Soil erosion by the Brahmaputra river at Bhakat Chapari in Majuli on Friday
JORHAT: Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the people in the biggest river island Majuli have been bearing the brunt of massive erosion by the Brahmaputra river in the past few days.
The mighty river has gobbled up vast portions of land in the island posing a threat to its existence. Several organizations like the All Assam Students Union have strongly criticized government failures to protect Majuli and demanded fruitful measures at the earliest.
Aasu said the situation has taken a serious turn in areas like Misamara, Major Chapori, Samoguri, Kamalabari, Salmora and Bhakat Chapori. Besides, a vast portion of land at the busy Kamalabari ferry ghat and paddy fields at Misamora and Major Chapori areas have been eroded.
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GUWAHATI: The All Assam Students Union (AASU) said on Saturday said that the COVID vaccines are not reaching the common man or the man in rural areas. The AASU leaders urged the Assam Government to make the vaccines available to the rural population of the state, and suggested the setting up of village-wise vaccination camps, besides making the registration process both online and offline. The COVID vaccines are the only option now to save anyone from the deadly virus. Unfortunately for us, the vaccines are yet to reach the common man, the people in the rural areas. They are being left out from this huge vaccination drive, AASU president Dipanka Kumar Nath said, adding, most of the people in the rural areas either do not have smartphones or have no access to the internet. Many people are illiterate. Take the case of the tea garden workers or people from the backward communities or the poor people in the rural areas. How will they register online? Most of them
Akhil Gogoi and the Congress Failure in Assam Two prominent leaders of anti-CAA protests formed their own parties
In the recently concluded elections in Assam, it turns out that if the votes of the Congress-led Mahajot alliance and the alliance between the Assam Jatiya Parishad and Raijor Dal were combined they would have been in a position to prevent the BJP forming the government in Assam.
In 14 seats the Mahajot and AJP-RD votes taken together are greater than those earned by the BJP-led Mitrajot. Subtracting these seats from the 75 won by the Mitrajot, and adding them to the Mahajot and AJP-RD combined strength of 51, yields a different result.