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PAGE 12 Vol. 1
Issue 318
Dibrugarh, Wednesday, April 27, 2016
80 families lost their dwellings in recent pre-monsoon flood
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PM Modi sends high-level central team to landslideaffected areas in Tawang ET Bureau New Delhi, Apr 26
Responding to the woes of the people of Bordumsa-Diyun Lac of Changlang District in Arunachal Pradesh suffering due to incessant pre-monsoon downpour, thunderbolt and hailstorms, the local MLA together with his administrative team have been relentlessly visiting the affected areas of his jurisdiction taking stalks of the situations thereby ensuring the early government relief to be rendered to the needy and hapless lot of his constituency. Following his visit to the
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Ammunitions recovered Kokrajhar, April 26: A person identified as Jahidul Islam was apprehended by security forces in a joint operation from Rupsi in Kokrajhar district on Tuesday. A 7.65 pistol, magazine and three live ammunitions were recovered from him. (Correspondent)
Cop killed due to speeding car
worst flood hit victims of not less than 80 families in Diyun Circle, Mr. Kamin today visited Bordumsa Village where around several hundred acres of agricultural field was under flash flood affecting few households, domestication, leaving almost no hopes for carrying the agricultural operation if the rain continues till next fortnight. According to Sikhetang Singpho the Government Head Gaon Bura of Bordumsa Village who accompanied the Mr. Kamin told the Journalist that the entire the agricultural filed has been under water affecting
some of the nearby families badly due to continuous pre monsoon disastrous spell. He lamented that the village being prominent and located at a very economically strategic location within Bordumsa Circle lacks well planned drainage network with outlet resulting in such flash floods that remain confined with the huge agricultural field thus affecting the produce and hitting the farmers severely on their belly. However, talking to this journalist, Roitop Singpho the ASM of the concerned flood, Contd. on Page 4
The team will comprise of a senior advisor in the Niti Aayog and a joint secretary from the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Prime Minister has directed the team to make an assessment of the nature of relief and compensation package, after holding discussions with the State and District officials and to submit a report, as per PIB.
A Staff Reporter Guwahati, Apr 26
Authority (ASDMA), nearly one lakh people were suffering in Jorhat, Sivasagar, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Cachar and Charaideo districts. Authorities have opened 40 relief camps in Sivasagar, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and
Charaideo where 7,412 inmates were taking shelter. So far nearly 5,000 hectares of crop area have been inundated by flood water, the release said. Army, NDRF and SDRF teams have been deployed for search and rescue operations in flood
affected areas of Charaideo district. The floods caused by tributaries of the Brahmaputra river, Burhi-Dihing and Disang, have destroyed at least 200 villages displacing around 74,000 people in Sivasagar and Charaideo alone.
Chief Secretary Assam V.K. Pipersenia, in presence of the Secretary DBT Cabinet Secretariat and Joint Secretary GOI DBT and Senior State Government officials of the concerned Departments here it has been decided that the State Government shall immediately constitute a DBT cell in the Finance Department for further reforms and initiatives of Government of India in modernizing the delivery process. The Joint Secretary DBT Peeyush Kumar, with his presentation on the DBT loaded
with illustrative examples of the areas where DBT platform could be used and enlightened the officers present in the meeting. He stressed on achieving the basic objective of the DBT i.e. to reach the people by way of electronic transfer of benefits minimizing the levels involved in benefit flow in a time bound manner.
ments by providing technical support. In his concluding comments, the Chief Secretary Assam wished that the results of the meeting will drive home the actual thought of the Mission to all the officers present and the State will be able to create its own DBT platform very soon. It is note worthy that the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) is a system under which Government uses modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for delivery of various services to the citizens.
