Development / Assam

GUWAHATI, Feb 26 – The Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Airport is ready with all necessary technical facilities for operation of twice-weekly international flight to Bangkok from April 4. The Director General of Civil Aviation and senior officials of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security are scheduled to arrive here on February 28 for final inspection of the facilities in the airport.

Talking to The Assam Tribune, the Regional Executive Director of the Airports Authority of India, Sri Srikrishan said that technically the LGB Airport with all modern equipment, is comparable to any other...

NEW DELHI, Feb 26 – Railway Minister Nitish Kumar today tried to undo the damage done by his predecessor Mamata Banerjee to the North-east in the last Railway Budget, sanctioning a number of long-pending demands including start of project work on Bogibeel bridge and increasing the frequency of the Rajdhani Express to seven days a week. What would bring cheers to the large Marwari community in the region is the proposal to start a weekly Guwahati-Jodhpur-Bikaner via Jaipur train. A new inter-city train service called Jan Shatabdi Express is being introduced between Guwahati-Dimapur. A total...

GUWAHATI, Feb 22 — The Railway Board ordered last week a feasibility study on the proposed extension of the railway line from Azara near the city, to Byrnihat in Meghalaya. The study is to be completed within six months and for the purpose an amount of around Rs 180 crore has been sanctioned. This was disclosed by senior NF Railway officials at a joint press conference addressed also by Sri Vipan Nanda, the new General Manager (GM) of the NF Railway and its new Additional General Manager (AGM) R Gopinathan Nair here today. Sri Nanda joined as NF Railway GM in January last, while Sri Nair only...

KUMARIKATA (Nalbari), Feb 21 — Worried over dilapidated condition of roads in the State, the Centre has decided to handover the National Highway (NH) 52 to the Border Roads Organisation (BRO). Addressing a press conference here today the Director General of the BRO, Lt Gen Prakash Suri said that the BRO has got a proposal on NH 52 and it is waiting for ‘go ahead signal’ from the authorities concerned. The BRO has been carrying out several projects in Nalbari, Kamrup and Barpeta districts under Prime Minister Special Package scheme. In this context, Lt Gen Suri said that the BRO has been...

GUWAHATI, Feb 19 — State Government’s bid to improve healthcare in rural areas suffered a serious set-back as out of the 400 doctors recruited recently to man health centres in rural areas, 350 rejected the job offer. Dr Bhumidhar Barman, the Health Minister, informed that out of the 400 selected candidates only 50 honoured the appointment letters issued to them by joining duty in rural health centres. Dr Barman termed the tendency of fresh medical graduates to keep off from rural areas as an alarming development considering that over 80 per cent of the total population in the State live in...

GUWAHATI, Feb 14 ? The introduction of international flights from the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Airport to Bangkok from April will give a big boost to the overall development of the North-Eastern region, said the Union Civil Aviation Minister, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain. Addressing a Press conference here today, the Union Minister said that the introduction of the North-East in the international air map would definitely give a big boost to tourism in the region and the hotel industry will also be developed. He pointed out that apart from other places of tourist attraction, the golf courses...

DIBRUGARH, Feb 12 — There are several industries in the twin districts of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia. But whenever one needs a donation, the first name that comes into reckoning is Oil India Limited (OIL). None of the other industries, be it tea, fertilizer and others in the petroleum sector, are so deluged with donation demands. Such is the pressure on OIL that even the district administration in Tinsukia and Dibrugarh asks the company to cough out money for sundry reasons: install streetlights, build roads, beautification of some park, etc. Then there is the constant pressure for “complimentary...

HAFLONG, Feb 12 – The pineapple growers of NC Hills district have expressed serious concern over the insufficient marketing facilities and transportation across the district. This year the pineapple growers have expected production of pineapple to be more than 10 lakhs pieces. But due to lack of communication facilities, their earning may be less as they might have to sell their products at a lower rate. As the pineapples are easily perishable, the traders from outside the district will take the full advantage of the helpless sitaution of the farmers and purchase the pineapple at a cheaper...

GUWAHATI, Feb 11 – Opening up of all the trade routes with the neighbouring countries, particularly reopening of the Stilwell Road was the main thrust of the presentation of the Minister of State for Home and Industries, Sri Pradyut Bordoloi in the South East Asia trade conference held at Dhaka recently under the Kunming Initiative. In his speech in the inaugural session of the conference, Sri Bordoloi said that along with the Moreh-Tamu-Kalmeyo road, stress should be given on reopening of the Stilwell Road connecting Ledo in Assam to Kunming in China, covering vast areas of Myanmar to boost...

GOLAKGANJ, Feb 9 – The plight of women in char areas in Dhubri district remains pathetic. Education is still a distant dream for most of the womenfolk here. Literacy rate in char areas is ten percent, out of which the women’s share is almost nil. Women of these areas are mainly considered tools for childbirth and maintaining household chores. “It is their duty”, said Mollah Ajgar Ali of Chalakura Char. Besides household chores, the women help their male counterparts in the paddy fields. It may be mentioned that the char women of Chalakura-Birshing, Baraibari, Kuntirchar, Bhasanirchar...