Mass Communication toppers bestowed with Amit Nag memorial award

SILCHAR, Jan 3: The prestigious Amit Kumar Nag Memorial Achiever Award was given away to two brilliant students, Zahir Alam Zakaria and Sayan Dey, for bagging the first position in the Master of Mass Communication examinations under Assam University for 2011 and 2012 respectively, here at a function last evening.
The Award was instituted by the family in the name of the noted journalist of the region, Amit Kumar Nag, who passed away in 2007. The prize, which carries a citation and a cash amount of Rs 5,000, goes to the topper of the department of Mass Communication of the Assam University every year. Last year, the award ceremony had to be put on hold due to some unavoidable reasons.
Addressing the assembly, the noted academician and journalist, Joydeep Biswas, explained the significance of the event. Biswas who also compared the well-knit event, observed that some of the write-ups of the veteran journalist ‘hold a special significance especially in the contemporary context.’ He also added that the process of compilation of some of the scribe’s work for publication is underway. He hoped that such a publication would help in spreading the principles championed by late Amit Kumar Nag.
Speaking on the occasion to mark the 80th birth anniversary of the scribe, Badal Dey, the president of the District Sports Association, referred to the distinct brand of journalism late Nag had championed. He sounded a note of caution to the young awardees about the menace of ‘yellow journalism’ plaguing the mainstream media in the Valley in their promising professional career ahead, and advised them to follow the footsteps of Nag who, he said, ‘had never compromised despite all odds during his long and chequered career as a journalist’. Professor Shubhra Nag from the Department of Philosophy of Assam University lamented the fact that the local print media had lost its credibility before the readers. And in the same vein, she wished Zahir and Sayan to pick a lesson out of the life of Nag who, in her opinion, had been a hallmark of committed journalism in the North-East. Roma Purkayastha and Shamita Nag Dhar, among others, spoke on the occasion.
Earlier in the evening Tagore’s song by Debashis Das produced a serene opening to the simple ceremony organized in the residence of the Nag family. Apratim Nag, the only son of the late journalist, read out the citation. In their acceptance speech both Zahir and Sayan offered their gratitude to the Nag family and expressed the ‘feeling of excitement being associated with the name of a great scribe’. Zahir recalled how the saga of Amit Nag had, ‘in fact drew me to the career of journalism.’

Source The sentinel

Bike rally for blood donation awareness flagged off

SILCHAR, Jan 2: With a mission to create mass awareness on blood donation, twenty members of Barak Valley Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum on ten motor cycles left the town today for Wagah, a village, bordering Pakistan.
As part of its campaign, the motor cycle rally, which is organized to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda by the Forum, was kicked off from Sutarkandi in Karimganj district, bordering Bangladesh, yesterday. After taking shelter in the town, they started for Haflong early in this morning and will take night halt there, before starting for Guwahati on the following day.
The rally will move through 150 districts of the country and later would assemble at Wagha, a village in Punjab, bordering Pakistan and from where they will again return back to Sutarkandi on February 7, covering around 8,600 km distance. It will move through the eight State capitals of the country- Shillong, Guwahati, Kolkata, Ranchi, Lucknow, Delhi and Chandigarh.
Among 20 participants, there are 7 government employees. The oldest participant is Hiralal Debnath, a 63-year-old retired employee, and the youngest is Biswa Kalyan Purkayastha, a 24 year-old-student. The longest rally ever organized by any forum in Northeast to create awareness on blood donation, will cross around 4,290 km distance on its way to Wagah, while returning back to Sutarkandi, it will cover around 4,435 km. Moreover, 30 members of the West Bengal Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum will join this rally at Barasat of West Bengal.
The Forum will hold street corner meetings to disseminate the messages of voluntary blood donation.
At a time when the entire country is undergoing through a social degradation, this attempt by the Forum has earned applaud from all sections of the society. Ashu Paul, secretary of the Barak Valley Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum, said that this was an attempt to create mass awareness on blood donation, clearing all the misconception about it. “There are so many people who still feel scared to donate blood. The rally is an attempt to increase awareness in the community on safe and sustainable blood donation,” he said.
Paul said that they would meet the Minister of Health and Education, Himanta Biswa Sarma, at Guwahati and the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, on their way to Wagah.
The Barak Valley Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum had consecutively won 1st prize in 2006, 2007, 2008 among the 10 best organizers of voluntary blood donation camp. The Forum also has won the award in this year. Established in 2002, the Forum has been organizing various blood donation camps in different parts of the Valley for the last 10 years.


Source: the sentinel assam

Weights and Measures week

SILCHAR, Jan 2: To create awareness about weights and measures among the consumers, the district authority concerned has been observing ‘weights and measures week’ since last Friday. As a part of which, the concerned authority informed that all sorts of balance equipments should be repaired after every two years. It said that the necessary information on all the packets of goods especially which are imported from foreign countries should be well printed. Apart from this, the size and price should be written on every packet of shoes, readymade clothes and other such things. It is illegal to sell cement as a packet and the department instructed the consumers to buy it on the basis of weight. Wood, sand and stones should be sold based on cubic meter or centimeter. The department also instructed the customers to verify the weights, prices and sizes of the goods before purchasing it. It also said that all the shop owners should provide cash memo against all the commodities sold by them.

