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Everest heightHYDERABAD, Jan 24:

The height of MountEverest will soon be ‘re-measured’ by the Surveyof India to determinewhether the world’s tallestpeak has really shrunkfollowing a devastatingearthquake in Nepal twoyears ago. An expeditionfrom the Survey of Indiawould depart for Nepal intwo months to conduct theexercise. Mount Everestofficially stands at 8,848metres (29,028 feet)above sea level. – PTI

(Details on Page 3)

J-K encounterSRINAGAR, Jan 24: Two

foreign militants ofLashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)were killed in anencounter with securityforces in Ganderbal districtof central Kashmir today.Officials said securityforces launched an anti-militancy operation in thewee hours in the Hadooraarea of the district, 25 kmfrom here. – PTI

Pinaka rocketBALASORE, Jan 24:

The guided Pinaka rocketwas today successfullytest-fired for the secondtime from the IntegratedTest Range launch pad atChandipur. Defencesources said the test wasconducted at 12:45 pmand Pinaka rocket mark-II, equipped withnavigation, guidance andcontrol kit, wastransformed into a ‘guidedPinaka’. – PTI

STAFF CORRESPONDENT

DIBRUGARH, Jan 24: The

Chief Minister Sarbananda

Sonowal today formally or-

dered conducting preliminary

survey on Brahmaputra from

Sadiya to Dhubri for the pro-

posed dredging of the Brah-

maputra and construction of the

Brahmaputra Express High-

way along both banks of the

river and for undertaking oth-

er feasible developmental ac-

tivities in the future.

In an inaugural function or-

ganised on the river bank near

the Flood Control Room here

today, the Chief Minister gave

away the order copies to the

group leaders (Field Engi-

neers), who have been special-

ly assigned with the task. The

Water Resources Department

has constituted 16 groups,

comprising the Field Engi-

neers of the department to

carry out the surveys. Dibru-

garh MP Rameshwar Teli,

Minister for Water Resources

Keshab Mahanta, and local

MLAs of the region gave him

company during the handing

over of the order letters to the

Preliminary survey onBrahmaputra ordered

concerned 16 engineers.

The entire river survey has

bee organised in two parts –

land survey and morphological

study. The land survey will be

carried out along the alignment

of the proposed Express High-

way on both banks of the river.

The morphological study of

the river shall consist of tak-

ing 120 river cross sections

along the entire stretch from

Sadiya to Dhubri.

“Information such as dis-

tance between the North bank

and South bank of the river,

number of channels, land erod-

ed, number of sandbars and

their size and various other

patterns of the river will be

documented during the sur-

vey,” Prasanta Dutta, Addi-

tional Chief Engineer, Assam

Water Research & Manage-

ment Institute, Research &

Development Wing of the Wa-

ter Resources Department

told this correspondent. Min-

ister for Water Resources

Keshab Mahanta has asked the

concerned Field Engineers

conducting the entire exercise

to submit the detailed findings

Gen Rawat visitsGajraj CorpsSTAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: Gen-

eral Bipin Rawat, Chief of the

Army Staff, today undertook

his first visit to the Eastern

Command after taking over as

the Army Chief. He visited the

strategic Gajraj Corps on the

eve of the Republic Day.

Lt Gen Praveen Bakshi,

GoC-in-C, Eastern Command

and Lt Gen AS Bedi, GoC,

Gajraj Corps received the

General.

The Chief, accompanied by

the Eastern Army Command-

er and the Corps Commander

visited Tawang and the for-

ward areas in western Aru-

nachal. He was also briefed by

the Corps Commander on the

Republic Daypolice medals

announcedSPL CORRESPONDENT

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: Super-

intendent of Police Sunil Ku-

mar belonging to Assam cadre

is the only IPS officer of the

State to win a Police Gallantry

Award, announced on Tuesday.

The Police Medal for Gal-

lantry this year was awarded

to late constable Ratul Nunisa

(posthumously), sub-inspector

Birdhan Doley and constable

Pinku Das, all belonging to the

Assam Police.

The Police Medal for Meri-

torious Service was awarded

to SPs Dr Umesh Barman and

Debajit Deori, inspectors

Narayan Das and Ambarish Ku-

mar Barman, sub-inspector

Biswajit Bose, head constables

Biddut Kumar Malakar and

Kumud Chandra Gogoi, havil-

dars Juna Ram Kalita and Math-

ura Mohan Ray, and constables

Abdul Baten Mondal, Orki Bas-

umatary, Arun Kumar Pratihast

and Annapurna Gupta.

R-DayJournalismAward to

RM BhagawatiSTAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: The

State Government has decid-

ed to confer the prestigious

Republic Day Journalism

Award on noted journalist and

Editor of the Dainik Asam

Radhika Mohan Bhagawati in

recognition to his immense

lifelong contribution towards

journalism in the State.

Bhagawati, who will be the

first recipient of the award,

will be honoured at the State-

level function of the Republic

Day on January 26 at the Col-

lege of Veterinary Science

Playground, Khanapara here,

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: Di-brugarh Police today filedthe chargesheet in theCourt of Special Judge, As-sam in connection with thecash-for-job scam in the As-sam Public Service Com-mission (APSC) naming asmany as 10 accused.

Besides prime suspect and

former APSC chairman

Rakesh Paul, the 19-page

chargesheet featured names of

Samedur Rahman, Basanta

Doley (both APSC members),

Naba Kumar Patir, Pabitra

Koibarta (Assistant Controller

Chargesheet filed inAPSC scam case

of Examination, APSC),

Mabud Ali Choudhury, Abbas

Ali Ahmed and Syed Musaraff

Husain.

All these accused have been

booked under Section 7/13 of

the Prevention of Corruption

Act read with Sections 120B,

420, 468, 471, 477A and 201 of

the IPC.

Rajib Paul, the brother of

Rakesh Paul, and another ac-

cused Sudip Das have been de-

clared as absconders in the

chargesheet and they are facing

charges under section 12 of the

Prevention of Corruption Act

read with Sections 120B, 420,

468, 471 and 201 of the IPC.

Further, against Dr Mrigen

Saikia and Mafizul Islam, the

court has accepted prayer for

further investigation sought by

the Dibrugarh Police.

Investigators, as per the

chargesheet, have examined

more than 100 witnesses. Ex-

pert reports, including those

duly signed by forensic experts

outside the State, have also

been annexed with the

chargesheet.

Special public prosecutor

BK Mahajan, when contacted,

said the chargesheet has been

submitted under section

173(2) of the Code of Criminal

SANJOY RAY

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: Arrest-

ed former chairman of the As-

sam Public Service Commis-

sion (APSC), Rakesh Paul had

been funding terror groups for

the last four years or so!

After taking over the man-

tle of the APSC chairman, Paul

had been allegedly funding

militant groups like the Paresh

Baruah faction of the United

Liberation Front of Asom

(ULFA) and the Garo National

Liberation Army (GNLA) with

huge amounts of money.

Paul, according to sources in

police based in upper Assam,

had been funding the militant

organisations on annual basis

Rakesh Paul alsofunded terror groups!

as ‘protection money’ and the

amount ranged from Rs 18 lakh

to Rs 20 lakh per year.

While the payment to the

ULFA (Independent) was

made through hardcore ULFA

leader Dristi Rajkhowa and

few others, the GNLA used to

receive the money through

various channels and individu-

als in the neighbouring state.

“Last year too, Rs 18 lakh

and Rs 20 lakh were paid to

the GNLA and the ULFA re-

spectively,” sources quoting

available information claimed.

However, the Assam Police

is yet to register any case in

this regard so far.

“The GNLA was reportedly

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Elections these days

seem to resemble a TV

family drama serial!

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurating the preliminary survey work of the

Brahmaputra Express Highway at a function in Dibrugarh on Tuesday. – UB Photos

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Notice inviting Tender

for feed ingredients

The Animal Resources

Development Department,

Government of Tripura,

invites tender for supply of

different feed ingredients for

Livestock & Poultry during

the year 2017-2018.

Total approximate

quantity : 3825 MT.

Total Earnest money :

16.11 Lakh

Last date of receiving

Tender : 14th February,

2017

For details please visit :

www.arddtripura.nic.in

www.tripurainfo.com

Sd/- Director

Animal Resources

Development

Government of Tripura

ICAC/2056/17

G/TN/3381/1

NOTICE INVITING

e-TENDERThe Engineer-in-Chief,

P&E Department on behalf ofthe Governor of Mizoraminvites Single Stage TwoEnvelope e-Tender frominterested eligible bidders forexecution of IPDS works–NIT No. : T.14010/l/2015/E-in-C(P)/T&R/98 Dt.19.1.2017.Name of work:Implementation of IPDS in 6towns of Mizoram EarnestMoney: Rs. 78.38 Lakhs(Maximum). Estimated Cost :Rs. 3918.51 Lakhs (Total).Time of completion: 18Months

The tender forms and otherdetails can be obtained fromthe office of the Engineer-inChief, P&E on payment of Rs.1,500/- by Demand Draft. Thelast date for submission of bidwill be 28th February 2017 upto 1200 hrs.

Details also may beobtained from the websitewww.tender.mizoram.gov.inand www.power.mizoram.gov.inIPR No.418

UGC-NETconducted, 4.5Kwrote for Yoga

as subjectNEW DELHI, Jan 24: The

UGC-NET examination has

been conducted at 1,421 centres

in 90 cities for approximately

7.94 lakh registered candidates,

about 4,500 of whom took the

test for Yoga subject, on Sunday,

the Central Board of Secondary

Education said today.

In a statement, the CBSE said

the candidates appeared in three

papers where paper-I of Gener-

al Awareness was common for

all while paper-II and III were

conducted out of 84 subjects se-

lected by the students.

For the first time, Yoga was

introduced as a subject and ap-

proximately 4,500 candidates

appeared for it.

“The question papers were

also provided in Braille for the

visually challenged students.

25 minutes additional time was

provided during paper-I and II

to specially abled candidates

while 50 minutes additional

time was provided during pa-

per-III to such candidates,” the

CBSE statement said.

The Board also said it has

successfully used ‘Digi Scor-

ing’, a digital marking system,

in the recently conducted ex-

aminations of Kendriya and

Navodaya Vidyalayas. – PTI

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI 3NATIONAL

HYDERABAD, Jan 24: The

height of Mount Everest will

soon be “re-measured” by the

Survey of India to determine

whether the world’s tallest

peak has really shrunk follow-

ing a devastating earthquake

in Nepal two years ago.

An expedition from the

Survey of India would depart

for Nepal in two months to

conduct the exercise that

comes in the backdrop of

doubts expressed by section

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: A top

JNU official who was leading

the inquiry into missing stu-

dent Najeeb Ahmad’s case be-

sides other disciplinary issues

on campus, has resigned from

the post allegedly over some

differences with the adminis-

tration.

While Chief Proctor AP Dim-

ri confirmed his resignation, he

refused to share any details

about the reasons behind it.

This is the second time that

IIMs will now hand out degreesNEW DELHI, Jan 24: The Union Cabinet today approved

the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bill, 2017, under

which IIMs would be able to grant degrees to their

students and be declared as Institutions of National

Importance.

Being societies, the prestigious IIMs are presently not

authorised to award degrees and have been awarding Post

Graduate Diploma and Fellow Programme in Management.

While these awards are treated as equivalent to MBAs

and PhD, respectively, the equivalence is not universally

acceptable, especially for the Fellow Programme. – PTI

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: Details of donation received by electoral

trusts and their further distribution to political parties are neither

personal information nor held by IT Department in fiduciary capacity,

the Central Information Commission has said in an order aimed at

ensuring transparency in electoral funding. The CIC has directed

the I-T Department to make public the list of electoral trusts formed

since 2003-04 and whether they received IT exemptions.

Survey of India to ‘re-measure’ Mt Everest’s heightof the scientific community

about the shrinking of the

towering mountain peak.

Mount Everest officially

stands at 8,848 metres

(29,028 feet) above sea level.

The project, for which re-

quired sanctions have been

obtained, would help the fu-

ture scientific studies as well,

Surveyor General of India

Swarna Subba Rao said here

today.

“We are sending an expedi-

tion to Mount Everest. Ever-

est’s height was declared, if I

remember correctly, in 1855.

Many others also measured it.

But the height given by Sur-

vey of India, even today, is tak-

en as the correct height. It is

29,028 ft,” he said.

“We are re-measuring it. It

is almost two years since the

major Nepal earthquake. Af-

ter that, there is a doubt in the

scientific community that it is

shrinking. That is one of the

reasons. Second reason is, it

helps in scientific studies, plate

movements etc,” he said.

All the necessary approv-

als have been obtained for the

expedition and the effort

should begin in a month, he

said on the sidelines of a

meeting of the Geospatial

World Forum.The endeavour would take

about a month for observa-tion and another 15 days forcomputation and declaration

of data, Rao added.Rao told PTI the height of

Mount Everest is planned tobe measured this time by twomethods— using Global Posi-tioning System (GPS) and aground method.

“There are two methods.One is GPS. It is a survey in-strument. It looks like a transis-tor. If you put it on the summit,

say for 10 minutes, it tells youthe height. That is one. – PTI

“The second is, ground

method. Triangulation. We

observe. The height can be

calculated from ground,” he

added.

Rao said the measurement

is being done by the two meth-

ods for better confirmation of

the findings. – PTI

Donations of electoral trusts

JNU Chief Proctor resignsa chief proctor has resigned

since the new vice-chancellor

took over last January.

Dimri had taken over as

Chief Proctor, when his pred-

ecessor had resigned citing

personal reasons following the

controversy on campus in Feb-

ruary last year over an event

during which anti-national slo-

gans were allegedly raised.

University officials, also con-

firmed his resignation but re-

fused to comment further, say-

ing his letter doesn’t mention

any reason.

According to sources, Dim-

ri had differences with the ad-

ministration over handling of

a few disciplinary issues on

campus, including the recent

altercation between two

groups following which Na-

jeeb went missing.

“He was leading an inquiry

into the case. Then the disrup-

tion of the Academic Council

meeting happened where nine

students were suspended. The

administration also banned any

sort of protests or demonstra-

tion near its building. Dimri

had certain differences with

the authorities over handling

of these issues,” a source close

to Dimri said.

The Proctor’s office is re-

sponsible for handling all the

disciplinary issues on campus,

including ordering of inquiry,

probing the issues and recom-

mending punishment for the

students. – PTI

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 20174 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI

Government of AssamARIAS SOCIETY (ARIASS)

Proposed World Bank aided Assam Agribusiness & RuralTransformation Project (APART)

Short REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (REOI)For Hiring of Consultancy Services for Formation of

industry Associations (IAs) &Implementation of Agro Industrial Development Plans (AIDPs)

ARIASS/APART/CD/182/2017/21 Dated: Guwahati the 21st January 2017

1. The Government of Assam (GoA) through the Government of India(GoA) has applied for a loan of US$ 200 million from the World Bank(WB) for implementation of the Assam Agribusiness & RuralTransformation Project (APART) which is likely to start implementationfrom April 2017. The objective of APART is to increase value-additionand improve resilience of selected agriculture value chains, focusing onsmallholder farmers and agro-entrepreneurs in the targeted districts ofAssam. The Assam Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Services (ARIAS)Society in association with Department of Industries and Commerce,GoA, now intends to apply a portion of the loan for hiring of ConsultancyServices for Formation of Industry Associations (lAs) & Implementationof Agra Industrial Development Plans (AIDPs).2. The consultant will be selected in accordance with the QCBS methodset out in “THE WORLD BANK Procurement Regulations for IPF BorrowersPROCUREMENT IN INVESTMENT PROJECT FINANCING Goods, Works,Non-Consulting and Consulting Services- July 2016” (IPF: InvestmentProject Financing).3. Interested consultancy firms/agencies may submit their expressionof interest to the following address not later than 16th February. 2017as well as obtain further information at the address below during workingdays from 11-00 am to 4.00 pm. Please refer to the detailed Request forExpression of Interest (REOI) and the related draft Terms of Reference(ToR) in the website of ARIAS Society viz. www.arias.in in thenotification section.

The State Project Director, ARIAS Society, Project Coordination Unit,Agriculture Complex, Khanapara, G.S. Road, Guwahati-781022 (Assam, India);

Tel: 0361-2332125; Tele-Fax: 0361-2332564; email: spd@arias.in

Janasanyog/1843/16

PRESS RELEASEKeeping in view the directive of Election Commission of India, the

National Voters’ Day, 2017 in Mangaldoi Election District comprising of

65-Kalaigaon, 66-Sipajhar, 67-Mangaldoi (SC) and 68-Dalgaon LACs

will be celebrated in all 492 nos. of polling station locations on 25.01.2017.

The main objective of celebrating the NVD is to create awareness

among the voters for making Indian democracy better and stronger.

The Electoral Registration Officers under election district Mangaldoi

have already been instructed to direct the BLOs of their respective LAC

to felicitate the newly registered voters on 25th January, 2017 in a brief

ceremony/public function and to provide a badge with the slogan “Proud

to be a Voter– Ready to vote”.

The District Level NVD programme will be held at Mangaldai District

Library on 25th January, 2017 where the newly enrolled voters of 18-19

years of age adjacent to the polling stations of Mangaldai town will be

felicitated Sri Budhindra Hazarika, Principal, Kharupetia College will

deliver a lecture on the occasion.

The Principals of the Colleges and Higher Secondary Schools under

election district Mangaldoi have already been instructed to organize

debating competitions, quiz competitions, human chain etc. and to

administer the NVD pledge at their respective colleges/HS Schools on

25.01.2017 among the teaching staff and students.

Sd/- (Ashok Kumar Barman)

District Election Officer

Janasanyog/1498/16 Mandaldoi

NOTICEPersonal Interview for recruitment of Assistant Audit Officers

The Personal Interview of the candidates who have qualified in the

Written Test for recruitment of Assistant Audit Officers will be held as per

the following schedule in the Office of the Director of Audit(Local Fund),

Assam, Kar Bhawan 6th Floor, Dispur, Guwahati-781006.

