Shankardev Shishu Vidya Niketan School at Dadara near Hajo is ready to get another facelift with the financial support from Guwahati Round Table 235, the Guwahati chapter of Round Table India (www.roundtableindia.org). The completed phase two section, comprising three classrooms, verandah & staircases with a total area of 2,750 square feet, will be inaugurated on 8 January next. Kamrup (rural) district magistrate Vinod Seshan has consented to inaugurate phase two part on Sunday in presence of district police chief PS Mahanta. “The foundation stone for development was laid on the 7 February 2016, where the project was planned to be completed in a phased manner with the first phase has already been completed. It was inaugurated by Assam education minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma,” informed Parveen Goyal, chief of Guwahati Round Table 235.
Addressing the media persons on Wednesday, Goyal also added that they would soonstart the construction of phase three and expected to get it completed by the end of 2017. He described his mother organization as a non-religious and non-political entity. The Round Table India has over 4,500 chapters across the country comprising young businessmen, entrepreneurs, technocrats and other professionals. Mukesh Chokhani, secretary to the Guwahati chapter of Round Table India disclosed that they adopted the Dadara Shishu Niketan school under its flagship freedom through education project. He also added that they planned to develop around 10,500 sqft in the school premises with a total outlay of rupees 80 Lakhs.
Project conveners Avishek Kejriwal, Shwet Agarwal, Rahul Sethi with few others were also present on the occasion. Soon after the press meet the Guwahati Round Table 235 office bearers donated two galvanized steel chairs for Guwahati Press Club, which were accepted by the GPC secretary Nava Thakuria in presence of other member-journalists.
GUWAHATI: Four days after the Registrar General of India published the first NRC draft, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday said his government would never discriminate any body in the state. In a statement released in Guwahati, the chief minister said the Centre would devise a humane mechanism for those left in the NRC. He said, "the government is working reasonably as per the Supreme Court order. Those who will be found to be illegal immigrants after the final list will also be treated humanely. A mechanism has to be evolved by the central government on what to do with them.” His statement assumes significance amid the stepped up efforts to grant citizenship to the Hindu...
DIBRUGARH: Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal laid foundation stone of Swadesh Darshan Scheme at Dibru-Saikhowa National Park to develop a theme based tourist circuit in an integrated manner to cater to both mass and niche tourism at Chabua in Tinsukia District on Tuesday. The Centre will create a tourist circuit around specific themes in order to attract tourists both domestic and international. Under Swadesh Darshan scheme 13 thematic circuits have been identified for development namely North-East India Circuit, Buddhist Circuit, Himalayan Circuit, Coastal Circuit, Krishna Circuit, Desert Circuit, Tribal Circuit, Eco...
NEW DELHI:Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government won't do anything that can harm Assam and its people. He assured it to Prafulla Kumar Mahanta during his brief date in New Delhi on Tuesday. Talking to reporters after meeting the prime minister, Mahanta said that he tried to convince Modi of the impending adverse impact of the step to amend the Citizenship Act. Mahanta told Modi that an amendment of the Act would help the illegal settlers in Assam only. "I told him that Assam no longer can shoulder the burden of more immigrants. Need of the hour is the total implementation of the Assam Accord. No option is left," said Mahanta. He further said," the prime minister gave a...
NEW DELHI: AB Mathur will broker peace between Centre and the United Liberation Front of Asom. The home ministry has already appointed the former RAW special secretary to resume the peace initiatives with the rebel group who have been fighting for an independent Assam for more than three decades. Mathur is understood to have been in touch with the top ULFA leadership who have come overground to initiate the peace process during the UPA regime. A couple of months back Dineswar Sarma was brokering peace between government and ULFA. But Sarma recently was appointed as peace interlocutor with the J&K separatists.
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Tarun Gogoi said the ongoing process to update NRC will be a meaningless exercise if the Centre ensures safe passage of the Citizenship(Amendment) Bill,2016 in Parliament. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, the three time chief minister said thr NDA government and Assam BJP leadership have been working overnight to clear the Bill in question where the grant citizenship to the illegal Hindu settlers whose names would not be there in the updated NRC. "Then why NRC is required? Crores of rupees have been spent. Won't it be a meaningless exercise?," said Gogoi. The former chief minister further is unhappy with thr first NRC draft alleging lack of...
KOKRAJHAR: Security forces claimed to have busted a NDFB(S) camp inside a dense jungle in Kokrajhar on Tuesday. Acting in a tip off, army, police and para military forces conducted a raid inside the Rangapara Reserved Forest near Saraibeel where the make shift camp was discovered. At least 15 rebels were believed to have been camping in it for a couple of days. But they managed to desert it before the crackdown. Police seized some used materials including blanket, knives from the deserted camp.
GUWAHATI:Nishamoni Deka, an accused ACS officer in the APSC scan has been sent to judicial custody on Tuesday after the end of police custody for the ACS officer involved in the APSC dcsm. After the end of her 14 days remand police did not seek her in their remand again. Deka went underground hours after the police launched the massive crackdown against the accused ACS, APS and allied service officers in November. Later she surrendered before the police who got her in their remand for 14 days.
GUWAHATI: Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang and his Assam counterpart Sarbananda Sonowal has met his Assam counterpart Sarbananda Sonowal have agreed to formulate a slew of strategies to move the Centre to improve connectivity network in the north eastern region. The duo met in Guwahati on Monday where they discussed a common strategy for a connectivity boost. New Industrial Policy for North East region in line with Act East Policy and means to meet mounting employment problem in the region also figured in the meeting. They agreed that unemployment would go out of hand unless a joint approach to facilitate youth uplift was initiated. They mutually agreed to have a...
KOKRAJHAR: Top NDFB-S rebel B Bidai finds place in the updated NRC draft notified on Sunday midnight. His name figures along with his wife Neina and other family members. Bidai hails from Auxiguri village in Baksa district.
Kokrajhar: NRC centres in BTAD areas are teeming with people who are waiting in the serpentine queue to check their names in the updated NRC draft published on Sunday night. In Kokrajhar nearly 65% applicants have found their names in the draft. Other applicants are waiting for the next draft which is expected next month. Talking to Assam Times, Kokrajhar DC Niranjan Baruah said," the mood is quite peaceful in all NRC centres where the citizens are checking their names." In Chirang, 64.35 % citizens are finding place in the first NRC draft. "We are very happy to have seen our names on the new year's day," said a senior citizen in Kokrajhar. A BTC MCLA from Fakiragram...
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