Source : The sentinel Assam

NIT SILCHAR

National Institute Of Technology Silchar (NIT Silchar) , an Institute of National Importance under the NIT Act was established in 1967 as a Regional Engineering College (REC), Silchar. NIT Silchar is situated on the banks of river Barak. In the year 2002, it was upgraded to the status of an NIT from a Regional Engineering College(REC).
Regional Engineering College, Silchar was established in 1967 as a joint venture of Government of India and Government of Assam under the administration of a society registered under Society Registration Act XXI of 1860. The college was transformed into National Institute of Technology in the year 2002, and bestowed with the status of Deemed University by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development.
The multifarious reforms -that are being introduced from then by the reformed Board of Governors, delegated with a greater degree of autonomy for exercising its deliberation over diverse issues pertaining to cardinal matters ranging from academic to extracurricular excellence, are bringing about a tangible difference in the rudimentary paradigm of achieving a high standard in engineering education.
Identified as a Centre of Excellence by the Government of India, the institute is reinventing itself to crush the competition from its cotemporaries in various domains. Very optimistic developmental programs have been undertaken towards modernization of laboratories, computing facilities and library automation. Use of advanced teaching aids and computing facilities provide extensive scope for the students to attain a very high standard required in present day fast changing scenario of technology.
The campus of the institute is spread over an area of 540 acres, set amidst a sprawling landscape of natural quiteness, bordered on expansive tea gardens. It presents a spectacle of harmony in modern architecture, natural beauty and picturesque surroundings.
The campus area has been organized in three functional sectors:

Hostels for students

Instuctional buildings and administrative block

Residential sectors for the staff

The instructional buildings have been so located that these are fairly near to both the hostels and the staff quarters. There is a full-fledged computerized branch of State Bank of India, a Post-Office, and a number of telephone booths with STD/ISD facilities in the campus. The Institute has its own Dispensary with full-time and contractual basis Medical Officers to attend to the regular medical needs of the students, staff and their families. Patients suffering from serious illness, requiring intensive care, are referred to the Silchar Medical College & Hospital, which is only about two kilometers from the campus. An adequately equipped Canteen is there near the instructional zone and two more buildings for this purpose are under consideration one of which is now complete which will provide facilities to the students and the staff during and beyond the working hours. There is a well-eqipped Gymkhana and a Students Activity Center which are utilized by students for activities like bodybuilding, indoor games and similar other pursuits. At present, for the extra-curricular activities of the students and staff, there is an Institute hall with a sitting arrangement for an audience of around 500. The institute has 2 buses, which make morning and evening trips to Silchar town. City buses and Auto rickshaws ply between Silchar town and the institute campus.
Functionally and aesthetically spread out, the campus aims at intellectual growth in an ambience that is free-flowing and community-frendly. The soothing breeze rustling through the naturally gifted lustrous greenery and bluish lakes is just one of the several ingredients that create an amzing atmosphere; just the right conditions essential to concentrate on studies.

National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam, India, PIN:-788010
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Silchar Medical College

 Silchar Medical College
 

Silchar Medical College is a premier medical institution in the North-East region. Situated at Ghungoor a suburb of the city of Silchar , it has enjoyed a prestigious status in the country for its brilliant academic performances and excellent care for the suffering community. Every year it is imparting training for 100 graduates and more than 30 post-graduates, in various branches of medical science.   Silchar Medical College Hospital is having all important specialty departments. A large number of patients visit this institution for advanced treatment not only from Barak Valley region of Assam but also from neighbouring states like Manipur, Tripura, and Mizoram. The hospital with a capacity of more than 750 beds and over 800 patients are treated daily in the Out Patient Departments.

This premier institution was first started in the vacant buildings of the Govt. Ayurvedic College at Jalukbari, Guwahati with 60 students for Gauhati Medical College and 40 students for Silchar Medical College as a twin college in August 1960.        

 

In 1960 Govt. of Assam decided to shift the Silchar Medical College to Silchar. Site Selection Committee was sent, they selected Ghungoor, which was the land of Bhorakai T.E. . 8 K.M .away from Silchar town. But the progress was very slow and inconspicuous. In 1968, people of Silchar placed the demand to the then Honourable Health Minister Late Satindra Mohan Dev that Silchar Medical College should be shifted form Guwahati to Silchar.

Dr.R.Goswami was sent to Silchar to start the Medical College with two office staff, Shri. D.N. Dutta and ShriA.M.Das Laskar One jeep was allotted for office. Shri Gajendra Das was its driver.