Date Time Roll Nos. in between

02-02-2017((Thursday) 10:30 A.M. onwards 100062 to 101026

02.00 P.M. onwards 101050 to 103151

03-02-2017(Friday) 10:30 A.M. onwards 103251 to 104523

02.00 P.M. onwards 104614 to 106045

04-02-2017(Saturday) 10:30 A.M. onwards 106142 to 107372

02.00 P.M. onwards 107401 to 109302

05-02-2017(Sunday) 10:30 A.M. onwards 109682 to 111236

02.00 P.M. onwards 111285 to 113065

8-02-2017(Wednesday) 10:30 A.M. onwards 113084 to 114058

02.00 P.M. onwards 114363 to 116624

09-02-2017(Thursday) 10:30 A.M. onwards 116715 to 118823

02.00 P.M. onwards 118882 to 121944

Individual call letters have been sent to the candidates by Speed Post.

Those who do not receive their call letters by 31-01-2017 may contact in

the Office of Director of Audit (Local Fund), Assam, Guwahati for issue

of duplicate call letters. Duplicate call letters will be issued to the candidates

on production of Admit Card of,the Written Test held on 1st & 8th

November, 2015 with countersignature of Assam Institute of Management.

Sd/- Directorate of Audit

Janasanyog/8597/16 (Local Fund), Assam, Guwahati- 6

NOTICE INVITING

QUOTATIONSealed quotations affixing court fee stamps

of Rs. 8.25 (Non-refundable) are hereby

invited from interested Firms etc. for erecting/

raising and supplying the following items

on the occasion of 68th Republic Day

Celebration at the Gauhati High Court (Old

Block) on 26.01.2017.

1. Erection of a temporary stage (size :

20ft × 20 ft)

2. Tri colour side-scree with bamboo fram-

300 sq.M

3. Good quality Chair with clean cover-

200 Nos.

4. Shamiana and carpet for light

refreshment area.

Interested firms may contact the undersigned

for ascertaining the specification of the

above mentioned items.

General Terms and Conditions

1. The quotation should reach the

undersigned on or before 24th January,

2017 during office hours.

2. The tenderer shall clearly mention the

rate both in words and figures excluding

VAT. Applicable tax is to be shown

separately against each item.

Sd/- Registrar (Admn)

Janasanyog/4353/16

PRESS NOTICE

INVITING TENDERExecutive Engineer, PWD, Kohora

Road Division, Dolamara on behalf

of Governor of Assam invite bids for

“Maintenance & Repair of roads for

the works under Assam Road

Maintenance Fund for the financial

year 2016-17 for 6(six) nos. of

packages for one month duration of

Karbi Anglong District, Assam,

amounting to Rs. 199.01 Lakhs

(Approx.). Details may be seen at the

office of the undersigned from

16.01.2017 to 27.01.2017 during

office hour. If 27.01.2017 happen to

be holiday then the next working day

shall be treated as last date.

Sd/- Executive Engineer, PWD

Kohora Road Division, DolamaraJanasanyog/4360/16

NOTIFICATIONAll Institutes of Assam are hereby informed that the verification

of online applications submitted through the National ScholarshipPortal (NSP 2.0) for Post-Matric/Pre-Matric (Class IX-X) for ST atthe Institute level has been open for the institutes since 1st ofDecember/2017 and it has been seen that a number of instituteshave not verified the applications pertaining to their respectiveinstitutes due to which the applications of students will not servethe purpose of awarding scholarships to ST students.

In the light of the above, the Head of the Institutes are herebyinstructed to start verification of the applications with the institutelogin credentials for the NSP 2.0 at the earlist without fail. TheHead of institutes are also requested to submit the list of verifiedname of applicant and application IDS with signature of theHead of Institute pertaining to their respective institutes to theoffice of the undersigned for further necessary action from thisend.

It has also come to the notice of the undersigned that anumber of Institute have not approached the office of theundersigned for receiving the user-id and passwords of theirrespective institutes. Such institutes are requested to approachthe office of the undersigned at the earliest with a request letterfrom the Head of institute specifying the phone number to whichthe user-ids and password should be sent.

As per the directives and instructions of the Govt. of India, theHead of the Institutions are responsible for the verification/re-verification/rejection of applications submitted through NationalScholarship Portal and therefore the Head of the Institutes areinstructed to take prompt and necessary actions for the same atthe earliest.

Sd/- Director, W.P.T. & B.C., AssamJanasanyog/8592/16 Rukmini Nagar, Guwahati-6

OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, UDALGURI, ASSAM

MISSING INFORMATION

The above is photograph of Miss Sumi Deka (19 years), D/o Sri Jayanta Deka, Vill-Dhupguri, P.S- Panery, Dist- Udalguri, Assam who has been missing since 17.11.2016from Tangla.

This refers to Panery PS GDE. No. 506 Dtd. 29.11.2016 and this office Man MissingRegister Entry No. 43(B)-136 Dtd. 01.12.2016Descriptive Roll of the Missing Person :

1. Complexion – Fair2. Age – 19 Years3. Height – 5 Feet4. Built – Medium5. Language – Assamese6. Wearing apparel – Churider

All out effort may be made to trace out/ recover the above noted missing person at theearliest and result thereof may be intimated to this office at the following helpline numbersfor further necessary action : 8134852559/ 9859427622 (Cell Phone)

Sd/- Superintendent of Police

Janasanyog/8608/16 Udalguri, Assam

Janasanyog/8635/16

GOVERNMENT OF ASSAMFINANCE (BUDGET) DEPARTMENT

DISPUR, GUWAHATI-06PRESS COMMUNIQUE

No.BW.02/2017 Dated January 23, 2017

It is notified for general information that the outstanding balance of 8.20%

Assam State Development Loan, 2017 issued in terms of the Government

of Assam, Finance Department’s Notification No.BW.4/2006 dated

February 15, 2007, will be repaid at par on February 23, 2017 with

interest due up to and including February 22, 2017. In the event of a

holiday being declared on the aforesaid date by the Government of

Assam under the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, the loan will be

repaid by the paying offices in this State on the previous working day.

No interest will accrue on the loan from and after February 23, 2017.

2. As per Sub-regulation 24 (2) and 24 (3) of Government Securities

Regulations, 2007, payment of maturity proceeds to the registered

holder of Government Security held in the form of Subsidiary General

Ledger or Constituent Subsidiary General Ledger account or Stock

Certificate shall be made by a pay order incorporating the relevant

particulars of his bank account or by credit to the account of the holder

in any bank having facility of receipt of funds through electronic means.

For the purpose of making payment in respect of the securities, the

original subscriber or the subsequent holders of such a Government

Securities, as the case may be, shall submit to the Bank or Treasury

and Sub-Treasury or branch of State Bank of India or its subsidiary

Banks where they are enfaced/registered for payment of interest, as the

case may be, the relevant particulars of their bank account.

3. However, in the absence of relevant particulars of bank account/

mandate for receipt of funds through electronic means, to facilitate

repayment on the due date, holders of 8.20% Assam State Development

Loan, 2017, should tender their securities at the Public Debt Office, 20

days in advance. The securities should be tendered for repayment,

duly discharged on the reverse thereof as under.-

“Received the Principal due on the Certificate”.

4. It should be particularly noted that at places where the treasury work

is done by a branch of the State Bank of India or any of its associate

banks, the securities, if they are in the form of Stock Certificates, should

be tendered at the branch of the bank concerned and not at the Treasury

or Sub-treasury.

5. Holders who wish to receive payment at places other than those

where the securities have been enfaced for payment should send them

duly discharged to the Public Debt Office concerned by Registered and

Insured Post. The Public Debt Office will make payment by issuing a

draft payable at any Treasury/Sub-Treasury or branch of State Bank of

India or its associate banks conducting Government Treasury work in

the State of Assam.

(Sd/- Dr. Ravi Kota, IAS)

Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Assam

Finance Department

GOVERNMENT OF ASSAMFINANCE (BUDGET) DEPARTMENT

DISPUR, GUWAHATI-06PRESS COMMUNIQUE

No.BW.01/2017

It is notified for general information that the outstanding balance of 7.17%

Assam State Development Loan, 2017 issued in terms of the Government

of Assam, Finance Department’s Notification No.BW.7/2004 dated

February 18, 2005, will be repaid at par on February 23, 2017 (February

24, 2017 being bank holiday) with interest due up to and including

February 23, 2017. In the event of a holiday being declared on the

aforesaid date by the Government of Assam under the Negotiable

Instruments Act, 1881, the loan will be repaid by the paying offices in

this State on the previous working day. No interest will accrue on the

loan from and after February 24, 2017.

2. As per Sub-regulation 24 (2) and 24 (3) of Government Securities

Regulations, 2007, payment of maturity proceeds to the registered

holder of Government Security held in the form of Subsidiary General

Ledger or Constituent Subsidiary General Ledger account or Stock

Certificate shall be made by a pay order incorporating the relevant

particulars of his bank account or by credit to the account of the holder

in any bank having facility of receipt of funds through electronic means.

For the purpose of making payment in respect of the securities, the

original subscriber or the subsequent holders of such a Government

Securities, as the case may be, shall submit to the Bank or Treasury

and Sub-Treasury or branch of State Bank of India or its subsidiary

Banks where they are enfaced/registered for payment of interest, as the

case may be, the relevant particulars of their bank account.

3. However, in the absence of relevant particulars of bank account/

mandate for receipt of funds through electronic means. to facilitate

repayment on the due date, holders of 7.17% Assam State Development

Loan, 2017, should tender their securities at the Public Debt Office, 20

days in advance. The securities should be tendered for repayment,

duly discharged on the reverse thereof as under:-

Received the Principal due on the Certificate”.

4. It should be particularly noted that at places where the treasury work is

done by a branch of the State Bank of India or any of its associate banks, the

securities, if they are in the form of Stock Certificates, should be tendered at

the branch of the bank concerned and not at the Treasury or Sub-treasury.

5. Holders who wish to receive payment at places other than those

where the securities have been enfaced for payment should send them

duly discharged to the Public Debt Office concerned by Registered and

Insured Post. The Public Debt Office will make payment by issuing a

draft payable at any Treasury/Sub-Treasury or branch of State Bank of

India or its associate banks conducting Government Treasury work in

the State of Assam.

Sd/- (Dr. Ravi Kota, IAS)

Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Assam

Finance Department

US President Donald Trump hosting a reception for US Congressional leaders including Senate Majority Leader Mitch

McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Vice President Mike Pence, Representative

Kevin McCarthy, Senator John Cornyn and Representative Steny Hoyer, in the State Dining Room at the White House in

Washington on Monday. – UNI

Syria peace talks closeto final declaration

ASTANA, Jan 24: The UN envoy for

Syria said today that a final declaration

was close to being achieved at the indi-

rect talks between Syrian rebels and

their war-torn country’s regime in Ka-

zakhstan’s capital Astana.

The talks, which yielded no apparent

breakthrough yesterday, could have

been the first face-to-face negotiations

between the regime and the armed op-

position since Syria’s conflict erupted in

2011, but the rebels backed out.

“We are not far from a final declara-

tion,” UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said.

“There are very intense discussions be-

cause this is not about a paper, this is

about a cessation of hostilities which

means Syrian lives.”

Rebel spokesman Yehya al-Aridi said

the rebels would not sign a final declara-

tion coming out of the talks, saying it

would be issued by their sponsors, rebel

backer Turkey, regime ally Russia and

possibly Iran. He added the final decla-

ration was a “general statement” that is

“not meant to be signed by the parties.”

The rebels rejected face-to-face talks

because of the regime’s continued bom-

bardment and attacks on a flashpoint out-

side the capital Damascus. The two sides

sat at the same table for the opening

statements, but spent the rest of yes-

terday negotiating via mediators.

The rebels have insisted the talks fo-

cus on bolstering a frail truce brokered

by Turkey and Russia last month, while

the regime has called for a political solu-

tion to the nearly six-year conflict and

for rebels to lay down their arms in ex-

change for an amnesty deal.

Rebel spokesman Osama Abu Zeid

said ceasefire violations and threats of

forced displacements were hindering the

negotiations, and that the rebels would

focus on the truce in today’s talks.

In addition to having different objec-

tives, the two sides also disagree about

the role of the talks’ three organisers,

Russia, Turkey and Iran.

A member of the rebel delegation

told AFP yesterday that the group

would agree to have Russia serve as a

guarantor of the current ceasefire but

not Iran, another backer of President

Bashar al-Assad.

The Syrian regime, meanwhile, has

said it would refuse to hold government-

level talks with Turkey and sign any doc-

ument bearing the signature of a Turk-

ish official – suggesting this would in-

clude any deal to come out of the talks.

More than 310,000 people have been

killed and more than half of the coun-

try’s population displaced since Syria’s

conflict erupted in 2011 with protests

against Assad’s rule. – AFP

Massive networks of fakeTwitter accounts found

China to firmly defendsovereignty over South China Sea

BEIJING, Jan 24: As the

Trump administration fired its

first salvo to counter China’s

island building in disputed

South China Sea, a perturbed

Beijing hit back saying it will

firmly safeguard its “indisput-

able sovereignty” irrespective

of what America says.

“China’s position on the South

China Sea (SCS) is clear and

consistent. There is no change

in our position. China has indis-

putable sovereignty over SCS

islands and adjacent waters,”

Foreign Ministry spokesperson

Hua Chunying said.

Her comments came hours

after White House Press Secre-

tary Sean Spicer issued a stern

warning to China, saying the US

would protect its interests in the

SCS and defend international

territories from being taken over

by “one country.”

This is the first direct com-

ment by the Trump administra-

tion after the tough-talking bil-

lionaire took over as President

on Friday, signalling an assertive

policy on the SCS contrary to a

cautious policy pursued by the

Obama administration.

“China’s action in SCS is le-

gitimate, lawful and reasona-

ble. Whatever other countries

want to do or say, China’s de-

termination to safeguard our

maritime interests, sovereign

rights and interests is firm,”

Hua retorted.

“We are also committed to

work with other parties to ad-

dress the issues through

peaceful negotiations. The sit-

uation is turning better. Agree-

ment has been made to follow

the dual track approach to ad-

dress the SCS issue,” she said,

referring to China’s efforts to

pacify the Philippines and Vi-

etnam to lower the conflict.

Besides the two countries,

Lowest approval for Trump’sfirst days in modern era: poll

WASHINGTON, Jan 24: Donald Trump has begun his first

days in the White House with the lowest approval rating any US

President received in the modern era, according to a new poll.

The first measurement of Trump’s job approval rating

showed Americans divided over his performance in his three

days in the Oval Office, the Politico reported.

Trump’s approval rating in the Gallup survey, conducted be-

tween Friday and Sunday, opens at 45 per cent – the same

percentage of Americans that said they disapprove of Trump’s

first weekend on the job.

In fact, the billionaire real estate tycoon began his Presiden-

cy with the lowest initial approval rating in the modern polling

era, according to Gallup.

But while Trump’s first approval rating is improved from

the poor reviews Americans gave to his Presidential transi-

tion, it is also lower than previous Presidents – a sign Trump

has entered the White House without the same support from

Americans that others have enjoyed. – PTI

LONDON, Jan 24: Massivenetworks of fake Twitter ac-counts – with the largest con-sisting of over 350,000 profiles– have been accidentally un-covered by scientists whowere probing to see how peo-ple use the microblogging site.

Some of the accounts havebeen used to fake a number offollowers, send spam and boostinterest in trending topics, re-searchers said. On Twitter,bots are accounts that are runremotely by a person.

“It is difficult to assess ex-actly how many Twitter usersare bots,” said graduate stu-dent Juan Echeverria, a com-

puter scientist at UniversityCollege, London, who uncov-ered the massive networks.

The research began by comb-ing through a sample of one percent of Twitter users in order toget a better understanding ofhow people use the social net-work. However, the data re-vealed lots of linked accounts,suggesting one person or groupis running the ‘botnet.’

These accounts did not actlike the bots other research-ers had found but were clearlynot being run by humans. Theresearch suggests earlier workto find bots has missed thesetypes of networks. – PTI

Preliminary ...(Contd from page 3)

within two months. The Chief Minister, in his speech, asked

the Field Engineers to conduct the historic survey with utmost

dedication, devotion and honesty.

It is gathered that the comprehensive findings of the prelimi-

nary surveys will be helpful in preparing detailed modalities for

the ambitious projects – dredging of the Brahmaputra, construc-

tion of the Express Highways along both banks of the river and

for taking up other development projects like navigating big

vessels for communication and trade and commerce. Brahmapu-

tra was declared as the National Water Way 2 but due to its poor

navigability, the benefits have not been reaped by the State. The

Brahmaputra has 640 km length in Assam from Sadia to Dhubri.

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal also simultaneously dedi-

cated the 8.3 km portion of the Dibrugarh Town Protection Dyke

during the function. The section, extending from Maijan to Mo-

hannaghat with solar lights along the dyke and with black topped

road, was constructed with an estimated cost of Rs 80 crores. The

dyke was constructed under the Assam Integrated Flood and

Riverbank Erosion Risk Management Project with funding from

the Asian Development Bank. Flood and River Bank Erosion Risk

Management Agency of Assam (FREMAA) implemented the

project. The dyke has been raised to some six metres height from

ground level, and has a top width of six metres.

Rakesh Paul ...(Contd from page 3)

made the payment annually as Paul also owns a house at Tura in

Garo Hills of Meghalaya. The money was paid to these outfits

regularly through various links,” sources said.

