeting of the chief minister...
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According to the sources attached to the CM secretariat, the new scheme is aimed to provide financial help to those students who could not secure 1st division but are meritorius and needy.
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