Prelims Notes

ASSAM   CEC pats Assam for high electoral gender ratio   Assam’s women voters are just inches away from equaling their male counterparts in the electoral roll, a feat that has earned a big pat from the chief election commission of India himself. The fresh electoral roll published on Monday has 1,13,55,79 female voters which is 49.30% of … Read more

ASSAM   PM Modi to gift plots to 1 lakh ‘indigenous’ people in Assam   Kickstarting Assam’s largest land dole since Independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally hand over ownership of up to seven bighas of farmland each and smaller plots for homesteads to over one lakh “indigenous” landless people in the historic town of Sivasagar.   PM … Read more

ASSAM   Assam identifies 190 polling stations as ‘booze zones’   The EC routinely classifies polling stations as “sensitive” and “hypersensitive” based on the extent of their vulnerability to violence. But for the first time in the country,190 booths in 12 Assam districts have been identified as vulnerable to illicit IMFL and country liquor, which can in a … Read more

ASSAM   National Agri-Horticultural Show-2021 inaugurated   The State government has initiated several schemes for 58 lakh farmers of the State as strengthening of the rural economy is a must for development of the State. The farmers have to capture the national and international markets by adding values to their products. Farmers must work hard … Read more

ASSAM   Full team of Election Commission on 3-day visit to Assam to review poll preparedness   The full team of Election Commission of India (ECI) led by Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora is on a three-day visit to Assam to review the poll preparedness for the upcoming Assembly elections in the State. After their … Read more

ASSAM   Want to double farmers’ income in next fiscal: CM   Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, while attending the state credit seminar 2021 of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) in Guwahati on Monday, said his government aims to double the income of farmers in the 2021-2022 financial year.   Sonowal said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a … Read more

ASSAM   Assam to use Rs 100 crore funded by people to buy vaccines   The Assam government will utilise the contribution of over Rs 100 crore made by people of the state to help the state government combat Covid-19 pandemic to purchase the vaccines for general people if Centre does not bear the entire … Read more

ASSAM   IIT-Guwahati scholars develop remote digital healthcare   A team of research scholars of the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT-G) has developed a digital health system that can offer healthcare to a large population, especially in remote areas.   The bench top digital setup is integrated with an algorithm to record initial screening … Read more

ASSAM   Bihu in times of Covid vaccination drive spreads cheer in Assam   The commencement of the Covid vaccination drive at a time when the state is all set to celebrate Bhogali Bihu, has spread cheer and confidence among the community of health workers. This is perhaps the first festival people can enjoy without fear after months … Read more

ASSAM   Brahmaputra Amantran Abhiyaan   17-member team taking part in the ‘Brahmaputra Amantran Abhyaan’ a river rafting programme organised by the Ministry of Jal Shakti in collaboration with the Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and DRF, which was flagged off by Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on December 23 last at Upper Siang, reached … Read more