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GUWAHATI: Based on Centre s instruction to states, Assam health and family welfare department on Monday wrote to districts to immediately discontinue new registration of healthcare workers (HCW) and front line workers (FLW) for Covid-19 vaccination, after giving ample chance to get them inoculated since January.
However, those registered already, will get vaccinated, informed immunization spokesperson and director of health services (family welfare), Assam, Munindra Nath Ngatey.
According to health sources, a considerable number of Anganwadi workers (frontline workers) have been left out from the vaccination drive, as daily Covid cases on Monday touched 70 in Assam- highest in the last several weeks. Two more Covid related deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
Himanta Biswa Sarma has won from Jalukbari for four consecutive terms
GUWAHATI: Jalukbari voters have one petition to all candidates who have come to them seeking votes: Addressing the issues of Sualkuchi’s handloom sector, where over 20,000 weavers have been affected due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
Sualkuchi, about 35km from Guwahati, often known as the Manchester of the East, is a single commercial hub of handloom silk production. Almost 20,000 people of the entire Sualkuchi village are engaged in age-old traditional Pat Muga production.
However, the industry has been struggling lately. High prices of silk yarn, along with decreasing number of skilled weavers, has pushed the industry to the brink.
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SILCHAR: Deputy commissioner (Cachar) Keerthi Jalli said the Election Commission will decide on the possibility of re-poll in Sonai constituency.
At least three persons were injured, one critically, after they were shot allegedly by Assam deputy speaker Aminul Haque Laskar’s personal security officer in the Dhanehari locality of Sonai constituency. Laskar is the BJP candidate from the constituency. Locals confined Laskar inside the polling booth for five hours till senior police officials rescue him.
Talking to the media, Jalli said, more than 70% of the votes had been cast. So it is not clear if there will be a re-poll.
DAUTING TASK: Congress’s Romen Chandra Borthakur
GUWAHATI: Romen Chandra Borthakur isn’t a new name in the political circles in Assam. He started as the Dibrugarh district general secretary of All Assam Students’ Union, and later served as a leader of Asom Gana Parishad until 2001.
But this time, he is in focus because he is the Congress candidate against BJP’s most high-profile candidate literally its face in the northeast Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Sarma, who has won from Jalukbari four times, is eyeing a fifth consecutive win. The BJP heavyweight has conducted a high-voltage campaign across the state this time, leaving his wife to fill in for him in his home turf.
Around 80% of the JICA-funded south central Guwahati water project has been completed already. The rest 20% will be completed probably by the end of this year and people will get drinking water: Siddhartha Bhattacharya
GUWAHATI: Assam education minister and BJP legislator from Gauhati East, Siddhartha Bhattacharya, has promised to provide improved access to drinking water, better infrastructure and land rights if he is re-elected.
In an interview with TOI, Bhattacharya gave an update on the status of various water supply projects in Guwahati. “Around 80% of the JICA-funded south central Guwahati water project has been completed already.
The rest 20% will be completed probably by the end of this year, and we will be able to give people access to drinking water. This would be my first priority,” Bhattacharya said.