 

Previously office was located at D.H.S. office Shillong ( Assam ). The office was shifted from Shillong to Silchar Circuit House on 10.8.68. The office was shifted from Circuit House to Boy's Hostel NO.1 at Ghungoor College Campus on 11.9.68. After a few days Sri D.Das joined in the office. The following grade-IV staff were appointed in the office of the Special Officer, Shri Jital Uria Bamurah, Sri Phani Bhattacharjee, Shri Liladhar Sharma, Shri Sudhir Ch. Das, Shri Nalini Kanta Das, Shri Prabhat Ch.Das and Shri Dakhan Ch. Dey. Shri K. B. Das was appointed the office Secretary.

 

The memorable Foundation Day of Silchar Medical College was held on 15th August 1968 . The function was celebrated under the President ship of the Commissioner of Cachar and Chief Guest was Honb'le Health Minister S.M.Dev, who inaugurated the foundation ceremony. Representatives of Assam Medical College and Guwahati Medical College attended the function. Fifty students were admitted in Pre-Medical course in1968 at G. C. College . Professors and teachers were in Physics, Profs, P. B. Das, S. Sinha and Shri A. Deshmukhya, in Chemistry, Profs. B. Sinha, D. Talukdar and Shri S. Dhar, in Botany, Prof. S. Kar and S. K. Deb in Zoology, Prof. A.Bhowmick and Shri N. Shyam , in English Prof. S. Bhattacharjee. There was no Hostel building. Students had to reside in the Hostel of Govt. Higher Secondary School Boarding House, G. C. College and also in rented house. Within this term of Pre-Medical course preparation of Pre-Clinical and Para clinical classes were organized in Ghungoor Students Hostel No. 2. Of the first batch of Pre-Medical students all of them came out successfully and scored four top most positions including the First position. Teaching staff in the Anatomy deptt. were Prof. H. K.Das Biswas, Asstt. Prof. B. C. Das, teachers Dr. (Ms.) S.Dey, Dr. N. K. Purkayastha, and Dr. B. K. Dey. In Physiology, Asstt. Prof. P. C. Medhi, took the charge and after a few months Dr. N. H. Hazarika joined as Professor. Other teaching staff in the deptt. were Asstt. Prof. A. K. Dasgupta, teachers were Dr. D. Roy, Dr.S. K. Bhattacharjee, Dr. K. K..Chakarborty, and Dr. M. Shyam. Dr. M. K. Dhar, Dr. G. C.Barua and Asstt. Prof. N. C. Deka were staff of the Deptt.of Biochemistry. Prof. P. Goswami of Guwahati and Prof. R.Hussain of Assam Medical College took some classes in Biochemistry as Visiting Professors. Shri S. K. Kar and Dr.T. N. Chakraborty were teachers in Chemistry and Prof. B.K. Sinha of G. C. College used to take classes in Chemistry. To and fro conveyance from Silchar to Medical College was very meager. No dependable bus communication was set up.

 

There were a few teaching staff, who used to come from town by an old Fiat car of Dr. B. K. Dey. Other clerical staff, most of them resided in the Hostel. One bus was allotted by the Assam Govt. in November 1971 and our conveyance problem was reduced. The driver of the bus was Shri Assaddar Ali and his assistant was Shri Renu Singh. In the vast land of hills and dales, local people cultivated paddy in some low areas of the campus. Only two Hostel buildings were bearing the existence of the college in the green virgin land. My vision was bewitched by the blue hills and soothing horizon in the midst of the greeneries and lakes. By and by Dr. R. Goswami became the Principal of the college. We attended the college through a graveled road which emerged from Hailakandi Road near Principal's Bungalow which was being constructed. Principal was residing in the rooms of the hostel. That road was discarded when new (present) road was opened. The old approach road was abandoned, where now the Nurses' hostel stands. The remnant of the old road is still peeping reminding our past. There was no separate girl's hostel. Girl Students got their accommodation in one of the blocks of the students’ hostel. Girl's hostel was constructed in the mid seventies and they were shifted there. Dr. B. C. Das was Superintendent of the Hostel's. There was no water treatment plant, a pond near the hostel provided the water to the college. The operator of the pumping station was Shri Anil Das.

 

