The vigilance cell of Lower Assam and the Central Assam Electricity Distribution Committee detected 143 illegal power connections in Basistha, Garbhanga and Narengi during a special drive that ended on Saturday.
Nearly Rs 2 lakh was taken as fines from 40 people with illegal connections.
PHE minister Rihon Daimary inaugurated a water supply scheme in Bonda on Saturday. The scheme, executed at the cost of nearly Rs 42 lakh, would provide adequate water to the area. The new office bearers of the Postgraduate Students’ Union of Gauhati University have resolved to fight for the uplift of the university. The un-ion will pressurise the government to release Rs 180 crore immediately for overall development of the university. A meeting of the senior citizens of undivided Nagaon district permanently settled in Guwahati recently held a meeting in the city. The meeting discussed problems faced by Guwahati and Nagaon district. A host of eminent city-based citizens have constituted a committee to celebrate the birth centenary of Kalaguru Bishnu Prasad Rabha by organising various events from January 31 to December 30, 2008. The Dispur unit of the All Guwahati Students’ Union will organise an inter-school quiz, recitation and drawing competition at Gopal Boro HS School on June 10. The National Students’ Union of India will felicitate the toppers of HSLC and higher secondary examinations, 2007, at a function in Rabindra Bhawan on Monday. A city-based orthopaedic surgeon, Sanjay Chakrabarty, will attend an Indo-Nepalese medical mission at Sierra Leone in Africa. He will conduct surgeries on 100 orthopaedically-handicapped patients. City police arrested four persons, Subodh Kothari, Suresh Kothari, Mohd Samim and Gan-esh Kalita on Sunday on charges of possessing 24 kg of fuse wires.
