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.
JORHAT:Union minister Nitin Gadkari is ailing. Gadkari, who is on a two days visit to the state fell ill suddenly as he was attending a function to unveil the ₹237 crore project of the Brahmaputra Board in Majuli. When chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal was addressing the meeting, the Union water resources development minister complained of uneasyness on the stage. Then he was taken away from the spot and his personal physician started attending on him. He is learnt to be stable now. He was scheduled to review the functionings of the Brahmaputra Board at Kaziranga in the evening.
GUWAHATI: The Asom Sahitya Sabha is all set to get Dr Paramananda Rajbangsi as its president. The state's largest literary body conducted a ballot voting recently at its headquarters in Jorhat where Rajbangshi topped the choice of the electorates. The electorates further voted Dr Hemanta Kumar Baruah as vice president while Padum Rajkhowa has been elected as the principal Secretary of the organization. For the first time the Asom Sahitya Sabha conducted the ballot voting to elect its president, vice president and principal secretary. The counting took place in Barpeta Road on Thursday.
TINSUKIA: Security forces claimed to have apprehended a hardcore ULFA(I) rebel in Tinsukia district who was believed to have been camping in a remote village to extort money. Acting on a tip off, army, police and para military forces raided a hamlet in Pangery where Rajiv Moran, a dreaded rebel was arrested. Police further seized a pistol from his possession. A team of army and police has been interrogating Rajiv to extract more information.
KOKRAJHAR: Altogether 14 districts have joined the clash for taekwondo championship in Kokrajhar which is ending on Friday. Rajya Sabha MP Biswajeet Daimary opened the event at Siknajhar Taekwondo Gymneaium organized by the Bodoland Taekwondo Association in Kokrajhar on Thursday in presence many players and BTC officials. Before that in the same function BTC executive member Rajiv Brahma released the mascot. The event which draws an encouraging response is ending on Friday.
GUWAHATI:A local court in Guwahati on Thursday ordered five year rigorous imprisonment to a corrupt forest officer three months after he was arrested on graft charges. He is none other than Mahat Talukdar, the District Forest Officer in Dhemaji whom the chief minister's anti corruption and vigilence cell caught red handed accepting graft. The special court which convicted him under the Prevention of Corruption Act has imposed him ₹45 lakh as fine in two cases registered against him. He was caught three months back and the vigilance cell seized crores of rupees in cash from his office chamber and residence.
GUWAHATI:The Guwahati police have arrested a lawyer acting on a number of complaints in the city on Thursday. Identified as Mausumi Bora, she was arrested from the Lamb Road at a stones throw distance from the Gauhati High Court where she attends. According to information, on receipt of a number of complaints of extortion, blackmailing and insinuation, a team of Latashil police station sent to arrest her. The moment she was informed she started running away on the Lamb Road at 1 PM. The lady police team also started following and chasing her. Finally, she was caught. A team of senior police officials has been interrogating her at the Latasheel Police Station in connection to a number of...
NAGAON: An unidentified body struck no less sensation in Chaparmukh in Nagaon district on Thursday. Local residents in the area spotted the body floating over the river Kopili which bore injury marks on the head. Then they informed it to the local police who came and fished out it. Investigation is in progress. Police have been trying to ascertain the identity of the body.
KOKRAJHAR: Properties worth ₹3 lakh reduced to ashes when a devastating fire gutted two shops in Kokrajhar on Wednesday night. The fire which is believed to have originated from an electric transformer shifted to a nearby LPG shop which spread to a bicycle mart. Two tenders were deployed but by then both the shops were gutted in the fire. The extent of damage has yet to be ascertained. An investigation is going on.
DUDHNOI: KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi tore apart the BJP-led Assam Government alleging that democracy no longer exists in the state. Talking to reporters immediately after coming out of the Goalpara Central Jail on Wednesday morning he said he was put behind the bars on flimsy ground. "The charges brought against me are fabricated and baseless. This has been proved beyond doubt," said Gogoi. He said,"we KMSS will help the authority complete an error free NRC and we won't allow anybody to settle immigrants who came here after the cut off date " In his scathing attack on Chief minister, Gogoi said Sonowal is no longer a national hero. The real hero these days is none other than Justice Ranjan...
GUWAHATI: Normal life remains heavily disrupted on Wednesday as the All Assam Tai Ahom Students Union enforces a 12 hour statewide Assam bandh mounting pressure on the government to grant ST status at an earlier date. AKSHYAY PRANAB KALITA FROM NAMRUP: Roads, mostly, in upper Assam districts are remaining deserter since vehicles have stopped plying from 6 in the morning when the bandh call started. Shops and markers, schools and colleges, banks and offices have not opened under the impact of the bandh call which is ending only in the evening. Many AATASU leaders and workers have enforced the bandh call by burning tyres on the roads to stop the movement of traffic from early in the morning...
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