“This has nothing to do with the APSC scam or the ongoing

investigation and the police have stumbled upon such informa-

tion while investigating an altogether different case. Further,

the matter of terror funding will need specialised investiga-

tion,” sources pointed out. Paul, who is now in judicial custody

in connection with the cash-for-job scam in the APSC, had paid

nearly Rs 1 crore to each of the outfits in the last few years.

The Assam Tribune had earlier reported that Paul during

questioning had admitted to making payment to political lead-

ers, including former ministers, a media baron and journalists

among others during his tenure at the top post.

Gen Rawat ...(Contd from page 3)

security situation in the Corps, both from external threat and inter-

nal security point of view. General Rawat has himself commanded a

Corps in the Eastern Command and is well acquainted with the

nuances of operational scenario here. He was satisfied with the

operational preparedness of Gajraj Corps and encouraged all ranks

of the Corps to keep up the high state of alertness and professional-

ism displayed by them. General Rawat left Tezpur for Imphal be-

fore moving to Delhi, said a Defence press release.

Chargesheet ...(Contd from page 3)

Procedure. The Court of Spe-

cial Judge has fixed February

27 for submission of the status

report, he added. Sources said

that there is still ample scope

for further investigation re-

garding the arrested accused

persons and those who are ab-

sconding.

Meanwhile, to facilitate

trial for the accused holding

constitutional posts (APSC),

including Rakesh Paul and

the two other arrested

members, the investigators

have already written to the

President of India for prose-

cution sanction against

them. Meanwhile, the in-

vestigators have received

prosecution sanction against

Naba Kumar Patir from the

State Government.

R-Day ...(Contd from page 3)

said an official press release

here this evening.

The award carries a cash

amount of Rs 1 lakh, a citation

inscribed on a copper plate, a

japi, a sorai and an angabastra,

the press release said.

It may be noted that the Re-

public Day Journalism Award

has been instituted under the

Information and Public Rela-

tions Department to honour

persons of eminence in the

field of journalism. The award

will be presented at the State-

level Republic Day function

every year.

Bhagawati’s name was se-

lected from among a list of 30

nominees submitted by eight

journalists’ organisations of

the State. To select the recip-

ient a high-level selection

committee was formed.

Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan

also contest China’s claims

over almost all of SCS.

“The US is not a party to

the SCS issue. We urge the

US to honour its commit-

ments, fully respect the ef-

forts of the regional countries

and safeguard peace and sta-

bility in the SCS,” she said.

But at the same time, unlike

in the past, Hua did not op-

pose US naval ships and bomb-

ers passing through if it is

under international law. – PTI

INTERNATIONAL

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI 5

CITY

Janasanyog/8575/16

WEATHER

GUWAHATILOCAL FORECAST:Mainly clear sky to partlycloudy sky. Fog/mist isvery likely to occur in themorning. Minimumtemperature is most likelyto be 11°C on Wednesday.

TEMPERATURE:

Max 27.8°CMin 10.8°C

The number of vehicles are is

creasing tremendously in the

city in the last few years, and, as a

result, the problems of traffic con-

gestion and pollution have also

been growing. The toxic smoke

emitted by these vehicles causes

serious health hazards for com-

muters. The pollutants that the

smoke contains are very danger-

Crack down on vehicular pollutionous to our health. In this regard,

we would like to suggest the fol-

lowing measures for consideration

of the department concerned for

safety of the citizens:

(a) Let automobile dealers sell

new cars only after getting approv-

al of the Transport Department;

(b) Old private vehicles that have

already completed 15 years (i.e.

from the date of purchase) be with-

drawn from the roads;

(c) The traffic police or the Trans-

port Department conduct random

pollution tests on cars;

(d) Adulteration of petrol and

diesel be dealt with swiftly and

severely;

(e) Exemplary on-the-spot pen-

alty be imposed for violation of pol-

lution control rule, etc.

Ushakanti Das,

Rukminigaon, Guwahati

Traffic sense

We are proud to be the citizens

of one of the largest democracies

in the world. Constitutionally, we

enjoy various democratic rights.

The democratic platform provides

us flexibility in our thought proc-

ess. However, it does not mean that

whatever we consider to be right

is always right for society. Hence,

there is a need to develop a posi-

tive sense for maintaining basic dis-

cipline on the part of every citizen

of Guwahati as a whole, specially

towards creating a systematic,

smooth and seamless traffic man-

agement system. Over and above

the existing traffic rules and regu-

lations as well as other technologi-

cal means implemented by the au-

thority, it is imperative for all citi-

zens to exercise their democratic

rights in a most sensible way, while

driving or parking their vehicles

without creating problems for fel-

low citizens.

Partha Sankar

Dispur, Guwahati

Damaged pipes

The Gammon India Limited, un-

der the GMDA’s water supply

scheme, has been laying pipes in

Guwahati for quite some time, but

in doing so, they have also broken

many existing water supply pipes,

causing immense hardship to the

owners concerned.

I am also a victim of this cal-

lous attitude. My water supply

pipe was broken at AT Road near

Santipur city bus stand and till

date it has not been restored. The

officials of Gammon India Limit-

ed (Project Manager and Deputy

Manager) and the GMC water

supply division have also turned

a deaf ear to our repeated re-

quests for restoration of water

supply. Gammon India has prac-

tically been depriving us of wa-

ter for the last six months. Will

they now listen and take reme-

dial measures?

Dr Dwipendra Nath Talukdar,

Santipur, Guwahati-9

Extra charge

Recently I visited a service

centre of Royal Enfield at Ada-

bari in the city, and saw, to my

utter astonishment, a poster at-

tached at the reception which

mentioned that two per cent ex-

tra charge will have to be paid by

the customers if they pay using

debit cards. But, according to a

notification by the Reserve Bank

of India, merchants cannot

charge two per cent extra on deb-

it card payments. I, therefore,

would like to request the author-

ity concerned to take necessary

action against such practices.

A student of the Gauhati

University

Citizens are requested to express

their Guwahati-specific views within

100 words and mail the same

to: citizensvoice365@gmail.com

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24:

Kamrup Metro Deputy

Commissioner Dr M

Angamuthu today inspected

the area in and around the

Deepor Beel where 18

carcasses of greater adjutant

stork were recovered

yesterday.

The Deputy Commission-

er told The Assam Tribune

that the administration would

soon stop picnics in the

wetland’s vicinity.

“We have inspected the

site and will soon put a curb

on picnic which is damaging

the wetland’s ecology.

Curb on picnics near Deepor Beel: DC

Other preventive measures

will also be taken for

protection of Deepor’s

ecology and flora and

fauna,” he said.

Meanwhile, carcasses of

four more adjutant storks

were recovered today, taking

the toll to 22.

Deepor, a Ramsar site

wetland and a bird sanctuary,

has been bearing the brunt of

pollution caused by dumping

of the city’s municipal waste

close to its periphery.

Picnickers have added to its

woes, with revellers littering

the wetland with their waste,

besides causing severe noise

pollution.

Conservationists have

been calling for making the

wetland out of bounds for

picnickers, besides shifting of

the garbage dumping site to

some other area.

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: On the

occasion of National Girl Child

Day, an educative comic strip on

girl child empowerment was

released here today by Utsah, a

non-governmental organisation

working in the field of child rights.

The comic strip (book)

comprising five chapters on

issues affecting the girl child

including education, child mar-

riage, child trafficking, malnu-

Educative comic strip on girl child releasedtrition and child abuse, is aimed

at raising the level of aware-

ness among the children.

Aimed at making children,

especially the girl child, aware

of the problem confronting them

in their day-to-day life, the comic

strip will be distributed to chil-

dren in schools.

Miguel Das of Utsah while

speaking at the release function,

said that the comic strip has

been prepared and released to

make the children familiarise

themselves with the issues

through visual communication.

“We should not remain un-

der the impression that gender

discrimination is non-prevalent

in Assam. Children are the most

disempowered lot and to make

their issues heard, we must

work in a cohesive manner,”

Miguel opined.

“Children must know what

to accept and what not to. Hope,

our initiative will help them in

raising their voice wherever and

whenever necessary,” he said.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr

Tushar Rane, chief of field of-

fice, UNICEF, explained the

need for a safe living environ-

ment for children, especially the

girl child.

Rane stressed the need for

raising the awareness level of

people across the spectrum vis-

a-vis child rights. M Barman from

the social welfare department

and actress Akashitora were also

present on the occasion.

35 contingents to takepart in R-Day parade

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: The Kamrup Metro district adminis-

tration today said that all arrangements are in place for the

forthcoming Republic Day celebrations.

Kamrup Metro Deputy Commissioner Dr M Angamuthu

said that a total of 35 contingents will be participating in the

parade, which will be held on the morning of January 26 at the

Veterinary College ground here.

“There is overwhelming response from the school children.

There will be special band display by the school children and

arrangements for transportation, cleanliness and sanitation will

be in place,” he said.

The DC said that special bus service to Khanapara Veteri-

nary College field will be made for the day.

“Arrangements have been made for adequate drinking

water and other facilities and there will be special provi-

sions for the elders and women, including wheelchairs and

other arrangements for physically challenged visitors,” said

Dr Angamuthu.

Students taking part in a parade rehearsal for the Republic

Day celebration, in Guwahati on Tuesday. – AT photo

Cleanlinessdrive byNDRF

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: The

1st battalion of National Dis-

aster Response Force (NDRF)

deployed at Patgaon here, or-

ganised a two-day Swachh

Bharat campaign by cleaning

and launching the sanitation

campaign in Vijaynagar mar-

ket area in Kamrup district on

Monday and another cleanli-

ness drive in Mirza market

area today.

Surendra Kumar, Assistant

Commandant, 1st Bn NDRF

along with 91 NDRF person-

nel; Jatin Bora, ADC Kamrup;

Pranav Kalita, MLA Palasbari,

and also police personnel, cir-

cle office staff, environmental

organisations and fire service

personnel participated in the

Swachh Bharat campaign at Vi-

jaynagar on Monday, a state-

ment said.

Rotaract Clubinitiative

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: The

charter installation ceremony

of the Rotaract Club of Guwa-

hati Luit, an initiative for em-

powering youths will be held

at Ulubari here on January 26.

During the ceremony, youths

from various backgrounds will

take a pledge for betterment

of society.

E-magazineGUWAHATI, Jan 24:

Krishak Bandhu, an e-maga-

zine on agriculture and relat-

ed issues, was launched at a

function at the Guwahati Press

Club on Monday. Senior jour-

nalists Manoram Gogoi and

Jayanta Kumar Das formally

launched the e-magazine.

Manik Ch Sarma Bardoloi,

Deputy Director, Agriculture,

Bodoland Territorial Council

and honorary editor-in-chief of

the e-magazine, presided over

the function. – Staff Reporter

Carcasses of 4 more adjutant storks recovered

6 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017

MESSAGE FOR TODAY

We must strive to live with purpose. When we

live with purpose, we feel good inside.

– BRENDA NATHAN

ivers have worked as

a boon that help in the

growth of human civi-

lization over the ages.

All great civilizations have start-

ed around and along the river val-

ley and the Brahmaputra is no ex-

ception.

The world’s third longest river

with a span of 2,900 km, of which

for 916 km it flows through India,

has been nourishing North-east In-

dia from its inception. But slowly,

it has become a reason for sorrow

because every year, its fiery floods

make lakhs of people homeless,

huge loss of property and lives. The

Brahmaputra is fed by large tribu-

taries like Jaidhal, Subansari, Siang,

Kameng (Jia Bharali), Dhansiri

(north), Puthimari, Pagladia,

Manas, Champamati, Saralbhanga

and Aie from the north and Noa

Dihing, Buridihing, Debang,

Dikhow, Dhansiri, etc. (south).

In addition, six tributaries name-

ly the Tista, Sankosh, Raidak-I,

Raidak-II, Torsa and the Jaldhaka

flowing through the northern West

Bengal also join the mainstream of

the Brahmaputra. The North bank

tributaries are flashy and have

steep slopes, shallow braided chan-

nels and coarse sandy beds, carry a

heavy silt charge. The South bank

tributaries have flatter grades,

deep meandering channels, fine al-

luvial soils and comparatively low

silt charge.

Now, the question that arises is

what may be the possible cause for

a river in which a civilization start-

ed slowly turns to be the sorrow

of Assam like the Huang Ho of

China. ‘Whoever controls the Yel-

low River, controls China,’ said the

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EDITOR

Dredging the Brahmaputra

Trump’s unipolar world

Upcoming State BudgetThe second State Budget of the BJP-led Assam Gov-

ernment is scheduled to be presented by its Finance

Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, in State Assembly on

February 7, 2017 for the fiscal year 2017-18. The Fi-

nance Minister had held his pre-Budget discussion with

different stakeholders recently on January 12, 2017 at

the Assam Administrative Staff College, Guwahati where

other ministers and important officials of various depart-

ments were also present. It appears from the discussion

of the Finance Minister that the State Budget with effect

from 2017-18, following the Central pattern of budgetary

structure, will initiate a departure with respect to ex-

penditure pattern from the earlier trend of showing the

same as between Plan and non-Plan heads besides the

distinction between capital and revenue expenditures.

This is certainly an important rationalization and simplifi-

cation effort, initiated in the budgetary structural

complicacy. However, in place of State Plan expenditure

head, the Government will frame what is called ‘State’s

own priority development’ (SOPD) expenditure head.

This is certainly more meaningful since all types of de-

velopment expenditure are not of equal importance and

urgency and a choice pattern is needed in the face of

financial limitations.

Most of the pre-Budget discussion centred round the

utilization aspect of Plan expenditure during the current

year. Thus, the review unveils that Plan expenditure in

the 2016-17 fiscal up to December, 31 stood at Rs 9,348

crore, the achievement being only 23% though the ex-

penditure head is designed to be 42% more than the

previous year. It is good to note that the State Finance

Minister has hinted at 20% increase in allocation to vari-

ous departments in the upcoming Budget. It is important

to note here that Himanta Biswa Sarma’s maiden budget

for 2016-17 was comprehensively all-embracing and

could be rather called a five-year rolling action Plan, based

on the ruling party’s vision document expecting to trans-

form the State into a land of prosperity and development.

The upcoming Budget is expected to give large focus on

education, agriculture, rural development and health care

areas. A 20% rise in expenditure on them will mean a

budgetary allocation of more than Rs 9,300 crore on these

thrust areas. What will help rural development pro-

gramme most is the promise of the Finance Minister to

spend Rs 1.2 crore in each of the State’s villages on ac-

count of its uplift under what is called the ‘Chief Minis-

ter’s Samagra Gramya Unnayan Yojana’ which has already

been in operation. Some progress has already been done

in the area of eradication of corrupt practices in the State

and much more is expected in the days to come.

Going cashlessEven as the Centre makes a bold push for a cashless

economy – less-cash economy would be a more realistic

term given the constraints that a developing country would

invariably encounter in such an exercise – the foremost

need is to increase banking penetration across the length

and breadth of the country. Talking about cashless

economy without putting in place a matching infrastruc-

ture in the form of banks, ATMs, etc., would be akin to

putting the cart before the horse. Banking services in

many areas such as the North-east continue to be inad-

equate, and this lower banking access has kept diverse

financial services out of bound for a vast segment of the

populace. For a vast populace in the North-east, savings

is still primarily through informal mechanisms like keep-

ing cash at home, in kind, i.e., livestock and jewellery, and

traditional savings and loan clubs organized in villages by

temples or churches. This is largely attributable to the

inaccessibility of banks for a majority of the people. While

the geographical remoteness and the difficult terrain is

primarily responsible for the low banking penetration, dis-

inclination among a considerable segment towards availing

banking services – something that has a lot to do with

poor awareness – is also a matter of worry. The need,

therefore, is to expand banking facilities and at the same

time carry out a sustained campaign on the benefits of

banking, including cashless transactions. According to a

recent estimate, the North-east accounts for as many as

89 of the 131 ‘un-banked’ blocks of the country. The RBI

has come up with a specific scheme to ease the problem,

and the State governments should reciprocate the ges-

ture by doing the needful on their part.

Another peril which one needs to be on the guard

against during the transition to digital literacy is the

online financial frauds. The situation post demonetiza-

tion warrants all the stakeholders including the Gov-

ernment, the service providers and the general users

to join their hands to streamline digital delivery. Since

the sudden initiative to step into a cashless economy

has caught the masses unawares, it is quite likely that

we will witness a spurt in digital financial frauds unless

the associated hazards in a digital economy are ad-

dressed urgently. A multi-pronged approach – begin-

ning with dissemination of information concerning safe

digital operations – is an urgent need. A vast number of

those who have now been compelled to take recourse to

cashless transactions are illiterate, let alone being tech-

savvy. Cyber criminals are bound to use the situation to

their advantage and dupe the gullible users. The Gov-

ernment, the banks and all the digital service providers

have a big responsibility in educating the masses in dig-

ital transaction. Then, even as we prepare ourselves to

tackle the looming danger of digital fraud, the Govern-

ment also has to put in place adequate digital infrastruc-

ture in terms of ATMs, point of sale (POS) terminals, etc.

Great Yu, who is credited with the

first ‘taming’ of the river around

2200 BC.

The Brahmaputra can never be

tamed but has to be controlled or

given a proper direction as the av-

erage annual flow (water discharge)

throughout Assam vary from 8,500

to 17,000 cubic metres per second

making it a big challenge to dredge

it throughout the year.

The Brahmaputra car-

ries an exceedingly large

flow, huge volume of sed-

iment load, continuous

changes in channel mor-

phology, rapid bed aggra-

dations and bank line re-

cession and erosion. The

river has braided channel

in most of its course in the

alluvial plains of Assam.

The unique geo-

environmental setting of

the region, the highly po-

tent monsoon, weak geo-

logical formation, active

seismicity, accelerated

erosion, rapid channel

aggradations, massive de-

forestation, intense land use pres-

sure and high population growth

especially in the floodplain belt, and

ad hoc type temporary flood con-

trol measures are some of the dom-

inant factors that cause and/or in-

tensify floods in the valley.

