From our Correspondent Sentinel Assam
NEW DELHI, March 27: “The BJP can win the Silchar
and Karimganj Lok Sabha seats at ease if the infighting in
the party can be put to an end,” said BJP MP from
Arunachal Pradesh, who is also party observer for Silchar,
Karimganj and Guwahati LS polls, Khiren Rijiju in his
report submitted to the party high command in
New Delhi today.
Silchar Municipal Board
chief to be at
World Bank
meet
From Our
Correspondent Assam Tribune
SILCHAR, March 23 – Bithika Dev, MLA and chairperson of
Silchar Municipal Board, is going to attend the 6th
conference of the
World Bank
to be organised in
Greece
on March 26 to 28.
Representing Assam, Dev will highlight the problems faced
by Silchar town in the conference. Besides her the Mayor
of Chennai,
five representatives and Commissioners of different states
will participate.
Dev said that the main reason for her to participate in
this conference was to know how to beautify Silchar town.
The town at present is in a very bad shape. Traffic is
always a problem. Dev will consult with experts about the
probability of a flyover. She received the invitation to
participate from Central Ministry of Urban Development.
She further said that the fate of Narshingtola pond,
situated in the heart of the town, was decided by the
court and the decision has come in favour of the
Municipality. Some people were thinking to fill up the
pond to construct a market place there. But the Silchar
Municipality opposed the proposal. The pond has emotional
attachment among the people of the town. In the morning
and evening, many senior citizens relax near the pond.
Many youngsters play there. The Silchar Municipality is
planning to set up a mini park in that area.
Dev further said that a few days back there was a fire in
Silchar town which gutted nearly 30 shops. The Silchar
fire brigade was notable to control the huge fire. She
requested Chief Minister to set up a fire station with a
huge capacity. The Chief Minister has already ordered the
concerned authority to earmark funds, she said.
By our Staff Reporter Sentinel Assam
GUWAHATI, March 28: Income Tax sleuths today raided a number of business establishments in Guwahati and Silchar. According to sources, residences and business establishments of coal traders Binod Murarka, Rohtas Agarwal, Nabin Singhal and Lalchand Agarwal, motor parts shop owner Rajkumar Agarwal and computer shops of Ajit Jain and his brother Surendra Jain at various places in Guwahati. At Silchar, Agarwal Agency, Gopal Plastics and Jain Store were raided.
Army fails to save 'ketchup colonel'
Rahul Singh , Hindustan Times
Email Author
New Delhi, April 03, 2008
First Published: 23:03 IST(3/4/2008)
Last Updated: 01:51 IST(4/4/2008)
The army’s last-ditch efforts to save ‘Ketchup Colonel’ from disgrace have failed. The Ministry of Defence has rejected the army’s plea that Colonel H.S. Kohli’s dismissal from service in November 2004 be toned down to “loss of seniority.”
Kohli had earned the sobriquet of `Ketchup Colonel’ after he faked photos of ‘slain militants’ by splashing tomato sauce on them in August 2003 near Silchar in Assam. Kohli, who was commanding an artillery regiment, was dismissed after he was found guilty of faking kills for gallantry awards.
Kohli was sacked but his brigade commander Brigadier Suresh Rao, who allegedly ordered his subordinates to fake kills, was let off the hook with seven years loss of seniority in 2006. The army had suggested that Kohli be slapped with five years loss of seniority. The MoD, however, saw no rationale in the army’s plea.
Debojit Saha singing for the film Jimmy
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An ode to Eliot’s cruellest month
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Voice of India
Debojit Saha speaks of the innocent pleasures of
spring
April may have been the cruellest month for
T.S.
Eliot. For us, it is the harbinger of
prosperity and hope. I spent a considerable part of
my childhood in my native village in southern
Assam.
Anyone who has been brought up in a village like me
will vouch that spring is the best of seasons,
especially for the children.
Memories of bathing and fishing in the river with
friends, raiding the neighbourhood orchards and
playing pranks come alive with the very mention of
April, which also heralds the “naughtiest” season.
It is not without reason that in our part of the
globe there are so many beautiful songs and lores on
Bohag or April.
