Development / Arunachal

ITANAGAR, March 2: The ruling Congress Government led by Mukut Mithi in this Himalayan State has hiked the royalty on all categories of timber and other forest products by 15 per cent with immediate effect. "This decision was taken as per the country's apex court ruling at the Cabinet meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Mukut Mithi here yesterday," Takam Sanjoy told the newsmen here today. He said that the Cabinet has also approved the enhancement of stipend of all categories of tribal students by Rupees 100 from the existing one. "This will cost the State exchequer by...

ITANAGAR, February 4: The Centre has agreed to provide Rs 32 crore for development of horticulture in Arunachal Pradesh which has the ideal agro-climatic condition in this regard, State Horticulture Minister Zapu Deru said on Saturday. The State Government, in collaboration with NGOs, would work towards implementing the horticulture projects, Deru said while inaugurating an office campus of the Agro-Gramin United (AGUN), a non-government organisation here, reports PTI. Deru said his department had planted altogether 80,000 apple saplings in West Kameng district with the help of marginal...

TEZPUR, February 3: The first phase of the 405 MW capacity Ranganadi hydel power project in Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh is now at the final stage and is expected to be commissioned by the middle of the year while the second and third phase of the project is expected to be commissioned by 2002. Talking to The Assam Tribune official sources said that the Northeastern Council (NEC) project which started in 1989 at the original project cost of Rs 312.78 crore was entrusted to the Northeastern Electrical Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO) and was scheduled to be commissioned in...

ITANAGAR, February 2: Union Minister for Water Resources Arjun Charan Sethi today assured the flood-affected people of Arunachal Pradesh that the External Affairs Ministry had taken up the issue of flash floods with the Chinese government and was hopeful of a suitable outcome, reports PTI. It was earlier reported that the flash floods in Siang valley on June 1 last year was caused due to breach of a dam on the Chinese side. At least four districts of the State - Upper Siang, East Siang, West Siang and Dibang valley were the worst hit by the flash floods. The Minister who visited the flood...

ITANAGAR, January 22: Aruanchal's Power Department on Sunday asked the M/S Boving Fouress Limited, Bangalore, to complete all the three power projects awarded to them by State Government in the year 1993-94 following the rejection of its petition by the Gauhati High Court last year. "Since the company's writ petition was dismissed by the court, now they should start works on all three power projects to complete as early as possible as it was already delayed by more than four years," State Power Minister Lijum Ronya in a press note said. The minister said, "If the company does not start works...

NEW DELHI, August 6: After the Central Government's permission to allow foreigners to visit Nagaland, the Union Home and Tourism Ministries have received demands for lifting restrictions on the foreign tourists in other Northeastern states as well. These states, including Manipur, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, have made a beeline for the two Ministries, and requested that foreigners should be allowed a free access in order to boost tourism. The government had last month lifted the ban on foreign tourists in certain districts of Nagaland. A decision on the demands of the other Northeast states...

IMPHAL, August 4: The All Manipur Students' Union, has expresses deep concern at the publication of a news item in a Shillong based daily, to the effect that the AMSU had pressurised students of the CAU, who hail from outside Manipur, to leave the state. AMSU representatives told media persons at a press meet that the AMSU had never pressurised CAU students from neither outside the state to leave nor for shifting of the CAU from Manipur, and questioned the grounds on which the allegations had been made. Remarking that the situation at CAU remained tense in the aftermath of the attempt by...

IMPHAL, August 4: A one man enquiry committee to be headed by the deputy director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural research, ICAR, SL Mehta, has been instituted to investigate the reasons behind the attempted mass exodus of non local hostellers of the Central Agricultural University, CAU, at Iroishemba, according to a CAU press release. The term of enquiry of the one-man committee would also be to identify responsible person for the attempted flight, if any. Meanwhile, although complete normalcy has still not been brought to the crisis, it definitely seems to be very close by...

IMPHAL, August 4: Following the announcement of an inquiry into the Central Agriculture University (CAU) incidents by the Deputy Chief Minister of the state, Leishangthem Chandramani Singh, the situation in the university campus has totally calmed down. It may be noted that a total of 96 students from Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh,Tripura and Mizoram had tried to run away from the Irishemba Agriculture University hostels packing all their belongings on August 2 morning. The Deputy Chief Minister, who is the Chief Minister-in-charge, said that certain developments had come up regarding the...

ITANAGAR, August 3: Poor recovery of repayments is the main impediment in the smooth flow of loanable funds in this strategic frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh, according to the state Bank of India officials here. Talking to newsmen here on Wednesday, assistant general manager SBI regional branch, Itanagar, SC Sarkar said one of the problems being faced by the bank in Arunachal Pradesh is the poor recovery climate, which has hampered the flow of loanable funds. However, he said this could be done away with if the state government could initiate step to help the recovery efforts of banks by...