Now, the next question is wheth-

er the flood problem can be dealt

with by removing the silt deposit

on its bed. Whether dredging the

river would give some relief to the

flood-prone areas and user eco-

nomic development of the region?

Dredging alone is not a sustainable

solution for future flood manage-

ment. So instead of dredging only,

we should develop a flood manage-

ment project which will include

dredging, reclamation of lost area

due to erosion, building permanent

concrete embankments, planting

trees on the riverbank and build-

ing roads on both the banks of the

Brahmaputra.

Dredging is a low-impact, envi-

ronmentally-friendly method of re-

moving excess sediment build-up

from bodies of water. Things can-

not change overnight, but they

must change eventually. A gradual,

responsive, phased approach that

recognizes the need to compro-

mise flood defence and biodiversi-

ty priorities may be our only op-

tion if we are to undo decades of

river mismanagement. Dredging

will play an important role in flood

risk management in some cases,

but is not a standalone solution. It

should be considered in the con-

text of a range of tools and the or-

igins of different sources of flood-

water and comes with significant

risks that must be understood at a

local and catchment scale.

Dredging covers a range of activ-

ities from the removal of material

from the bed and sides of river chan-

nels through to the wholesale

straightening (canalization) and/or

deepening of watercourses. Works

can be undertaken to drain land for

agriculture, to improve flood pro-

tection and/or for navigational pur-

poses. What will we do with the

dredged soil? If the dredged soil can

be used in reclamation of the land

on both sides of the river,

the same land can be used

for setting up economic

industrial corridors of the

State. The areas lost to

erosion can be revived

and used for resettlement

of homeless people due to

flood. The dredged soil

can be reclaimed and new

areas can be developed to

get economic benefits

such as developing indus-

tries or new localities to

ease out population boom.

Dredging allows for the

removal of polluted debris

from the floor of the riv-

ers, so that it does not af-

fect the wild habitat in these areas.

Dredging will be act as a catalyst

for economic development along the

river and in the adjacent neighbour-

hoods. Dredging focuses more on

reducing the impacts of a flood rath-

er than preventing one. Since the

Brahmaputra is a braided river,

dredging will somehow straighten

the flow of the channel. This water

then will move through the river

faster preventing it from pooling

thereby reducing the risk of a flood

and will be faster to navigate too.

Dredging of a river will increase

the cross-sectional area (and hence

its volume), as well as the stream-

lining of the channel. Where dredg-

ing is used to straighten and canal-

ize a river, the effect is to reduce its

length and increase channel gradi-

ent. These effects can increase the

efficiency of the channel in moving

water (increasing the conveyance).

Dredging should therefore lead to a

reduction in water levels and hence

to a reduction in flood frequency.

The cost of dredging is very high

because it requires a sophisticate and

heavy equipment called dredger.

Moreover, these dredgers are not

manufactured in India; neither there

is any Indian company which has its

fleets of dredgers to work in this

project. The Dredging Corporation

of India has only three Cutter Suc-

tion Dredgers (CSD), which are not

sufficient to take up the project.

There are two options left – either

the Government of Assam purchas-

es some CSDs as per the output

required per day and have its own

fleet of dredgers. Having the Gov-

ernment’s own fleet will reduce the

cost of the project. The other op-

tion is giving the contract to any

dredging company of international

repute to work on the same. The

cost of the project will increase by

approx 30% in the second case. The

reclaimed dredged soil will give

back at least 30% of the investment.

Dredging is not new to Assam as

the British used to dredge the river

to transport tea and oil from Assam.

The Assam Government had sold

the dredgers terming them as old

and obsolete but the same dredg-

ers had been purchased by the Gu-

jarat Government and had used to

develop both the Bhavanagar and

Kandla ports. Assam needs profes-

sional people on board to make such

a project successful.

Perspective 2050: Are we prepared?limate change as well

as other environmen-

tal issues has posed a

great challenge to agri-

culture with rapidly increasing food

demand due to a growing and in-

creasingly affluent global population.

This must be met in ways that are

sustainable to the population de-

mand which also meet the concerns

of agricultural scientists. Solutions

must address the economic and so-

cial challenges such as income to

farmers in an equitable manner and

more acutely, hunger and malnutri-

tion, especially in underdeveloped

countries. This can be achieved with

a comprehensive solution to the

complexities before us. A compre-

hensive response requires evolu-

tion across the entire food system

– how food is produced, processed,

stored, distributed, accessed and

consumed. The heads of states and

governments and the representa-

tive of the European Community

during the World Food Summit held

at Rome in 1996 stated, among oth-

ers, that “we agree to undertake all

necessary actions required at na-

tional, regional and global levels

and by all states and governments

to halt immediately the increase in

– and to significantly reduce – the

number of people suffering from

hunger, malnutrition and food in-

security. We will reinforce all our

efforts to meet by 2015 the tar-

gets of Millennium Development

Goal 1 and the World Food Sum-

mits. We commit to take action to-

wards sustainably eradicating hun-

ger at the earliest possible date.”

But 2015 is already over. Have we

achieved what we had declared? If

not, are we prepared for a 2050

perspective?

In this summit, food security was

defined based on three main consid-

erations – availability, access and use

of food. It is often observed that even

if a country has an aggregate suffi-

ciency of food, its population may

suffer from a serious nutritional in-

security due to unequitable income

distribution. With this consideration

in mind, the UN Standing Commit-

tee on Nutrition (SCN) in 2013 stat-

ed that “food and nutrition security”

exist when “all people at all times

have physical, social and economic

access to food, which is consumed in

sufficient quantity and quality to meet

their dietary needs and food prefer-

ences, and is supported by an envi-

ronment of adequate sanitation,

health services and care, allowing for

a healthy and active life”. How do

we handle the issue while taking care

of the changing climate and other

environmental concerns?

The world has already witnessed

a peak in food price during the 1970s.

However, with vigorous efforts by

the world community, we could han-

dle this successfully which resulted

in a falling food price in real terms.

The global food economy during the

next three decades saw a decline in

food prices. Steady progress was

made in reducing the proportion of

the world’s population classified as

undernourished from nearly 30% in

1970 to slightly over 12% in 2015,

although the world population more

than doubled to reach 7.3 billion dur-

ing this period itself. The progress

notwithstanding, 795 million people

were identified as chronically food

insufficient in 2015. In addition 162

million children were stunted, and

over 2 billion people were identified

as suffering from one or more mi-

cronutrient deficiencies.

The 21st century has brought in a

number of spectacular changes in

world economy, more specifically in

food economy. Severe climate relat-

ed events, facilitating subsidies for

the promotion of bio-fuels as alter-

native to traditional mineral fuels and

the impact of the 1995 World Trade

Organization agreement changed the

dynamics of global food supply. Fur-

thermore, growing demand for food

was being driven by a steadily in-

creasing world population, and in

emerging economies, such as Chi-

na, India, Brazil, etc., a desire for high-

er protein diets was driving in-

creased meat and dairy demand. In-

dia has seen a dramatic change in food

habits during this period. These fac-

tors came together in the 2006-08

period, led to a rapid increase in price

of food commodities. This ‘food price

crisis’ pushed an estimated 100 mil-

lion people into hunger, led to food

riots in over 30 countries worldwide.

This ‘food price crisis’ compelled the

political establishments throughout

the world to include ‘food and nutri-

tion security’ in their political agen-

da. At the end of 2015, several events

linked to climate change due to the

El Nino phenomenon further trig-

gered the food crises. Severe

droughts affected several countries

in the Horn of Africa, southern Afri-

ca, eastern and southern Asia, Cen-

tral America and the Caribbean. In-

dia also witnessed severe drought

situation during this period. These

events combined with conflict and

political unrest in Syria, the Middle-

east and parts of Africa have contrib-

uted to the significant flow of refu-

gees to Europe since 2014. Against

this backdrop of food and under-nu-

trition crisis, a growing number of

people are suffering from over-nu-

trition: currently more than 2 billion

people are overweight or obese.

Moreover, under-nutrition and obes-

ity increasingly coexist in the same

households – what is termed the ‘dou-

ble burden’.

The biggest casualty of this sce-

nario is the agriculture sector. Aris-

ing from these developments there

is an increasing recognition that the

agricultural sector is both a contrib-

n Dr Dilip Kr Patgiri

Sir, – This refers to your

editorial ‘Isolationist stance’ (AT,

Jan 22). The position that the

45th US President Donald

Trump holds today is a contro-

versial one. Controversy belongs

to the brave one. Cleansing

America by making her great

once again through the establish-

ment of a ‘unipolar world’ is not

bad for the interest of America. If

the new President wants to free

the white American workers

from the threat of economic

globalization, what is wrong? If

he wants to secure America for

the Americans restricting illegal

immigrants, what is wrong?

Same may be the case with any

country. To work for and develop

the world, each country needs to

develop itself first. This develop-

ment should be internal; then

only the inclusive development

may take place. If India has been

maintaining a neutral position

globally by signing a non-aligned

Cutor to and vulnerable to the im-

pacts of climate change.

On a long-term forecast, it is pro-

jected that the world population will

grow to 9.6 billion by 2050 mostly

confined to developing and under-

developed countries of the world.

With the changed world economic

order, in line with trends in recent

decades, it is anticipated that a new

middle-class with growing wealth

and purchasing power will emerge

and they will increase their per cap-

ita food consumption, particularly for

processed food, meat, dairy and fish.

This increasing demand will present

market opportunities for countries

like India with the potential to pro-

duce high quality, safe and sustaina-

ble food. The only concern is that a

significant increase in population will

take place in the poor countries that

currently experience relatively low

agricultural yields and low per capi-

ta availability of food, with only a

small percentage of caloric intake

from animal products. The food se-

curity for these countries can most

effectively be enhanced by assisting

them in increasing their own food

production. With the kind of techni-

cal knowhow in soil health, availabil-

ity of improved seed and plant pro-

tection, increasing availability of

power and water in agriculture sec-

tor, India can play a significant role.

But the big question is: Are we pre-

pared to take the complexities of the

challenge head on?

pact, it is only at the interest of

her becoming a developing nation

today. Yours etc., RAJA DAS,

Gauhati University.

JallikattuSir, – Kudos to your editorial,

‘Regressive step’ (AT, Jan 23). Itis a pity that we unite when ourmacho pride gets hurt but we donot care when inhumanity causesa real blow to our pride. Wecannot stop rape, ragging,teasing, lynching and bullying solong as violence is allowed to beenjoyed in the name of tradition,culture or necessity for becomingfit enough to survive. However,in the journey of evolution,humans happened only afterminerals, plants and animals. Andhuman beings are slowlyrealizing that they are to dobetter than the animals not byfighting like them or with thembut by throwing the very‘survival of the fittest theory’ to ajungle. Compassion and coopera-tion can only take humanityforward. This is the reason whymany countries have graduated

themselves from police states to

welfare states. This is the reason

why Helen Keller and Stephen

Hawking are shining bright in our

Who’s Who. If we support

jallikattu for the sake of tradition

and culture, then, how can we

support Malala? Unfortunately,

our stand in favour of jallikattu on

the ground of blind tradition will

dump us on Talibans who regard

culture as a static thing. Yours

etc., SUJIT DE, Sodepur,

Kolkata.

Sakira Ahibo...Sir, – The new Assamese

movie Sakira Ahibo Bokultolor

Bihuloi has created quite a

sensation on social media,

wherein the movie has become

very popular. The name of the

film itself is attractive. The film

intends to represents the real

picture of today’s Assamese

society. The film shows how our

young generation is utilizing our

culture to earn easy money for

their enjoyment. In this process,

they are degrading the essence,

value and ethics of the Assamese

culture. The film is not only

entertaining but also sends a

wonderful message to the society

that how we can solve our

problems by ourselves in unity.

Director Himangshu Prasad Das

and his team deserves kudos for

this film. Yours etc., TAPAS

MALI, Tezpur.

Difficult situationSir, – The recent transfer of

the lone cardiologist from the

Silchar Medical College and

Hospital has pushed the entire

populace of the Barak Valley into

a difficult situation. Through your

esteemed daily, I would like to

request the State Health

Minister to do the needful and

provide the people suffering from

different heart diseases some

assistance. Yours etc., PINAKI

CHAKRAVARTY, Ghungoor,

Silchar.

Entrance testSir, – We know that the State

Eligibility Test (SLET/SET) 2017

was postponed to February 26

from February 5, 2017. And we

are really very thankful for this

prompt and thoughtful act of the

SLET Commission. But,

unfortunately, one more entrance

exam called JEST (Joint Entrance

Screening Test) to be held on

February 19 has also been

postponed to February 26 which

collides with the SLET. We the

students of the physics branch are

to suffer for this. It is a request to

the SLET Commission if they

could look into this matter and do

the needful. Yours etc., LAVINA

SARMA, Guwahati.

Good jobSir, – It’s a good news that

three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)

terrorists, who were trying to

enter India through the porous

Bangladesh border and nabbed by

the Border Security Force in

April 2007, were sentenced to

death on Saturday last by a local

court in North 24 Parganas, West

Bengal. This is a good job done by

our security forces. Yours etc.,

SHUAIB KHAN, Hojai.

Instead of only dredging, we

should develop a flood

management project which will

include dredging, reclamation

of lost area due to erosion,

building permanent concrete

embankments, planting trees

on the riverbank and building

roads on both the banks of the

Brahmaputra.

Rn Pranabendra Barman

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI 7

CITY

No harmful radiations frommobile towers: Telecom Secy

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24:

Stressing the importance of

digital empowerment, JS

Deepak, Secretary, Depart-

ment of Telecommunications,

Government of India today

stated that apart from adequate

digital infrastructure it is also

necessary to remove the

myths and misconceptions that

are ruling the mind of a sec-

tion of citizens.

Addressing an awareness

programme in the city on

EMF emissions and telecom

towers, Deepak asserted that

contrary to the myth that mo-

bile towers emit harmful ra-

diations, the World Health

Organization has concluded

that current evidence does not

confirm existence of any

health consequences from ex-

posure to low level electro-

magnetic fields.

Mentioning that more mo-

bile towers need to be set up

to realise the dream of digital

India, Deepak said that there

is no need to fear emissions

from mobile towers as the

government has a set of strin-

gent safety norms and strict-

er enforce-

ment rules.

“Telecom-

munications is

a key source of

e m p o w e r -

ment of citi-

zens at large

and an effec-

tive tool for

s o c i o - e c o -

nomic devel-

opment of a

nation. It has

emerged as

one of the core infrastruc-

tures required for rapid

growth and modernisation of

various sectors of the econo-

my. The delivery of broad-

band services to those who

are at the bottom of the pyra-

mid in India can be done

through mo-

bile technology

only,” said

Deepak, add-

ing that there

are more than

100 crore mo-

bile subscrip-

tions in the

country.

S p e a k i n g

about the safe-

ty norms set

by the govern-

ment, Deepak

said that they are ten times

more stringent than the exist-

ing limits prescribed by the In-

ternational Commission on

Non Ionizing Radiation Pro-

tection and recommended by

WHO. “If any BTS site is found

to violate the prescribed EMF

norms, action is taken to put a

penalty of Rs 10 lakh per BTS

per incidence including clo-

sure of BTS if violation per-

sists,” he said.

State Chief Secretary VK

Pipersenia in his address ob-

served that mobile connec-

tivity is not satisfactory in

the North East. He said that

telecommunication services

are the backbone of econom-

ic development and steps

should be initiated for

strengthening mobile con-

nectivity.

It needs to be mentioned

that the session was held as

part of a nationwide awareness

programme.

CORRESPONDENT

JALUKBARI, Jan 24: The V

Venkata Rao Research Schol-

ars’ Hostel, Gauhati Universi-

ty, is organising the 12th edi-

tion of Prof V Venkata Rao Me-

morial Lecture on January 28

at the Phanidhar Datta Semi-

nar Hall, GU.

Noted litterateur and former

Asam Sahitya Sabha president

Prof Nagen Saikia will deliver

the memorial lecture on the

topic ‘Musings on History’. The

event will also be attended by

noted Assamese novelist and

journalist Anuradha Sarma Pu-

jaree and renowned social ac-

tivist Dr Birubala Rava.

Professor Emeritus Dr Vad-

lamudi Venkata Rao, in whose

memory the lecture is dedicat-

ed, was the founding head of

Prof VV Rao memoriallecture on Jan 28

the Department of Political Sci-

ence, GU and a prominent so-

cial scientist of the country, who

donated his life savings to var-

ious Indian universities for the

promotion of higher education.

The event will be set off by a

Swatch Bharat Abhiyan on the

university premises from 9 am,

to be conducted jointly by the

Gauhati University Officers’ As-

sociation and the resident re-

search scholars of the university.

This will be followed by screen-

ing of a documentary on the life

and legacy of Prof Venkata Rao

made by veteran Assamese ac-

tor and filmmaker Brajen Bora,

who too will attend the occasion.

The programme will conclude

with a get-together of the present

and former boarders of the V

Venkata Rao Research Scholars’

Hostel (RCC 5 Boys’ Hall).

CORRESPONDENT

JALUKBARI, Jan 24: The

Department of Communication

and Journalism, GU, in collabo-

ration with UNICEF is organ-

ising North East Communica-

tion Forum, a two-day regional

consultation of academia, pro-

fessionals and government on

their experiences on social and

behavioural change through

communication in different de-

velopmental schemes in Assam

and North East.

The session, which began

today, is aimed at creating a

common platform for discus-

sions and experience sharing

on developmental issues that

are carried forward by differ-

ent departments including ac-

ademic institutions, govern-

ment bodies, civil societies,

media and other sectors.

The consultation was inau-

gurated by GU Vice Chancel-

lor Dr Mridul Hazarika, who

spoke on the need to create a

common ground where all

sectors can share their knowl-

edge and their work area.

