Holding placards scores of students rallied through Duliajan Township on Friday to spread the message related to protection of girl child and mother-child health etc. The rally was a part of health awareness campaign organized by Directorate of Field Publicity, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Dibrugarh with a view to make people aware about health schemes run by government.
The campaign organized at Duliajan BM Junior college campus in co-ordination with Prasiddha (NGO) and Surjudaya (NGO) and the main awareness meeting was held in continuation with college’s second foundation day. Presided over by Principal Bulimoni Neog, the number of resource persons educated the students and others about National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), the Indian health program for improving health care delivery across rural India.
Programmes like family planning, child birth, immunization, Janani Suraksha Yojona, Janani Sishu Suraksha Karyakram, Mamoni, Majoni, Adorani, Mrityunjoy etc by which the government has brought a boon for the society. Due to the health mission, deliveries are taking place properly and health of the children is also taken care of. The benefits include free ambulance service, free medicines at the time of delivery and Rs. 1400 is also provided to the expecting mothers in rural areas. The health centre under NRHM scheme also organizes periodical free mobile medical camps with all facilities including ambulance services, blood tests, X-rays, Ultra sound and dental care in several villages.
Earlier Pranab Kumar Nath, Field Publicity Officer, Dibrugarh highlighted the aims and objectives of the programme. The programme also included photo exhibition, open quiz competition, prize distribution and distribution of T-shirt to the participants. The other delegates present in the occasion were Smt Mainu Khanikar from Prasiddha (NGO), Akhil Chandra Baruah and Shantanu Bailung from Surjudaya (NGO, Rudreswar Bezbaruah, social activist from Duliajan and others. Pranab Kumar Nath, IIS Field Publicity Officer, Dibrugarh Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Government of India
Vigilance department officials on Thursday raided the residence of RK Khan in connection with the Rs 1,000 crore scam in Dima Hasao district. The sleuths arrived in the residence of the suspended social welfare department official and started the raid from the wee hours. Vigilance department officials refused to divulge anything in detail.
An uneasy situation prevails in Nagaon on Thursday a day after a local trader was shot dead in Lanka. The incident took place in the midnight when victim Mukut Ali, who was halting for the night at a house in Lanka was shot dead by unidentified gunman. As he came out of the house at midnight, unidentified gunmen fired several rounds of bullets at Ali from a point blank range. He died on the spot. The miscreants vanished from the spot immediately after Ali was shot dead.
Despite heavy presence of security forces, BTAD areas are yet to fully get rid of ethnic clash. There is report of a fresh violence in Chirang district where unidentified miscreants burnt down houses in Kajol Gaon. Miscreants managed to escape before the arrival of police. Additional forces have been deployed in the entire affected areas on Wednesday.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday slammed LK Advani for his comment on Tuesday for blaming the government on the BTAD murder and mayhem. Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Wednesday, Gogoi said that the BJP leader LK Advani must have forgotten that he was the home minister and deputy prime minister when the Godhra riots took place.Gogoi said, “he was accused of acting delay in containing the violence.
The Assam government on Wednesday extended the summer vacation for a week in the schools and colleges in troubled torn Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri districts.According to Education and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the summer vacation of educational institutions have been extended by seven more days which could be extended further, if needed.He said that for students displaced in the violence, free text books and education materials will be provided.
Security forces apprehended four ULFA linkmen, including a woman in connection with the Goalpara IED blast where an army jawan was killed and six others injured on Tuesday.The police arrested a person and his daughter for allegedly giving shelter to the ULFA militants who carried out the explosion on Tuesday.According to police, acting on information provided by them, police arrested two other linkmen. Notably, the army jawan was killed and six others were injured while an army vehicle was damaged in an IED blast about one and half kilometres from Naranarayan Setu in Jogighopa when a convoy was on its way from Kokrajhar to Agia.
The National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday issued a notice to the Assam Government asking for a detailed report on the riots in BTAD areas. In a letter, the Commission has asked the chief secretary to inform about the arrangements made for relief and rehabilitation of the affected people and the financial assistance given to the victims. The Commission has also decided to send its own team to study the arrangements made by the State Government for rehabilitation of persons affected by riots. The team has been given four weeks time to submit report to the Commission.
Six persons were killed when a truck collided its head on an ambulance in Morigaon district on Wednesday.
The accident took place when the health department-owned ambulance carrying a 6 persons from Thelamara in Sonitpur district to Guwahati Medical College Hospital collided head-on with a loaded truck near Nelli in the wee hours.
All six inside the ambulance died on the spot. The patient has been identified as Jayshree Basumatary while four of her relatives accompanying her were Pranab Basumatary, Dhaneswar Basumatary, Mahindra Basumatary. The driver of the ambulance has been identified as Imran Ali. The truck driver and handyman fled from the spot.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi claimed to have improved the situation in the BTAD areas forcing the refugees to gradually leave the camps.
Talking to reporters on Wednesday, Gogoi said that the refugees would be able to leave the camps latest by August 15. According to him, ten police pickets set up so far would help the people restore confidence in the violence-hit areas.
There were 278 relief camps sheltering 4.06 lakh persons in Kokrajhar, Chirang, Bongaigaon and Dhubri districts. The conflict claimed 56 lives, including six in police firing, while 61 have been injured and 11 are missing. The army was continuing flag marches in sensitive areas besides patrols by the police and...
Amarjyoti Kalita has been sent to jail after police produced the prime accused in the gory GS Road molestation incident before a lower court on Tuesday. Amarjyoti’s police custody ended on Monday. He was produced before the Kamrup CJM court on Tuesday where he was remanded to judicial custody. Notably, police got remand of Kalita after he was brought back to Guwahati from Vanarash where he surrendered.
Programmes like family planning, child birth, immunization, Janani Suraksha Yojona, Janani Sishu Suraksha Karyakram, Mamoni, Majoni, Adorani, Mrityunjoy etc by which the government has brought a boon for the society. Due to the health mission, deliveries are taking place properly and health of the children is also taken care of. The benefits include free ambulance service, free medicines at the time of delivery and Rs. 1400 is also provided to the expecting mothers in rural areas. The health centre under NRHM scheme also organizes periodical free mobile medical camps with all facilities including ambulance services, blood tests, X-rays, Ultra sound and dental care in several villages.
Add new comment