CM Kalikho Pul hands over cheque of Rs 30 lacs for Assam achieves above national treatment of Miss Gollo Namper average in MNREGA and NSAP ET Correspondent Dispur, April 26
Assam is ahead in terms of providing directs benefits to its citizens in some major areas. In case of PAHAL (Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG subsidy) the achievement is more than 92 percent which is above the national average in case of MNREGA and NSAP, the performance is almost 100 percent. Discussing the various issues involved in the DBT, under the Chairmanship of
15 children rescued from the child trafficking racket
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First wave of flood to affect almost 1,00,000 in Assam : ASDMA Almost one lakh people have been affected in the first wave of floods in Assam. As per an official release by the Assam State Disaster Management
Guwahati, April 26: An Assam Police constable was killed after being hit by a speeding car at Dispur Super Market area in Guwahati today. The constable identified as Mustak Hussain who was guarding the Gate No. 6 of Assam Secretariat. The errant car driver fled the spot after the incident. Later, the car (AS01 BP 2521) was seized and the accused driver Shruba Baishya was nabbed by police. (Staff Reporter)
Tezpur, Apr 26 : Following adequate inputs the people of Dhekiajuli town area last night managed to rescue as many as 15 children belonging to Ghoramari village in Singri area under Dhekiajuli PS in Sonitpur district from the clutch of a child trafficking gang. According to the information available here the 15 children who were taken to Rangyia train station by a Bollero bearing No-AS-12-C4692 for sending them to Delhi. However, the movement of the vehicle in Dhekiajuli town carrying the children under age group 10 to 16 years created an air of doubt among the people of the town. Meanwhile, people who were following them for a good while later intercepted the vehicle and asked the two persons traveling by the vehicle about the motive of taking the children with them. As they couldn't give clear cut reply people gathered at spot informed the Child Development Project officer (CDPO) of Barchala CDPO office, Rupa Bora. On receiving the information the CDPO accompanying with one of her co-officers, Pabitra Sharma rushed to the spot and alongwith the Bollero, captured the two child traffickers Pitar Orang and Rebanti Kheria and handed over to the Dhekiajuli Police station. After the interrogation police later arrested the two accused persons involved with the incident and this morning sent back the children to their homes.
Models walk the ramp wearing traditional dress during Miss Moh-Mol in Changlang of Arunachal Pradesh. Pic - UB Photos
CM Pul handing over cheque to victim’s father Mr. Gollo Tango A Staff Reporter Itanagar, Apr 26
As committed during his first "Janta Darsan" conducted on Saturday, Hon'ble Chief Minister Kalikho Pul today handed over a cheque of Rs 30 lacs for breast transplant surgery of Miss Gollo Namper (6) to her father Mr. Gollo Tango
in presence of Health Commissioner Hage Kojeen, Director Health Dr Moji Jini, and the District Medical Officers (DMO) from various districts of the state. "I hope that this will enable you to take her for advanced medical care for the complications she is facing, leading to scar contracture. I am hopeful
that with the expert care that you are seeking for her, she will recover speedily," the CM told the girl's father. Also the CM asked the father to inform about the girl's condition and progress of the treatment with assurance that the government would further support in her complete recovery.
The Secretary, DBT while addressing the meeting stated that the DBT Mission of Government of India is always ready to help the State Govern-
Of all states, the poll outcome in Assam is most crucial ET Correspondent Kokrajhar, Apr 26
Of the four states and a Union Territory whose election results will be declared next month, the outcome in Assam is the most crucial. A myth about the Assam elections is that the BJP is in a
good position there because Sarbanda Sonowal and Himanta Biswa Sarma, the two front-ranking leaders in the BJP in Assam, do not have an RSS background and had cut their teeth in the politics of the student movement of the 1970s and the 1980s. Nothing can be further than this from the truth.
For long, the RSS has been targeting the North-East to Hinduise the region. Sonowal and Sarma are just pawns in the big game. Assam is an ethnic, cultural mosaic with a colonial and precolonial history. Post-independence India took it upon itself the task of managing this soci-
ety. In the Assam assembly, an MLA can take an oath in Assamese, English, Hindi, Bengali and a tribal language. The assembly polls of 2016 and the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 have introduced a new element not there earlier in a strong way. Contd. on Page 4
Arunachal Govt decides to implement NFSA across state A Staff Reporter Itanagar, Apr 26
The Arunachal Pradesh cabinet has decided to implement the National Food Security Act immediately throughout the state, an official release said here today. As per the Act, 35 kg rice would be allocated to AAY
household and the rice would be made available at the rate of Rs 3 per kg per person to all priority households. For the rest of the households, rice would be available through FPS at prices on a differential scale, to be paid and settled directly by the consumers.
In areas served by the banking channels, options were kept for direct cash transfer model. For this to happen, DCs would be instructed to undertake an exercise and finish it within three months. All priority household would get roughly Rs 22 per kg per person per month di-
rectly in their bank account and they could purchase rice from the market. It was also decided to start this model well before December. For rest of the households located in villages connected with roads, the cabinet decided to make the rice available through fair price shops. The cabinet further de-
cided to stop transportation by head load system and to opt for air dropping in remote areas. It was also decided to clear pending bills of small and marginal contractors and cooperatives, who have completed their work in time, the release added.
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ET Correspondent Bordumsa, April 26
Prime Minister Narendra Modi instructed a two-member central team on Tuesday to go to Arunachal Pradesh for an on-the-spot-assessment of damage in the wake of the recent landslide in Tawang District.