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
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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GMC members fail to extract JNNURM benefits
The failure of elected representatives of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation to make the maximum of the ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission plan of the Central Government stands as a glaring example of negligence of public work. Though the JNNURM has provisions for Community Participation Fund (CPF) facilitating many benefiting projects for the common people, very little has been done by the councillors, always crying for funds to carry public work, to tap the existing resources under the mission.
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Govt signs MoU with Nabard
A memorandum of understanding between the Assam Government and the NABARD on revival of short-term cooperative credit was signed today in presence of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. An official release said that the NABARD chairman UC Sarangi, Principal Secretary to the Government of Assam VK Pipersenia and Director, Ministry of Finance of the Government of India, Samir Sinha signed the MoU.
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India's debt trapped farmers (Editorial)
Suicide by over 17,000 farmers in 2006, the latest year for which systematic official data are available, is a huge national tragedy. In fact, the trends revealed by the National Crime Records Buresu (NCRB) on farmers' suicides are appalling. While there have been ups and downs in the annual figure, there has been no let up in the trend since 2001. The figure for 1997, in itself disturbing, was approximately 14,000. From 2002, there has been no year in which fewer than 17,000 farmers' suicides have been recorded. The 2006 figure confirms the trend.
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Rehabilitation drive
It is very unfortunate that the Government of Assam has not yet been able to rehabilitate all the persons rendered homeless by the devastating floods last year despite making tall promises during the floods. The Government was to pay rehabilitation grant of Rs 25,000 each to the families whose houses were completely damaged in floods and Rs 10,000 each to those whose houses were partially damaged, but till date, most of the affected families have not received the rehabilitation grant and they are forced to make their own arrangements.
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Seminar on climate change ends
The two-day seminar on
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DEA asks State Govts to take up infrastructure projects
The Department of Economic Affairs has asked State Governments to go ahead with infrastructure projects to improve the growth rate of the country. DEA Additional Secretary Sindhushree Khullar described the public-private partnership (PPP) route as an unavoidable option to reduce the glaring infrastructure deficit that is visible across states. She explained that the DEA had worked with the rating agencies to develop a framework for grading infrastructure projects that would help investors identify the risks involved in the projects.
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Project for tribals launched in Karbi Anglong
About 1,500 Karbi and Khasi residents of the Umsarang area of Chinthong Development Block in Karbi Anglong took part in the Thesere Apaibiri (orchard) Project launched by the voluntary organisation
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AIDS cases rising in Golaghat
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