Free medical camp by SSA

GOSSAIGAON, Nov 22: The free medical camp which took place in Sishu Kalyan Siksha Mandir School, Gossaigaon, lasted for around eight hours starting at 8:30 am and finishing at 16:00 pm with a short lunch break. The registration counter signed up 260 students and all of them were consulted and treated by the nursing team, organized by SSA (Sarba Siksha Abhiyan). The programme was inaugurated by Gautam Talukdar, SDO (C) and Bikash Rai, DI of Schools, Bandhan Dev, ABRCC of SSA, with many other teachers of schools under Gossaigaon Block were present in the programme.

Police personnel killed

DIBRUGARH, Nov 21: A police personnel killed in a major road mishap which occurred at Nutun Nagar under Moran Police Station last night. According to sources, the police personnel Sailen Gogoi was critically injured when an Alto car in which he was travelling had a head on collision with an Indigo car at Nutun Nagar last night. The injured Gogoi though was admitted into Assam Medical College immediately but he succumbed to his injuries this morning. THE SENTINEL

Unidentified body recovered

JAGIROAD, Nov 15: The Jagiroad police recovered an unidentified female body from near Taranga beel here yesterday. Police sources said that, the woman was aged about 45 years and was killed by some miscreants and then buried her near the beel. The body is sent for post mortem to Morigaon Civil Hospital. On the other hand, the GRP Jagiroad recovered an unidentified body of a man from between Barahu and Jagiroad Railway Station on November 13. GRP sources suspects the case as suicide. The body has been sent for post mortem.

Environment awareness programme organized

DIBRUGARH, Nov 18: An environment awareness programme was organized by the Eastern Assam Zone of Aaranyak at Rupnagar Jatiya Vidyalaya here recently.

The resource persons on the occasion were Deputy Ranger of Dibrugarh Forest Range, Soumendra Saikia and a member of the NGO, Alok Kar Dowerah. The forest official spoke on bio-diversity and climate. Sharing his experiences with the students, he explained how the plant and animal world obeyed the laws of nature. Alok Kar Dowerah, who is a BSc 2nd year student of Dibru College, discussed about the declining population of vultures and the need for their conservation. He went into the causes of the decline in the number of the scavenger, besides giving an account of the efforts currently on to save them.

Incidentally, Dowerah was the first child scientist of Assam to do a project on vulture and represented the district in the State-level National Children’s Science Congress held at Tihu in 2006.

The assistant co-ordinator of the Eastern Assam Zonal Unit of Aaranyak, Sailendra Mohan Das, chaired the meeting. He also presented a LCD show on Hollock Gibbon.

The co-ordinator of Eastern Assam Zone of Aaranyak, Rupam Kumar Gogoi, who is involved with Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Programme of Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) at Bhopal, the headmistress, Gitali Gogoi, member of Aaranyak, Himanshu Bailung and the teaching and non-teaching staff of the school were also present in the programme. Some books and posters were presented for the school library. THE SENTINEL

OGCF-2009 Award

BONGAIGAON, Nov 16: The Bongaigaon Refinery of Indian Oil Corporation Limited has been awarded the second prize of Oil and Gas Conservation Fortnight (OGCF) Award, 2009 in Group-2 category. A Saran, Executive Director, and SB Kakoti, GM (Technical), along with other executives received the award from PK Sinha, Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, in the presence of Sarthak Behuria

Children’s social conclave concludes

DIBRUGARH, Nov 16: The two-day children’s social conclave held at Sahityarathi Lakshminath Bezbarua Bhavan came to a close today. The event was organized by the Assam unit of Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust (KGNMT), Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samity and UNICEF to commemorate the completion of two decades of the Child Rights Convention. The Assam representative of KGNMT, Kusum Bora Mukashi, inaugurated the meeting on the first day. In her speech, she spoke about the need to help children into good citizens in the present age of consumerism. Dr Ratan Borkotoky of Assam Medical College was also present on the occasion. While stressing upon the relevance of Gandhiji’s teachings of ahimsa and truth in the present age, he said that these values need to be inculcated into young children. THE SENTINEL

LP school being run without teacher

BARPETA, Nov 15: Though the Central Government has implemented various schemes like “Education for All” under Sarba Siksha Abhiyan to impart better education to children nationwide, it has proved to be a farce due to irresponsible attitude of some corrupt officials as a result of which the small children are being deprived of proper education. According to sources, No 885 Dakshin Godhani LP School under Chenga constituency is being run without teachers from the first week of February this year. President of school managing committee Laal Mamud Ali said as the school is being run without teachers, the half yearly examination was not conducted this year. Babar Ali, a teacher of the school, had taken transfer to No. 120 Roumari Village LP School on February 2 following which the academic year of 97 students came under darkness. The local people of that area opined in spite of existence of education officers in the district, the school is being run without teachers which points out at the hollowness of the State Government.