Village electrified after 62 years of Independence
SIPAJHAR, April 12
SIPAJHAR, April 12
GUWAHATI, May 14
State-run Oil India today said it was forced to cut crude oil production at its fields in Assam after Numaligarh Refinery Ltd shut down plant for upgrade, reports PTI.
The State
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi expressed his dismay at the oil giant ONGC
Ajay Modi / New Delhi June 18, 2010, 0:38 IST Will begin a feasibility study in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh India plans to embark on a programme to tap the shale oil reserves in the country after the directorate general of hydrocarbons (DGH) found substantial reserves of the gas in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
DIBRUGARH, June 20
SIVASAGAR, June 27
A seminar on
DULIAJAN, Sept 6
Dibrugarh, Sept 14: The Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification scheme (RGRES) has turned into a fiasco in most of the rural areas as villagers remain deprived of power supply despite claims of its successful implementation by the authority.
GUWAHATI, Oct 14
KARIMGANJ, Dec 5
Raising serious concern over the proposal for another power tariff hike by the Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB), aggrieved organisations and individuals have decided to move the Gauhati High Court with a PIL against the earlier tariff hike of 13 paise per unit in June 2010. Engineer JN Khataniar, Consumers
It is official, the ambitious Assam Gas Cracker Project has slipped the deadline this year as well, achieving only 26.4 per cent of the targeted 50 per cent. The progress achieved so far in the project included the overall physical progress of the project, as on November 15 is 26.4 per cent, against the cumulative scheduled target of 50 per cent, it was officially stated. Despite the slippag
Oil has played an important role in the politics of Assam and is a determining factor in the relation between the centre and the state. The right over the natural resources of Assam has been an issue of contention between the central government and Assam in post-independence India.
As part of the initiative to boost power sector in the State by reducing transmission and distribution losses and upgrading the power work facilities, the Government of India today signed a loan agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for $89.7 million under the Assam Power Sector Enhancement Programme, Tranche- II.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has requested Minister for Railways Mamata Banerjee for inclusion of a slew of projects in the Railway Budget for the year 2011-12. In a letter to the Railway Minister, Gogoi requested Banerjee for new lines for strengthening the Railway infrastructure in the Northeast and Assam, which include a new railway line from Salona to Khumtai and Jorhat to Sivasagar for creatin
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