Paraclinical deptts. were started in the hostel building and Silchar Civil Hospital was converted for clinical classes in 1971. The construction of the Hospital building was started in the mid Seventies. Medicine deptt. and deptt. of Tuberculosis were first removed to the Assam type building in the permanent site. Dr. S. R. Bhattacharjee was the first Medical Registrar of the deptt. In the early part of the eighties all the clinical deptts. and office were removed to the permanent building. From July 1970 the clinical and paraclinical staffs were being appointed. In Medicine: Dr. D. N. Chakraborty as Professor, Dr. A. Swami as Asstt. Professor, Dr. R. Gupta and Dr. B. K. Das. In Surgery: Dr. A. K. Deshmukh as Professor, Dr. P. K. Choudhury as Asstt. Professor, Dr. S.K. Nandy Purkayastha and Dr. I. C. Das. In 0 & G : Dr. R.K. Das as Professor, Dr. Debidas Dutta and Dr. B. C. Kalita. In Opthalmology : Dr. H. N. Hazarika as Professor, Dr. S.R. Das as Asstt. Professor, Dr. A. C. Konwar and Dr. D. C.Baishya. In E. N. T.: Dr. C. Das as Professor, Dr. P. K.Goswami as Asstt. Professor, and Dr. A. Bhattacharjee. In Anaesthesiology : Dr. B. K. Sarma as Professor, Dr. R. M.A. Borah as Asstt. Professor and Dr. (Ms) P. Baruah(Dutta). In Radiology: Dr. D.C. Dowerah and Dr. A. K.Sharma. In Pathology: Dr. I. K. S. M. Baruah as Professor, Dr. K. K. Dasgupta as Asstt. Professor, Dr. S. K. Bhattacharjee and Dr. (Ms) S. Devi. In Microbiology: Dr. K. C.Bhuiyan as Asstt, Professor and Dr. B. R. Bhat!acharjee. In P& S.M : Dr. N. M. I. Rahman as Professor, Dr. P. N. Biswas and Dr. P. C. Barthakur. In F & SM Dr. M. N. Das, Civil Surgeon and Dr. J. Bhowal. In Pharmacology: Dr. A. M.Choudhury as Asst!. Professor and Dr. (MS) S. Das (Dutta).In Orthopaedics: Dr. H. Gogoi as Asstt. Professor.After a few years other departments were started. Dermatology &Venerology: Dr. K. K. Das as Asst!. Professor, Paediatrics: Prof. S.D.Barua and Dr.M.K.Chakraborty, Psychiatry: Asst!. Prof. Dr. P. N. Goswami, Dr. S. Dhar, Dentistry: Dr. D. K. Dey, Tuberculosis &Chest Diseases: Dr. G. K. Chakraborty, Cardiology: Dr. M. Nath as Asso. Prof. and Dr. D. Deb were appointed. Sr. Dorothy Kattakakathut was the first Matron of the college. All are the pioneers of their respective department. Shri B. K. Shyam was the Medical Record Officer and Shri Jyotirmoy Dutta, Photographer of the college. Shri Manoj Nandy Mazumdar the first Librarian of the college.

In long 25 years many a stalwart of Medical arena of Assam adorned the chair the Principal. Dr. R. Goswami, founder Principal, Dr. D. C. Dowerah, Dr. N. Zaman, Dr. D.C. Choudhury, Dr. S. D. Barua, Dr. J. Mahanta, Dr. B. M.Goswami, Dr. C. Das, Dr. (MS) D. Dutta, Dr. P. C. Barua, Dr. S. Datta Roy and others. Dr. H. K. Das Biswas was the first Vice Principal of S. M. C, who joined the Deptt. of Anatomy as Professor in 1968.

 

The first batch of final MBBS examinee appeared in 73. The first and third positions were occupied by Sambhunath Mukherjee and Prasanta Nath Barbhuiya respectively. In the last 25 years our students topped the list in 1st, 2nd and Final MBBS examinations and also secured positions in many of the examinations of Gauhati University . Ms. Bandana Dey is the first lady who graduated from this college.

 

Post-graduate course in different subjects are opened and seed of which was planted in 15th Aug'1968 now thrived into a big tree but not a banian tree which is yet to be achieved. The staff and students took terrible pain, trouble and had to over come many hurdles to bring the college into the present shape. They had to go on several occassions for their legitimate demands. The first annual magazine 'Vishak' was published in 1974 and after a year wall magazine 'Sreejani' came up. From 1969 to 1974 College was inspected time to time by University Inspectors and Medical Council of India. Silchar Medical College was recognised by M.C.I. in 1974.

 

Silchar Medical College and Hospital was established in the year 1968. It has been serving the ailing humanity of the region from the very day of its inception. During the last three decades it has produced a huge number of brilliant medical graduates who are discharging their duty to the society with distinction. As such the Institute has been trying its best to catch up with the advancement in the field of modern medicine as far as practicable. However we are yet to see the expected growth to its full potential mainly because of financial constraints and geographical isolation of this valley from other parts of the country.

 

At the moment the college has the capacity of

100 admissions into the MBBS curse,

25 admissions in P.G. Degree, and

7 admissions in P.G. Diploma courses.

 

The bachelor degree (MBBS), MD in General Medicine and Diploma in ENT (DLO) were already recognized by the MCI (Medical Council of India) in the year 1988. Recognition for the degree and diploma courses in all other specialties were kept pending till last Inspection by the MCI in Feb and May 2005. They have very recently accorded recognition to the PG courses in General Surgery, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry and Otolaryngology. Currently the Institution has 8 Basic science departments and 19 clinical departments. PG courses in the departments of Radio-diagnosis, Pathology, Anaesthesiology and Orthopaedic have been permitted by the MCI.

