Karimganj annex inter-district school trophy - School team romps home, skipper’s outburst raises ACA eyebrows

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Dilip Sarma U-15 Cup

Dibrughar District Sports Association president Jamshed A. Khan presents the champions’ trophy to Karimganj Government High School boys in Dibrugarh on Tuesday. Picture by Eastern Projections Dibrugarh, April 8: Karimganj Government Higher Secondary School annexed the 2nd Dilip Sarma inter-district school (under-15) cricket tournament by defeating Chitta Ranjan Chakravarty High School, Dibrugarh by three wickets at the Chowkidingee playground today. Resuming at eight for no loss in their second innings, CRC High School was all out in 40 overs with 107 runs on the board.     Opener Juman Hazarika who was at the crease without opening his account on Day I, today played the sheet-anchor’ s role with a 48-run knock, while Himangshu Hazarika remained unbeaten on 24.     For Karimganj, Gopal Shukla picked up four wickets for 14 runs while Samar Deb scalped three for 16. Sadek Ahmed Choudhury picked up two wickets for 16 runs. Requiring 84 to win, Karimganj scored the runs in 31 overs. However, the team lost seven wickets in the process.   Kishore Das was the topscorer for the side with 19 runs in his kitty, while Sunny Ghosh and Abhishek Nath contributed 16 runs each. For CRC High School, Arnab Borthakur picked up three wickets for 22 runs, while Raj Tamuli and Krishna Kumar Prasad scalped two wickets each for 11 and 15 runs respectively.   Sadek Ahmed Choudhury was declared the Man of the Match for his overall nine-wicket haul. The presentation ceremony was attended by Dibrugarh DSA president Jamshed Ahmed Khan, DDSA general secretary Munindra Nath Saikia, Dibrugarh district sports officer Uday Kamal Chetia, and former Ranji player Pranab Baruah.   However, the match was also had its share of controversy when Karimganj skipper Pramit Sen threw his bat on the ground as he was unhappy on being given out on the first day.   The organisers here received a phone call from Assam Cricket Association (ACA) general secretary Bikash Baruah over this issue. “It is quite unfortunate that the ACA general secretary himself had to

New life for tea gardens - Centre plans grants to lessen plantations’ social cost burden

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Silchar April 9: The tea plantations in Assam and elsewhere in the country can now heave a sigh of relief. The Centre has mooted a proposal to extend financial grants in a bid to lessen the burden of the mandatory social costs the plantations have to bear.   These mandatory social costs are part of the welfare measures that a plantation has to extend to its labourers, according to the Plantations Act, 1951. According to the proposal, the Centre will extend “substantial financial grant” to the state governments from the coffers of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).   This grant is part of the package of recommendations that a committee of the central government officials, under the chairmanship of the additional secretary in Union ministry of commerce, O.P. Arya, has recently forwarded to the Centre, a senior official said.   The committee was constituted after various associations of the tea planters made a frantic plea to the Centre for reducing the burden of mandatory social costs. The recession in the tea industry has resulted in the fall in prices of processed tea and escalation of cost of production per unit, rendering many plantations incapable of bearing this burden of social welfare.   Senior executives of the Indian Tea Association (ITA) held an eight-hour marathon meeting in Guwahati yesterday to arrive at a consensus among the Centre, the state government and the tea industry on the structure of grants as well as the steps for reducing the burden of social costs. Sources added that two similar meetings would be held at the regional level in Upper Assam and the Barak valley soon. April 23 and 24 have been earmarked for the Barak valley meeting at the Cachar district headquarters town of Silchar.   Sumanta Guhathakurta, the secretary of the Surma valley branch of the ITA, was present at the meeting yesterday. He disclosed the state had proposed a financial grant on a monthly basis to the different hospitals in the garden areas of the state. The proposed grant will be used to meet part of the expenditure of the tea gardens, including relating to the salaries of doctors and other medical personnel, the infrastructure of hospitals and medical

Three water supply schemes inaugurated in Karimganj
From Our Correspondent Assam Tribune
 NILAMBAZAR, April 9 – Rihan Daimary, PHE Minister inaugurated three water supply schemes in Karimganj on April 4. After inaugurating the piped water supply scheme he said the scheme would be run by forming a committee from among the water-users and sought cooperation from the villagers for maintenance of the scheme. With the inauguration of the scheme, more than three thousand villagers’ of east Sadarashi and Khalpar would be benefitted.

The programme was attended among others by Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya MP Karimganj, Mission Rangia Divn, MLA north Karimganj, Siddique Ahmed MLA south Karimganj and A Goel DC Karimganj.
 

Govt tourist lodge in private hands

From Our Correspondent Assam Tribune
 SILCHAR, April 10 – Bhuban Hill in Cahcar district is considered as one of the important holy tourist places in Barak Valley. A number of pilgrims gather in the hill every year. The district administration has constructed a tourist lodge near the area. The Rs 36 lakh worth lodge is in the hands of unauthorised people and it is really debatable whether or not this lodge will be in the hand of district administration.

