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.
Dispur is writing to New Delhi seeking inclusion of those in the N RC whose names appeared in the electoral rolls of the country by virtue of them ‘being Indians’, in the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which is being updated. The decision was finalized at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday. The meeting discussed the names of the genuine citizens whose names figure in the electoral rolls. Gogoi also directed initiation of appropriate steps for deputing State government officials to every household for filling up the NRC forms.
Over 10 lakh pilgrims are likely to visit the kamakhya temple premises on the occasion of the ambubachi fair which is underway. Talking to Assam Times, organizers said over 5 lakh pilgrims are on the way. Some of them have already reached the city to be brought to the venue by transport, train and ferry. “ We have the medical and disaster management team with us to be deployed as occasion demands,” said organizers. The authorities are working to ensure uninterrupted power and water supply to the camps along with comfortable sanitation and hygiene.
Amid tight security pilgrims from the country and abroad are thronging atop the Nilachal Hill to get a glimpse of the ongoing ambubachi fair. Organizers told Assam Times that over 1000 foreign pilgrims have already arrived in the hill top to see the four day long event while 80,000 pilgrims from other parts of the country are visiting the ancient temple pilgrims. The Kamrup (metro) district administration and tourism department have been holding four camps in the city to accommodate the pilgrims this time. The camps at the Sonaram High School playground, Kamakhya railway station, Pandu ghat and Naharbari (near Kamakhya Temple) are teeming with the pilgrims for the two...
More flood is likely to wreak havoc if the incessant rains are any indication. Incessant rains refuse to halt forcing the water level of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries to flow above the danger level. The Brahmaputra is still flowing above the danger mark at Nematighat in Jorhat. The Sankosh was flowing above danger mark at Golokganj in Dhubri.Lakhimpur is worst hit district where over 50,000 people have been rendered homeless during the last ten days. This is followed by Barpeta where over 2,300 people being trapped.Other flood hit districts include Bongaigaon, Lakhimpur and Baksa, Dhemaji, Morigaon, Jorhat, Tinsukia and Dhubri where flood fury has taken three lives. ...
Altogether 17 districts are reeling under flood that marooned over 3 lakh people till Wednesday. The situation still is alarming where the surging waters of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries have covered more areas during the last 24 hours. Lakhimpur is worst hit district where over 50,000 people have been rendered homeless during the last ten days. This is followed by Barpeta where over 2,300 people being trapped. Other flood hit districts include Bongaigaon, Lakhimpur and Baksa, Dhemaji, Morigaon, Jorhat, Tinsukia and Dhubri where flood fury has taken three lives apart from destroying crops on 1,200 hectares of land.
In a major relief for Dr Subramanian Swamy, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear his plea seeking its intervention in the non bailable warrant issued against him by a local court in Karimganj for a hate speech.Acting on the plea challenging the court move, a vacation bench of the top court comprising Justice M.Y. Eqbal and Justice Arun Mishra on Monday agreed to hear it in the first week of July. It would be taken up by another bench next week as senior counsel Ram Jethmalani who is representing him in the case was out of station.Swamy embroiled in controversy for his comments in March wherein he had said in Guwahati that mosques were just buildings with no religious sentiments attached to...
Flood situation refuses to improve following incessant rainfalls during the last 24 hours across the state bringing brimful misery for several lakhs of people.The waterlevels of the Brahmaputra and its tributeries are rasing again where the surging waters have wreaked havoc in more areas on Tuesday. The mighty river is still flowing above the danger mark at Nematighat in Jorhat. Over 3 lakh people are remaining trapped in over 150 villages covering Barpeta, Dhemaji, Tinsukia, Morigaon and Lakhimpur districts. In the worst-hit, Highest number of people are hit in Lakhimpur district with over 16,000 persons reeling under flood waters. This is followed by Dhemaji with more than 4,600...
Yet another incident of racial attack on the north east girl in Delhi sends shock and anger across the region on Tuesday.The incident took place in Tilok Nagar area where a group of five youths tried to molest a Mizo girl at night. The miscreants stopped the girl who was coming at a car with one of her friends. Then they tried to molest her in full view of her friend. But they were resisted. The youths further broke the glass of the car in which she was travelling. Several north eastern people have condemned the incident of racial attack on the Mizo girl and asked the authorities to take stern action against the culprits.
Veteran actor Rabon Neog died ayt a tragic road mishap in Guwahati sending shockwave across the state on Tuesday.The accident took place at Boragaon in the outskirt of the city in the wee hours where he died in the wee hours. Several parties, organizations and individuals have condoled Neog’s death who also owned the Ashirbad mobile threatre. ………
Normal life came to a grinding halt in central districts following a 12 hour bandh call by a platform of 12 organizations on Tuesday. Vehicles, mostly, refused to ply on the road from 6 in the morning while shops and markets remained closed under the impact of the bandh demanding simultanesous polls for Tiwa autonomous body in the central districts. In some places a section of bandh supporters tried to stop the movement of vehicles by burning tyres on the road. Some others damaged a few vehicles by pleting stones for defying the bandh.
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