Assam: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma Directs Officials To Convert Madrassas Into General Schools
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
To implement the decision of the previous Sarbananda Sonowal led government, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday (18 May) directed the officials to immediately initiate the process of transition of dissolved Madrassa to general schools.
The Chief Minister while giving a direction to immediately initiate the process of transition of dissolved Madrassa to general schools while taking a comprehensive review of the functioning of the Education Department in presence of Education Minister Ranoj Pegu and Finance Minister Ajanta Neog.
He also asked the officials to ensure recruitment of teachers on priority basis particularly in provincialised and government schools and to meet the periodic gap, reports
EC Reduces Campaigning Ban On Himanta Biswa Sarma To 24 Hours
The Election Commission on Saturday reduced the campaigning ban on BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma to 24 hours. PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-04-03T16:37:29+05:30 EC Reduces Campaigning Ban On Himanta Biswa Sarma To 24 Hours outlookindia.com 2021-04-03T16:52:05+05:30
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The Election Commission on Saturday reduced the campaigning ban on BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma to 24 hours.
Hours after issuing a show-cause notice to BJP leader and Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for his remarks against Bodoland People s Front chief Hagrama Mohilary, the Election Commission (EC) had on Friday barred Sarma from campaigning for the upcoming Assembly polls for 48 hours.
Over 73 per cent of the 73,44,631 voters exercised their franchise till 5 p.m. in the second phase of polling in Assam on Thursday, election officials said, adding that no untoward incident was reported from the 39 constituencies, where balloting would officially end at 6 p.m. Senior election officials and police officers said that no incident of violence was reported so far from the 13 districts where the voting was underway. In a few polling stations, voting was halted for some time due to technical snags in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), which were soon rectified. Men, women and first-time voters queued up in front of the polling stations in large numbers well before the voting began at 7 a.m. Polling time has been in creased by an hour till 6 p.m. by the election officials in view of the Covid-19 situation.
Assam: No Pay for Four Years, Death Stalks Former Employees of Nagaon Paper Mill
Since March 2017, when the Central government-owned mill was shut down, 83 former employees have died; four by suicide, 79 due to lack of funds for medical treatment.
A road at the the sprawling premises of the defunct Nagaon Paper Mill. Photo: Gaurav Das
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Jagiroad (Morigaon District), Assam: The walls of the various departments in the abandoned Nagaon Paper Mill are adorned with faded motivational posters. In the dusty emptiness of the finance and accounts department, one of these posters reads: “Anything is Better than Lies and Deceit”.
CAA Symbolises BJP’s Betrayal Of The People Of Assam: Gaurav Gogoi
Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, Gaurav Gogoi, talks about his party’s pre-poll tie-up with the AIUDF and how the eight-party alliance is planning to bring down the BJP. PTI Anupam Bordoloi 2021-03-14T21:43:26+05:30 CAA Symbolises BJP’s Betrayal Of The People Of Assam: Gaurav Gogoi outlookindia.com 2021-03-14T23:10:50+05:30
Two-time Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi, 38, has come a long way from being the shy young man who was thrust into politics by his father, the late Tarun Gogoi. And, for the Congress, the forthcoming Assam elections is the first in a long time without Gogoi senior at the helm. In a free-wheeling interview with Outlook, Gaurav Gogoi, the Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, talks about his party’s pre-poll tie-up with the AIUDF and how the eight-party alliance is planning to bring down the BJP. Excerpts: