National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) Assam sanctioned one mobile medical unit (MMU) exclusively for Hojai sub division under the administrative control of Jugijan BPHC. The MMU is formally flagged off by Dr. A.K Dey, minister irrigation & soil conservation, government of Assam on Sunday 22nd April 2012 after addressing a public meeting at Hojai FRU. “MMU is a new initiative of government to bring health care to the doorstep of unnerved rural people of Hojai sub division” said Mr. Dey in his speech. He further said MMU is constituted with 3 movable vehicles, equipped with all basic modern diagnostics facilities which will be a mile stone in reducing maternal & child deaths of the sub division. In his welcome speech Dr. D.K Buragohain Joint Director of Health Services Nagaon informed that under MMU a medical team consists of 2 Medical Officers, 1 Radiographer, 2 Nurses, 1 Laboratory Technician, 1 Pharmacist, 2 Helpers and 3 drivers already appointed will conduct at least 22 medical camps in a month to the far flung areas of the sub division. It is also mentioned that the new launched MMU will carry out services like Curative Care, Reproductive & Child Health Services, Family Planning Services, Diagnostic, specialized facilities & services, emergency services & care in times of any disaster. Especial provision for creating mass awareness in disease prevalent areas about health & hygiene, proper nutrition and counselling on Family Planning, RTI/STI etc are made added Joint Director of health.
Circle officer Hojai B.B. Bhagawati , ACS, SDM & HO Jugijan BPHC Dr. Rajib Sarmah, District Media Expert NRHM Maruf Alom, District Programme Manager Karuna Brahma, chairman Hojai Municipal Board, Zila Parisad members, doctors & paramedic staff of the sub division attended the launching programme.
Hours after a fierce gun battle in Sivasagar ULFA militants exploded a powerful grenade in Doomdooma in Tinsukia district on Saturday.
The explosion took place at around 11 night. There is no report of any casualty. Earlier, a hardcore ULFA cadre belonging to the Paresh Baruah led faction was seriously injured during an encounter with security forces along the Assam-Nagaland border in Sivasagar district on Saturday.
Chief Minister’s vigilance cell has named 39 persons including two DRDA contractors in the multi crore green house scam in the chargesheet filed before the special court in Guwahati on Saturday.
Apart from the 55 DRDA officials, the cell has named Arman Sheikh and Prabal Sheikh in the scam where sub standard materials were supplied t the farmers to build green house. The duo were known for their close association with the then minister rural develoment minister Sahidul Alom Chaudhury.
The chief minister’s vigilance cell on Saturday indicted 157 education department officials and contractors in the crore rupee operation black board scam that rocked the Mahanta regime in the second term. A circle of corrupt education department official in close association with some contractors pocketed crores of rupees supplying sub standard materials to the schools under the scheme.
The criminal investigation department on Saturday filed chargesheet against former APSC chairman and former MLA Dr Tara Prasad Das in the alleged anomalies in the selection of candidates in the Assam Public Service Commission.
A hardcore ULFA militant belonging to the Paresh Baruah faction sustained injury during an encounter with Assam Rifles at Takubasti along the Assam-Nagaland border on Saturday.
The encounter took place at Takubasti area under Charaideu police station in Sibasagar district in the evening. According to police, a 5-member ULFA group opened fire on a patrol group of Assam Rifles and bullets were exchanged, where a hardcore cadre was injured. But he managed to flee from the spot. Later security forces recovered an AK-86 automatic rifle from the encounter spot.
Assam police and Assam Rifles troops rushed to the area and a search operation was launched to nab the militants. It is the...
A TADA court in Guwahati on Saturday acquitted ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and six others in a sensational shoot out in Sivasagar citing lack of evidence.
Rajkhowa, along with vice chairman Pradeep Gogoi, Kushal Deori, appeared before the TADA court in connection with the killing of Biju Majinder Baruah. Hearing both sides, the court acquitted the ULFA leaders saying that the authorities lack proper evidence to implicate them in the case that took place in 1990.
Security forces intercepted a huge quantity of ganja and in Karimganj and Dhubri districts of Assam bordering Bangladesh.
BSF seized over 90 kg of ganja valued at over Rs five lakh from a boat in the riverine Burapahar area at Shismara border outpost in Dhubri district. Two persons on the boat were being questioned.
In Karimganj district, 71 gm of brown sugar valued at Rs eight lakh in the international market was seized from a man identified as Mujibur Rahman on the Indo-Bangla border in a joint operation by the BSF and police.
A hardcore militant of the Karbi Peoples' Liberation Tigers was killed and two others injured in an encounter with security forces in Karbi Anglong on Friday.
The encounter took place in Bokolia in the hills district. Acting on a tip-off, the joint forces of Assam police and the Army arrested also three KPLT cadres after the encounter. Two AK-56 automatic rifles, one .76 revolver and some extortion notes were recovered from the militants.
KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi on Friday alleged huge deployment of security forces to ensure mega dam construction at Gerukamukh. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Friday, Gogoi said that KMSS would never allow the NHPC to build big dam.
He further dared chief minister Tarun Gogoi to hold an open debate anywhere in the state to back the NHPC-owned big dams. He said Assam will have nothing to be benefitted from the mega dam to be built along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
ULFA steps up strikes a week before its foundation day. A BSF man was injured when ULFA militants ambushed a patrol party in Goalpara district of Assam on Friday.
The ambush took place at Dudhnoi in the evening. The patrol party was attacked by the anti-talk faction of ULFA while on the way to the BSF camp. The injured BSF man was shifted to the Goalpara Civil Hospital.
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