Politics / Assam

DIBRUGARH, June 25? A local association here, Youth Leadership Centre, has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the modus operandi of the ongoing eviction drives in the State, which began more than a month ago at Batahghooli in Guwahati. Taking cognisance of the petition, the NHRC has sent notices to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police of Assam, asking both the authorities to make the government stand clear on the issue. Dr Nabajyoti Hazarika, a cardio-thoracic surgeon at the Assam Medical College here and president of the voluntary Youth Leadership...

GUWAHATI, June 25 ? The all-party conference convened by the Congress government in Assam to evolve a consensus on demarcation of the boundary of the proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) today agreed to include additional 126 villages in the tribal council as per the demand of Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) and its allies. However, the problem of demarcating the BTC boundary could not be solved entirely by today?s all-party meeting chaired by the Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, as no consensus could be arrived at about the status of another 141 villages demanded for inclusion in the BTC by...

GOLAGHAT, June 23? The four reserve forests within Golaghat district are Diphu reserve forest, South Numbor, Rengma and Doyang which are situated on the Nagaland border. In 1963, Nagaland become the 16th State of India. In 1972, the KV Sundaram Commission had submitted its recommendations regarding the identification of the border between Assam and Nagaland. But the Nagaland government ? refused to accept the recommendations of the Sundoram Commission. As a result, the boundaries of Assam-Nagaland remained unsettled till now.

Taking this advantage, the Nagaland encroached large areas of the...

DHALIGAON (Bongaigaon), June 24 ? The failure of the ongoing peace talks between the Government and Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) would send a wrong signal to the people and give a big boost to the anti-national forces like the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB), warned the publicity secretary of the BLT, Sri Mainao Daimary. Talking to The Assam Tribune here, the BLT publicity secretary said that they have already made their stand clear on the contentious issues like amendment of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution and demarcation of...

NEW DELHI, June 24 ?Under pressure to retrieve the Bodo peace process the Assam Government has shed its rigid stand on the contentious issues including demarcation of the boundary of the proposed Bodoland Terri-torIAL Council (BTC). Although the Assam Government today reiterated its stand of demarcating the BTC on the basis of the 1999 notification, it however, added that it has an open mind on the issue and was willing to resolve it on a give-and-take basis. Assam Government officials described the latest series of moves to revive the BLT peace talks as positive, claiming that the talks were...

KOKRAJHAR, June 22 ? The Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) has expressed strong resentment over the State government?s dilly-dallying attitude in solving long-standing problems of the Bodos. The outfit blamed the government functionaries entrusted to solve the Bodo tangle for the delay. Referring to the State Government?s commitment to framing modalities with regard to creation of Bodoland Territory as a core issue duly submitted to the Central Government, the BLT said the government has failed to keep its earlier promiseson substantive issues touched upon during several rounds of negotiations at...

DHUBRI, June 22 ? Forest department of Dhubri started eviction of encroachers from forest lands from June 9 last. On that day Forest department personnel evicted 10 families from their unauthorised occupation of land in the Rajapara proposed reserve forest. Ten huts erected by the families on the encroached land for dwelling purpose were also dismantled. According to Forest department sources, a total of five hectares of land were freed in the process. It is learnt from the Divisional Forest Office source that Dhubri district has a total of 27831.38 hactres of reserve forest areas, and 18587...

GUWAHATI, June 22? Yet another scam of misappropriation of public funds surfaces in a Government department of this fund-starved State. The department is the Social Welfare Department and the amount involved is around Rs 2.10 crore. The modus operandi of the scamsters in this case was that they used to make ?payments against fictitious bills for ?supply? of nutritious items in Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) areas between 1999 and 2001. The scheme was drawn under the Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana (PMGY) for the benefit of the children. Though there was a strict direction to transfer the amounts to...

GUWAHATI, June 21? The All Guwahati Students? Union (AGSU) today warned the Hindi film lobby to desist from any conspiracy against the Assamese film industry and asked the producers, artists and other technicians of the Assamese film industry to put up a united fight against such evil moves. Decrying the withdrawal of the Assamese film Gun Gun Gane Gane which had been drawing a full house at Udeshna hall, all of a sudden and without any notice from 8 p.m. last night. It has been replaced by a Hindi film reflecting the latest instance of the ill treatment and victimisation of the Assamese film...

GUWAHATI, June 20 ? Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is optimistic that sooner or later militant outfits like the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) will come forward for talks for political solution of the problem of insurgency. Talking to The Assam Tribune, Sri Gogoi said that so far the State Government has not received any positive indications from the militant outfits. But at the same time, he is hopeful that the militants would ultimately come forward for talks. The NSCN came forward for talks after decades of insurgency, while the...