State Election Commission announces rules for submitting nomination paper

SILCHAR, Jan 1: Assam State Election Commission have observed that the candidates have to submit the necessary documents at the time of submission of nomination paper as per the Section 22 of Assam Panchayat (Constitutions) Rules, 1995. According to it, the candidate concerned had to submit the certificate of his National or regional political party, caste certificate if the candidates claim to be either SC or ST. Other necessary documents which are need to be submitted by the contesting candidate included 21 years completion certificate, a copy of the voter list having the name of the candidates and his nominees and supporter. Besides, the candidate also has to submit a declaration form as per the section 3 of Assam Panchayat Rule, 1994, declaring the non-existence of criminal charges against him.  At the time of submission of nomination paper, another individual has to sign a form, identifying the candidate as the citizen. Contesting candidate also has to submit his favourable symbol along with a certificate which should be signed and sealed by the President of the district committee or the State committee. This information has been shared by DIPRO, Cachar district. 

Source The Sentinel Assam

Ashok Varma's new book released

SILCHAR, Jan 1: Poet and writer Ashok Varma’s new book Ekti Abastav Kabya Natika was released at the ongoing 21st Silchar Book Fair underway at Bipin Chandra Ground recently. The book is a collection of stories and plays and was published by Diganti Publication.  Amalendu Bhattacharjee, former head of the department of Bengali, Gurucharan College, Dr Subir Kar, former professor of Bengali, Assam University and Nihar Ranjan Paul, Secretary, Book Fair Committee, were present at the function.
Amalendu Bhattachrjee dwelt on the various skills of the writer. He appreciated the Verma as a writer, poet and educationist. Dr Kar threw light on the subject of the book. 

Source: The Sentinel Assam

Assam Rifles nabs DJNA cadres along with weapons and ammunition

SILCHAR, Jan 1: With the increased activities of militant groups in Halflong, the security forces have stepped up their operation against the insurgent groups in the district.
A recent input received by the Army Intelligence Unit suggested a possible procurement of explosives at Haflong for further use to carry out sabotage activities. Based on the development of this input, it came out that an auto-rickshaw ferrying cadres of recently launched DJNA outfit would arrive in the market area. Accordingly, the Haflong based Assam Rifles Battalion along with Assam Police jointly established a vehicle check post to nab the cadres.
At around 10.30 am on last Sunday (December 30), an auto Rickshaw with the registration number of AS-08-3538 approached the Check Post. After thorough search of the vehicle, one 7.65mm Pistol (USA made) was recovered with magazine along with 5 live RDX and one Chinese Grenade. The cadres later revealed before the security personnel that they were working for the DJNA outfit and had come to Haflong with an intention to carry out extortion and give effect to sabotage activities.
In a series of successful operations in the last four weeks, the Haflong based Assam Rifles Battalion has broken another link of the DJNA outfit and caused a setback to their evil intention to harm the people of the Dima Hasao district.

Source:  The Sentinel Assam

Assam Rifles donates computers and furniture to Grace Standard English School

SILCHAR, Jan 1: In continuation of its Civic Action Programme, the Haflong based Assam Rifles under the aegis of Headquarters 22 Sector Assam Rifles distributed computers with accessories and furniture to Grace Standard English School, Doiheng, in the Dima Hasao district.
The principal, students and staff members of the School along with head man and villagers were present on the occasion. The principal expressed his gratitude towards Assam Rifles for providing assistance to the school. During the distribution ceremony, a small cultural programme was organized.
The event witnessed unprecedented synergy between the civil population and the security forces which will definitely help to foster good relations between them. 

Source:  The Sentinel Assam

Goats and handloom sewing machines distributed under IWMP scheme

SILCHAR, Jan 1: Under the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP), 2009-2010, of ‘production system and micro enterprises based livelihood activities’, goats and handloom sewing machines were distributed to the several self help groups of Joypur part II of Lakhipur constituency in Cachar district yesterday.
As part of the distribution ceremony, a meeting was convened in the premises of 1335 no. Rasmoni Paul LP School, Joypur Part-II, under the Presidentship of Baikontha Goala, project manager and District officer as well, Cachar Soil Conservation Division, Silchar.
Addressing the assembly of villagers, Goala said that the IWMP scheme was an initiative of the Central Government to make the villagers independent. According to him, the scheme enables multi-cropping and the introduction of diverse agro-based activities, which, help to provide sustainable livelihoods to the people residing in the watershed areas in the Country.
One of the aims of IWMP is also to restore the ecological balance by harnessing, conserving and developing degraded natural resources such as soil, vegetative cover and water.
Throwing light on the other aspects of the scheme, the project manager requested the people to come forward in order to take benefits of this scheme. The scheme has been taken for 5 years. He said that 15 departments have been amalgamated under the scheme to provide better service to the people.
A Munaf, Handloom and textile inspector, said that the given handloom machines were completely modern and had easy techniques of operation. He pointed out that a seven-day long training workshop would also be held to make people aware about the process of using the machines.
Under the Handloom and Textile, around 12 sewing machines were distributed to six units and three goats had been given to each of 29 villagers under the livelihood scheme on the occasion.
C M Gogoi, range officer, Harinagar and A Borgohain, vetenary surgeon, also spoke on the occasion, highlighting different benefits of the scheme.
Among others present on the occasion included B Bhowmick, Ohadur Rehman, S Z Barbhuiya, Ali Ahmed Laskar and Alok Purkaystha. 