Bohag is also known for the spurt in cultural
programmes organised on the occasion of Bihu or
Nababarsha.
I have spent countless nights under the sky
rehearsing for these functions. Needless to say
those nights were full of fun.
Every April, I long to be in Assam — with my people,
close to my roots.
This time, I have kept aside all other engagements
to be in the state.
I am overwhelmed by the deluge of invitations from
Bihu organisers across the state.
Before the nation shakes a leg to Marhaba
from my much awaited debut playback in Jimmy,
I look forward to sing live for my own folks and
make this Bihu an intoxicating extravaganza.
There is a piece of good
news. The music release of film Jimmy, in which I
have sung two numbers, is expected to take place
around Bihu.
Jimmy will be the launchpad for Mimo, son of
actor Mithun Chakravarty. My solo number, Marhaba,
is now being aired as a promo for the film.
Mithunda is pinning lot of hope on this movie. So am
I, since this movie could be another turning point
of my career.
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Night OPD in Assam
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Guwahati, April 6: A visit to an outpatient
department will no longer cost a morning’s work and
day’s pay for the daily wage earner.
A hundred and fifty government hospitals across
Assam
will open their outpatient departments for three
hours in the evening from next month — a move
planned by Dispur to increase accessibility of
healthcare facilities among labourers.
To remain open between 5pm and 8pm from May 4, the
night outpatient department will be served by both
government and private doctors.
Though the modalities are still being worked out,
sources in the health department said a duty roster
is being planned for government doctors. A panel of
private doctors would be on call if government
doctors were unavailable.
Sources said there would not be a dearth of
government doctors since Dispur was offering good
“cash incentives” for the job.
For an evening at the outpatient department, an MBBS
degree holder will receive Rs 300, a specialist
doctor Rs 500 and support staff Rs 100, which works
out to 15,000, Rs 9,000 and Rs 3,000 respectively
each month.
The endeavour is estimated to cost Dispur Rs 15
crore annually.
Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the
initiative was a pilot project and gradually all the
700-odd hospitals in the state would come under its
ambit.
“It has been prompted by the need to cater to the
self-employed and the daily wagers, most of whom
avoid visiting the day OPD till their condition
becomes acute, fearing loss of time and man days.”
The day OPD functions from 9am to 3pm.
To ensure that doctors are available and the
services offered are similar to the day OPD, the
government will provide incentives to the
superintendents of hospitals, directors and joint
directors of the health department.
The doctors, however, are not suitably excited about
the “incentives”.
Three hours of private practice in the evening would
fetch anything between Rs 4,550 and Rs 5,000 for
senior doctors.
Now with the night outpatient department duties,
doctors will have little time left for private
practice.
“The amount they earn in private practice is much
higher than the incentives being offered,” a source
said.
Sarma also
announced that three institutes for paramedics
offering diploma courses in 12 subjects would be set
up at the Gauhati, Dibrugarh and Silchar medical
colleges during the 2008 academic session.
The health minister said the initiative would see
Assam join the league of Kerala in turning out
expert paramedics who could not only work everywhere
in
India but abroad.
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Silchar team lifts cup - Visitors outbat Guwahati in rain-drenched final |
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Guwahati, April 6: Silchar today annexed their
maiden Nuruddin Ahmed Trophy by defeating former
champions Guwahati by virtue of a first innings lead
in the final of the Senior Inter-district Cricket
Tournament at
NF
Railway Stadium here.
After leading by 89 runs in the first innings, Silchar
were set a second innings target of 134 runs to chase
after tea on the last day of the four-day match today.
The visitors rallied to 61 for no loss in 17 overs
when Guwahati finally conceded the match.
Rain played spoilsport in the four-day match as almost
two days’ play was washed out because of overnight
heavy showers. After a delayed start on Day I,
Guwahati elected to bat after winning the toss and
could score 43 runs for the loss of two wickets in the
19 overs that were bowled on that day.
The second day’s play was abandoned because of adverse
weather conditions. Guwahati’s first innings folded up
at 130 in 60.2 overs on the penultimate day yesterday.
