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Vol. II
Issue 45
Dibrugarh, Tuesday, August 2, 2016
INDIA VS WEST INDIES: I WISH TO KEEP IMPROVING ON MY PERFORMANCES WITH MORE CONSISTENCY, SAYS LOKESH RAHUL
Devotees flung in large number Golaghat, Aug 1: Under the banner of Shiv Jalabhishek Kawad Yatra Samity Golaghat devotees in large number offered holy water at Town Shiv Temple today. Devotees dressed in orange dress went to Dhansiri river to collect water barefooted. After coming from there they performed the ritual on the second Monday of Sawan month. Next Monday devotees will gather in Neghreting Temple of Lord Shiva. (Correspondent)
OIL donates 75 lakhs for flood victims of Assam Guwahati, Aug 1: Oil India Limited, as part of its corporate social responsibility, handed over a cheque worth Rs. 75 lakh to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. OIL CMD Utpal Bora handed over the cheque to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal at Brahmaputra State Guest House today. Chief Minister Sonowal thanked OIL CMD for his gesture in contributing to the Chief Minister ’s Relief Fund. (A Staff Reporter)
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MP Gogoi raises flood Assam floods: Toll climbs Assam situation issue in Lok Sabha to 34, 11 lakh affected
hit people in Maharashtra and the National Capital Region (NCR) also," he said, adding that the central government was apathetic towards the people's problems.
IANS New Delhi, Aug 1
PTI Guwahati, Aug 1
The opposition Congress on Monday raised the issue of flood situation in eastern and northeastern India and said the casualty figures have gone up to 90, including 45 of them in Assam.
Flood situation in Assam continued to remain grim today with three more persons losing their lives, taking the death toll to 34 in the current deluge in which over 11 lakh people have been affected.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Congress member Gaurav Gogoi said in the Lok Sabha that the situation has turned serious in states like Bihar also.
According to Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), two persons were killed at Bilasipara and Chapar in Dhubri district, and one person lost his life at Barpeta town in Barpeta district.
"What has happened in eastern and northeastern India is very serious," he said. The
With this, the death toll in the current wave of floods has gone up to 34 in the state.
Flood victims of recent Assam flood.
The ASDMA said more than 11 lakh people are suffering across 1,659 villages in 21 districts. Till yesterday, nearly 17 lakh people were affected by floods across 2,266 villages.
Kokrajhar, Dibrugarh, Biswanath, Kamrup Metropolitan, Nagaon, South Kamrup, Karbi Anglong and Chirang.
As of now, the affected districts are Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Jorhat, Bongaigaon, Dhemaji, Barpeta, Goalpara, Dhubri, Darrang, Morigaon, Sonitpur, Nalbari, Sivasagar,
Among them, Barpeta is the worst affected with nearly three lakh people still suffering, followed by Morigaon with almost 2.7 lakh and Goalpara with 1.4 lakh people hit by the floods.
Authorities are running 366 relief camps and distribution centres, where over 1.25 lakh people are taking shelter across 15 districts. More than one lakh hectares of crop area are under the flood water across the state, besides washing away a number of roads, embankments, bridges and other infrastructure. Currently, the Brahmaputra
is flowing above the danger mark at Nematighat in Jorhat and Dhubri town, while its tributaries Dhansiri at Numaligarh in Golaghat and Beki at Road Bridge in Barpeta are flowing above the normal level. Meanwhile, Oil India Limited, as part of its corporate social responsibility, handed over a cheque of Rs 75 lakh to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund.
CM Pema Khandu conducts high level meeting over growing traffic congestions CM constitutes six member Interim Committee ET Bureau Itanagar, Aug 1
CM Khandu taking brief over proposed construction of tunnels to bypass Sela pass
Chief Minister Pema Khandu was briefed about the road development works being taken up by BRO at BomdilaTawang road and on the proposed construction of tunnels to bypass Sela pass.
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CM Pema Khandu briefs the progress reports of proposed construction of tunnels to bypass Sela pass
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RS Rao, Commander, 42 BRTF had called on the Chief Minister who briefed him about the progress of the work. Two tunnels are proposed that will bypass Sela pass by nearly 10 km, Contd. on Page 3
Taking cognizance of the growing traffic congestions, poor road conditions in Capital Complex and proper solid waste management of the twin capital city, Chief Minister Pema Khandu convened a high level meeting with departmental officials and reviewed the issues here today. Khandu constituted a six member Interim Committee to make a thorough case study of traffic congestions and come out with a definite solution. He called for a clear- cut solution to the issues and directed concerned officials to submit the report latest by 13th of this month. He advised
CM Khandu during high level meeting at Itanagar them to take into consideration the views and suggestions of the citizens expressed through the online Survey Management System with regard to traffic management
and road conditions of the state capital city that was recently launched by the govt. Contd. on Page 3
Gaurav Gogoi casualty figures has gone up to 45 in Assam, said the MP from Kaliabor. "Around eight lakh people have been affected. Flood has
According to reports from Assam, areas affected by this year's flood spread across districts like Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Jorhat, Bongaigaon, Dhemaji, Barpeta, Goalpara, Dhubri, Darrang, Morigaon, Sonitpur, Nalbari, Sivasagar, Kokrajhar, Dibrugarh, Kamrup, Nagaon and Karbi Anglong. Morigaon is the worst affected with nearly 3.5 lakh people hit, reports said.