Source : The Sentinel Assam

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Probe demanded into mysterious death of Assam university student

KARIMGANJ: A high level enquiry has been demanded into the mysterious death of Assam University student Kishlay Dutta Choudhury here in south Assam in October.
Prominent socio-cultural organisation of Barak Valley, 'Goirik Bharat', today demanded a high level probe into the death of the central university student through a memorandum to Cachar district additional deputy commissioner Debashis Chakraborty.

The memorandum expressed doubt about the police or administration's efforts to investigate into the incident even as the police failed to find any clue to the death after nearly two months of the incident.
According to Goirik Bharat's organising secretary, Mani Bhushan Choudhury, Kishlay had disappeared under mysterious circumstances when he was in a procession for immersion of Goddess Durga's idol at Sadarghat here.
Kishlay's body was recovered by police when found afloat on river Barak near Katigorah, 30 km from here, a few days later.
Choudhury said his students wing 'Bharat Chhatra Morcha' will also prevail upon the administration, both civil and police, for a proper investigation to find out the mystery behind the student's sudden disappearance from the procession and his subsequent death.
Meanwhile, Kishlay's father Kishore Kanti Dutta Choudhury has submitted several petitions to the authorities concerned for positive action to unearth the circumstances in which his son died.
Representations from various organisations, student and youth bodies have also been submitted to the authorities for necessary action, Choudhury added.

Source :http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-12-29/news/36051114_1_mysterious-death-mysterious-circumstances-student

Ex-Silchar MP's son dies after suicide attempt

SILCHAR: A doctor based in Silchar, who had attempted suicide by shooting at himself with a pistol on November 30, died at the Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMCH) on Sunday.
The 32-year-old dentist, Kunal Bhattacharjee, is the son of former Congress MP from Silchar Kamalendu Bhattacharjee.
A senior police officer said Kunal had pumped a bullet into his head around 12.30 pm on Friday at the toilet of his private clinic at Church Road. He was taken to SMCH in critical condition.

He was on ventilation at the intensive care unit of the hospital for the last three days. He succumbed to his injuries at 10.45 am on Sunday.
The pistol used by him is yet to be recovered. Police have started investigation.

Source:  http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-02/guwahati/35547979_1_suicide-attempt-silchar-medical-college-intensive-care-unit

KVIC fair at Silchar from Feb 23

KARIMGANJ, Dec 24 – For the first time, Silchar is going to host the North East level exhibition and fair under the auspices of Khadi and Village Industries Commission of the Govt of India. The fair will commence from February 23 at Town Club field and will continue till March 23. In order to patronise handicraft and micro, small and medium scale industries product of North-east KVIC has organised the fair. Chairman of the KVIC North-East zone and member National Committee Sharifujjaman Laskar said besides ‘North-East 150 stalls from national-level will participate in the exhibition. A strong reception committee has been constituted with Sharifujjaman Laskar as chairman with three ministers, twelve MLAs, two MPs, Vice Chancellor, Assam University, Director NIT, Principal, Silchar Medical College, educationists, DC, Cachar, SP, Cachar, Chairman, Silchar Development Authority, secretary, Silchar DSA as members. Besides forming three sub-committees.
A meeting was organised for the purpose. At the meeting, S Laskar disclosed they have invited Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, Tarun Gogoi, Chief Minister and other dignitories to inaugurate the exhibition. He informed that cultural function, competition on photography exhibition of varieties of food and sale, folk song and dance will also held every day.
Health camp: Under the auspices of the Viswa Hindu Parishad, Cachar unit a health camp was held at Ichacherra Karbipunji, the remotest corner of the West Kathighora recently.
Altogether 150 patients attended the camp where Dr Kalipada Purkayastha examined the health of the patients.
A primary medicine centre was also inaugurated. VHP is supplying medicines to this centre.
It may be mentioned that Ichacherra Karbipunji is situated under the foothill of Borail hill and whole area is dominated by tribal community. They have to visit Digharkhal, five km away for marketing. The Punji has no LP or ME school and PHC.
Considering the extreme problems of the tribals, VHP has decided to open a medicine centre here. Pradip Baishnab organising secretary, VHP Cachar said VHP is always extending helping hand towards the poor tribal people. Tribal people in different time are deprived from getting their legitimate rights. The VHP has also undertaken village renovation work.
The VHP wants to make Ichacherra Karbipunji as a model village.