It was the
Delhi
recruit left arm spinner Vikrant Sehwag who made short
work of the Guwahati batting line-up with a haul of
six for 49 in the first innings. Prakash Bhagat also
notched up two for 33. Palash Jyoti Das with
his score of 29 and Mriganka Jyoti Sarma with 23 were
the only notable Guwahati batsmen yesterday.
Silchar rallied from overnight score of 143 for six in
47 overs to 219 all out in 68.5 overs in their first
innings before lunch today.
For Silchar, Masarab Hussain Laskar was the topscorer
for the side with 42 runs. Prakash Bhagat made a
useful 37, while Rehan Mazumder, Vishal Tewari and
Jalbir Choudhury chipped in with 28, 27, and 26 runs
respectively. Spinner Bitop Mahanta picked up five for
74 and Bhaskar Jyoti Barman scalped four for 86.
In the second innings, Guwahati scored a quickfire 222
for six in 34.4 overs before declaring the innings.
Opener Palash Jyoti Das topscored for Guwahati with a
breezy 69 which included four boundaries and two
sixes. Shiv Shankar Roy and Mriganka Jyoti Sarma
chipped in with useful knocks of 46 (4x4, 1x6) and 37
(2x4, 3x6) respectively.
Sehwag and Bhagat were once again the
wreckers-in-chief with scalps of two wickets each for
58 and 90 runs respectively.
Silchar openers Raju Das and Masarab Hussain Laskar
remained not out on the crease at the end of the play.
Das was on 38 runs, which included five hits to the
fence while Laskar remained unbeaten on 16.
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Tribal organizations protest against minister’s statement
From our Correspondent Sentinel Assam
SILCHAR, April 1: The Barak Valley Tribal Rights Protection Front has urged Pramilla Rani Brahma, Minister WPT and BC, to disclose the address of the head office of the Barak Valley Hill Tribes Development Council (BVHTDC). It may be recalled that Brahma had dismissed the accusation levelled by BJP MLA Rumi Nath in the Assembly on the issue of the unofficial shift of the office of the Council to Fulertol from Silchar. The minister only acknowledged the opening of a sub-office at Fulertol. Many tribal organizations have strongly voiced their protest against the statement of the minister, with the leaders of the organizations alleging that the head office of the Council had already shifted to Fulertol from Silchar without prior intimation.
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Silchar script win, in finals |
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Dibrugarh, April 1: Silchar will face Guwahati
in the final of the Nuruddin Ahmed Trophy senior
inter-district cricket tournament. The four-day final
commencing on Thursday will be held at the NF railway
stadium, Maligaon in Guwahati.
In the second semi-final played at the Tinsukia DSA
stadium, Silchar today registered a four-wicket
victory over Tinsukia to reach the final of the
tournament. Today was the last day of the three-day
rain-affected semi-final.
Earlier in the day, Silchar, resuming from their
overnight total of 94 for three, managed to post a
crucial 15-run first innings lead over their
opponents. The team scored 175 losing all their
wickets in 54.5 overs.
Biswajeet Bhattacharjee who was nine not out when
stumps were drawn on Day II added another 11 runs to
his total and was the first to depart after being
trapped leg before in the 38th over off a Bikash
Chetry delivery. Arindam Chakravarty and Vishal Tiwari
chipped in with 19 and 17 runs respectively.
For Tinsukia, Ranji player Pankaj Tamuli picked up
four wickets for 39 while skipper Bijon Dutta, Bikash
Chetry and Suruj Dutta bagged two wickets each.
As the wicket was deteriorating, Tinsukia tried to
take some chances by trying to score at a brisk pace
in their second innings to set a target for their
opponents.
However, Silchar pace spearhead Samik Das’ fiery spell
of five for 55 broke the backbone of the Tinsukia
batting line-up. The innings ended for just 85 in
their second innings, thereby setting a small target
of 71 runs for Silchar.
Pankaj Tamuli, who came in as an opener, made 22 while
Dipen Mahanta remained unbeaten on 20. Arindam
Chakravarty’s figures of three for three were just as
devastating.