LPG price hiked Rs 1.93/cylinder, non-subsidised LPG cut by Rs 50 IANS New Delhi, Aug 1
In a move to cut subsidies, state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) has hiked the price of subsidised LPG by Rs 1.93 per cylinder. A 14.2 kg subsidised
cooking gas cylinder will now cost Rs 423.09 in Delhi as against Rs 421.16 earlier. LPG rates were last hiked by Rs 1.98 on July 1. The monthly increase in LPG rates is along the lines taken towards the deregulation
of diesel in November 2014, which was preceded by raising the fuel rates by 50 paise a litre every month. In case of kerosene for public distribution, Contd. on Page 4
Approximately 1,374 crashes and 400 deaths take place every day on Indian roads: Adv Ajoy Hazarika A Staff Reporter Guwahati, Aug 1
“India is World’s sixth largest Car Market and 2.03 million passenger cars were sold in India as per last year data. India has been witnessing very high rate of road accidents resulting in the largest number of road deaths and injuries in the world. Approximately 1,374 crashes and 400 deaths take place every day on Indian roads. One of the major reasons behind high causalities in road accidents in the lack of safety features in Indian cars which have been criticized as being insufficient and ineffective compared to developed countries.” This was told by Advocate Ajoy Hazarika, Secretary, Consumers’ Legal Protection Forum in the state level car safety workshop organized by Consumer Voice in collaboration with Consumers’ Legal Protection Forum,
Assam at Ambika Academy Auditorium, Hatigaon Chariali, Guwahati on Sunday to make consumers aware of different car safety aspects today. Attending as a speaker, automobile expert Mrinal Medhi said “When the World is gearing up for fully automated self drive cars, most of the cars sold in India lack basic safety features like air bags, antilock braking systems (ABS), electronic stability control (ESC) etc. Due to absence of strict safety regulations and testing procedures like Global New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP), car manufactures design their cars in India without essential car safety features in name of cost cutting. Recently when some of popular cars in India were tested on NCAP standards and out of 5 four failed badly”.
Presiding over the workshop noted social worker Atul Chandra Dutta told that while buying car consumers should give preference to safety features not, just its looks, price and other luxuries. Swagata kashyap, Lecturer J.B.Law College, Retd. State Govt. officer Kalyan Kumar Borthakur, Agriculture Expert Durgeswar Thakuria, Biplaba Nanda Choudhury of Grahak Suraksha Sangstha and other speakers from different fields also focus and discuss on car safety issues and demand for safer cars for consumers. Most of the speakers demand for safer cars will push for better safety regulation and standards in India at par with global safety standards. The workshop was attended by more than 100 participants including consumers, students, CSOs, govt. Officials from various departments from all over the state.
Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) units handle 107 wild rescue cases in Kaziranga floods Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) units of the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) – the wildlife rescue, care and rehabilitation facility jointly run by Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), Assam Forest Department (AFD) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) – have attended 107 wildlife rescue cases in the ongoing flood crisis in Kaziranga National Park as of August 1.
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Kaziranga, one of India’s UNESCO world heritage
vehicular traffic. While the Kaziranga Forest Authority had introduced a ‘Time Card’ system to regulate the speed of vehicles on NH37 during the floods, the role of MVS units – three from CWRC and one from WTI and the Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund’s Wildlife Rescue Centre at Diphu – in running round-the-clock rescue and wildlife crisis mitigation operations in the four Forest Ranges adjoining the highway has been crucial.
sites, has faced a major wildlife crisis this year due to what are being described as the worst floods in a decade.
As large areas of the park are inundated in the annual monsoon floods, wild animals
seek higher ground across National Highway 37 towards the foothills of Karbi Anglong. The intense flooding this year
has caused unprecedented animal movement and a large number of casualties, particularly hog deer, from
MVS teams have handled 107 rescue cases in seven days. They have released 62 hog deer out of 92 rescue cases attended to date; they have also attended, with the AFD, three eastern swamp deer rescues
(two of the deer survived and were brought to CWRC for treatment). Working with the Kaziranga Forest Authority, MVS teams have also attended ten Asian one-horned rhinoceros rescue cases in a week of floods, of which one rhino died before it could be brought to the rescue centre and another was rescued and released shortly after. Eight rhinos, all calves separated from their mothers, have been kept under observation at the Large Animal Nursery at CWRC. A jungle owlet and a fishing cat were also admitted to the centre for treatment during the floods. The sudden influx of rescued animals – especially
the large number of rhino calves – into CWRC has stretched the centre’s resources to the limit. “The number of animals under our care has risen sharply in the last week”, said Dr Rathin Barman, Deputy Director, WTI and Centre-in-charge. We have had to erect a temporary shelter where two baby elephants are being housed. Two paddocks are also ready to the shift rhino calves into once they become stable. Of course, several of these animals will require long term care once we can look beyond the current situation towards possible rehabilitation into the wild.” Contd. on Page 4
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ET Bureau Kaziranga, Aug 1