GUWAHATI, March 12 — The gap between per capita income of the State and the country continues to get widened and as on today the State is lagging far behind the par capita income at national level. As per the latest Economic Survey, Assam, the per capita income of the country as a whole during 2000-2001 was Rs 16487 at current prices and Rs 10254 at constant (1993-94) prices while the same for Assam stood at a much lower level of Rs 10467 and Rs 5867 respectively.

The report mentions that the total number of reporting scheduled commercial bank offices including regional rural banks in the...

GUWAHATI, March 12 _ The Income Tax Department has announced the one-by six scheme to widen the tax base in the north-eastern region. This was revealed by Jagrup Singh, Commissioner of Income Tax, decrying a press meet here recently.

Addressing the media, Singh said that the collections of the Department under the Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Guwahati, last year were Rs 258 crore, and this year the target has been fixed at Rs 371 crore. The number of assessees in this charge as on January 31, 2003 is 449810. According to one-by-six Scheme, any citizen fulfilling any one of the following...

IMPHAL, March 12–No new taxes were imposed in the deficit Budget presented for the next financial year in the Manipur Assembly Tuesday, reports PTI. Presenting the Budget estimates of Rs 3663.49 crore, the Chief Minister, O Ibobi Singh, who also holds the charge of Finance department, said that fresh initiatives would be made to augment revenue from existing tax and non-tax resources to fill the budgetary gap.

Also hard measures would be introduced to prune government expenditure like downsizing of the bureacracy, ban on direct recruitment and abolition of death in harness scheme, the...

GUWAHATI, March 11 — The Minister in charge of Assam Accord implementation, Sri Pankaj Bora, today informed the State Assembly that the Government has so far spent an amount of Rs 12,89,28,385 on the tribunals set up under the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act but only 1501 foreigners have been deported from the State under the provisions of the Act. Replying to a question by Sri Zoii Nath Sarma (AGP), the Minister said that as on January 1 this year, the IMDT tribunals disposed of 20,297 cases.

In reply to another question by Sri Sarma, the Minister said that so far 149.298...

SILCHAR, March 11 (NEPS): The NSCN-IM, alleged to be responsible for kidnapping of three Dima Halam Daoga (DHD) cadres reportedly released the abducted persons - Ajir Dimasa, Samil Dimasa and P Kapla. The abduction might be due to differences between the local cadres of the two outfits, intelligence sources said. The Naga outfit abducted the threesome on February 26 from Gayingpur, along the Cachar-Meghalaya border.

The abduction was quite surprising considering the understanding between the two outfits. One Daoraja Dimasa, a civilian, was also abducted along with the three DHD cadres. The...