Senior journalist Samudra

Gupta Kashyap said, “We

should not work in isolation but

use communication as a tool

to share experiences and ex-

pertise to maximize develop-

mental process in the region.”

Altogether 30 representa-

tives from different universi-

ties of the North East, govern-

ment bodies, NGOs and media

signed the terms of reference

promising to keep in touch pe-

riodically and exchange ideas

and work experiences.

The session was attended by

Prof HP Sharma, Rector, GU;

Rajat Barman Mahanta,

former State government of-

ficial; Radha Saini, fellow

UICC; Dr Ranjan Kakati, Di-

rector of Students’ Welfare,

GU; DK Saikia, Director,

NIPCCD; Sikha Barthakur,

State BCC expert and other

prominent academicians,

medical practitioners and me-

dia experts from the region.

2-day academiameet begins

NE Graduate CongressSTAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: At a time when they are at a crucial stage

of their academic life, around ten thousand upcoming graduates

will get to know the tricks for preparing for their future course

of action and will also get a much needed exposure into various

fields through the North East Graduate Congress 2017, to be

held from February 17 to 19 on the periphery of Guwahati.

Organised by ERD Foundation, the fourth edition of the fest

would bring graduation students of the entire North East togeth-

er, giving them a platform for various activities, sports, symposia,

career counselling, entrepreneurship development programme,

cultural exhibition and workshops etc. Around 200 colleges are

likely to take part in the event to be held in the University of

Science and Technology, Meghalaya (USTM) campus.

Apprising the media of the activities of the event, Dr Alaka

Sarma, Dean, students welfare, USTM stated that the aspiring

graduates, a majority coming from the interior areas of the

region would find a platform through the Graduate Congress

to express themselves, hone their skills and identify the op-

portunities lying ahead.

A dance item being presented during the Sadou Asam Sarania Kochari Yuva Mahotsav at

District Library in Guwahati on Tuesday. – UB Photos

8 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017STATE

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal along with other dignitaries releasing a souvenir at the unveiling function of

Prabhuram Karki’s bust at Morisuti LP School premises in Sonitpur district, on Monday. – UB Photos

Members of All Assam Bengali Youth Students’ Federation taking out a cultural rally on

the occasion of the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, at Dhekiajuli

on Monday. – UB Photos

A Bhagawat yatra-cum-cultural procession being taken out to mark the 6th annual conference of Baksa district

Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha at Thomna in Baksa district, on Monday. – UB Photos

CORRESPONDENT

DOOMDOOMA, Jan 24:

The Dibrugarh and Tinsukia

district committees of All As-

sam Recognised ME School

Teachers’ Association (2005-

2006) organised a huge public

meeting at the Forest Guard

Training School at Makum on

January 22.

The meeting was attended

by retired teachers, eminent

writers, representatives of dif-

ferent students’ bodies and lit-

erary organisations. The meet-

ing discussed the issue of

provincialisation of venture

schools in the State.

Though the previous State

Government provincialised a

section of schools by enacting a

law in the State Assembly, but

the Gauhati High Court in a

significant judgement subse-

quently declared this law null

and void. The Gauhati High

Court verdict has obviously led

to a state of uncertainty among

the concerned teachers as their

future prospect has become

bleak. Those working in the

concerned venture schools of

the State are therefore passing

days in a state of great anxiety.

Govt urged to provincialiseventure schools urgently

The meeting was jointly

chaired by Pradip Kumar

Moran and Jyotish Saikia,

presidents of Tinsukia and

Dibrugarh district committees

of the association respectively.

The speakers who addressed

the meeting urged the State

Government to provincialise

all the venture schools of the

State soon by enacting a new

law immediately. They also

urged Education Minister Dr

Himanta Biswa Sarma not to

do politics on this vital issue

which concerns the future of

thousands of minors, besides

bread and butter of several

thousand teachers.

The meeting passed a

number of resolutions and

urged the State Government to

provincialise all the venture

schools by enacting a new law

during the next session of the

Assam Legislative Assembly, to

grant an ex-gratia of Rs 5,00,000/

- each to those teachers who

retired after serving in such

venture schools of the State.

The meeting also urged the

Government to sanction simi-

lar ex-gratia to the families of

those teachers who died dur-

ing their service period. Fur-

ther, the meeting also decided

to send separate memoran-

dums to the Governor, Chief

Minister and to the Education

Minister of the State on this

important matter.

UBI staff shortage: The

customers of United Bank of

India (UBI) here have been

suffering a lot due to shortage

of staff.

According to information

available, at present the bank

branch has over 45,000 custom-

ers. But in order to attend to

such a large customers base, the

branch has only five allotted staff,

including the branch manager.

Though the branch manager

has reportedly informed the

higher authority of the bank

about the problems faced by

the customers due to short-

age of staff in the branch, but

the higher ups are yet to take

any effective measure to solve

the problem.

Moreover, following the re-

cent decision of the Union Gov-

ernment to pay wages of the

tea garden labourers through

their respective bank accounts,

the labourers have opened

their bank accounts in this

branch too. Consequently, the

number of customers in the

bank branch has witnessed a

phenomenal increase since the

last few weeks. With only five

staff at his disposal, the branch

manager has obviously been

finding it uphill to attend to the

ever-increasing rush of cus-

tomers. The condition of the

bank staff becomes all the more

worse when any one of them

avails leave, following which

the existing staff are overbur-

dened with additional respon-

sibilities, while the customers

suffer for no fault of theirs.

On the other hand, the pass-

book update process in the

branch has been totally

stopped since the last four

months due to shortage of staff.

A few customers of the bank

lamented before this Corre-

spondent that bank staff often

misbehave with the custom-

ers. They also alleged that the

limited space of the present

bank branch is insufficient to

accommodate over a hundred

customers at a time.

The customers therefore ap-

pealed to the higher bank au-

thority to take prompt meas-

ures to solve these nagging prob-

lems at the earliest possible.

CORRESPONDENT

SILCHAR, Jan 24: The first-ever

alumni meet of Assam University was

held here on Monday.

The meet was organised by the

alumni association of the varsity in as-

sociation with Assam University un-

der the Utsav Jyotirgamaya scheme at

the Netaji Subhash Mukta Mancha,

which witnessed a large turnout of stu-

dents of yesteryears.

In a function held on the occasion,

Prof Manabendra Dutta Choudhury, the

working chairman of the alumni asso-

ciation said that members of associa-

tion shall take steps to construct a

1,000-seater new auditorium, which is

the need of the hour for the greater

Good response to first-ever alumnimeet at Assam University

interest of the university fraternity.

Prof Dilip Chandra Nath, Vice Chan-

cellor of the university said, “the uni-

versity is only 24 years old and has a

lot to achieve in the years ahead. We

are open to constructive criticism and

the alumni association must cooperate

and engage in frequent interactions for

the development of such an institution

of higher learning.”

Congratulating the association for

hosting such a grand event, Cachar

Deputy Commissioner S Vishwanath-

an urged the alumni association to step

up to assist the varsity authorities in

solving their long-pending problems.

“The alumni association must work

towards the betterment of the universi-

ty. The association must build a stronger

network by using social media as well.”

Kirit Pradyut Bikram Kishore Man-

ikya, the King of Tripura who also

joined the function, said that students

in India are flooded with information

and there is little emphasis on knowl-

edge exchange. He said that people of

Tripura always look upto Assam Uni-

versity for pursuing education.

Dr Sanjib Bhattacharjee, Registrar

of the university, Prof NB Dey, former

chairman of the alumni association and

Prodipto Das, convener of the associa-

tion, also spoke on the occasion.

Rich tributes were paid to Netaji

Subash Chandra Bose on his birth an-

niversary, while a number of competi-

tive and cultural events were held to

mark the meet.

Homage paidto Manipuri

leaderGUWAHATI, Jan 24: The

Manipuri National Council

(MNC) headquartered in the

city condoled the death and

paid homage to their 52-year-

old departed leader Naorem

Babu Singh, who left for his

heavenly abode on January 14

at a Silchar-based nursing

home, a press release re-

ceived here stated.

The MNC resolved to fol-

low the footsteps of their de-

parted leader and to complete

his unfinished tasks for a unit-

ed and prosperous Manipuri

nation.The MNC was hopeful

that Naorem Babu Singh’s

ideology and spirit of sacrifice

will always inspire its mem-

bers forever.

Besides being the presi-

dent of MNC, Naorem Babu

was actively associated with

various socio-cultural organ-

isations of Assam. An active

founder member of United

Manipuri Association, As-

sam, he was also a member

of Manipuri Sahitya Panshad,

Assam, Kamrup district

committee, besides being the

founder secretary of Kanglei

Salai Sintha Lup, Guwahati,

and an RSS member.

He is survived by two

daughters and a son, besides

relatives and well-wishers.

Motorcyclestolen

CORRESPONDENT

DOOMDOOMA, Jan 24: A

Hero Honda Splendor Plus

motorcycle bearing registra-

tion No. AS-23-D-3560 and

owned by Abhoy Khataniar,

former president of Daimukhia

Gaon Panchayat, who is a resi-

dent of Rupbon under Doom-

dooma Police Station was sto-

len from Doomdooma town on

Sunday. An FIR was lodged at

Doomdooma Police Station in

this connection.

CORRESPONDENT

HAILAKANDI, Jan 24: With a view to

ensure that tea garden workers do not

face hardship in bank transaction-related

matters and to make it within their reach,

the Hailakandi district administration has

placed indent for ATMs and bank branch-

es for all the 17 tea gardens and their out

divisions across the district.

In a communique to the Director of In-

stitutional Finance, Deputy Commission-

er Moloy Bora placed an indent for 27

ATMs within the garden premises for the

More ATMs sought for Hailakandi TEsconvenience of the plantation workers and

a bank branch near Lallamukh Tea Estate.

District Labour Officer Alimuddin Bar-

bhuiya said a few ATMs have already been

installed following a pro-active role

played by the Deputy Commissioner.

“If more ATMs and bank branches

come up, it will immensely benefit the

tea garden workers, as they no longer

have to go to the town for banking trans-

action,” he said.

Barbhuiya further disclosed that all the

tea garden managements have agreed to

provide space in their garden premises

for installation of ATMs.

“It augurs well that all the tea garden

managements have agreed to allot space

for setting up of ATMs following a series

of meetings with the Deputy Commis-

sioner,” he added.

It may be mentioned that the payment

of wages to the individual bank accounts

of tea garden workers are being made

through Customer Service Providers

(CSPs) of designated bank branches.

Here, Assam Gramin Vikash Bank is

leading from the front followed by UBI,

SBI, Allahabad Bank and Union Bank.

Forest Minister rues denudedcondition of Behali RF

CORRESPONDENT

HAFLONG, Jan 24: The

majestic Barail mountain

range is now a ‘No-Hunting

Zone’.

This decision was taken by

the Notun Leikul Village

Council recently, headed by

its gaonburah-cum-president

of Barail Mountain Festival

Organising Committee,

Tour AD, Letjohao Singson

in the run-up to the Barail

Mountain Festival-2017,

organised on January 5 by

five villages of Barail range–

Notun Leikul (host village),

Doiheng, Jatinga, Kelelo and

Longma, to promote

Barail mountain rangedeclared ‘No-Hunting Zone’

conservation of biodiversity

and indigenous cultures of

the multi-ethnic groups of

the Barail range through

ecotourism.

No individual from the

villages or from outside will

be allowed to hunt, trap or

kill wildlife (including birds)

in the Barail mountain zone,

which also includes a total

stop to poisoning of rivers

for fishing in the zone.

Moreover, the village

council unanimously resolved

to plant 20 saplings or more

by each household of the

village every year. It may be

recalled that several years

earlier, the N Leikul village

council had demarcated

village forest reserve and

catchment areas, wherein

tree felling was banned. It is

hoped that more villages and

people in the near future

would derive inspiration

from the villagers of Notun

Leikul.

The village council also

demarcated the earlier village

reserve and will enforce ‘No

Tree Felling’ in the catchment

areas. The village youth

committee has been asked to

convey the message that

‘Barail is No Hunting Zone,’

to the nearby villages.

CORRESPONDENT

NORTH LAKHIMPUR,

Jan 24: On the occasion of the

100th birth anniversary of

Melvin Jones, the founder of

Lions Club International, the

occasion was celebrated here

with ceremonial distribution of

rice bags among the under-

privileged people.

Lakhimpur Lions Club and

Lions Club of Lakhimpur Pre-

rona distributed rice bags to

economically backward people

on Friday at two different plac-

es of the town to mark the

100th birthday of the founder

of Lions Club International,

besides 100 years of services

to mankind.

Lakhimpur Lions Club dis-

tributed 200 bags of rice to eco-

nomically backward people on

January 13. The distribution

ceremony was held at the Town

Bor Masjid where the presi-

dent of the club, Manik Lal

Damani and members Dr Up-

endra Nath Dutta and Raj Agar-

wal distributed the rice bags.

Similarly, Lions Club of La-

khimpur Prerona distributed

80 bags of rice among the back-

ward residents at Koilamari

Tea Estate on the same day.

The president of the club Jyo-

tshna Medak and secretary

Bharati Phukan Gogoi along

with members Tazwara Taluk-

dar, Saroj Giria, Farhana

Ahmed and Jyotshna Baruah

participated in the rice bag-dis-

tribution ceremony.

Melvin Jones’ birthcentenary celebrated

CORRESPONDENT

BISWANATH CHARIALI,

Jan 24: It is very painful to see

the denuded condition of the

Behali Reserve Forest, which

was declared an RF by the

British rulers 100 years ago

with a view to preserve its flo-

ra and fauna,” observed State

Forest Minister Pramila Rani

Brahma at the centenary cele-

bration of Behali Reserve For-

est under East Sonitpur For-

est Division on Saturday.

She lamented that she could

not see any wild animals or

valuable trees, except for

some shrubs in the reserve

forest. She questioned the ra-

tionale behind such a celebra-

tion, in an area stricken of its

valuable trees, which no long-

er fits to be called a forest it

the true sense.

It may be mentioned that the

public meet under reference

was held at Bihmari LP School

under the aegis of East Sonit-

pur Forest Division and Na-

ture’s Banyapran, a local NGO

with Ranjit Dutta, State Minis-

ter for Irrigation and Handloom

and Textile, in the chair.

The Forest Minister also

criticised the lackadaisical at-

titude of some forest officials

towards their duty and an-

nounced that an enquiry would

be initiated into alleged mis-

appropriation of funds sanc-

tioned for the development of

Behali Reserve Forest by the

concerned officials.

Taking part as a distin-

guished guest in the meet-

ing, ‘Forest Man’ Jadav Pay-

eng called upon all present to

plant trees on the banks of

the Brahmaputra.

The Chief Conservator of

Forest Rongke Kiling, Dep-

uty Conservator of Forest

AK Srivastav, Conservator

of Forest of Northern Assam

PC Sonar, Deputy Commis-

sioner of Biswanath Asitak-

sha Chakravarty etc, among

others, were present on the

occasion.

Seminarorganised atBhawanipur

collegeANN Service

PATACHARKUCHI, Jan 24:

A two- day UGC-sponsored na-

tional seminar is going to be

organised at Bhawanipur An-

chalik College on January 30 and

31on the topic, ‘Human Rights

Education: Significance and

Challenges.’

The seminar will be held

under the aegis of the Political

Science Department of the col-

lege in collaboration with AR-

VUT Society of Barpeta Road.

Interested teachers, research

scholars, students and other

academicians have been urged

to contact the seminar organis-

ing committee for participation.

Pramila Rani Brahma

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GUWAHATI, Jan 24: The militant

camps in Myanmar remain a major

cause of worry for the security

scenario in the North East region and

so far, the Government has not been

able to ensure that the India-Myanmar

border is properly guarded to prevent

free movement of the ultras. Mean-

while, the involvement of Manipur-

based militant outfits in incidents of

violence in Assam is a new trend,

which a cause of major concern for the

security forces.

Security sources told The Assam

Tribune that though the Assam Rifles

has been entrusted with the responsi-

bility of guarding the international

border with Myanmar, the movement

of the ultras from their bases in the

neighbouring country has not been

stopped, while, despite assurances, the

Government of that country is yet to

take firm steps to evict the camps of

the ultras. The terrain along the

international border areas is also

Role of Manipur-basedultras comes to light

helping the militants, while, on its

part, the Government of India has not

been able to create proper infrastruc-

ture like border roads, camps of the

border guarding force etc along the

international border, which also

affected the performance of the force.

On the other hand, strong presence

of Naga people on both sides of the

international border, particularly the

strong bases of the NSCN (K) is also a

matter of concern. Though the

Government decided to raise physical

barriers on some parts of the interna-

tional border, the move faced strong

resistance of the people living along

the border because they were of the

view that such a move would affect the

age old traditional trade and relations

between India and Myanmar.

Taking advantage of the porous

international border, the militants can

very easily sneak into India from their

bases in the neighbouring country to

indulge in acts of violence in the North

East. Of late, the militants are prefer-

ring the Arunachal-Myanmar border,

particularly through the Changlang

district, where the NSCN(K) has

strong presence.

Meanwhile, security sources

admitted that the involvement of

CorCom, an umbrella organization of

seven militant outfits of Manipur, in

incidents of violence in Assam is a

matter of serious concern. In the past,

militants belonging to the NSCN (K)

were involved in acts of violence

inside Assam, but Manipur based

outfits rarely came into the picture.

However, the involvement of CorCom

in the recent attack on Assam Rifles in

Jagoon in Tinsukia district has been

confirmed.

