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.
For Dhemaji police, the most wanted man of the hour is none but Subudh Biswas in connection with the Silapothar clash that rattled Assam. In a public notification, the police on Tuesday made an open appeal to the people to inform the whereabouts of the NIBBUS president who in his speech in the huge rally incited violence in Silapothar on Monday. Policemen probing the clash have confirmed that Biswas, who has close association with RSS and BJP is absconding. The moment the clash erupted, Biswas vanished from the spot and so far he is traceless. Initially, BJP leaders claimed that Biswas is not in any way associated with the party. But a few photographs have, beyond doubt, have proved the...
Defying flag march by army people thronged in thousands in Silapothar on Tuesday a day after the huge area in Dhemaji was rocked by a clash Bangala-speaking Hindu activists with some local residents where an AASU office was vandalized.Many people representing the various groups and organizations held a huge rally in protest against the attack on the AASU office which the speakers called “an attack on the Assamese”.AASU leaders who organized the rally made it plain and simple that the immigrants must quit Assam irrespective of Hindu or Muslim. They further demanded immediate arrest of the miscreants involved in the clash.Speakers after speakers in the rally urged the indigenous people to...
The All Bodo Students Union(ABSU) strongly condemned attacked on AASU office at Shilapothar of Dhemaji district and arrests all the culprits involved with vandalism to AASU office and properties. Promod Boro, president and Kwrwmdao Wary,secretary of ABSU,in a press statemnet said the ABSU,after observation of the incidence of violence by the demonstrations at Shilapothar in Dhemaji district and vandalism done to AASU office, through the media and local ABSU volunteers report, which occurred on Monday in the wee hours of the day.The students union strongly condemn and demanded the administration must apprehend all the culprits involved in such act of vandalism to AASU office and...
The Silapothar clash suggests, beyond doubt, a sharp fall in the dominance of the indigenous people and if the disturbing trend is allowed to continue the Assamese ad a nation would be reduced to minority by 2040. This was more or less of what Upamanyu Hazarika said when he reacted to the Monday’s incident in Silapothar where some goons after holding a rally against the D voter tag vandalized a local AASU office in the evening. Talking to reporters in Delhi on Tuesday, the Prabojon Vurodhi Manch convener said these incidents would take place at regular intervals. Hazarika said granting citizenship to the immigrants is a gross injustice to the indigenous people which is not allowed...
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal has ordered a high level probe into the Silapothar incident where some protesters demanding an end to the D voter tag turned violence and vandalised a local AASU office.Talking to reporter in Guwahati on Tuesday, Sonowal said additional chief secretary VK Pyarilal will probe into it who would submit his findings within a month and that the culprit would get exemplary punishment.Calling it an unfortunate incident, the chief minister said that the incident is a threat to the age old bonhomie and brotherhood among the various tribes and groups in both the Brahmaputra and Barak Valley.Senior minister Himanta Biswa Sarma also said that those responsible...
Dhemaji police have arrested nine youths charging them with vandalizing a local AASU office in Silapothar on Monday.Police picked them up from different places early in the morning. Operation is on yo nab twelve others who are absconding.Meanwhile, AASU handed over a list of 22 people to police holding them responsible for the clash which broke out after an organization held a rally demanding refugee status yo the Hindu immigrants and amendment of the Indian Citizenship Act,1955.
Hours after the clash in Silapothar chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal asked the police to find out the culprits responsible for it where a local AASU office was ransacked after a huge rally organized to demand removal of D voter tags they had in their names.DGP Mukesh Sahay has been closely monitoring the situation and additional security forces have been deployed to deal with the possible our break of untowered incident.
An uneasy calm has forced Dhemaji district administration to conduct army’s flag march in Silapothar a day after a group clash where a section of protesters vandalised a local AASU office on Monday.Army, police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in the huge area in firmly deal with the fresh orgy of clashes.Dhemaji DC and SP have been monitoring the situation where army conducted flag march in the area to make people confined to their houses.Some unidentified miscreants attacked many vehicles on the streets in the outskirt of Silapothar town where an organization held a huge rally demanding the D voter tags in their names alleging that many genuine Indians have been facing...
Stunned by the Silapothar clash, AASU leadership vow to go all out against the immigrants irrespective of religion. Talking to reporters after the incident advisor Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya said under no circumstance they would allow the Hindu immigrants to stay refugees.He further demanded exemplary punishment for the people responsible for the incident who attack the local AASU office in Silapothar after hundreds of Hindu Bangla-speaking unitedly demanded removal of D voter tag from their names.The clash took place when the people who attended the rally took out a protest procession to mark the happy ending of the rally.As the rally crossed the local AASU office a section of the protesters...
An escalating tension prevails in Silapothar area of Dhemaji district after a group of protesters attacked a local AASU office on Monday forcing the authority to beef up security apprehending a massive group clash.Security forces are patrolling on the streets to prevent any gathering. The clash took place in the afternoon when hundreds of NIBBUS activists took out a procession in support of the move to welcome the Hindu refugees from Bangladesh and Nepal.A section of the protestors started melting stones at a local AASU office when the student leaders were not available.As the office was attacked many students and AASU activists countered them with a clash and the situation was brought...
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