Development / Tripura

AGARTALA, June 25 – The flood situation in Tripura took a turn for the worse with the death toll rising to three even as many villages were inundated, rendering thousands of people homeless, official sources said. The Assam-Agartala national highway, considered to be the lifeline of Tripura, was cut-off from rest of the country due to landslides and waterlogging at Ranirbazar in West Tripura district while Sai Radhanagar, Subhashnagar, Katakhal and Orient Chowmuhani areas remained waterlogged.

The Subdivisional Magistrate (SDM) of Sadar, Sambhu Nama said 1,500 people of 300 families were...

Agartala, May 27: Environmental degradation is well on course to replace insurgency as the burning problem in Tripura. Stating this at a seminar on Solid Waste Management to Combat Water Pollution in Tripura, US consul-general in Calcutta George Neil Sibley said the failure to manage the growing solid waste in the capital and other urban areas was beginning to pose serious health hazards.

The seminar was organised by the Association for Research on People and Nature, an NGO.

Environmentalist Biswendu Bhattacharya, who has studied Tripura extensively, said solid waste was accumulating in the...

Agartala, May 8: The Neepco has threatened to suspend power supply unless the Tripura government clears its dues immediately. The threat issued by the North Eastern Electrical Power Corporation (Neepco) by a formal letter yesterday sent officials of the power department into a tizzy because the state is facing a severe funds constraint.

Sources in the power department said the Neepco has demanded immediate payment of Rs 34.23 crore as dues.

They, however, stressed that much of this amount has already been paid and that efforts were on to convince the Neepco authorities about the actual...

AGARTALA, April 10– Tripura has recorded an alarming rise in the number of AIDS patients in recent years despite the fact that crores of rupees are being spent on the prevention of the deadly disease. According to the Project Director of the AIDS Control Society, Dr TK Das, there are 70 HIV positive and six full-blown AIDS patients. There were in total eight AIDS patients but two had died recently.

While delivering a lecture at a seminar organised by the Society of Pathologists, Microbiologists and Bio-chemists on the occasion of its biennial convention, Dr Das said, till date HIV virus was...

AGARTALA, Dec 12 ? Agartala Bench of Gauhati High Court has served a notice to Tripura government on a litigation that questioned legality of amendment of electric supply conditions enhancing power tariff on the basis of a 1910 act, which is not in force. The state electricity department in a notification on June 11, 2003 invoked Indian Electricity Act, 1910 (IX of 1910) for amendment of Tripura Electricity Supply Condition 1998. The amendment was required to hike the power tariff at domestic as well as business establishments.

Appearing before Justice AH Saikia on behalf of the petitioner...

AGARTALA, Dec 10 ? The Tripura Government is contemplating to set up a medical college in the State in collaboration with the Manipal Group. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar held a detailed meeting with the Planning Commission Deputy Chairman KC Pant and Chairman of Manipal Group Dr TA Pai on the matter. The Manipal Group seemed keen to come forward in setting up of a medical college and hospital in Agartala.

?For Tripura Government it is not possible to go it alone with the medical college project. That is why we are searching for a good partner. The talks with the Manipur Group were successful...

Agartala, Dec. 9: The tourism sector in Tripura has been hit by two unfavourable developments. The income of Comilla View, a tourist lodge in the Kasba area of West Tripura, plummeted after secretary of the department of tourism D.K. Chakraborty banned the system of spot booking at the lodge.

The lodge used to earn around Rs 50,000 per month. However, their income plunged after Chakraborty passed an order banning spot booking and consumption of liquor in the lodge.

This was done following a dispute with a nearby restaurant, run by a group of local leaders. Police intervened and arrested a...

AGARTALA, April 22 — The Rubber Development Board has decided to bring 5000 hectares of fresh land under plantation programme in Tripura in the Tenth Five Year Plan, according to Commissioner of the Board S Krishnakumar, reports PTI. The total outlay for rubber development in the Tenth Plan proposal in North East is Rs 84 crore of which Rs 40 crore has been alloted for Tripura, Krishnakumar told reporters here Sunday.

The Commissioner said Tripura stands second to Kerala in rubber production in the country. He said as per the Tenth Plan proposal, 5000 hectares of land will be utilised for...

AGARTALA, March 30—Darkness looms large over the state following NEEPCO’s decision to ‘regulate’ power supply to the electricity department from April 3 next. The ‘Regulation of power supply’ in straight words means ‘stoppage or at least drastic reduction of power supply’.

The NEEPCO decision came as the state’s power department failed to pay up the huge debt of Rs 90 crore to the corporation, despite several reminders. If NEEPCO curtails supply, then there will be a sharp deficit of about 45 to 50 mw during the peak hour and the power department will have no other option but to resort to...

Agartala, March 29: Tripura is heading for a major power crisis, with the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (Neepco) threatening to cut off electricity supply as the state government has not cleared its dues.

Till February 28, the state power department owed Neepco Rs 92 crore. In a statement, Neepco general manager P.K. Ghosh said despite repeated reminders, the Tripura government has failed to clear its dues. As a result, Neepco has not been able to pay suppliers of natural gas for its thermal plants.

“Besides, with such a huge amount in unpaid arrears, it is not possible on the...