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ASSAM Assam to provide functional tap connections to 13 lakh rural households in 2020-21 year Assam State government presented the Annual Action Plan for consideration and approval of the Ministry of Jal Shakti. Government of India (GoI) approved Rs.1,407 crore for 2020-21 under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). Assam plans to provide tap connections to … Read more
ASSAM Amit Shah chairs 68th Plenary session of the North Eastern Council 2019 in Guwahati Assam Amit Shahhosted the two-day event of 68th Plenary session of the North Eastern Council 2019 (NEC, a nodal agency for the economic and social development of the North East which consists of 8 states of the region) … Read more
ASSAM NORTH-EASTERN STATES Elections come and go, but Assam’s flood problems linger Government reports suggest the Brahmaputra and its tributaries alone wash away over 8,000 hectares of land every year, over 4.27 lakh hectares since the 1950s, which works out to 7.40 per cent of the state’s total area. The width of the … Read more
ASSAM CM Pema Khandu Inaugurates Arunachal Pradesh’s Biggest Solar Plant Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu inaugurated the state’s biggest solar power plant at Energy Awareness Park in the presence of Power Minister Tamiyo Taga in Itanagar. The plant, with a capacity of 1 MW, was commissioned on April 1 at an estimated investment of … Read more
ASSAM Assam tea producers eye tea waste export to boost revenue Tea producers from Assam have asked the Tea Board of India (TBI) to issue guidelines for exporting tea waste to boost revenue generation and stop the practice of making re-processed tea. Export of tea waste can be a game changer as far as revenue … Read more
Assam Affairs National and International Affairs
ASSAM IIT- Guwahati signed MoU with the C-DAC to establish 650TF supercomputing facility Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). The aim is to establish Rs. 17 crore worth of 650TF Supercomputing Facility under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). The MoU was signed … Read more
ASSAM In a first, Assam tea estate gets woman manager Manju Baruah is the manager of Apeejay Tea’s Hilika Tea Estate in upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district. An official of Tea Board of India said there have been women senior assistant ma-nagers and welfare officers but no woman was appointed manager until Baruah was … Read more
Assam Affairs National and International Affairs
ASSAM Full ‘operational freedom’ given to Assam Police to deal with drug menace: Himanta Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the police has been given complete “operational freedom” to deal with drug traffickers and dealers, and asked to “act decisively” to uproot the drug menace from the society. He said that increased action on snapping … Read more