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In Purba Bardhaman, once a bastion of the CPI-M, the Trinamool Congress had won 14 of the 16 seats in the last assembly election. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the TMC led in 14 assembly segments. Eight of the 16 seats vote on Saturday.
In Bhatar, Chaitali Roy whose farmer husband died in 2018 is still waiting for compensation from the government.
Three years ago, the day when 31-year-old Chaitali Roy s husband Subhash, a paddy farmer, consumed pesticide because he was unable to pay Rs 30,000 he had borrowed from money lenders, she was in her mother s house in the neighbouring village of Banpash.
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GUWAHATI: As the country celebrated the National Mathematics Day on Tuesday, a huge number of students continued to suffer from the Mathematics phobia syndrome in Assam. The Education department is yet to take any initiative to make the subject an interesting one.
Mathematics phobia syndrome means anxiety and fear about one s ability to do mathematics. Many States in the country are implementing innovative measures to make mathematics an interesting, pragmatic and friendlier subject for students. But unfortunately such things are not happening in Assam, Moloy Das, retired teacher of a government high school said.
Data available with the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA) reveals that over 50 percent of students fail in HSLC/AHM examinations every year due to in their inability to score even pass marks in mathematics. A good number of students even after scoring star marks (75 percent or above) and distinction marks (80 percent or above) in