Sarmas statement has come after Meghalaya cabinet on Tuesday approved setting up of seven Police outposts inWest Khasi Hills, West Jaintia Hills,Ri Bhoiand East Jaintia Hills districts along the inter-state boundary with Assam.
Assam and Meghalaya have a constitutional boundary and maps are available to both state governments. I am sure Meghalaya government will not do anything within the constitutional boundary of the state of Assam.
Assam chief ministerHimanta Biswa Sarmakept his poll promise of coming up with a grand loan waiver scheme for the microfinancedebt-ridden Women.
Sarma on Sunday launched the Assam Micro Finance Incentive and Relief Scheme, 2021 at Tezpur in northern Assam, under which 24 lakhdebt-riddenwomen in the state will be given financial relief.
They will be given upto Rs 25,000 or outstanding balance, whichever is less,” said Sarma. Simultaneously, he said those women who could not repay the loans at all will have to apply for a waiver through a portal. Sarma said the number of such women will be 12 lakh.
Ministry of Mines is making continuous efforts to encourage mining activities pan India. Accordingly, to further encourage exploration activities in the mineral rich North East region, the first Northeast Geology & Mining Ministers Conclave was held on today at Niathu Resort, Chumukedima, Dimapur, Nagaland.
In the event, North-East Mines and Coal Ministers committee put forward their concerns and demands before the Union Minister of Mines, Coal and Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Pralhad Joshi. Addressing the same, Shri Pralhad Joshi said that the North East region has been accorded top priority for development under the Prime Ministers agenda of transforming India. North-Eastern Region is the focus point of India’s ‘Act East Policy’.
Geological Survey of India (GSI) has taken up 108 projects in NER on different mineral commodities during the last five years and 23 mineral exploration projects on various commodities in NER in current field season 2022-23. The Government is also funding projects through National Mineral Exploration Trust (NMET), Shri Joshi added. Two mineral exploration projects of limestone & Iron Ore of Nagaland funded by NMET have been already completed. NMET is also providing financial assistance for procurement of machinery/ laboratory equipment/ instruments etc. to State DGMs upto 10% of the total approved exploration projects in year.
An anti-displacement team of scholars from JNU andDelhi University, which visitedDholpurin Darrang district where a massive eviction drive in September had left hundreds of people homeless, said on Tuesday that the evicted minorities have become stateless within the state.
The Assam government has started a state Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture project in the Dholpur area involving local youths, but not the 1,000 odd evicted Muslim families who are now taking shelter in makeshift camps near the Brahmaputra.
The Brahmaputra and its tributaries have led to the erosion of vast tracts of land in different parts of the state resulting in forced voluntary internal Migration of the people within the state. The displaced Muslim farmers have found some solace in Dholpur.
The Assam cabinet has decided to take away the identity of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi from the Orang .
Highlights:
Since the title Orang is related to the sentiments of the Adivasi & tea-tribe community, the cabinet has planned to rename the Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park as Orang National Park. Orang National Park is situated the North Bank of Brahmaputra; Orang National Park, spread over 78.80 sq km, is the oldest wooded area reserve. It was recognized as a wildlife sanctuary in 1985 and declared a national park in 1999.
The agreement was signed in the presence of Nagaland deputy CM Y Patton and Assam Education minister Ranoj Pegu. Thesuperintendents of Police of thedistricts of Mokokchung (Nagaland) and Jorhat (Assam) shall ensure orderly withdrawal of their respective forces and shall be responsible for it in the instant case.
Assam and Nagaland share a 434-km border. The boundary dispute between the two states is more than six decades old and has been marked by frequent skirmishes. In the last major clash, in 1985 at Merapani, 41 people, including 28 Assam policemen, were killed. There have been several attempts by the Centre to resolve the issue.
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said learningyogafrom a tender age can play a role in preventing youths from becoming victims of ‘love jihad’. He was speaking at an event organised in Dhubri on Wednesday to markInternational Day.
Amid concerns among minority representatives regarding their fate after the release of the delimitation draft by the EC, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma reached Dhubri, where Muslims have been playing a determining role in Elections. The opposition parties have alleged that the redrawing of the constituency was done to concentrate minority votes in “limited seats”.
There is only one solution – introduce children to sanatan culture from a young age, impart them lessons in yoga, and discuss holy books like theGitadaily. Our youths will never get misled. Considering the geographical location of Dhubri (close to Bangladesh border), the natives should practice yoga and imbibe the gyan and the noble qualities of sanatan culture, and preach the same to the younger generation,” he added.
TheCentre said distribution of free foodgrains under the fourth phase of thePradhan Mantra Garib Kalyan AnnaYojana (PMGKAY) has started in seven states and about 14,700 tonnes have been given to beneficiaries so far.
About 70.6 lakh tonnes of foodgrains were distributed in the third phase of PMGKAY between May and June, it said.
On ration card portability facility, the government said the remaining four states –Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi and West Bengal — are expected to come on board soon.
PMGKAY was first introduced in 2020 for eight months to provide relief to 80 crore beneficiaries covered under the NationalFoodSecurity Act (NFSA) from Covid-induced economic hardships.
The scheme was reintroduced this year for third phase implementation for two months till June and later extended till November under the fourth phase.
Free grains are provided under PMGKAY over and above the quota allocated at highly subsidised rates under NFSA to these beneficiaries.
After preliminary tests conducted by four major institutes revealed heavy traces of formaldehyde in fish bought from outside the state, the department said a detailedtestregarding the presence of harmful chemicals in fish sold across the state is the need of the hour .
The samples for the tests were collected from only a few districts, including Nagaon and Kamrup (M). The department will takelegalaction against sellers found selling or storing such fish. The guilty will face up to five years in prison, as per report.
About declared foreigner:
The declared foreigner or DF, is a person who has been marked by the Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) for allegedly failing to prove their after being identified as an illegal immigrant by the State Police‘s Border wing.
About Foreigners tribunal:
The Foreigners (Tribunals) Order, 1964 established the Foreigners Tribunals.
The tribunals are quasi-judicial bodies that determine whether a person staying illegally is a “foreigner” or not.