<p>Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of Tapas Guha & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 06/05/2024.</p> <p>The Ministry of Civil Aviation of the Union Government decided to build
Professor Amartya Sen. in an article The Industrial strategy wrote recently that it is hard to do effective and secure income-raising without substantial industrial expansion. "This works not just through direct income generation but also through its indirect consequences in energising an economy and generating new skills'. Agriculture is primary requirement, but not the power house of skilled employment.
BOKAKHAT, April 18
The ambitious National Food Security Mission (NFSM) scheme has taken off in Karbi Anglong. As a part of its first experience, transplanting of rice under the NFSM scheme has been started in several areas in the district. Especially 10 hectare of paddy field of Langparpan and Borjan areas have been absorbed under the ambitious scheme for the first phase. Dr M Angamuthu, deputy commissioner, Karbi Anglong and chairman of the NFSM revealed launching the scheme that the Karbi Anglong hill district received Rs 65 lakh for the implementation of the project.
The irrigation department of Sivasagar district has been successful to a great extent in reviving some of the irrigation projects of the district leading to better productivity of rabi and pre-kharif crops. Although there are several Irrigation schemes in different areas of the district, most of the schemes were either in idle condition or in partially operative condition due to financial reasons. The initiative to revive the schemes came from Sivasagar Deputy Commissioner NM Hussain, who made funds available to the department from District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), Sivasagar.
Volunteers of DOYA, a Sivasagar-based animal welfare organization recovered a rare species of owl with multiple fractures in its right leg at Mothadang village near Sivasagar today morning. The bird was taken to Sivasagar Veterinary Hospital and was later handed over to the forest department. It would be sent to the wild animal rehabilitation centre at Bonjuri, Bokakhat, for treatment from experts, said DOYA president Srimanta Borthakur.
Asserting that Assam was at the centre of the Government of India's policy of industrial promotion, Union Minister of State for Industry Dr Ashwani Kumar today said that a slew of initiatives including clearance of transport subsidy, increasing capital subsidy component, etc., were being initiated for boosting the industrial growth in the State as well as the North-east. "Accumulated transport subsidy worth Rs 770 crore has been released for the North-east in 2007-08 alone.
Bolstered by the success of translocating the first batch of one-horned rhinos to Manas National Park under the Indian Rhino Vision Plan 2020, the Assam Forest Department is now preparing for sending two more rhinos to the park. While the first two rhinos released on April 12 were males from Pobitora Sanctuary, the next rhinos selected for translocation would be two females, also from Pobitora.
The Forest department in association with Dispur police today recovered a huge quantity of animal skins and body parts along with arms and ammunition from a house of one of the accomplices of the veterinary officer Dr Shivaji Baruah a senior veterinary officer, who was arrested for killing a barking deer on Tuesday last. Shivaji Barua, a veterinarian of deputy director rank, was arrested for killing the barking deer at Amsang wildlife Sanctuary. While the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court remanded Barua to judicial custody, two of his accomplices were absconding.
The fifth edition of the annual Kaziranga Elephant Festival will get under way at Kaziranga National Park tomorrow. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is scheduled to inaugurate the three-day festival at 10 in the morning. However, inclement weather may play spoilsport in the smooth conduct of the carnival. The organizers said about 60 elephants are likely to be used for the customary procession at 8 am.
In fresh incidents of elephant depredation, as many as 15 houses were destroyed and two cows killed by a marauding herd in Katonibari Tea Estate and Gangapar areas near Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary last night. According to sources, the jumbos entered the labour lines in the tea estate by crossing over the road. There are, however, no reports of any human casualty. The elephants, which number 22, are permanent residents of the wildlife sanctuary which is spread over an area of 19 square kilometres.