Source : http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=dec2512/state05

Barak students move PM for expediting railway projects

SILCHAR: Representatives of All Cachar Karimganj Hailakandi Students Association (ACKHSA) on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manhohan Singh and submitted a memorandum to him to ask the railway authorities to take measures to expedite the completion of key railway projects of southern Assam. These include the Silchar-Lumding broad gauge project, the Silchar-Mahisasan-Sylhet-Akhaura-Kolkata tracks and Silchar-Agartala-Akhaura-Kolkata tracks. The student body also demanded early completion of the Silchar-Saurashtra East-West Corridor project.
ACKHSA said the broad gauge project was initiated way back in 1983 and it was then proposed that the broad gauge tracks be laid between Sukritipur and Lanka, avoiding much of Dima Hasao hill district. The total outlay for the project was Rs 600 crore. The engineering-cum-traffic survey was done, but, surprisingly, the project was shelved.

After that a proposal came from the Railway Board to connect Silchar with Jogighopa through the broad gauge tracks, most of which would go through Meghalaya. The people of Meghalaya, however, objected to the proposal as they were not didn't want their state on the railway map for fear of easy infiltration by outsiders, ACKHSA added.
It's almost three decades since the project was initiated, but connectivity in southern Assam, Mizoram and Tripura hasn't improved. The progress of the present 214-km Lumding-Silchar broad gauge project through Dima Hasao has been delayed because of government apathy. Although the foundation of the project was laid by the-then Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda and it was declared a National Project in 2004 by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the project has witnessed little progress over the years, the student body said. It said the project may again fail the fresh deadline of December, 2013 given the tardy progress.
ACKHSA said in response to the repeated demands of the people of this region, New Delhi sent a proposal to the Bangladesh government for revival of the defunct railway transit facilities between India and the neighbouring country through Mahisasan point on the international border in Assam's Karimganj district.

Source :  http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-27/guwahati/36021655_1_broad-gauge-project-lumding-silchar-railway-projects

Barak Valley joins protest against Delhi gangrape

SILCHAR: Students of Assam University, Silchar, and several other colleges evening brought out a candlelight procession here on Monday morning seeking speedy justice for the 23-year-old paramedic who was gang-raped in a moving private bus in Delhi.
The students in Barak Valley areas have been taking to the streets in line with the nationwide protest for last few days. Silchar, Karimganj, Hailakandi towns witnessed several protest rallies and some more are on the pipeline.

Posters seeking capital punishment for the six culprits involved in the crime have been pasted on many roadside walls and buildings.
The candlelight procession, which was organized by the university and collage students of Silchar, started from the statute of martyr Kshudiram Bose at 5 pm during the day and moved through the main streets of the town. The students, who were carrying banners and posters, decried the government for its highhandedness in dealing with the ongoing protests in different places of Delhi.
"There's presence of a large number of students from the northeast in Delhi and they are often subjected to molestation and other harassments by goons. NE students enjoy little security and justice in such cases. We demand a halt to such incidents and a suitable atmosphere for security of students in Delhi coming from across the country," said Rupali, a student of GC College, who joined the protest. "We will help spread the agitation against the brutal rape of a paramedic in Delhi throughout the country. We will not stop until the authorities pronounce capital punishment of the six rapists," said Ashok, a student of AU.

Source : http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-25/guwahati/35999621_1_ne-students-protest-rallies-barak-valley

BSF-BGB meet decides to start Indo-Bangla border survey in Nov

SILCHAR: A sector-level meeting of senior officials of Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) was held on Saturday at Sutarkandi trade centre in Karimganj district. The meeting decided that the survey of border areas of the two countries will start on November this year.
While the team of BSF officials was led by its sector commander (Silchar) deputy inspector general UC Hazarika, the Bangladesh officials were led by BGB sector commander (Sylhet) Col Muhammad Khair-uz-Zaman.

Source :http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-21/guwahati/34627370_1_bgb-bsf-indo-bangla

Frequent power cuts create public woe

SILCHAR, May 29: The scorching heat, frequent power cuts and high humidity have made lives of the people of Barak Valley miserable in the last few days.
The frequent power cuts in this hot and sultry summer have become quite irritating for the people of Silchar in general. The power supply has totally gone out of control with no predictable pattern to the power cuts.
Bidyut Debnath, a resident of Kanakpur, said that there is a power cut after every one hour and sometimes it takes two to three hours to back.
Madhumita Acharjee, a student, who is preparing for LLM entrance said, “My entrance examination is very near. But it is very hard to concentrate on studies because of this excessive heat and undue power cut.”
The power cut is not limited to only day’s hours. People of here are also suffering from power cuts at night.
Chunilal Das, a resident of Co-operative lane, said that he was unable to sleep during the night. Due to the sweltering heat, the fan had become a must. Without it, the sweltering heat of the summer makes sleep impossible.
Angshuman Dey, a resident of Ambicapatty, said that between 6 am and 6 pm, there are at least six hours of power cuts. During night , there are more six-hour of power cuts, taking the total power cut duration to 12 hours every day.
Moreover, in the night, there is a power cut after every one hour for which people can’t sleep properly. It is being forecasted that the heat would increase sharply in the coming days, but chances of heavy rain is also there.
However, the ASEB earlier assured that power supply would get normal, but hue and cry over power supply among public remains constant.

