The Assam government has received a huge fund of Rs 520 crore from the Centre to modernize police since 2004.
The disclosure was made in the AssamAssembly on Monday by forest and environment minister Rockybul Hussain.
According to Hussain, "Out of the total amount, Rs 68.99 crore have been spent on purchasing of vehicles and Rs 92.49 crore were used for arms and ammunition."
Hussain said the police department currently has a total of 5,270 vehicles, of which 2,532 are two-wheelers and the rest are four-wheelers and other higher carriage capacity vehicles.
For running these vehicles, the Assam Police has spent Rs 384.55 crore in purchasing petrol and diesel between 2004-05 and 2013-14.
Guwahati: Debbie Stothard, a pro-democracy human rights defender who used to work as a journalist, community educator and trainer in Malaysia, Thailand and Australia, will interact with the member-journalists of Guwahati Press Club on Friday. Presently the secretary general of International Federation for Human Rights (www.fidh.org) and a coordinator of Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (www.altsean.org ), Debbie will address the city based scribes through video conferencing from Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar, at 3.30 pm on 7 December 2018. She is expected to speak about the state of journalism, ongoing democratic movement in Myanmar, the Rohingya controversy, New Delhi’s probable...
Guwahati: Well-known healthcare institution of northeast India, Dispur Hospitals will conduct free blood tests for Thyroid, Hemoglobin & Sugar among the members of Guwahati Press Club (GPC) this week. The hospital representatives will arrive at press club premises on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (6, 7, 8 December 2018) by 3 pm to collect blood samples (20 members per day). The reports will be made available by Monday (10 December) at the press club office. “Prevention is always better. Regular screenings of different parameters like thyroid, hemoglobin, sugar, cholesterol & triglycerides, liver and renal functions are very important for maintaining one’s sound health,” said Dr...
Guwahati: The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) organized a panel discussion on ‘Assamese Sikhs in Transition’ a research project which has been prepared in collaboration with Majha House and supported by Heinrich Boll Stiftung (HBS). The Panel which was held on 27th November 2018 at the Kanaklal Baruah auditorium of Assam state Museum, Guwahati. The spirited discussions were led by Manjit Singh, Sikih litterateur and leader from Assam, and also included presentationw by Niyati Singh, The project Coordinator and on Skype by Simran Kaur, the researcher in Punjab. Majha House is a newly formed Trust in Amritsar for creative arts, research and...
Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) is currently undertaking a project on the Assamese Sikhs. The project, serving as a tool of information sharing, undertook research on the identity of ‘Assamese/ Axomiya Sikhs’-- who migrated from Punjab to Assam. While they continue to identify as Sikhs, assimilation and acculturation in the context of local traditions and cultures have led to the creation of a syncretistic and unique, though fractured, Sikh identity. In tracing community roots, the project also seeks to negotiate linkages between the past and present; between the Sikhs located at the two peripheries- the North-east (in Assam and Shillong) and the Northwest (...
Guwahati: Survival International, a global tribal rights’ protection platform, will be available for interaction with member-journalists of Guwahati Press Club on 30 November 2018. Sophie Grig of the influential nonprofit organization will answer various media queries through the video conferencing from London in the Friday program starting at 3 pm. Founded in 1969, Survival International campaigns for the rights of indigenous tribal people across the globe. Its campaigns generally focus on tribal peoples' desires to keep their ancestral lands. The active non-government organization calls these peoples some of the most vulnerable on Earth and aims to eradicate what it calls misconceptions...
How do you know a photo or a video is actually accurate -- and how to identify fake photos, videos and how to debunk fake news. The Guwahati Press Club in collaboration with Google News Initiative Training Network in India is organisng a day long workshop on fact-checking on November 23, 2018. In this special workshop, Google certified trainer will walk you through different tools and strategies to identify fake news and debunk it. The workshop is a part of Pan-India initiative of Google News Initiative Training Network to support quality journalism and to curb the spread of disinformation and fake news in India. The workshop is open to only journalists. The training will be...
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Guwahati: Northeast India’s pioneer healthcare institution Down Town Hospitals will conduct the next media OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on Saturday (17 November 2018), where Dr Hrishikesh Bora (medicine) and Dr Mridusmita Das (gynecology) will be available for free consultations from 3 to 5 pm. The press club has taken the initiative for the benefit of its members along with their dependants, where the last health camp was conducted by the city based Dispur Hospitals. Till date the initiative has been supported by GNRC Hospitals, Ayursundra Hospital, Wintrobe Hospital, Nemcare Hospital, Sun Valley Hospital, Health City Hospital, Barthakur Clinic Hospital etc.
Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), while expressing serious concern over mounting tensions between two valleys of the State in the recent past, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take personal initiative in defusing relentless worries among the residents. The forum of nationalist citizens asserted that few anti-national elements were working against the social harmony where the State government in Dispur shockingly remains silent. It may be noted that on the backdrop of Centre’s citizenship amendment initiative in favour of religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, the State witnessed an uproarious situation, where most of the Assamese speaking...
Guwahati: City based Dispur Hospitals conducted the media OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on 10 November 2018, where Dr Darpan Dutta (emergency medicine) offered free consultations to the participants. They also got their blood pressure & sugar checked by Nurse Parismita Gogoi in the brief camp. The press club has taken the initiative for the benefit of its members along with their dependants, which were supported by various healthcare institutions including Down Town Hospitals, GNRC Hospitals, Ayursundra Hospital, Wintrobe Hospital, Health City Hospital, Nemcare Hospital, Excelcare Hospital, Sun Valley Hospital, Narayana Hospitals, Swagat Hospital, Barthakur Clinic etc.
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