Chasing the small target of 71 runs, Silchar openers
Biswajeet Bhattacharjee (18) and Raju Das (13) shared
a 27-run stand. The winning shot — a boundary — came
from the bat of Vishal Tiwari who remained unbeaten on
nine. For Tinsukia, Pankaj Tamuli picked up three
wickets for 25 runs while Bikash Chetry scalped two
for seven.
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UGC sanction helps Assam Varsity get a facelift
From Our Correspondent Assam Tribune
SILCHAR, March 29 – Assam University, Silchar got a facelift recently. The UGC sanctioned Rs 90 lakh for renovating all the departments and to provide facilities to the faculties and students. Prof Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, VC, Assam University was instrumental in giving a new look to Assam University.
All the 29 departments have been given a new look. Some departments have been shifted to its permanent building. In the temporary building, new cubicles have been constructed for each and every faculty. Class rooms have been renovated. New class room facilities like black boards, white boards, LCD projectors are being introduced.
Piped water was a regular problems for the students as well as for the faculty members. It was becoming hindrance in using the toilets also. At present water is no more a problem for entire university community.
Electricity was in horrible state on the campus. At that time, university had to run without electricity for the whole day. Now the university has sub station power supply.
All the faculty members are provided with laptops. This helps the faculty members to make the atmosphere of classroom friendly. In the history of Assam University such a facility had never been provided earlier to the faculty members.
Networking facility is going to be materialised on the entire campus very soon. Partially it has been done in some areas. Now the hostel, library and administration building have access to the internet facility. This is another boon for the Assam University community.
Briefing the newsman, Prof Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, Vice Chancellor, Assam University, said that during last one year, there have been development in Assam University.
Since he has spent a decade in the university, he knows the bottleneck and is trying to fill it up. Some Memorandum of Understanding has been signed with foreign and Indian universities. He assures that there will be more development work in the coming years which will benefit the whole university community.
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Rs 70 crore Cash
fillip to orthodox tea
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Silchar, March 28: The Centre has recommended
that Assam’s tea gardens be allotted Rs 70 crore out
of its kitty of Rs 100 crore, which the cabinet
committee for economic affairs has earmarked for the
development of orthodox tea in the country.
According to Tea Board of
India officials, the funds for the promotion
of qualitative cultivation of the orthodox variety
of tea would flow in from a special subsidy grant of
the Centre aimed at improving the quality of the
average output of tea products.
This special subsidy would be to the tune of Rs 230
crore. It will be disbursed over the next five years
to tea gardens willing to undertake methods for the
qualitative development of tea products, so that
these could compete at the domestic level and in
overseas markets.
Sources said the Tea Board experts are “finetuning”
the various subsidy grant proposals to enhance the
quality of conventional tea products so that the
nation’s tea plantations and tea corporate houses
can stay afloat in the competitive market. The
orthodox variety of tea has opened up a new window
since the product is in great demand in the European
market. However, at present the production of the
orthodox tea in the country is meagre.
Only eight per cent of the total tea output in the
country, estimated at 945 million kg last year, is
of the orthodox variety. On the export front,
however, the orthodox variety has kept its firm grip
by capturing 32 per cent of the annual export.
The officials revealed that the Tea Board had
already drawn up a scheme to boost orthodox tea
production in the country within five years.
The tea captains in Cachar hope that the Union
commerce ministry will chalk out a similar plan to
give a fillip to organic tea, produced by using
organic manure. They pointed out that among the
health-conscious tea drinkers this variety would
have ready market.
Over 60 per cent of the total tea bushes spread over
in the region are now over 40 years old, which
hampers the quality of production.
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Agartala
to be on rail map by June
AGARTALA,
March 30 – Agartala would feature on the Railway map of
the country by this June.
“All railway stations from Ambassa to Agartala have been
constructed and tracks laid but work on a 70-km stretch of
an 1,860 m-long tunnel in Atharamura Hill range is yet to
be completed. This is expected to be completed by June
next", chief engineer of Eastern Railways B Chowdhury said
on Saturday.
Trial run from Manu to Ambassa in Dhalai district was
completed on Friday in the presence of Railway Safety
Commissioner Balbir Singh. Passenger trains would run on
this route soon, he said. With the beginning of train
services, Agartala will be the second capital town of the
north-east after Guwahati to be included on the Railway
map, he said.
