Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in matter of Himangshu Nath Vs Central Pollution Control Board & Others dated 12/09/2022. An application on the worsening air quality affecting the city of Guwahati and the resultant health effects was filed before the NGT. The NGT said that …
GUWAHATI, April 11 – In an initiative aimed at boosting hybrid rice cultivation in an unprecedented manner, the State has set an ambitious target of expanding the area under hybrid rice cultivation to 20 per cent of the total rice producing area. At present, a meagre 2.4 per cent (62,743 …
GUWAHATI: Engineering Projects India Limited on Tuesday made a presentation before Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on the feasibility of the monorail system in Guwahati. The company that such a system was feasible in the capital city and that the expenditure for putting in place such a system would be less …
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today launched the ‘Clean School, Clean Guwahati’ campaign at Cotton Collegiate HS School in Guwahati. As part of this campaign, the three cleanest schools in the city will be rewarded and action will be taken against those schools which perform poorly so far as the cleanliness …
A meeting of the executive body of the Botanical Society of Assam held recently expressed its strong concern at the felling of several thousand mature trees along roadsides in the name of construction of four-lane national highway in Assam. Although it was necessary to remove those trees for the purpose, …
Land rights activist PV Rajagopal garners support for his campaign on the land rights of people GUWAHATI: “Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is a member of the National Land Reforms Council and as such he should take measures for land reforms in the State,” said land rights activist PV Rajagopal …
People of Guwahati may well heave a sigh of relief as their drinking water crisis will be over, at least in the near future. Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told the House today that all households in Guwahati will get 24-hour drinking water supply by the year 2016. During Zero Hour …
Guwahati, March 14: Assam will get US $ 320 million from the World Bank to improve and manage its road network. Under the project, 500km of priority sections of the state highways will be improved, the public works (roads) department will be modernised and new technology will be promoted for …
GUWAHATI, March 13 – The State at present has two big, three medium and 1,194 small irrigation projects under construction. Four big projects and 11 medium projects have already been completed. This was revealed by Irrigation Minister Dr Ardhendu Dey while replying to a question from Abdur Rahim Khan (AIUDF) …
GUWAHATI : An amount of Rs 693.51 crore has been provided under the 2012-13 General Areas Annual Plan for the development of Guwahati. This was announced by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who also holds the Finance portfolio, on Monday when he presented the State budget for the year 2012-13. In …
Guwahati: Multilateral agency Asian Development Bank will extend a $81 million loan to Assam under a scheme for providing piped drinking water to the city and other projects. An agreement to this effect was signed between ADB and the Assam government on Friday. The first tranche of Assam Urban Infrastructure …
GUWAHATI, March 7 – The total cultivable area of the State extends to 30,15,392 hectares, and as per the 2005-06 agri census, the State has a total of 27,50,114 farmer families. The break-up of the agricultural families includes 23,44,420 families of small and marginal agriculturalists and 4,902 families of big …
DERGAON, March 6 – Though the State Government as well as the Forest Department claim to have achieved success in conservation of wildlife, the ground reality tells a different story. The Government has also stated that it has taken steps for the uplift of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP), a …
GUWAHATI, March 5 – The per capita debt burden of Assam as of March, 2011 is Rs 8385, said Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a written answer to a question by Phani Bhushan Choudhury (AGP) in the State Assembly today. Sarma, who was replying on behalf of the Chief …
The Assam forest department has set up a team of wildlife experts to look into the frequent incidents of leopard straying into the residential locality of Guwahati and claimed that the tiger population is increasing in Assam. Informing that Assam may have the highest number of tigers soon, Assam forest …
Guwahati, March 2: Cement companies operating from the state have come under the scanner over the alleged unreasonable price hike recently, compelling Dispur to commit in the state Assembly to take all possible steps to check the rise. Senior ruling Congress member Anjan Dutta, supported by party colleague Gautam Bora, …
Ornamental fish, which is rapidly gaining in popularity, has now become an employment generator in Assam. With profit margins on the rise, a large number of educated youths have taken to its breeding in and around urban settlements where markets are expanding. Such has been the trend in recent times …
GUWAHATI: The Brihattar Guwahati Unnayan Samiti Samuhar Aikya Mancha alleged that the provisions of the Guwahati Waterbodies (Preservation and Conservation) Act, 2008 has been flouted by the district administration. The Mancha said that a part of the waterbody at the Bunda village in Beltola Mauja under the Chandrapur Revenue Circle …
A grand procession of trained elephants will trail a rhino family in Jorhat all for the noble cause of herding the wayward trio back to the safety of Kaziranga National Park. The forest department has hit upon the plan to use kunkis (trained elephants) to chase the animals, which had …
GUWAHATI, Feb 27 – “Any dam on any river kills the river to some extent and cast adverse impact on the livelihood of people living downstream, alters the water quality, reduces the capacity of the river to clean itself, affects the biodiversity and water recharging process.” Ramaswamy R Iyer, former …
The Brahmaputra has the potential to emerge as the medium of peace and development in this part of the globe involving China, India and Bangladesh. But, it has become a bone of contention due to the Government of India’s sticking to the idea of first user’s right to counter the …
