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 …
SHILLONG: “Meghalaya is one of the States in India which falls under vulnerable Zone-V of high seismicity and bamboo can play a vital role in appropriate housing and construction to its suitability and availability”, according to Kankana Narayan Dev of Bambu-N-Man, a bamboo design consultancy of Guwahati, Assam. Talking to …
GUWAHATI, July 26 – The Assam Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Board (AUWS&SB) is implementing an augmentation scheme with an additional Central assistance. With the completion of this scheme, the AUWS&SB is targeting to cover around one lakh people. However, consumers of its existing scheme have through a memorandum to …
Precisely at a time when the Assam Government has decided to promote agriculture and biodiversity conservation in a major way, a substantial tract of fertile land and a wetland are being handed over to the Assam Rifles to be converted into a built-up area. Local people in Rani block, who …
The Pollution Control Board, Assam, has asked the Guwahati Municipal Corporation to make the garbage collection and disposal system in the city more efficient. In a letter to the civic body last week, the board described the initiatives as
Jorhat, July 3: Tea gardens in Golaghat, Karbi Anglong and Jorhat districts may soon turn to rainwater harvesting in response to change in climate and have sought help from IIT Guwahati. The chairman of the North Eastern Tea Association (NETA), Bidyananda Barkakoty, said a primary study carried out by IIT …
The Department of Fisheries is planning to promote aquatic tourism in select areas of the State, following encouraging results from a pilot project in Guwahati. From April onward this year, the department
Disruption in power supply and lack of awareness among the farmers have made the existing cold storage facilities of the State ineffective, despite there being a growing demand from the farming community and the intelligentsia for more such facilities. The State has so far two cold storage facilities. One cold …
GUWAHATI: Big cities in our country are dotted with slums and Guwahati is no exception. The Ministry of Housing and Poverty Allevation has taken up a Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP) scheme and under this scheme the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC), along with the Assam Government, has taken …
The State Government will follow zero-tolerance policy on wetland encroachment while the prospects of granting settlement rights (patta) to the landless poor residing in hills (excluding reserve forest areas) in Guwahati would be assessed by a committee headed by Dr Bhumidhar Barman. The committee will comprise the four MLAs of …
GUWAHATI: The Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, has been launched for slum dwellers and the urban poor on the lines of the Indira Awas Yojana for the rural poor. RAY is a right-based, reform-driven programme under the Jawaharlal National Urban Renewal Mission …
GUWAHATI: Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today launched the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) at a function organized by the Executive Agency NR Management Consultants (NRMC) at NEDFi House in Guwahati. GSF is aimed to collaborate with the Central Government
Even as the Union Government mulls over a response to Chinese plans to divert or dam the Brahmaputra, some experts are raising concerns over a range of issues, which include a depletion of ground water in the entire valley of the river. It is feared that if the Brahmaputra is …
The Assam government has drafted an ambitious plan to introduce cultivation of jatropha (Jatropha curcas ) to help farmers boost their income, and also to produce bio-diesel. The state agriculture department last week organised a day-long training workshop for farmers and NGOs working in rural areas to popularise the crop. …
GUWAHATI, Lapses have been detected during the 2010-2011 survey conducted by the Population Research Centre in Guwahati. The survey report shows low percentage of Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) registration compared to the total number of pregnant women. According to sources in the Population Research Centre, only a mere 44.11 per …
GUWAHATI: Suspected poachers shot dead a male one-horned rhino in Pobitara Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam today. Official sources said the male rhino was shot at from .303 pistol by a gang of poachers at around 2.30 am. The gang escaped with the prized horn of the endangered species. This is …
