Development / Arunachal

GUWAHATI, May 2 ? The Industrial Finance Corporation of India Ltd (IFCI Ltd) has drawn up a detailed programme to assess the industrial and tourism potentialities of Arunachal Pradesh by tapping its rich natural resources for generating more employment opportunities. Mentionably, the Corporation has been appointed a nodal agent for the tourism sector in the north-eastern region by the Government of India. It is the first development financial institution set up as statutory corporation in 1948 to encourage and assist industrial development in India. It was restructured and incorporated as a...

ITANAGAR, April 17 ? The Centre has not yet given green signal for introduction of mobile telephone in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur due to security reasons, reports PTI. The chief general manager of BSNL, North East II, Krishna Kumar told reporters here Tuesday that BSNL would not introduce mobile phones in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur as it has not received green signal from the Centre on this issue. However, the internet facilities in the three States would be given further extension in due course of time, he said. Kumar said his department was doing its best to bring...

NEW DELHI, Feb 15 — CBI files case against ex-chief engineer a former Chief Engineer of Arunachal Pradesh Government and seven firms for allegedly conspiring and causing a loss of crores of rupees to the State Government. The CBI, after filing an FIR, also raided the residential premises of the former Chief Engineer in Chandigarh and official premises of these companies and seized some documents, agency sources said here. According to the FIR filed by the CBI, the former Chief Engineer Darshan Singh had allegedly abused his official position and conspired with Hydro Power Equipment, Johrat,...

ITANAGAR, April 18: The Arunachal Government has constituted a "project formulation committee" to get possible funding from national and international agencies like the World Bank, reports PTI. An official statement said here on April 16 that the committee was constituted under the guidance of Arunachal Pradesh Minister for Environment and Forest Nabam Tuki. The committee will function within the framework of guidelines on the subject and in consultation with the Ministry of Environment and Forest, Union Government. The six-member committee comprising senior scientists and forest officers of...

GUWAHATI, April 9: A high-level team from Arunachal Pradesh has moved the Union government to counter the moves of certain neighbouring countries who, it pointed out, were carrying on propaganda over their electronic media and starting to influence the Indian villagers living along the international border. The team led by Arunachal Pradesh Minister for IPR and Land Management, Sanjoy Takam called on the secretary telecommunications, Shyamal Ghosh, at Sanchar Bhawan, New Delhi on April 4. The state team pointed out to the secretary, defence, that such strategy of China and Myanmar will, in the...

NAHARLAGUN, March 25: The State Agriculture Department is making all-out efforts to do away with the traditional method of shifting and jhum cultivation in Arunachal Pradesh for the last couple of years. "The department has initiated several measures in tackling the problems related to the shifting cultivation practice by the local tribes in the state," Tako Dabi, Minister Agriculture told the State Assembly here on Thursday. The Minister was responding to a question raised by Congress member Anok Wangsa about what steps the government has taken to prevent jhum cultivation in the State. As...

NAHARLAGUN, March 25: The Arunachal Pradesh Government is making concerted efforts to reopen the traditional border trade routes with China, Bhutan and Myanmar to make this tribal-dominated state a nerve centre of border trade in near future. "My government is pursuing the matter with the Centre for taking up bilateral talks with the governments of our neighbouring countries on priority basis," Mithi said while responding to a private member resolution on border trade routes moved by the former chief Minister Gegong Apang in the Assembly. Moving the resolution, Apang said: "This Assembly is of...

NAHARLAGUN, March 22: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Mukut Mithi has disclosed that Central Bureau of Investigation would soon visit the state to investigate the much talked power scam handed over to them by the state government a year ago. Responding to a question by Takam Sorang of Congress in the House whether CBI is active in the state Mithi said, yes, CBI authority has responded to initiate action on the cases handed over to them. 'So far seven cases including the power scam have been handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation' he said, adding 'the CBI has intimated that their...

ITANAGAR, March 20: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Mukut Mithi today said he has asked the Centre to reopen the border trade routes with neighbouring countries like China, Myanmar and Bhutan, reports UNI. Replying to a private member resolution in the assembly on the reopening of the border trade with its neighbouring countries, Mithi said the Centre had evinced keen interests on the matter. He said the Centre was of the opinion that the existing routes to Moreh in Manipur should be made operational before opening up any new routes through Pangsu pass in the State. The private member...

ITANAGAR, March 8: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Mukut Mithi has stressed the need to develop medicinal plants and other horticultural and forest species in the state. Speaking at the inaugural function of the Horticulture and Forestry College, the first of its kind in the state, at Pasighat, the district headquarters of East Siang, yesterday, Mithi said, "The foothills zone of the state is suitable for growing citrus fruits, guavas, bananas, pineapples, large cardamoms, black pepper, plums, pears and vegetables. "Production of apples, walnuts and kiwis should be developed on the rain...