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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 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 State govt to review language policy The State education department will put the matter of language policy for primary education in the agenda of next Cabinet meeting of the government for further consideration. The language policy for primary education was finalised by the Sabha in consultation with language experts on … Read more
14.05.19 INTERNATIONAL Waste dumping proposal defeated A proposal by India to prevent developed countries from dumping their electronic and plastic waste onto developing countries, was defeated at the recently concluded meeting of the Basel Convention in Geneva. Pollution from plastic waste, acknowledged as a major environmental problem of global concern, has reached epidemic … Read more
ASSAM Assam yet to contact Kerala on flood-hit migrant workers Faced with ‘unprecedented’ destruction caused to human lives and property by flood, the Kerala government has chalked out special plans to rescue and repatriate the migrant workers, which include nearly 60,000 from Assam. Ironically, the Assam government does not have any … Read more
ASSAM Assam Tourism inked a MoU for Filmfare Awards show in Guwahati Assam Tourism Development Corporation (ATDC) inked a memorandum of understanding with the Times Group for organizing the 65th Filmfare Awards. The MoU signed in the presence of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Bennett Coleman and Company Limited managing director Vineet Jain. The MoU paved … Read more
ASSAM CM’s health scheme extended to PHCs The Chief Minister’s Free Diagnostic Services Programme, under which X-Ray, CT scan and blood tests are provided free of cost, has been extended to public health centres. The facility is now available in district hospitals, sub-divisions and first referral units and over 14.36 lakh people … Read more
ASSAM 41,000 posts in govt schools lying vacant in Assam Around 41,000 posts, including those of over 27,000 teachers, are lying vacant in various government run schools across Assam. A total of 40,845 posts are lying vacant in various government-run schools and out of these, 27,202 posts are of teachers. The state government had … Read more
ASSAM State’s share of Central devolution dips The State’s share of Central devolution has come down from 3.34 per cent to 3.31 per cent. Last year, we should have got Rs 29,000 crore by way of Central tax devolution but we eventually got Rs 25,000 crore, meaning a shortfall of Rs 4,000 crore. … Read more
ASSAM A huge cancer care system to be set up in Assam soon The Tata Trusts and the state government are collaborating to set up, in a first, a three-level Rs 1400-cr cancer care grid that will connect district hospitals, medical colleges to an advanced centre at Guwahati. Tata Trusts is the philanthropic arm of … Read more