ASSAM

The State of Assam is setting up a tea Park at Chhaygaon in Kamrup District. This tea park will have rail and port connectivity, cargo and warehouse amenities, processing Services like tea grinding, blending, packaging and other utility offerings under one roof.

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Tea garden businesses using park lands for plantation of Segun and agar or selling off the tea estates, the Minister referred to the fact that tea garden proprietors can’t sell off their estates as the leased land nonetheless belongs to Assam Government and instead asked them to center of attention on innovation and branding of Assam Tea.

He announced that to remove the impediment of land revenue department mission Vasundhara will be initiated. He mentioned that along with the ‘s priority projects the central sponsored schemes will also be executed in full spirit.

All the 35 existing districts (before the remerged four districts with their original districts in December last year) reeled under the ravaging floods.

According to the ASDMA data, a total of 838 people died in the floods in the state during 2013-2022, of whom 181 died last year, which is the highest human death toll in floods in a year. A total of 160 human deaths were reported in 2017 while 122 in the Covid pandemic-hit 2020 and 102 in 2019.

In view of the impact of the floods in the state last year that left a tale huge loss in crops, property, animal and Livestock as well as human lives, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority has geared up its preparation with other departments to deal with the deluge as the pre-monsoon period has already begun in the state.

The World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF) discovered a few tigers in Assam’s Barnadi Wildlife Sanctuary. It is one of Assam’s smallest WS (Wildlife Sanctuary).

About the Sanctuary:

It is located in the northern Assam districts of Baksa and Udalguri, bordering Bhutan,

It is bounded to the west and east by the Barnadi and Nalapara rivers, respectively.

Barnadi was created specifically to protect the Pygmy Hog (Sus salvanius) and Hispid Hare (Caprolagus hispidus).

Approximately 60% of the BWS is reported to be Grassland, with the majority of it now being grassy woodland.

The main forest types are tropical moist deciduous (northern edge of the Sanctuary) and mixed scrub and grassland (southern part).

Commercial plantations of Bombax ceiba, Tectona grandis, and Eucalyptus, as well as thatch , have replaced the majority of the natural vegetation.

With an aim to make Education easily available, Assam Government on Wednesday launched e-textbooks for classes pre-primary to 12. Assams education minister Ranoj Pegu inaugurated the online system for downloading textbooks in PDF files to make it easily accessible for the students. The digital textbooks have been published in 19 languages and 8 mediums, which is available in downloadable format in the portals of SCERT, SEBA and AHSEC.

The water hyacinth of the fishing community in Assam developed a biodegradable and compostable mat.
The mat is also called as “Moorhen Yoga Mat”
It will be introduced to the world market as a unique product.

The intervention was sparked by an initiative by the North East Centre for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR), an autonomous body under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), to include the entire Women‘s community in a group called “Simang,” which means “dream,” led by six girls who wanted to make Money from water hyacinth Plants.

Water hyacinth is regarded as a pest because it does not help the fishing community and has a negative impact on their livelihood.

Finance minister Ajanta Neog has given the highest allocation of over Rs 15,000 crore to the public works department (PWD) in her budget proposals forAssams new push.

The minister has also proposed strengthening the existing Nehru Stadium along with conversion of Khanikar Integrated Sports Complex from 5,000 to 15,000 seating capacity, whileRabindra Bhawanin Guwahati will be reconstructed apart from a state-of-the-art DGP office, 5,000-capacity auditorium at Sankardev Kalashetra and ITA Machkhowa as major highlights of new infrastructure in Guwahati.

Mutual understanding between the families of underage girls and adult men while solemnising their marriages, which according to law is child marriage, as to avoid legal action has come to Light in several cases across the state.
With 87 more arrests, the total arrest on charges of either marrying underage girls or solemnising child marriages or encouraging such marriages has gone up to 2,528 on the fifth day of the crackdown.