Sources said that it is yet to be

ascertained what prompted Manipur

bases outfits to involve in violence in

Assam. “The main question now is

whether the Manipur based outfits

joined hands with the ULFA(I) for a

joint operation for the convenience of

both or they were ordered by

someone else to do so,” sources

pointed out.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi presenting the National Bravery Awards 2016 to Tankeswar Pegu of Golaghat, Assam in the

presence of Minister of State for Women and Child Development Krishna Raj, in New Delhi on Monday. – UB Photos

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: To ac-

knowledge the contribution of

the tea tribes in strengthen-

ing the greater Assamese so-

ciety, the APPL Foundation, an

NGO, has been organising the

Sirish Festival since 2015. The

third edition of the festival will

be held from February 4 and 5

at Naharkatia town field, said a

press release.

The first Sirish Festival in

2015 was organised at Hathikhu-

li TE while the second was held

at Powai TE, Margherita.

Sirish-2017, being held in

Naharkatia will showcase the

tradition, cultures and way of

living of the tea tribe commu-

nity. Apart from the local popu-

lation of Naharkatia and adjoin-

ing TEs, this festival will be

CORRESPONDENT

NORTH LAKHIMPUR, Jan

24: The three-day farmers’

conclave called Krishak Utsav,

concluded on Monday at North

Lakhimpur with calls to end

contract work system in

State’s agriculture sector and

make accessible the State ma-

chinery for the peasants. The

three-day conclave was organ-

ised by Orchid India, a local

NGO with the active collabo-

ration of Assam Agricultural

University, Jorhat and Nation-

al Bank For Agriculture & Ru-

ral Development (NABARD).

The conclave began with

the hoisting of the silver ju-

bilee flag of Orchid India.

Newly-elected Lakhimpur

MP, Pradan Baruah attended

the inaugural function as the

chief guest. The first farm-

ers’ session was held on that

day on ‘Economic Develop-

ment’ by Organic Tea. This

was followed by a meet on

women farmers. A technical

session on ‘Aromatic plant

Sanchi (Agor) and its role in

economic development’ was

organised on the first day of

the conclave. This was fol-

lowed by a discussion on ‘Par-

ticipation of youth in agricul-

ture’.

On the second day of the

conclave, a seminar on fair

pricing of agriculture products

was held. Dr Ananta Saikia,

professor of horticulture,

AAU, Jorhat attended the

seminar as the resource per-

CORRESPONDENT

MANGALDAI, Jan 24: The

BJP-led State government is

going to celebrate the ‘Krishak

Swahid Divas’ commemorat-

ing the historic Pathorughat

peasants’ uprising as an official

government function with a

two-day-long programme on

January 27 and 28 next.

This is the first time that the

State government has taken

up the entire responsibility of

observing the central event of

its own unlike the previous

years when it was celebrated

by the local people with some

assistance from the local ad-

ministration.

Chief Minister Sarbananda

Sonowal will grace the open

session of the celebration

scheduled from 11 am on Jan-

uary 28 as the chief guest. The

decision of the State govern-

ment has brought about high

hopes among the people here

for taking the historic peas-

ant uprising of Pathorughat in

National GirlChild Dayobserved

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: Along

with other parts of Assam, the

National Girl Child Day was

also observed at Udalguri

Girls’ High School by the Dis-

trict Child Protection unit in

association with the UNICEF.

An awareness rally was or-

ganised in which nearly 600

people took part.

“Streetplays were also per-

formed in various locations in

the district to raise awareness

about the rights of children,

especially girl child,” a press re-

lease added. – Staff Reporter

Bajali Collegegets A grade

PATACHARKUCHI, Jan 24:

Bajali College, one of the pre-

mier higher educational insti-

tution of lower Assam under

Bajali subdivision of Barpeta

dist, received the A grade in

2nd cycle inspection of NAAC.

On the 21st meet of the stand-

ing committee held on January

23, the college got A grade with

3.05 CGPA. As soon as the re-

sult was declared, various or-

ganisations of the locality in-

cluding the college authority

expressed their happiness and

congratulated the college for

shining with a higher grade and

also for adding glory to the ed-

ucational hub. – ANN Service

Sirish Festival to honourSamir Tanti, Ram Sasoni

witnessed and contested by the

six finalists teams from across

Assam and West Bengal, cho-

sen from among 90 teams con-

stituting 1,350 artistes from the

tea tribe community. The pre-

liminary rounds were held in

Rungamutty TE (West Bengal),

Hattigor TE (Udalguri), Latta-

koojan TE (Golaghat), Chabua

TE (Dibrugarh) and Naharka-

tia TE (Dibrugarh).

The highlight of the festival

will be honouring of two icons

from the community – one

each from the fields of litera-

ture and culture. This year

Samir Tanti (Literature) and

Ram Sasoni (Culture) will be

presented the Sirish Award,

constituting a cheque of Rs 1

lakh each and citations.

Farmers’ conclave endsin North Lakhimpur

son. This was followed by a

seminar on ‘Farmers’ banking

concept, SHGs and joint re-

sponsibility unit’ was held.

The open session of the

farmers’ conclave was held on

Monday at Tyagkshetra in

North Lakhimpur which was

chaired by Dr KM Buzarbaru-

ah, Vice Chancellor, Assam

Agricultural University, Jorhat.

The welcome address of the

meeting was delivered by the

chairman of Orchid India, Ri-

shi Raj Hazarika. In his address,

Hazarika announced the start-

ing of the ‘Farmer's Institute

of Agriculture and Skill Devel-

opment’ in upper Zoihing area

of Lakhimpur from 2018.

State Agriculture Minister

Atul Borah attended the ses-

sion as the chief guest. In his

address Borah reiterated the

State government’s policy of

ending the contract system in

the agriculture sector and

bringing back the department

to the peasants.

Preparation on to celebrate KrishakSwahid Divas as State function

January 28, 1894 into the na-

tional level.

Meanwhile the district ad-

ministration has made elabo-

rate arrangements for the suc-

cessful and smooth conduct of

the function, for which several

sub committees have been

formed under the supervision

of senior officials of the admin-

istration. In a joint meeting of

the publicity sub committees

with representatives of differ-

ent local media organisations

on Saturday, Pallavi Sarma

Choudhury, convener of the

Sub Committee as well as As-

sistant Commissioner in pres-

ence of Samar Kalita, District

Information and Public Rela-

tion Officer sought all sorts of

cooperation from the media

for wide publicity of the pro-

posed event.

It may be mentioned here

after assuming his office as the

Chief Minister, Sarbananda

Sonowal is going to visit Dar-

rang for the first time. More-

over, it is significant to note

here that during his tenure as

the president of All Assam

Students’ Union (AASU), the

Sonowal-led AASU centrally

celebrated the centenary cel-

ebration of the Krishak Swa-

hid Divas with a three-day-

long programme. Sipajhar leg-

islator Binanda Saikia during

his tenure as the vice presi-

dent of AASU also played a key

role in organising the cente-

nary celebration.

On the other hand, ‘Patho-

ru Xamannay Gosthi,’ a lead-

ing socio-cultural organisation

of the Patharighat area has de-

manded a national-level sem-

inar in New Delhi to bring to

the notice of the nation this

ignored but glorious chapter

of the freedom struggle. In a

petition to the Chief Minis-

ter, Dibakar Barua and Mos-

tak Hussain, president and

secretary of the organisation

respectively have also de-

manded other charter of de-

mands, including setting up of

a tomb in the nation’s capital

in memory of the peasant

martyrs, necessary arrange-

ments for the visit of the Pres-

ident or the Prime Minister

to the historic land and renam-

ing the present name of the

place Patharighat as Patho-

rughat, among others.

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Ú·±“›Janasanyog/1497/16

ATTENTIONALL SMALL TEA GROWERS AND BOUGHT TEA LEAF FACTORIES

1) All Tea Estate/ Plantation whose aggregate area of

specified lands is below forty hectares.

2) All bought tea leaf factories who buy green tea leaves

from tea estate whose aggregate area of specified lands

is below forty hectares.

It has been reported that the bought tea leaf factories buying

green tea leaves from tea estates having aggregate area of

specified lands below forty hectares are deducting tax under

the Assam Taxation (On Specified Lands) Act, 1990 at the

rate of 25 paise per kg. instead of 15 paise per kg. in spite

of the amended provision notified vide Government

Notification No. LGL.42/ 2004/124 dated 26.08.2016, wherein

the rate of tax for such tea estates has been reduced to 15

paise per kg. in place of 25 paise per kg. w.e.f. 26.08.2016.

Therefore, it is impressed upon all concerned to follow the

amended provision in respect of deduction of tax at source

under the Assam Taxation (On Specified Lands) Act, 1990.

For any further details, please contact your nearest Sales

Tax Office or the office of the Commissioner of Taxes,

Assam, Kar Bhawan, Guwahati-6.

Phone No. : 0361-2232513; Fax No. : 0361-2232677Janasanyog/8640/16

PUBLIC NOTICE(FINAL MERIT LIST OF ASSISTANT TEACHER UNDER SSA, ASSAM)

No.SSA/TT/Engagement of Asst. Teacher/472/2016/8504 Date: 21.01.2017

This is for general information that the Final Merit List for the post of Asst. Teacher

(Lower Primary, Upper Primary-Social Science, Upper Primary- Maths & Science)

on contractual basis under Sarba Siksha Abhiyan, Assam in connection with this

office Advertisement No.SSA/TT/Engagement of Asstt. Teacher/ 472/2016, dated

01.10.2016, has been declared today.

The Final Merit List is uploaded in the official website of SSA, Assam:

(www.ssaassam.gov.in).

In case of detection of any ineligibility of these selected candidates (in future) as

per terms and condition of the advertisement or NCTE norms the authority reserves

the right to cancel/reject the selection of such candidate even after issuing of

engagement letter or his/her engagement in school without any further notice.

All the selected candidates are hereby requested to attend the 1- day Orientation

Programme cum Engagement letters Distribution Ceremony at Gauhati

Medical College Auditorium, Bhangagarh, Guwahati-05 on 27th January’2017 at

8.30 a.m. positively.

All the selected candidates are requested to bring their Original TET/CTET pass

Certificate with them. It is mandatory to show the TET/CTET pass Certificate to

enter the Auditorium and to collect the Appointment letter. Only selected candidates

will be allowed to enter the Auditorium.

Date: 27.01.2017, Time:8.30 a.m.

Venue: Gauhati Medical College Auditorium, Bhangagarh, Guwahati-05

Sd/- Mission Director

Sarba Siksha Abhiyan,Assam

Janasanyog/1500/16

Short Tender Notice

Inviting re e-tender No: IINo: SMEJ/JMCH/989/Pt-VII/2017/134 Date: 19.01.2017

Sealed bids (two bid system) are invited from manufacturers/ firm/ dealers/ suppliers for supply of Mammography Machine for the Department

of Radiology, JMCH, Jorhat, as per following schedule:

Date and Time of Pre-Bid Date and Time of Date and Time of Date and Time of Total Items

Publishing of Bid Meeting Date End of Bid Submission Opening of Technical Bid Opening of Price Bid in NIT

Document

12:30 PM 11:00 Noon 11:00 AM 12:00 Noon 11:00 AM 01

of 22.01.2017 of 02.02.2017 of 06.02.2017 of 06.02.2017 of 07.02.2017 (One)

1. The details of the tender, formats, terms & conditions and subsequent addendum /corrigendum /cancellation /re-tender etc. may be seen

from/obtained from the institutional website www.jmch.org.in.

2. Tender shall be submitted online only through the website: http://www.assamtenders.gov.in/

3. The Institute reserves the right to reject any/ all applications without assigning any reason whatsoever.

Sd/- Principal cum Chief Superintendent

Janasanyog/4350/16 Jorhat Medical College & Hospital, Jorhat

CORRIGENDUMIn the advertisement published in “Niyomiya Batra” and The Assam Tribune” on

16-01-2017, the following should be included.

The candidate for post of teacher in any school should have passed HSLC or equivalent

Examination with Assamese subject either as MIL or any elective subject if the medium

of instruction of the School is Assamese, Bengali subject either as MIL or any elective

subject if the medium of instruction of the School is Bengali, Bodo subject either as MIL or

any elective subject if the medium of instruction of the School is Bodo, Hindi subject either

MIL or any elective subject if the medium of instruction of the School is Hindi.

In absence of above mentioned criteria, if a candidate read up to HSLC level in Assamese,

Bengali, Bodo medium High School/H. S. School/Junior College he/she may also be eligible

in the Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Bodo medium School respectively”

Further, the diploma certificate in Assamese language issued by the “Axom Sahitya

Shabha” in case of requirement of Assamese language either as MIL or as any elective

subject in HSLC or equivalent examination in respect of the candidates who have qualified

TET during 2016 to be acceptable will also be accepted.

N.B:- Please read as Bhogeswar Hazarika Girls’ H. S. School instead of Bhogeswar Hazarika

Girls’ High School.

The last date of receipt of application is extended to 28-01-2017

Inspector of Schools

Nagaon Dist, Circle NagaonJanasanyog/1493/16

NOTIFICATIONApplication are invited as per the prescribe format for fallowing courses which are going to be commenced under the City Mission Management Unit,

Goalpara (CMMU) Assam State Urban Livelihood Mission (ASULMS) Goalpara Municipal Board at the following training centres.

SI. Name of the Courses Duration of Qualification Age Total Nos. of Name of the STP

No course (Hrs) Candidates

1 House keeping Executive 240 12th 18-35 30

2 Associate customer care (Non 440 12th 18-35 30 Basic Academy for

voice) Building Lifelong

3 Rural Mason 640 5th 18-35 30 Employability Ltd.

4 Front Office Associate 320 12th 18-35 30

5 Field Technician- Computing 340 12th/ITI 18-35 30

and Peripherals Sadba Institute of

6 Account Executive 190 B.Com 21-35 30 Technology &

Receivables and Payable management

7 Data Entry Operator 440 12th 18-35 30

8 House Keeper 520 5th 14-35 30 Centurn work skills

9 Front Office Cum 520 10th 14-35 30 Indi Ltd.

10 BPO Voice 500 10th 14-35 30

11 Integrated Course in Hair, Skin 650 8th 14-35 30

and Make-up Indus Integrated

12 Plumber (General) 360 5th 18-35 30 information

13 Engineer technical support 440 12th (SC) 18-35 30 management Ltd.

(level 1)

14 General Duty Assistant 280 8th 18-35 60 Brainware

consultancy Pvt.

Ltd.

15 Departmental Manager 390 13th pass (1st 18-35 30

year Bachelor)

16 Store Operating Assistant 240 N/A 18-35 30

17 Field Technician- Computing 340 12th/ ITI 18-35 30 Ascensive Educare

and Peripherals Pvt. Ltd.

18 Account Executive Recording 140 B.Com 21-35 30

19 House Keeping supervisor 260 12th 18-35 30

20 Field Technician - Home 400 8th 18-35 30

21 Retail Operations 180 10th 14-35 60 Briti Prosikshan Pvt.Ltd.

The applicant can collect ‘ the application form from the office of the City Mission Management Unit, Goalpara (NULM section) and Goalpara MunicipalBoard. Also candidates can collect from the respective course for respective training centre. Last date of submission of Application form on or before15.02.2017.

Sd/- CPO/EO

City Mission Management Unit, Goalpara,

Janasanyog/1491/16 Goalpara Municipal Board, Goalpara

CORRESPONDENT

AGARTALA, Jan 24: The

Narendra Modi government

has a vision to connect all the

northeastern State capitals by

2020 to turn the region into a

developed part of the country,

said Railways Minister Suresh

P Prabhu.

“The Northeast is lagging be-

hind, but the days are not far

when it will become a most de-

veloped part of the country due

to the all-out efforts in this re-

gard,” he said after flagging off a

passenger train service between

Agartala and Udaipura from Del-

hi’s Railways Board through vid-

eo conferencing on Tuesday.

“The Northeast region is a

priority for the Modi govern-

ment. The railway budgetary

outlay for the NE has been in-

creased substantially from Rs

2,121 crore during UPA regime

SPL CORRESPONDENT

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: In a

move to boost supply of es-

sential commodities, the Cen-

tre has dispatched 35 tonnes

of petroleum products to Ma-

nipur to tackle the crisis aris-

ing out of the United Naga

Council (UNC)-sponsored

economic blockade on the Na-

tional Highways.

The economic blockade,

which completed the 85th day

today, has crippled normal life

in the State. Official sources

said 70 tonnes more petrole-

um products will be sent soon.

The move came two days af-

ter an inter-ministerial meeting

chaired by Union Home Minis-

ter Rajnath Singh reviewed the

national highway that connects

Assam with the Manipur capi-

tal, a police officer said.

There were no casualties

despite fierce exchange of fire

between the security forces

and the tribal militants near

Khongkhang around noon, the

officer said.

About 300 trucks and oil tank-

ers, proceeding from Jiribam,

adjacent to Assam, under armed

escort of Central Reserve Po-

lice Force and Seema Suraksha

Bal personnel, were attacked

along NH-37, the officer said.

The militants chose a difficult

section of the highway with nu-

merous hairpin bends to launch

the stealth attack on the com-

mercial vehicles. A loaded oil

tanker was punctured by bul-

lets but it did not explode.

A driver present on the

scene said: “It took over 30

minutes to plug the bullet

holes, as petrol was gushing

out of the tanker. The vehicles

were halted during this time.”

The militants fled as the se-

curity personnel escorting the

National Girl Child Day

WEATHER

NORTHEASTForecast for NE: Weather ismost likely to remain dry overArunachal Pradesh, Assam,Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur,Mizoram and Tripura. Shallow tomoderate fog is very likely tooccur at isolated pockets overAssam, Meghalaya, Nagaland,Manipur, Mizoram and Tripuraduring next 72 hrs. No largechange in minimum temperaturesat most places over the regionduring next 72 hrs.