This was stated in a meeting organised by the Bibhas Chakraborty, president and Paritosh Paul Choudhury, advisor of Bhuban Pilgrim Development and Mela organising committee recently.

In the meeting it was said that in year 2005, the Didarkush area situated near the Bhuban Hill has selected for the tourist lodge. Two bihga land was donated by Jawaharlal Sahu, Gopal Chand Sahu and Banshi Badan Sahu for the purpose. In December 2006, the documents of the concerned land was ready. In that year, Sanotsh Mohan Dev, Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises laid the foundation stone of the lodge. The then Minister of Tourism Misbahul Islam Laskar was also present. The building was given to PWD building section for construction.

After the foundation stone laying, the construction work initially began. But after some days the conspiracy started. The tourism department took the president of the organising committee that 60 per cent of the work has already being completed. Remaining work will be completed very soon.

Meanwhile, taking to the circle officer of Sonai block, Bibhas Chakraborty came to know that land where the building work is going on belong to Jagadish Prasad Sahu. But the land where the lodge has to be constructed, there is the building. As per the local sources, the landlord is constructing his own house with government money. The committee further said that the district administration should interfere in this regard otherwise both land and the tourist lodge will be out of the administration’s hand.

Lakhipur team lifts trophy

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Jugasankha Cup

Hailakandi, April 10: KYC Khuman of Lakhipur emerged champion in the 3rd Jugasankha Cup Rural Football Championship, edging out two-time winner Baliya Green Club 6-4, in the tie-breaker at Silchar Sporting Club ground on Tuesday. The tournament was organised by Silchar Football Academy. The prizes were distributed by former players Bijon Gopal Das, Nilotpal Choudhury, Bijan Paul Choudhury, Manik Paul, Biswajit Dutta, Ashis Gupta and Atin Das.

Narasingha emerge champions

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Baidyanath U-15 Cup Hailakandi, April 11: Narasingha Higher Secondary School conquered the prestigious Baidyanath Smriti School under-15 Cricket Tournament title by defeating South Point High School by 35 runs in the final at Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium in Silchar yesterday. Narasingha won the toss and elected to bat. The team put up 161 runs on the board losing nine wickets in the stipulated 25 overs. In reply, South Point was bundled out for 126 runs in 22.5 overs. Sanjoy Bose was the batting mainstay for Narasingha with 31 runs. Partha Das, Liton Debnath, and Bikash Das chipped in with 15, 14 and 11 runs, while Imran Hussain and Arshad Ahmed made 10 runs each. The South Point bowlers conceded 55 runs as extras. Subhajit Sinha scalped three wickets for 35 runs, while Liton Choudhury picked up two for 19. Jibitesh Bhattacharjee was the topscorer for South Point with 51 runs. His innings included seven boundaries. Liton Choudhury added 15 runs, while Sahin Ahmed Laskar and Subhajit Sinha chipped in with 12 runs each. Narasingha conceded 24 runs as extras. Imran Hussain, Jahir Ahmed and Arshad Ahmed picked up two wickets each.

Silchar: The four-day Manipuri national convention organised by the Northeast Students’ Co-ordination Committee will begin here on April 25. Nearly 1,000 delegates from all the states of the Northeast, Bangladesh and Myanmar will participate in the convention.

Silchar: Three Calcutta-based traders were robbed of Rs 5 lakh at gunpoint at Boalipar, near Hailakandi town in south Assam on Saturday. Later, the police picked up a member of the gang, identified as Alimuddin.
 

Mizo players show mettle

SATANANDA BHATTACHARJEE  Telegraph India

Hailakandi, April 15: The Mizos may not have a place in the record books of cricket but they have made their presence felt by winning a match against the District Cricket Players Association (DCPA), Silchar.

The Mizoram Cricket Association team was in Silchar on a goodwill visit organised by the District Sports Association (DSA). They played three matches, of which they won one and lost two.

The Mizo players said they benefited from the tour and hoped that these goodwill visits would continue in future.

All the matches were played in the first week of April at the Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium in Silchar.

In the first match against DSA Silchar, Mizoram Cricket Association lost and in the second match, too, Silchar Cricket Coaching Centre defeated them.

In the third match, the Mizoram team defeated District Cricket Players Association (DCPA) by five runs.

Winning the toss, MCA batted first and scored 173 runs, losing eight wickets in the stipulated 35 overs. In reply, DCPA were bundled out for 168 runs in 34.5 overs.

Chuangtia scored a quickfire 64, hitting three sixes and seven boundaries. Jayanta Bowri claimed two wickets, giving away 19 runs.

The topscorer for the DCPA team was Ranju Chanda with a solid innings of 29 runs, while Niraj Chutiya scored 24 runs and Parvej Ahmed contributed 24.

Teteya of MCA scalped three wickets for 29 runs while C. Ruata and K. Ruata shared two wickets each.

Prior to the matches, the players of the Mizoram team were felicitated.
 

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