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ASSENG/2015/64205
Vol. II
Issue 42
Dibrugarh, Saturday, July 30, 2016
SRI LANKA VS AUSTRALIA, 1ST TEST: HOSTS HAVE EDGE AS RAIN HALTS AUSSIE CHASE ON DAY 4
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CM Sonowal visits flood affected areas of Dhubri and Chirang districts WHAT CM SAID?
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday visited flood affected areas in Dhubri and Chirang districts and took stock of the relief and rescue operations undertaken for the affected people.
To take special care of all kinds of medical emergencies.
Earlier, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal convened a review meeting with the Deputy Commissioner (DC) and other line departments and took stock of the relief and rescue operations pressed in to help the marooned people. Since the current wave of flood compelled several people to take shelter in the relief camps, Chief Minister Sonowal asked the administration to help the affected people generously with adequate relief materials. Instruction has also been issued to send relief materials
ET CAPSULES Two employees held for stealing at employer's place Tinsukia, July 29: Two youths working at an electrical shop here at Manav Kalyan road in Tinsukia were arrested on Friday for stealing goods in the back of the owner. The arrested youths has been identified as Mintu Singh and Bicky Shah. According to sources, the youths employed at Rikhow Agencies were stealing goods from their godowns since past few months and selling the same at one fourth price to some persons. The owner had a doubt after he found one recent purchased electrical goods not in his stock. As such he kept an eye on the duo and caught them red handedly this evening. During interrogation the employee accepted their role in stealing goods and selling to other persons privately. Later, police was informed and a team from Tinsukia police station came and took both the employees.
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An FIR has been lodged by the businessman on the basis of which police is interrogating both the employees to find out the persons and businessman that have purchased stolen goods. (Spl Correspondent)
Rajnath Singh to visit Assam to take stock of flood situation A Staff Reporter Guwahati, July 29
Directs medical department to keep an eye to tackle the outbreak.
Chief Minister Sonowal visited a relief camp set up at Pratap Chandra Higher Secondary School at Gauripur and inspected the relief operations being undertaken for the camp inmates. He also took stock of the medical, drinking water and other ancillary facilities being given to the inmates. Sonowal asked the administration to take special care of all kinds of medical emergencies and the health of the infants, children and aged people living in the relief camp. He also directed the medical department to keep an eye to tackle the outbreak of any epidemic and veterinary and animal husbandry department to supply fodder stock in adequate quantity.
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A Staff Reporter Guwahati, July 29
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To help the affected people generously with adequate relief materials. To keep vigil on embankments and other vulnerable areas. To ensure security at the relief camps on 24X7 basis.
CM Sonowal during his visit to Dhubri and Chirang districts
to the houses of flood affected people but not rendered homeless. Chief Minister Sonowal asked the DC to be vigilant with his men and machinery and keep vigil on embankments and other vulnerable areas likely to spur more damages. He also asked the district administration to undertake repair work on the dykes if there is any and ensure security at the relief camps on 24X7 basis. Chief Minister Sonowal informed that fund has already been released for relief and rescue operations and that steps are being taken to provide kerosene, candle and even seedlings to the flood affected people. Minister for Public Health Engineering Rihon Daimary, MLAs Bilasipara East Ashok Singhi,
Bilasipara West Hafiz Bashir Ahmed, Gauripur Nijamur Rahman, Golkaganj Ashwini Roy Sarkar, Dhubri Nazrul Haque, DC Dhubri along with a host of senior officers were present at the meeting. In the second lap of his gruelling tour, Chief Minister Sonowal held another review meeting with the district administrations of Bongaigaon and Chirang. He took stock of the measures that both the district administrations have put in to ease the sufferings of the flood affected people. He asked the DCs to provide all facilities including sanitary and security to the camp inmates and emphasised that from the next year monitoring and supervision of embankments will be undertaken well ahead of the onset of monsoon. Speaker of Assam
Poacher arrested, huge cache of arms and ammunition recovered
Poacher Dambarudhar Payeng arrested with arms and ammunition ET Correspondent Golaghat, July 29
Golaghat police was able to arrest a notorious poacher from Tamil Nadu. Based on some specific tip off, a special team of Golaghat police went to Coimbatore city in Tamil Nadu and arrested one Dambarudhar Payeng who was alleged to be involved in many cases of poaching including the case where a rhino was killed during State Forest Minister paid her visits to KNP. Police had recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition which includes one AK-56 rifle, 2 silencers, 2 three not three rifle, 60 rounds of ammunition and skull of a rhino.
The arrested poacher stated that he after the Kaziranga incident fled to Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu to escape from the police. Police had recovered this huge quantity of arms and ammunition from a pit near his home at Kothiyatoli village under Kamargaon P.S. Meanwhile another person who was associated with poaching was nabbed by a team of Golaghat police yesterday from Dimapur in Nagaland. The person was identified as N Ben Lotha who was a residence of Wokha district and worked as a class contractor. Police interrogation is on and it is expected that more sensational revelation will be out in upcoming days.
To repair the breach on a war footing and take steps to redress the erosion.
Legislative Assembly Ranjit Kumar Das, Environment and Forest Minister Pramila Rani Brahma, PHED Minister Rihon Daimary, Deputy CEM, BTC Khampa Borgoiary, MLAs Chandan Brahma, Kamal Singh Narzary, DCs of Bongaigaon and Chirang were present at the meeting. After the review meeting Chief Minister Sonowal visited Dooma village under Sidli revenue circle and inspected the breach on the embankment of the Aie River which displaced nearly 40 families. Sonowal directed the Water Resources Department and district administration to repair the breach on a war footing and take steps to redress the erosion.