Warning: Nil

Temperatures

Max (°C) Min (°C)Dibrugarh 27.7 10.8Tezpur 27.2 11.0Silchar 29.2 11.3Dhubri 25.0 14.3Jorhat 26.7 8.5N Lakhimpur 28.4 7.6Shillong 18.4 6.2Imphal 26.4 4.9Itanagar 30.4 9.8Aizwal 26.1 6.9Agartala 28.6 11.8Kohima 21.4 8.0Pasighat 27.8 14.1Cherrapunjee 22.6. 8.4

All NE State capitals to be onrailway map by 2020: Prabhu

to Rs 5,316 crore during the

Modi government,” he said.

He said the NFR has set a

target to connect Sabroom,

Tripura’s southernmost subdi-

vision, by 2019 by putting all

efforts. “The Modi govern-

ment has a vision to see the

Northeast region flourishing

in all fronts. That’s why mod-

ern equipment are being used

in the region,” he added.

“After the extension of the

railway line up to Udaipur, two

famous temples – Kamakhya

(in Guwahati) and Tripura Sun-

dari temple (in Udaipur) – have

been connected by railway

network. As I love the north-

east region, I frequently visit

the region to oversee the on-

going railway projects in the

region,” Prabhu said.

In his speech, PWD Minis-

ter Badal Chowdhury wel-

comed the Bangladesh gov-

ernment’s decision to open all

pre-independent era Indo-

Bangla railway links.

“We want the Centre to con-

nect Chittagong port (Bangla-

desh) with Sabroom for better-

ment of the entire Northeast

region. If this happens, the

South East Asian nations will

be accessible to the NE region

in near future,” he said.

In his speech, Transport Min-

ister Manik Dey highlighted the

State’s bottleneck in the com-

munication system.

“Dhaka has already agreed

to provide Chittagong port ac-

cess to Tripura. If Chittagong

port is accessible, then Sabroom

will be gateway to the SEA na-

tions,” he said.

CORRESPONDENT

DIMAPUR, Jan 24: To high-

light and create awareness,

promote the status of the girl

child in society, Nagaland along

with the rest of the country

observed the National Girl

Child Day at Kohima today.

Highlighting the discrimina-

tion the girl child faces since

birth, Zeliang said the ‘Beti

Bachao, Beti Padhao’ scheme

was launched to remove all

discrimination against girl child

prevalent in the society.

Observing that the low sex

ratio was mostly due to delib-

erate human intention, he ex-

pressed concern over the re-

port of low sex ratio in Longleng

district in Nagaland, which is

also one of the 100th gender

critical districts in the country.

Centre dispatches petroleumproducts to Manipur

stock of food grains and petrole-

um products in Manipur and

how to replenish the supply.

The Central government

has informed the Election

Commission about the move

as the Assembly election is due

in Manipur on March 4 and 8.

As reported, the Centre had

decided to accord top priority

to re-opening of the National

Highway 2, connecting Ma-

nipur with Assam, in the wake

of the economic blockade.

About 20,000 Central para-

military forces are being

rushed to the State.

The Union Home Minister

had on January 15 chaired a

meeting, which was attended

by Defence Minister Manohar

Parikar, Finance Minister Arun

Jaitley, Army Chief General

Bipin Rawat besides Home

Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and

other top officials.

The meeting focused on re-

opening the blocked National

Highway 2, the lifeline of land-

locked Manipur, and restore

normalcy. While the other

highway, National Highway 37

has been partially reopened,

the Centre wants to reopen

the NH 2 too as early as possi-

ble, the sources said.

In a stern message, the

Centre had told the Manipur

government that it cannot es-

cape responsibility for the

“humanitarian crisis” arising

out of the economic blockade

by a Naga group and must

work to end it.

Militants ambush convoy alongManipur-Assam highway

IMPHAL, Jan 24: Suspect-

ed armed militants on Tues-

day ambushed a convoy of

trucks and oil tankers along a

vehicles retaliated. Additional

forces were rushed to launch

a combing operation.

The militants are believed

to have fled to the mountains,

a security personnel added.

Some weeks back, two driv-

ers were injured in a similar at-

tack while some vehicles were

also damaged as the militants

fired from automatic rifles. How-

ever, no arrests were made.

There have been ambushes

of police personnel in the Im-

phal-Moreh sector of the Trans

Asian Highway-1, claiming

lives of some personnel and

injuring several others.

Recently, tribal militants

also opened fire killing a civil-

ian and injuring three others

in Noney district along NH-37.

Police said a similar ambush

was carried out by NSCN(IM)

militants also.

The Manipur government has

said despite its request for 60

companies of Central paramili-

tary forces, only 29 companies

were sent to Manipur to escort

vehicles along NH-37. – IANS

‘NagalandMunicipal Act

misinterpreted’CORRESPONDENT

DIMAPUR, Jan 24: The Joint

Action Committee on Women

Reservation (JACWR) ex-

pressed shock that the provi-

sions of the Nagaland Municipal

Act were misinterpreted by

vested interests to the innocent

villagers in many communities

who were made to believe that

the very existence of the Nagas

is being threatened by the Act.

“How can a demand to hold

municipal elections be consid-

ered anti-Naga when the Na-

gas are actively participating

in general, parliamentary and

town council elections for

many decades?” it asked.

The JACWR said that wom-

en’s right to participate in poll

process has been violated by the

threats and use of force, where

candidates were unable to file

their nominations and forced to

withdraw from the race.

NESO raisesvoice againstcitizenship to

Hindu migrantsSTAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: The

North East Students’ Organisa-

tion (NESO) today raised its voice

against the bid to grant Indian cit-

izenship to the illegal Hindu mi-

grants from Bangladesh.

The NESO said in a state-

ment here this evening that in

its emergent meeting, held

here today, opposed the pro-

posed Citizenship (Amend-

ment) Bill, 2016, which aims

to recognise all Hindu Bangla-

deshis as Indian Citizens.

“The Government of India

should know and understand

that the Northeast is not a dump-

ing ground of illegal migrants

whoever they are, be they Hin-

dus or Muslims. The northeast-

ern region will not take any

more burdens of illegal foreign-

ers who came after 1971 as per

the Assam Accord,” the stu-

dents’ body said in a resolution.

The meeting of the students’

body also expressed serious

concern over the suffering of

the common people of Manipur

due to the prevailing situation

there and decided to send a

delegation to New Delhi to

meet the Union Home Minis-

ter with a plea to resolve the

issue at the earliest. It needs

mention here that since No-

vember 1, 2016 some ethnic

groups have been taking re-

course to economic blockade in

Manipur following creation of

seven new districts there by

the State government.

The students’ body said in a

resolution that the Union gov-

ernment should intervene in

the matter.

JCC threatensindefinite bandhover ULB pollsKOHIMA, Jan 24: A Joint

Coordination Committee of

Naga organisations has threat-

ened an indefinite bandh in

Nagaland if the State govern-

ment fails to postpone the Feb-

ruary 1 Urban Local Bodies

(ULB) polls by January 26.

Opposing 33 per cent quota

for women, the JCC – consist-

ing of Naga Council Dimapur,

Central Nagaland Tribes Coun-

cil and other tribal bodies – has

been demanding postponement

of the ULB elections. The JCC

made the demand in a memo-

randum submitted to the Chief

Minister after holding a rally at

Dimapur yesterday.

The committee said the civil

societies do not have any in-

tention to suppress women’s

rights but “we oppose the divi-

sive policy of the government

to suppress the wishes and

rights of the Nagas in general”.

If the State government fails

to appreciate the appeal of the

people and postpone the elec-

tion by January 26, they would

be compelled to call for an in-

definite bandh in the whole of

Nagaland, for which the gov-

ernment shall be held respon-

sible, the JCC said. – PTI

The Agartala-Udaipur passenger train being flagged off, at the Agartala Railway Station on

Tuesday. – UB Photos

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI 11BUSINESS & ECONOMY

AUCTION SALE NOTICE

This is for general information for the public that it has

been proposed by the Railway Authority to dispose off

unconnected and undelivered consignments which are lying

at Guwahati Parcel Office since long through public auction to

be held on 27-01-2017, 10-02-2017, 23-02-2017, 10-03-2017,

24-03-2017, 07-04-2017, 21-04-2017, 05-05-2017,19-05-2017,

02-06-2017,16-06-2017, 30-06-2017,14-07-2017, 28-07-2017,

18-08-2017, 08-09-2017, 22-09-2017, 13-10-2017,

03-11-2017,17-11-2017, 08-12-2017 and 22-12-2017. If there

is any bandh or holiday the same will be held on next date.

Interested bidders are requested to deposit Rs. 5000/- (Five

thousand) only individually towards security money before

taking part in the auction along with PAN Card No. Railways

reserve the right/authority to withdraw any item without showing

any reason. Security money deposited by the bidders will be

forfeited, if any bidder does not offer any bid after enlisting

their name in the bidder list and after bidding highest bid against

any consignment and the same is not removed from Railway

premises within 24 hrs. after auction/receiving lifting order

after paying the full bidding amount.

Assistant Commercial Manager, Guwahati

“SERVING CUSTOMER’S WITH A SMILE”

NORTHEAST FRONTIER RAILWAY

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: India andthe UAE are likely to sign a mem-orandum of understanding (MoU)on an investment fund during thecourse of the visit here of CrownPrince of Abu Dhabi and DeputySupreme Commander of the UAEArmed Forces Sheikh Mohamedbin Zayed Al Nahyan this week, asenior official said on Tuesday.

“The UAE (United Arab Emir-ates), of course, also has the larg-est sovereign wealth fund(SWF),” Amar Sinha, Secretary(Economic Relations) in the Ex-ternal Affairs Ministry, said at amedia briefing here. “There is anagreement that they will investnearly $ 75 billion in India overthe next couple of years,” he said.

“During the visit (of SheikhMohamed), we are hoping thatthere will be an MoU signed be-tween their investment fund andour National Investment and In-

Ajanta PharmaNEW DELHI, Jan 24: Drug firm Ajanta

Pharma today said that there is no importalert by the USFDA on the company’smanufacturing unit in Aurangabad and itcontinues to supply to the US market. “Wewant to clarify that there is no import alerton us by USFDA and we continue tosupply to US market,” Ajanta Pharma saidin a BSE filing.– PTI

HDFC Bank netNEW DELHI, Jan 24: HDFC Bank today

reported a 15.14 per cent growth in netprofit to Rs 3,865.33 crore for the thirdquarter of the current fiscal. The privatesector bank had posted a net profit of Rs3,356.84 crore in the October-Decemberquarter of last fiscal. – PTI

Lupin launchNEW DELHI, Jan 24: Drug major Lupin

has launched generic version of contracep-tives Ortho-Cyclen tablets after approvalfrom the US health regulator. In a BSE filing,Lupin said, “It has launched its Norgesti-mate and Ethinyl Estradiol tablets USP, 0.25mg/0.035 mg having received approval fromthe United States Food and Drug Adminis-tration (FDA) earlier to market a genericversion of Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc’sOrtho-Cyclen 28 tablets”. – PTI

SBI General InsuranceMUMBAI, Jan 24: SBI General Insurance

Company today said it has launched its LongTerm Two Wheeler Insurance Policy-packageproviding cover for up to three consecutiveyears. The policy, which will be sold acrossState Bank of India group branches, offerscomprehensive coverage for two- wheelersincluding damage to vehicle and third partyproperty damage or bodily injury, a companystatement said. – PTI

OYOMUMBAI, Jan 24: Online budget network

of hotels OYO today announced the launchof Townhouse, which is positioned as afriendly neighbourhood hotel, and is eyeing250 properties in 12 cities by end of thisyear. “Townhouse will operate as a hotel,community hotspot, cafe and merchandisestore – to deliver an all-encompassingexperience to guests. We are excited toshowcase and deliver this propositiontoday,” OYO Founder and CEO RiteshAgarwal said in a release issued here. – PTI

SBI LifeKOLKATA, Jan 24: SBI Life Insurance is

expecting to maintain 39 per cent growth inthe current financial year as against theindustry average of 17 per cent, an official ofthe company said. Executive director of SBILife Insurance M Anand told reporters heretoday that during April to December 2016 thefirst premium income was Rs 6,941 crore ascompared to Rs 4,525 crore in the corre-sponding period previous fiscal. – PTI

CAPSULE India-UAE MoU oninvestment fund likely

frastructure Fund (NIIF).”Following Prime Minister

Narendra Modi’s historic visit tothe UAE in August 2015, the twosides agreed to set up UAE-IndiaInfrastructure Investment Fund,with the aim of reaching a targetof $ 75 billion to support invest-ment in India’s plans for rapid ex-pansion of next generation infra-structure, especially in railways,ports, roads, airports and indus-trial corridors and parks.

This was reiterated duringSheikh Mohamed’s visit to Indiain February last year.

According to Sinha, bilateraltrade and commerce will figureprominently during the talks be-tween the two sides.

Stating that bilateral trade lastyear stood at an “impressive” $50 billion, he said that that the UAE“is the gateway for our exports toAfrica and Central Asia”.

Another key area in which thetwo sides hope to reach an agree-ment is petroleum reserves, ac-cording to Sinha.

The UAE is a significant con-tributor to India’s energy securi-ty and was the fifth largest suppli-er of crude oil in 2015-16.

“We are adding a new elementto this relationship of just being abuyer that UAE has decided tobecome a strategic partner in theenergy sector,” Sinha said.

He said that both sides would beinvesting and filling up a key petro-leum reserve facility in Mangalore.

Other areas of cooperation inwhich India and UAE are lookingat include defence and security,space, civil nuclear, and counter-terrorism and intelligence sharing.

Sheikh Mohamed will be visit-ing India from Tuesday to Thurs-day during the course of which hewill attend the Republic Day cele-

brations as the chief guest.He will be accompanied by a

high-level delegation, includingministers, senior officials and cap-tains of industry.

Prime Minister Modi andSheikh Mohamed will hold bilat-eral discussions on Wednesdayfollowing which a number ofagreements are expected to besigned. The visiting dignitary willalso call on President PranabMukherjee and and meet VicePresident Hamid Ansari.

This year, a contingent of theUAE armed forces will also bemarching with the Indian armedforces at the Republic Day parade.

Sinha said that apart from par-ticipating in the events in NewDelhi, the UAE Economy Minis-ter and business delegation wouldalso go to Vishakhapatnam to par-ticipate in the CII’s PartnershipSummit. – IANS

Bollywood actor and brand ambassador John Abraham flanked by Masaki Asano (3rd left), MD, Sales

Yamaha Motors India and Roy Kurian (3rd right), Vice President with other senior officials of Yamaha,

launching Yamaha FZ25, in New Delhi on Tuesday. – UNI

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: The secondedition of the Swachh Sarvekshanto rank 500 cities on sanitation andcleanliness has been marred by brib-ery allegations with one of the sur-veying team allegedly seeking bribeto give better ranking.

One of the surveying teams alleg-edly sought bribe from municipal au-thorities of Aurangabad for assigningbetter ranking, prompting the Quali-ty Council of India (QCI) to take thetough action of suspending the agencyconducting the survey, said sources.

The Ministry of Urban Develop-ment has commissioned the QCI foran extensive survey on the progressof ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ and rank500 cities on sanitation and cleanliness.

Swachh Sarvekshan survey team under scannerWhen contacted, QCI confirmed

the incident saying “one assessmentteam (out of several hundred) en-gaged for city assessment of Aurang-abad was compromised; it allegedlytook bribe from municipal authori-ties and was apprehended.”

“The said team came from theinspection body Moody International(INTERTEK) who have been doingwork of assessment across 44 coun-tries and in existence since the last130 years. This is first instancewhere a serious allegation seeks tocompromise the deep layers fairnessand transparency of assessment de-veloped by QCI,” the council said ina statement to PTI.

QCI engaged four inspection bod-

ies accredited on International bench-marks ISO 17020 for checking com-pliance of sanitation. “This is an indi-vidual act of violation, caught earlyand acted upon immediately. We aredetermined to use Aurangabad onlyto strengthen the system,” QCI chair-man Adil Zainulbhai said.

QCI, he said, has undertaken manyspecific decisions to revalidate itssystem and to deliver six-sigma levelof quality. “The Aurangabad assess-ment has been made null and void.New dates of assessment will begiven to Aurangabad with a newteam,” he said. “Moody Internation-al (INTERTEK) has been disen-gaged for any further assessment.”

Also, an internal committee has

been set up to look into all reportswhere the same team has visited sofar. The team in question had con-ducted survey in five other cities.

“The entire data of Aurangabadhas been kept separately for inquiryand the new assessment data will bemade, so that the Aurangabad re-sults are compiled later,” QCI said.

QCI, which had last year ranked73 cities on cleanliness parameters,has in the second edition completedassessment of 221 cities. The SwachhSurvekshan 2017 for ranking 500 cit-ies started on January 4 and is to becompleted by February 10. “The iso-lated case of Aurangabad is very dis-turbing and QCI takes it with utmostseriousness,” Zainulbhai added. – PTI

SBI staffbody meet

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: The9th Triennial Circle GeneralCouncil Meeting of StateBank of India Staff Associa-tion, North Eastern Circlewill be held at GauhatiMedical College auditori-um here on January 28.

According to itineraryprepared by the ReceptionCommittee, Sanjeev KBandlish, General Secretary,All India State Bank of IndiaStaff Association and NationalConfederation of BankEmployees will inauguratethe open session while PVSLN Murty, chief generalmanger, NE Circle, will bethe chief guest.

UM Motorcyclesopens firstdealership

in GuwahatiGUWAHATI, Jan 24: UM

Motorcycles – the Indianarm of the Americanmotorcycle maker UMInternational, LLC – alongwith Lohia Auto recentlymade its entry in North EastIndia as it inaugurated itsdealership here. Thedealership, located at TNTower, Near LCB College,Maligaon was inauguratedby Rajeev Mishra, Director- UML in the presence ofKishor Jain, Sorav Jain andRanjay Kumar Jain and otherdignitaries and guests, apress release stated.

