Politics / Assam

GUWAHATI, June 14 ? There is an increase of 1,22,825 voters in Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) since 1995 as per the draft electoral roll published in view of the ensuing GMC election. Announcing the publication of draft GMC electoral roll today, the Deputy Commissioner of Kamrup district, AK Absar Hazarika informed that there were total 4,54,904 voters in all the 60 GMC wards compared to 3,32,079 voters as per the 1995 poll rolls. The draft GMC voters? list for each GMC ward will be in display in GMC Commissioner?s Office, concerned police stations/outposts, Revenue Circle office, Kamrup...

GUWAHATI, June 14 ? The presence of five women in the present Tarun Gogoi Ministry makes it a different Council of Ministers from all the previous ones in the State. The latest reshuffle-expansion exercise made Tarun Gogoi the Chief Minister with the largest contingent of lady ministers so far. Obviously a new trend has been set much to the glee of all women political activists in the State. This trend setting lady brigade of Tarun Gogoi is a mixture of experience and new blood. It has the veteran Dr Hemoprova Saikia, the widow of former Chief Minister and iron man of Assam Congress Late...

GUWAHATI, June 14 ? The eviction drives launched by the Forest Department at the directive of the Supreme Court, to free the State?s forest areas from encroachment may stand suspended during this monsoon and the State Government on June 17 will take stock of the overall situation relating to the on going eviction operations. Disclosing this at a press conference here this afternoon Minister of State for Forests (Independent Charge) Pradyut Bardoloi said that the State Government wanted to adopt a humanitarian approach which made a review of the overall situation a necessity.

While reminded of...

GUWAHATI, June 14 ? Terming the ongoing eviction drive in the State as ?ethnic cleansing?, the Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC), Karbi Students? Association (KSA) and Karbi Nimso Chingthur Asong (KNCA) today said it was a conspiracy of the Congress regime to drive out the indigenous and tribal population from their forest habitats including tribal belts and blocks by systematically depriving them of long overdue ownership of land, and justifying this anti-people action under the pretext of the Supreme Court directive. In a statement, the organisations alleged that the Statewide...

GUWAHATI, June 12 ? Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi today urged the Centre to compensate the ?huge disparity?, between the estimates of the Tenth and Eleventh Finance Commissions in respect of shares of central taxes and the actual receipts, reports PTI. Participating in a meeting of the empowered committee of the State Finance Ministers, Gogoi, who holds the Finance portfolio, said in New Delhi there was a shortfall of Rs 675.73 crore in central tax devolution against what projected by the Tenth Finance Commission.

There was also significant shortfalls in Central tax devolutions amounting...

GOLAGHAT, June 12 ? According to the Supreme Court?s verdict against encroachment of forest lands in Assam, the Forest department of Golaghat district began eviction works in Numbor reserve forests. During a period of three days, the Forest department has evicted and cleared 96 houses in Nikori, Kocharihola and Wepather areas. A total of 300 hectares of land were cleared from encroachment. Meanwhile, 250 houses were damaged and 900 hectares of forest lands were cleared by eviction. The local people have lauded the Forest department of the district. But following interference by some political...

ITANAGAR, June 12 ? The ruling Congress (I) government in Arunachal Pradesh continues to be in a slumber sleep, despite the mass eviction carried out by Assam forest officials against the Arunachalis living in the foothills areas bordering Assam under the pretext of the recent Supreme Court ruling. ?Despite the mass eviction being carried out by the Assam govt. against our people living in foothills, bordering Assam the ruling congress (I) govt. in the state is sleeping?, AAPSU and Papum Pare District Students? Union-who made a tour to some affected areas alleged.

?The Supreme Court in a...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? The Police Reforms Committee has expressed the view that the most important requirement for reforms of the police force is improvement of the quality of manpower both as regards to the dealing of the police personnel with the public and their dedication to duty. The Committee headed by retired Director General of Assam Police N Changkakoty submitted its report to Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi yesterday. Talking to The Assam Tribune today, Sri Changkakoty said that the Committee studied functioning of the Police force from the Police station level to the highest level and...

ITANAGAR, June 11 ? The Arunachal Pradesh Government has filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court seeking restraint on the evictions carried out by the Assam officials in various areas of the disputed portions of Assam-Arunachal border, reports PTI. Takam Sanjoy, Minister for Education and the spokesman of the Government in a statement on Monday said that more than 40 families have been affected in the wake of recent eviction carried out by the Assam Government officials. School buildings, transformers, water tanks, electricity facility and even houses of the teachers and villagers were not...

DIBRUGARH, June 11 ? Troubled days are ahead for Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. Several ethnic organisations of the State today formed a joint action committee here to resist the ongoing eviction process, which the State Government has embarked upon, following a Supreme Court directive. The groups which would be constituents of the joint action committee include the Tribal Students? Federation, All Assam Moran Students? Union, All Assam Deuri Students? Union, All Tai Ahom Students? Union, Assam Sonowal Kachari Students? Union, Assam Tea Tribes Students? Association and the Tai Yuba Chatra Santha...