ASSAM

Assamchief minister Himanta BiswaSarma asked the revenue and Disaster Management department to set a goal for digitisation of all land records of the state till 2023.

He also urged the department to dispose of all pending partition and mutation cases before completion of the first anniversary of the current government in May next year, according to an official statement.

Calling for reforms in the state’s revenue administration at a meeting with the officials of the department, the chief minister asked them to complete all pending partition and mutation cases in a mission mode.

“Mission Basundhara” will be launched for this purpose on October 2 this year, the statement said.

AssamCMHimanta Biswa Sarma inaugurated Assams first solar park at Amguri in Sivasagar district.

The 70-MW Amguri solar power park is an outcome of the Assam Accord. The foundation stone of the park was laid by former CM Sarbananda Sonowal on February 27, 2019.

Mentioning that the solar park was a huge step towards harnessing clean and green energy, the CM said the project will go a long way in realising the state governments mission of generating 1,000 MW of electricity. He further added it will aid in creation of EMPLOYMENT avenues for youth and also maintain environmental balance through green energy generation.

he All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu), an influential student body, demanded the scrapping of a clause in the evaluation criteria formulated by the expert committees for High School Leaving Certificate (Class X) and Higher Secondary (ClassXII) examinations. The clause states that the marksheets and certificates under the new evaluation formula will be applicable for admissions in higher classes but not valid for jobs.

The student body warned the state government not to “play with the lives and future of students” with such an “absurd” clause in the evaluation criteria. The union urged the government and both the boards – Board of Secondary Education Assam (which conducts class X exams) and Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (which conducts class XII exams) to take an immediate decision to withdraw the clause.

The operation will be carried out in Sonitpur district for the first two days while the exercise will be conducted for the remaining two days in Darrang district.

The Orang is spread over an area of 89 sq km in Sonitpur and Darrang districts and the eviction exercise is being carried out to clear encroached land for an animal corridor to Kaziranga National Park.

TheAssamgovernment has declared black fungus as a notifiable disease, making it mandatory for all Health facilities to report such cases to the health department through the district health authorities.

Assam detected the first black fungus ormucormycosis infectionin a Covid patient who died in a private hospital here recently. But according to health department sources, similar cases might have gone unreported, especially during the second wave, which has increased chances of more black fungus cases due to prolonged stay in the ICU.

The state health department issued the directive in pursuance of a letter from the Union ministry of health and family welfare under Section 2 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897. Now all hospitals and medical colleges will have to follow the same guidelines for screening, diagnosis and management of mucormycosis, issued by theUnion health ministryand the Indian Council of Medical Research (Icmr).

TheAssamgovernment announced the State Science Awards for 2022 and 2023 to honour eminent scientists from the state for popularising science on the occasion ofNational Technology Day.

State Science and Technology minister Keshab Mahanta announced the names of eminent educationists, former principal of College Prof. Kamalendu Deb Krori and former vice-chancellor of Tezpur University Prof. KishoriMohanPathak as the recipients in the category of Lifetime Achievement Award for 2022 and 2023 respectively.

The Young Scientist/Innovator Award will be bestowed upon Moon Moon Devi, assistant professor of physics in Tezpur University (for 2022) and DebangaRajNeog, assistant professor, Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT-Guwahati (for 2023).

The Epicentre of the earthquake was placed at a depth of 17 km. The epicentre was once positioned 9 km away from the town of Dhekiajuli of Assam.

National Center for Seismology: It is the nodal organisation that monitors earthquake pastime in India. It continues a National Seismological Network of one hundred fifteen stations. Each station holds a separate equipment. Apart from monitory, the core also performs Seismic Hazard Microzonation and seismological research.

The pulse polio immunization drive kicked off inAssam with a goal to cover about 48.4 lakh children below five years of age this year, which is around 10% of Assams total Population.
As a part of this drive to cover all 34 districts of Assam, the targeted children will be immunized with the support of 10,854 Health workers. A total of 24,060 booths were planned to execute the task.

Early in the day, Mahanta inaugurated the drive in Assam by administering two polio drops to a child at Jakhalabandha primary health centre in central Assam. In Assam, total households to be visited by health care workers during house-to-house activity during this years pulse polio campaign is estimated to be 62 lakh.