Elaborating on the nature of work which they had done, he
said construction of a 1962-m long tunnel in Longterai
hill range, the longest tunnel in eastern region, has been
completed. Another tunnel in Baramura hill range which is
1,100-m long has also been completed, he said. – PTI
From our Correspondent Sentinel Assam
NEW DELHI, March 27: The Union Cabinet today approved the setting up of the North Eastern Institute of Ayurveda and Homoeopathy in Shillong as an autonomous organization under the Department of AYUSH at a cost of Rs 67.51 crore. Principal Director General of PIB Deepak Sandhu informed reporters of this after the Cabinet meeting in New Delhi on Thursday.
The decision will facilitate promotion of Ayurveda and Homoeopathy, expansion of healthcare, improvement in the doctor-population ratio and R & D on bio-resources in the North-east, she added. There are a total of 225 Ayurveda colleges and 181 Homoeopathy colleges in the country, out of which only one Ayurvedic college in Asom and three Homoeopathy colleges in Asom and Arunachal Pradesh are in the North-east. There are no teaching institutions in other States of the North-east even though there is considerable demand for Ayurveda and Homoeopathic systems in region.
Shillong is a central place in the North-east where students and patients from the other north-eastern States can avail the facilities of Ayurveda and Homoeopathy in the proposed institute.
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| Singer Zubeen Garg at a college in Guwahati. File picture |
By our Staff Reporter Sentinel Assam
GUWAHATI, March 26: Though it sounds strange, in a period of barely four months Asom Excise Minister and Assam Cricket Association (ACA) president Gautam Roy cannot remember important facts like whether ACA secretary Bikash Baruah made an appeal to the ULFA before the one day international (ODI) match between India and Pakistan held at Guwahati on November 5 on the basis of a decision taken by the core committee of the association or not. This is despite the fact that the controversial issue has started to rock the State again.
This was stated by none other than minister Roy, when The Sentinel contacted him this evening. “I could not remember the facts right now, and cannot say anything on the matter before going through the relevant file,” is what the minister said.
It may be mentioned here that Niloy Dutta, on behalf of the ACA, clarified yesterday that Baruah had made the appeal to the ULFA before the ODI match not in his individual capacity, but on the basis of a decision taken by the ACA core committee that was constituted at that time. He also said: “The situation was really bad at that time. Though the security official had taken their own steps, it was common sense that guided the core committee to take such a decision. We did not prefer to sit cool by giving all the responsibility to the security officials.”
It seems that Roy is evading any specific comments on the controversy under the cover of oblivion. As the chief of the ACA, he is yet to give any clarification till date on the sensational issue that triggered a hue and cry in the State after the publication of the appeal to the ULFA in local newspapers before the November ODI.
The ACA core committee comprises its president Gautam Roy, secretary Bikash Baruah, treasurer Ghanasyam Baruah, governing body member Pradip Hazarika and chairman of the legal advisory committee Niloy Dutta. Interestingly, the yesterday’s statement made by Dutta itself reflects that Minister Roy has also no confidence on his own Government as well as the Chief Minister, who also hold the Home portfolio in so far as the security during the ODI is concerned.
Since Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who is the patron of the ACA, was not even aware of the decision to make an appeal to the banned outfit, one wonders how the ACA, under the stewardship of Gautam Roy, could bypass the Chief Minister on such a vital issue.
From our Correspondent Assam Tribune
New Delhi March, 25: Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs has signed MoU with Delhi University and the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) for setting up of 500 seats girls’ hostel for tribal and North-east students including Sikkim, informed a senior officer of ministry of tribal affairs yesterday.
The hostel to be set up at Dhaka Housing Complex of Delhi University will have all the modern facilities including energy efficient building, solar water heating and rainwater harvesting. Besides blocks for 500 students with accompanying faculties, the hostel will have one provost flat, two warden flats, two resident tutor flats and twelve servants’ quarters. Construction is expected to be completed by September 30, 2009.
