Meghalaya home minister H.D.R. Lyngdoh has urged the Prasar Bharati to set up radio stations in border areas. Inaugurating a training programme for the All India Radio and Doordarshan, Lyngdoh said news on Indian current affairs was not reaching the border areas in Meghalaya and the people were wondering if they were not Indians or living outside the country. Free books meant for the students of lower primary school under Sarba Siksha Abhijan in Dhubri district have been distributed at the beginning of the session for the first time. S.S. Baghel, an agricultural scientist, took charge as the new vice-chancellor of the Assam Agricultural University on Tuesday. A four-member state commission for women has been constituted by the Arunachal Pradesh government recently. Chairperson-designate Jarjum Ete said women in the state would no longer face discrimination. Union minister for heavy industries Santosh Mohan Dev has urged unemployed people to engage themselves in the co-operative sector. The Union minister was addressing the open session of the centenary celebration of the Indian Co-operative Movement in Silchar on Tuesday. The disaster management plan of NFR is now available on the website (www.nfr.railne.gov.in). The aim of the website was to spread knowledge about the action to be taken during a disaster.A marketing workshop was held in Shillong on Monday by the development commissioner (handicraft) in collaboration with Forum for Total Development of the Northeast Region. The Agricultural Service Association of Assam has welcomed the state government?s steps towards filling some vacant posts in the department. Dispur has also agreed to upgrade the post of senior agricultural development officer to the rank of subdivisional officer.
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To Digboi veterans? team for bagging 29 medals at the 13th all-Assam veterans? athletics meet at Silapathar Railway Stadium