Source: http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=119132&dtP=2012-05-30&ppr=1#119132

Youth Congress gherao on DTO

SILCHAR, May 24: The members of Silchar Youth Congress gheraoed the office of the district transport office demanding the action against the illegal carrying of over-loaded goods by the super buses in their day to day journey particularly in Silchar- Guwahati route, which might jeopardize the life of general people, on Wednesday.
The members of youth congress in an operation, early on Thursday  morning, to the Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) at Ramnagar found eight passenger buses with overloaded goods, where they stopped all the buses and informed the transport authority. The youth congress leaders thereafter gheraoed the office of the district transport officer and sought his intervention in this regard.
Abhijit Paul, president, said that they have submitted a memorandum regarding this issue nine days ago but still no action has been initiated. He further said if it continues they would think of mass movement.
S Alam, district transport officer, called a meeting with the enforcement officers and asked them to take proper action. He also ordered the managers of the Capital and the Jagannath travels not to carry over loaded goods. He further assured the members of Youth congress that adequate steps would be initiated to deal with the issue very soon.
The leaders who were present in the operation included Papon Deb, , vice president, Rahul Amin Laskar, general secretary, Bandita Divedi Roy, Anita Das Chowdhury, Anupam Paul, Rinku Borlaskar, Shyamal Saha.

Source: http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=118562&dtP=2012-05-25&ppr=1#118562

Consumers’ body slams UPA Government, Opposition fumes

SILCHAR, May 24: The Grahak Suraksha Samiti (GSS) of Cachar has slammed the UPA Government for hiking the petrol prices by nearly a Rs 8 per litre. “It is quite intriguing that the decision was taken by the Government just after the Parliament session on budget was over”, said Biplob Kumar Goswami, general secretary of the consumers’ body. It was according to him a surreptitious method of avoiding Parliament to push up the price and pass on the burden on common people, already reeling under the heat of spiralling prices of sorts of commodities, both essential and non essential. It is the steepest hike ever since the Government of Dr Manmohan Singh came to power in 2002. Between March 2011 and May 24, petrol price has been increased by 6 times from Rs 62.50 to Rs 77.81 per litre. This is one of the records on price front of the Government that cries for ‘aam aadmi’, he pointed out.
Goswami attributed the abnormal increase in petrol price to the gross fiscal mismanagement and erroneous economic policy which together have combined together to devalue the rupee against dollar and a shaken investment climate. He said afraid of facing the opposition in the Parliament, the Government took the decision unilaterally and arbitrarily. Even its allies in the coalition were not consulted and taken into confidence. The ground cited was the depreciation of rupee in the international market which has been disputed by all the well known economists of the country. In fact, as he pointed out increasing trade deficit and lack of reformist approach has messed up the situation, he stated.
The timing of hike was also unjustified with no elections round the corner excepting the Presidential election. The Government wanted to play . The hue and cry raised by the allies of UPA, according to him, was drama. Mamata Banerjee did raise her pitch, but it was all sound and fury. Goswami said, “It reflects on the failure of the Government to meet the crisis, enmeshed as it is in scams and scandals.”
It can neither control run away prices nor hold a check on massive leakages of development funds. The austerity measures being talked of by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee lose all sense and sensibility, as Goswami pointed out, by following the proverbial policy of running with the hare and hunting with the hound. By taking recourse to pushing up price, it is now trying to balance the deficits. It is an exercise to offset the subsidies on diesel and LPG, he maintained.
Goswami further brought out the paradox. When the prices of international crude have dropped in March last, the UPA Government has taken the unusual step. In the past, the Government passed the onus on international price to justify every hike. Oil companies have always put the pressure on the Government to increase prices.
He was of the opinion along with austerity measures as planned by the Finance Ministry, the Government should recover crores of rupees lost in colossus scams of 2 G Spectrum and CWG, besides bringing Back enormous amount black money stashed in foreign banks. The Samiti would launch a district level public agitation to pressure the Government for roll back. Other option Is that the Central excise duty of Rs 14.78 a litre and the states’ sales tax ranging from Rs 10.30 to Rs 18.74 a litre should be reduced or slashed.
The opposition political parties, BJP, AGP, CPM, CPI, AIUDF, SUCI, have come down heavily on the Government for its anti people policy. Kiriti Bhushan Purkayastha, Cachar district president of BJP, in a statement here said, the hike was unwarranted and a cruel joke with people. Dulal Mitra of CPM termed the hike as pandering to the interests of business houses and industrialists. While left parties are sharpening their arsenal for attacking the Government, other parties are planning to hit the streets. CPI(M), its leaders and supporters today staged protest demonstration against the hiking of petrol price and demanded the UPA government should scrap the hike.

source: http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=118560&dtP=2012-05-25&ppr=1#118560