Regarding the construction of a new girl’s hostel for the NE students in the Delhi University the Delhi Government has taken a new initiative. Particularly Union Minister of Tribal affaires P R Kaiyania has also put pressure to the Delhi Government for the setting up of a separate hostel for NE students since long.
According to ministry sources, out of approved construction cost of Rs 23.33 crore, 40% will be shared by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and remaining 60% by the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has already released Rs 2.6 crore in the first week of March 2008, from its share. Land for the hostel will be provided by the University as per the norms of UGC.
For the speedy expedite a committee has also been formed to monitor the progress of construction works and meet at least every quarter for inspection and to discuss the related issues to ensure timely completion of the project, sources added.
From a Correspondent Assam Tribune
SILCHAR, March 23: The All Cachar-Karimganj-Hailakandi Students’ Association (ACKHSA) will start an indefinite movement demanding speedy implementation of the Silchar–Lumding Broad Gauge Rail Project. The ACKHSA has convened a mass convention on April 6 next at Silchar to discuss all the pros and corns of the project and to draw a strategy of the movement.
Talking to newsmen here today, ACKHSA president Rupam Nandi Purkayastha said the Asom Government is still showing its step-motherly attitude towards the Barak Valley. “A strong transport lobby has a role in delaying the implementation of the project,” he said, and added: “The State Government is reluctant to provide proper security in the places where extremists have been creating problems almost everyday.” He said the ACKHSA will start its movement against the ministers who represent the Barak Valley in the Asom Government.
Purkayastha said: “It will be a joint movement now. We have talked to the Karbi Students’ Association (KSA) urging it to join the movement as the broad gauge will also act as their “lifeline” like the people of Barak Valley. We are trying to rope in the Young Mizo Association of Mizoram and some other organizations of the State in our agitation.”
The ACKHSA alleged that due to noncooperation of the Asom Government and for some political reasons implementation of the broad gauge line has been delayed since 1996. “At the time of laying the foundation stone of the project, it was announced that the work would be completed within 2005-2006. Today nobody can say when it will be completed,” he said. Purkayastha said that the ACKHSA leaders had met NF Railway General Manager in Guwahati on November 1, 2007 and submitted a memorandum demanding speedy implementation of the project. “The GM raised the same problem – the security. It is the primary responsibility of the State Government to provide necessary security to the workers engaged at the project site,” he added.
From our Correspondent Sentinel Assam
NEW DELHI, March 18: A BJP delegation from Asom that met Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav said today that the Railway Minister was not at all happy with the attitude of the Asom Government towards the execution of the Lumding-Silchar Railway Gauge Conversion Project and the four-lane East-West Corridor.
Briefing newsmen of the outcome of the team’s meeting with the Railway Minister, leader of the delegation, Kabindra Purkayastha said: “The reason behind the indifferent attitude of the Government of Asom towards the BG work in the Silchar-Lumding section of the NF Railway could not be ascertained.”
Another member of the delegation, MP Narayan Chandra Barkataky, said; “Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has expressed unhappiness over the Asom Government’s attitude towards the security aspect of the people at work in the railway gauge conversion project.” Yadav informed the delegation that the Centre had decided to deploy Army for the security of the workers in the hill areas of the project site shortly.
The delegation comprises former Union minister Kabindra Purkayastha, two BJP MPs Rajen Gohain and Narayan Barkataky, BJP Legislature Party leader Mission Ranjan Das, MLA Sambhu Singh Mallah, Dilip Paul and others.
The delegation also met Union Surface Transport Minister TR Balu and submitted a copy of the memorandum. They told the minister that the foundation stone of the Silchar-Saurastra Express Highway had been laid at Silchar on January 26, 2004, but only four per cent of the work has been executed in the locality so far due to the failure on the part of the Asom Government to acquire and hand over necessary land to the NHAI for the project. The Centre has already provided Rs 900 crore only for execution of civil works.
The BJP delegation also alleged that “lack of adequate security in NC Hills” is the main reason for the slow progress of the works, besides non-availability of land. Both the rail and road projects are national projects. But due to the apathetic attitude of the State Government, the progress of both the projects is seriously hampered, and this has resulted in serious resentment amongst the people of the region.
The delegation also submitted a copy of the memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Parliament House today.
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