Rabiram Narzary, president of the Bodoland Peoples? Progressive Front (Rabiram faction), on Thursday slammed the maiden budget of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) as ?misleading, directionless and anti-people?.
Addressing a news meet at the party office in Kokrajhar, Narzary alleged that BTC chief Hagrama Mohilary ?has clubbed all central schemes to mislead the people? within the Rs 583.73-crore budget. The actual budget allocation for development activities was only Rs 140.78 crore, he added.
Dispur has asked the revenue department to sanction funds under the Calamity Relief Fund to tide over the drought-like situation in several districts, particularly in Lower Assam. According to an official estimate, 200,000 bighas of agricultural land in 14 districts have been affected. The first meeting of the executive committee of the All Assam Lawyers? Association held recently in Guwahati opposed any move by the government to destroy or remove old buildings in the name of beautification of the Brahmaputra river front. Apurbo Kumar Sharma, publicity secretary of the association, said the government?s move to shift the offices of the deputy commissioner and the chief judicial magistrate in the name of beautification was unnecessary. Save Guwahati Build Guwahati, a leading NGO, on Thursday appreciated the Tarun Gogoi-led government?s move to pass the Assam Apartments (Construction and Transfer of Ownership) Bill 2006 in the Assembly on Wednesday. The NGO said the bill would ensure protection of the interest and rights of flat owners. An Ulfa militant, Sunit Saikia, who is from Purani Khongia village under Tengakhat police station in Dibrugarh, surrendered before the 1/3 Gorkha regiment in Dibrugarh on Thursday. K. Kannan has been appointed as the vice-chancellor of Nagaland University. An official source said on Thursday that Kannan was professor and founder dean of the School of Biotechnology, at the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. The Mizo Zirlai Pawl, the apex students? body of Mizoram, on Thursday expressed the hope that chief minister Zoramthanga?s initiative to resolve the long-standing Assam-Mizoram boundary dispute was ?genuine? and not just a ?window dressing to appease the public?. A delegation of the Assam Plains Karbi Darbar recently met the Union minister for tribal affairs P.R. Kyndiah in New Delhi and submitted a memorandum demanding the inclusion of the Karbis living in the plains of Assam in the Scheduled Tribe list.The fifth North East Scouts and Guides Mini Jamboree will be held in Guwahati from December 17 to 21. About 800 participants from all over the region will participate in the event. Atho Miachieo, the political organiser of the ?Angami region? of the NSCN(I-M), was abducted from the Mohonkhola area on Thursday afternoon and later killed near a tourist lodge by suspected militants belonging to the rival Khaplang group.  |
To Saaduddin Choudhury, senior lecturer at the department of chemistry, Cotton College, Guwahati, for winning the Klaus Friedrich Best Research Paper Award