Rajnath Singh Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh would visit Assam to take stock of the flood situation tomorrow. Accompanied by Chief Minister, Sarbananda Sonowal, the Union Home Minister will make an aerial survey of flood affected areas of Nagaon, Morigaon and Kaziranga. Singh will visit Morigaon district and meet the inmates of the relief camps at Bhagatgaon. He will then hold a high level meeting with Chief Minister Sonowal, ministers of concerned departments and senior Government officials at Air Traffic Control conference hall at Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport. The Union Home Minister will leave for Delhi in the evening.
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Water Resources Department suspends 4 officials for negligence of duty under directive of CM Sonowal A Staff Reporter Guwahati, July 29
At the directive of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, the Water Resources Department has suspended four officials for exhibiting gross negligence of duty during the current wave of flood in Majuli. An order to this effect has been brought out by the Secretary, Water Resources Department today. Hari Prasad Gogoi, Junior Engineer, Jibon Khatoniar, Sub Engineer, Jayanti Mudoi, Section Assistant and Bedanto Kumar Bhuyan, Section Assis-
tant have been suspended pending drawal of departmental proceedings on the charge that they were found absent at the site, at the time of occurrence of breach on Brahmaputra dyke from Bessamora to Haldibari under Majuli Water Resources Department. Show cause notices have been issued to Buddhi Nath Shyam, Executive Engineer, Majuli Water Resources Division and Babul Chandra Deori, Assistant Executive Engineer, Kamalabari Water Resources Sub-Division. Contd. on Page 4
Chief Minister launched Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF) 2016 ET Bureau Itanagar, July 29
Chief Minister Pema Khandu launched the state wide Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight 2016 today at Itanagar. In the launching programme, Chief Minister make a clarion call to make 100% achievement of IDCF in the state by reducing children’s death due to diarrhoea to zero percent. To achieve this objective, he appealed to all the health workers, ASHA Volunteers, Anganwadi workers, Panchayati Raj Members, NGOs, Public leaders and health officers to work collectively and wholeheartedly. He appealed to the people to make full benefit of the programme and minimize the death ratio of the children below 5 years. Chief Minister said, “Health is a priority sector for his govt” and his govt would ensure to implement all the flagship programmes of Govt of India in the state in letter and spirit. With a view to provide better health facilities to the people of the state, CM said to look into the infrastructure and
CM Khandu during launching programme of IDCF equipments need of the health department. He also said to make recruitment to the various posts created in the health department in phase wise manner so as to meet the man power requirements for better health delivery system in the state. Chief Minister also administered ORS to the children during the launching programme. Hage Kojeen, Commissioner (Health) in his introductory speech informed that the third Integrated Diarrhoea Control Fortnight 2016 is being launched in the state with an objective to achieve zero diarrhoea death under 5 years. IDTF 2016 would cover 1.71 lakhs
children under 5 years in the state and the programme would be implemented in collaboration with all the line departments like health, education, women & child development, Rural Development & Panchayat, he added. P N Thungon, Mission Director, NRHM informed that 10% of death among the children is due to diarrhoea and IDCF is being launched with a motive to reduce child mortality under 5 years of age. Dr Moji Jini, Director Health Services, Tapi Gao, Director Elementary Education, Tayi Taggu, Director Rural Development among others were present on the occasion.
44 NDRF teams deployed in 12 flood-hit states, 894 people rescued IANS New Delhi, July 29
As many as 44 disaster relief teams have been deployed in flood-affected areas in 12 states, and have rescued 894 stranded/marooned persons so far in Assam and Bihar, an official statement said on Friday. Thirteen of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams are deployed in Assam, nine in Bihar and the remaining in Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal to assist the state governments in rescue and relief work, the statement said. In Assam, 307 people were evacuated from Jorhat district, 37 from Kokrajhar, 80 from Charang and 73 from Kamrup. In Bihar, 43 persons were evacuated from Supaul, 34 from Bhetia, 250 from Purnia and 70 from Gopalganj. The NDRF teams have also
Flood victims of recent Assam flood been providing mobile hospital facilities to flood-affected people in Assam and have set up medical camps in Bihar. The mobile hospital facilities are also being provided at Meragarh and Missamora villages in Assam - where floods have caused havoc and displaced thousands. "The medical teams have attended to 163 sick persons
and distributed medicines to the needy in different area in Assam," it was officially stated The NDRF teams have also established medical camps in some blocks in Muzzafarpur and Supaul districts in Bihar. "A round-the-clock NDRF control room in New Delhi is closely monitoring the situation and is in touch with other government agencies," the statement said.
Eight rhino cubs rescued in Kaziranga National Park ET Correspondent Jorhat, July 29
Eight rhino cubs were rescued by the joint effort of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) authority and team from the Centre of Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) which was displaced and separated from their mother during the first wave of flood which struck by strong water current and wave as fresh water from the mighty Brahmaputra submerged over 90% for past four days.
Out of eight cubs three cubs are one month old, two cubs are five months old while another two are seven months old while one is one year old said Dr. Pranjit Basumatary. On the other hand KNP authority rescued two hog deer which was found trapped to a fence when both were trying to flee towards a campus in search of food at a nearby village. After the villagers reported the matter to KNP rescue team and soon they rescued and admitted hurriedly at the CWRC semiICU ward, informed Rathin Barman, Director of CWRC.
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