
Free insurance policies to students for dengue
Students of nine schools of Kamrup district received free insurance policy of Rs 20,000 for dengue under the collaboration of a social-based organisation Drishtee and CAFE India under the Behtar India
Students of nine schools of Kamrup district received free insurance policy of Rs 20,000 for dengue under the collaboration of a social-based organisation Drishtee and CAFE India under the Behtar India
NORTH LAKHIMPUR
Waste plastic products should not be treated as threats to our environment. A proper system to recycle these products and efforts at extracting fuel from them may turn these waste products into invaluable assets, said Amarjyoti Kashyap president of the non-Government organisation (NGO) Environ. This is very significant in these days of growing threats of scarcity and rising price of fossil fuel. Besides, there is also the angle of environment pollution, which can be tackled better with the use of plastic fuel and application of a safe technology to extract fuel from plastic.
AGARTALA
AGARTALA
Alleging that the State government is intentionally delaying the job card distribution procedure under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the Sadou Assam Gramin Shramik Sanstha said that the rural people are being cheated in the name of the scheme. Addressing a press meet recently, the general secretary of the association Arup Kumar Mahanta said that the scheme is being exploited both by the State-level leadership and the block-level Congressmen for their vested interests.
The 23rd Water Resources Day on the focal theme "Integrated Water Resources Development and Management' was organised on Friday last in a befitting manner by the Assam State Centre of the Institution of Engineers (India) in its Panbazar premises in collaboration with a host of State and Central Government organisations.