The first dealership ofNorth East India will bespread over a total of 750 sqft which shall include an area

for interacting with custom-

ers, and an area to providethe best after sales service

and support. Customers will

also be able to buy all UMbranded accessories from

this dealership as well. The

company further shared thatthe recently announced 24x7

Roadside Assistance.

Programme (RSA) will alsobe available for all custom-

ers in Guwahati withimmediate effect.

Massive business awaits RailwaysMUMBAI, Jan 24: Estimat-

ing Rs 6.7 trillion business op-portunities for the Railways infive years, Crisil today said theupcoming Union Budget couldallocate funds to the tune of Rs1.3-1.4 trillion in this sector for2017-18, a move which couldhelp in faster execution ofprojects in this space.

According to Crisil Re-search, government’s move toreinvigorate Indian Railwaysoffers unprecedented businessopportunities worth Rs 6.7 tril-lion in the five years to 2020.

The business opportunitiescould be the largest comparedto rest of the world except

China and would be more than2.5 times the capital expendi-ture seen in five fiscals to 2015.

“We expect the upcomingUnion Budget to earmark Rs1.3 - 1.4 trillion spending fornext fiscal,” the report said.

“The pipeline of projects,too, is ramping up as sanctionsgather pace. Around Rs 1.1trillion worth of projects weresanctioned on average in thepast two fiscals in key seg-ments compared with an av-erage Rs 250 billion in the fourfiscals preceding,” it added.

Crisil Research senior direc-tor Prasad Koparkar said thegross budgetary support would

mainly go towards networkdecongestion and expansion.

“Secured debt of Rs 1.5 tril-lion from the Life InsuranceCorporation of India (LIC), andRs 523 billion loan from theWorld Bank and the Japan In-ternational Cooperation Agen-cy have already been tied up,”Koparkar said.

“These will lead to higherallocation for, and faster exe-cution of, strategic and remu-nerative projects,” he added.

As per the report, loan fromLIC is expected to boost in-vestments in electrificationand track-doubling projects,which offer adequate returns.

The multilateral funds, on theother hand, are expected to aidinvestments in dedicated freightcorridors (DFCs). “Consequent-ly, we see planned capex on net-work decongestion and rollingstock materialising largely by fis-cal 2020,” the report noted.

Going by Crisil’s estimates,high-impact projects involvingdecongestion would be priori-tised over new lines, and openup a Rs 2.4 trillion business op-portunity. Investment in roll-ing stock – locomotives andcoaches – is seen at Rs 1.1 tril-lion. Of this, purchase of loco-motives would account fornearly half. – PTI

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: Ahead

of the Union Budget, markets

regulator Sebi has asked the

government to consider ration-

alisation of taxes in capital mar-

kets including that of mutual

funds and other products.

In its Budget proposal to the

Finance Ministry, Sebi has rec-

ommended reducing the secu-

rities transaction tax (STT) on

stock trading, sources said.

Presently, all stock market

transactions attract STT in the

range of 0.017 to 0.125 per cent.

It has also suggested lowering

the period of holding in respect

of long term debt fund units to

12 months from 36 months.

Besides, the regulator has

sought an increase in the invest-

ment limit for tax-saving equity

mutual fund schemes to Rs 2 lakh

from the current Rs 1.5 lakh.

These suggestions are aimed at

attracting more investors.

Further, mutual fund industry

body AMFI has also proposed

that debt-linked savings scheme

should be given tax benefits un-

Sebi for tax rationalisationin capital markets

der Sec 80 CCC of Income Tax

Act, the sources said.

Only equity-linked savings

schemes (ELSS) qualify for tax

benefits under Section 80 CCC

of the Income Tax Act, for an

investment limit of up to Rs

1.5 lakh in a fiscal year.

Also, the Association of

Mutual Funds in India (AMFI)

made a proposal to extend the

tax benefits available under

Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings

Scheme (RGESS) to all equi-

ty fund investors.

To promote investments in

equities, the government had

introduced RGESS in 2012 for

first-time investors with annual

income below Rs 12 lakh a year.

Further, AMFI has proposed

for extending Sec 54 EC ben-

efit for mutual fund schemes

with lock-in period of 3-5

years. Section 54 EC of In-

come Tax Act, 1961 provides

an option to save tax on capital

gain arising from transfer of

long-term capital asset subject

to certain conditions. – PTI

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: TheUnion Cabinet today permit-ted NABARD to raise aboutRs 20,000 crore from the mar-ket for on-lending to coopera-tive banks at 4.5 per cent in-terest with an aim to providecheaper crop loans to farmers.

“In the light of good mon-soon and expectation of in-creased credit demand and inorder to boost agricultural pro-duction, the farmers need to besupported through cooperativebanks, which purvey credit at

NABARD to raise Rs 20,000 crfor on-lending to co-op banks

their doorstep, to enable themto scale up their agriculturaloperation,” an official said.

NABARD will make shortterm borrowings at prevailingmarket rate of interest for ap-proximately Rs 20,000 crorefor on-lending to cooperativebanks at 4.5 per cent, said astatement issued after theCabinet chaired by Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi gavepost-facto nod to the proposal.

An additional capital of Rs 2,000crore is to be provided to NAB-

ARD for this purpose throughthe Union Budget, it added.

“To start with, additional cap-ital of Rs 500 crore may be re-leased to NABARD during2016-17 itself,” the release said.

Further, an interest subven-tion of about 1.8 per cent andNABARD’s administrativecost of 0.2 per cent will be pro-vided as per the scheme ofDepartment of Agriculture,Cooperation and FarmersWelfare (DAC&FW).

The extent of interest sub-

vention may vary dependingon the rate at which NABARDraises funds, the release said.

“The approval will ensureincreased availability of shortterm crop loans to farmersthrough cooperative banks atreduced rate of interest,” it said.

The NABARD will also coor-dinate the conversion of opera-tive/live Kisan Credit Cards(KCCs) into RuPay/ATM-ena-bled KCCs by cooperative banksand Regional Rural Banks(RRBs) in a mission mode. – PTI

BSE IPO fullysubscribed

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: BSE’sinitial public offer – the first bya domestic stock exchange inIndia – to raise up to Rs 1,243

crore was fully subscribed by

the afternoon trade today, the

second day of the offer.

The IPO, which closes to-

morrow, received bids for

1,08,89,568 shares against the

total issue size of 1,07,99,039

shares, data available with the

NSE till 1:30 pm showed.

The stock exchange aims to

raise up to Rs 1,243 crore from

the IPO, which is priced at Rs

805-806 per share.

During the initial share sale

– which is also a first by any

company this year – sharehold-

ers will sell 15.43 million

shares estimated to be around

Rs 1,243.44 crore at the high-

er end of the price band.

The IPO of 15,427,197

shares of face value of Rs 2

each will constitute up to 28.26

per cent of the fully-diluted

post offer issued share capital

of BSE. Bids for the issue canbe made for a minimum of 18shares and in multiples of 18thereafter. – PTI

Samsungservice vans in

TelanganaHYDERABAD, Jan 24:

Samsung India today an-nounced the launch of its serv-ice vans for Telangana to pro-vide world-class service to itscustomers at their door steps.

As many as 19 service vans

were flagged off in the city in the

first phase of the initiative by

Anurag Prashar, vice president,

Customer Satisfaction at Sam-

sung India in the presence of key

dealers and distributors, a press

release issued by Samsung said.These vans will reach out to

68 talukas across the State with

each van being equipped with aDG set and key fixtures, enabling

multi-skilled service engineers

to provide quick response andon-spot resolution of complaints.

The unique customer serv-

ice initiative for consumersacross India was launched in

October 2016 and will see a to-

tal of 535 service vans connect-ing 6,000 talukas. The new in-

itiative takes Samsung’s tally

of touch points from 2,000 to

over 3,000, helping Samsung

extend its lead as the country’s

largest service network. – PTI

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Jan 24: Tragedy hit Shah Rukh

Khan’s train promotion cam-

paign for his upcoming Raees

when a man died of cardiac ar-

rest during a massive rush to

have a glimpse of the superstar

at Vadodara railway station in

Gujarat that also left two po-

licemen injured.

Railway Minister Suresh

Prabhu today took to Twitter

to say he has directed Direc-

tor General of Railway Protec-

tion Force (RPF) to investigate

the matter and take stern ac-

tion against any lapse even as

Khan described as “really un-

fortunate” the death of the 45-

year-old man identified as Far-

Modi receives UAECrown Prince at airport

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: In a special

gesture, Prime Minister Narendra

Modi today received at the airport

Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh

Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan,

who will be the Chief Guest at this

year’s Republic Day parade.

Al Nahyan will hold comprehen-

sive talks with Modi tomorrow

after which the two sides are

expected to sign nearly 16 pacts

including Strategic Cooperation

Agreement. – PTI

Pension schemefor seniors

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: Cabinet

today approved a pension scheme

for senior citizens under which

insurance behemoth LIC will

provide a guaranteed return of 8 per

cent for 10 years, as part of govern-

ment’s social security and financial

inclusion programme.

“The scheme will provide an

assured pension based on a guaran-

teed rate of return of 8 per cent per

annum for ten years, with an option

to opt for pension on a monthly/

quarterly/half yearly and annual

basis. The scheme will be imple-

mented through Life Insurance

Corporation of India (LIC) in the

current financial year. – PTI

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: Kingfisher Air-

lines allegedly diverted Rs 263 crore

from Rs 900 crore IDBI loan for “per-

sonal use”, CBI today said in its charge

sheet filed in a special court in Mumbai.

The agency has named former liquor

baron Vijay Mallya, Kingfisher Airlines

and nine others, including the then IDBI

Chairman Yogesh Aggarwal, who were

arrested yesterday in connection with the

2015 loan default case, in the charge sheet.

It has slapped IPC sections related to

criminal conspiracy, cheating and provi-

sions of Prevention of Corruption Act

on the accused.

CBI sources said the agency has kept

its probe open in the issue of suspected

quid pro quo by Mallya and executives

of Kingfisher Airlines to expedite the

loan process.

They said that in this probe, it has

come to light that about Rs 263 crore

from Rs 900 crore loan was diverted for

“personal” use against norms and regu-

lations.

Nine persons, including former exec-

utives of Kingfisher Airlines and IDBI

officials, were arrested yesterday “as the

agency fears they might have influenced

the witnesses”, the sources said.

The CBI has not sought the custody of

the nine and the arrest is only aimed at

Man dies at Guj station during Raeestrain promotion, SRK says unfortunate

id Khan Pathan, a local politi-

cian from Vadodara.

The Gujarat Railway Po-

lice ordered an inquiry into

the chaos and subsequent

death of the man after an es-

timated 15,000-strong crowd

went berserk in the rush to

have a look at the 51-year-old

superstar when the Mumbai-

Delhi August Kranti Rajdhani

Express train made its sched-

uled halt in Vadodara at 10.30

pm last night.

The inquiry was ordered

by Western Railway Super-

intendent of Police (SP), Va-

dodara Division, Sharad Sing-

hal, who confirmed the death

of Pathan during the chaos.

The deceased was a relative

of one of the journalists trav-

elling with SRK, and had ap-

parently come to meet her.

Two policemen were also

injured as the crowd went out

of control when the train halt-

ed in Vadodara and some of

them started banging the win-

dow panes. Police had to re-

sort to mild lathi-charge to

control the situation.

Authorities said Pathan

died of cardiac arrest. – PTI

Kingfisher diverted Rs 263 crloan for personal use

thwarting any attempt to compromise

evidence and witnesses, they said.

Former CFO of Kingfisher Airlines

A Raghunathan was among those ar-

rested yesterday. They have been sent

to judicial custody by the special court

in Mumbai.

The charge sheet has now paved way

for the CBI to approach authorities in

the UK for deportation of Mallya who

is believed to be in London, the sourc-

es said.

They said the agency has got a non-

bailable warrant issued against Mallya

and might also get a Red Corner Notice

against him.

The CBI, in an FIR registered against

Mallya, his defunct Kingfisher Airlines

Ltd, Raghunathan and unknown officials

of IDBI Bank, had alleged that Rs 900

crore loan was sanctioned in violation of

norms regarding credit limits.

It had changed the nature of a lookout

notice issued against Mallya within one

month of issuance —- from seeking his

detention while leaving the country to

that of merely providing information

about his travel plans.

In the lookout circular issued on Oc-

tober 16, 2015, CBI had said if “Mallya

tries to leave the country, he should be

detained at the exit point”. – PTI

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CROSSWORD - 5887Know your DAYBy JACQUELINE BIGAR

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017:This year you see life from a very different perspective than in

the past. You feel that if you can conjure up a dream or goal, youcan make it happen. You communicate your feelings with precisionwhen you choose to. If you are single, you might blur the line

between reality and a romantic fantasy. Be aware of your choices,and be a cynic if need be. If you are attached, the two of youspend a lot of time pursuing your mutual long-term desires. This

behavior creates a stronger foundation between you. CAPRICORNtends to play devil’s advocate for you.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-

Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

HHHH You would love to throw yourself into a group project or a

brainstorming session. You probably will, yet there is a nagging

responsibility that beckons you. You might not even be aware of your

feelings here, but know that you will in time. Tonight: In the limelight.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

HHHHH One-on-one relating requires your attention and caring.

You are able to say more, but at times you might feel as if you

need to hold back until you get a better lay of the land. You will come out

fine, even if you do not pull back so much. Tonight: Opt for togetherness.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

HHHHH Look to the long term, and tighten up a project. You might

even choose go back to school to take a brush-up course in your

field. Count on viable feedback from a close friend. Your instincts come

through with an older person. Tonight: Opt for an important conversation.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

HHHH Defer to a partner or loved one. Understand that this person

is determined to take over and run the show. Look at your long-term

desires. Detach, and you will see many possibilities. This path proves to be

the right one for you. Tonight: Say “yes” to a loved one’s suggestion.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

HHH Pace yourself. Know that you are human and can do only so

much. Remember that nobody’s perfect, not even you. A loved

one makes a considerable difference in your plans. You could be surprised

by how good his or her advice is. Tonight: In the whirlwind of the moment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

HHHH You might be up for fun and games, but someone else is

not. You can use every play in your book, but it probably won’t

make a difference or change his or her mind. Respect this person and his

or her dedication. Tonight: Have a long-overdue conversation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

HHH A personal issue keeps floating through your thoughts.

Don’t you think it would be better to handle the situation now and

free yourself up to focus on what you must? You are likely to see this matter

differently once it is resolved. Tonight: Head home and indulge yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

HHHHH You could be less than pleased with a loved one’s com-

ment. You also might have misunderstood or misinterpreted what

he or she was trying to say. You have a way and style about you that draws

in those who often say off-the-wall stuff. Tonight: Hang out at home.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

HHHH You are aware of what you need to do, but the other party

involved might not see eye to eye with you. Listen to your inner

voice when handling a financial matter that could have implications regard-

ing your home. Tonight: Swap ideas and solutions with a loved one.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

HHHH Decide what you want from a situation, and initiate a

conversation. You might be delighted that you see eye to eye with

a friend over the same issue, but how you arrive at your conclusions could

differ. Reach out to a trusted adviser for some feedback. Tonight: All smiles.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

HH Listen to news, and stay centered. You might have a great

moneymaking idea, but be sure to test it out before taking any

risks. You will want to speak to someone in the know who understands you,

your lifestyle and how you think. Tonight: Share ideas with a loved one.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

HHHH You know what you want and where you are heading. You

have been working on a plan that you have held near and dear for

years. You might want to test out some of your game plan on a trusted

friend, as you know you will get honest feedback from him or her. Tonight:

Where the crowds are.

H H H

Thought for the day

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but withthose who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

– SCHOPENHAUER

SOLUTION

Being in a band, you can wear whatever youwant – it’s like an excuse for ___ every day.– Gwen Stefani (9)

Words: Easel, float/aloft, online, whaler.

Answer: Being in a band, you can wearwhatever you want – it’s like an excuse forhalloween every day. – Gwen Stefani

Across1 Jeer (5)6 Wicket-

keeperPrathiv____ (5)

9 Obsequiousfollowers;humbleservants(7)

10 Evade,dodge orsidestep (5)

11 Köln’s river(5)

12 Securerope bywinding itround peg,etc. - “byale”anagram ?(5)

13 Husband ofEurydice(7)

15 Impressgreatly (3)

Across: 1 Scoff, 6 Patel, 9 Lackeys, 10 Avoid, 11 Rhein, 12

Belay, 13 Orpheus, 15 Wow, 17 Knot, 18 Pierre, 19 Cloud, 20 Psy-

che, 22 Snug, 24 Imp, 25 Cologne, 26 Spoon, 27 Cocoa, 28 Aaron,

29 Attract, 30 Khaki, 31 Easel.

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Are you anxious that your kid is

hooked to social networking sites or

busy playing video games through

out the night? You now have another

reason to blame for the growing addiction:

Genes.

According to researchers from King’s

College London, online media use such as

social networking, instant messaging and

playing games for entertainment and educa-

tion could be strongly influenced by our

genes.

Genetic factors was found to influence time

spent on all types of media including entertain-

ment (37 per cent) and educational (34 per

cent) media, online gaming (39 per cent) and

social networking (24 per cent).

The study found that people are not

passively exposed to media; instead they

tailor their online media use based on their

own unique genetic predispositions – a

concept known as gene-environment correla-

tion.

“The DNA differences substantially influ-

ence how individuals interact with the media

and puts the consumer in the driver’s seat for

selecting and modifying their media exposure

according to their needs,” said lead author

Ziada Ayorech from King’s College London.

“Our findings contradict popular media

effects theories, which typically view the

media as an external entity that has some

effect – either good or bad – on ‘helpless’

consumers,” Ayorech added.

In addition, unique environmental factors

such as one sibling having a personal mobile

phone and the other not, or parents monitor-

ing use of social networks more heavily for

one sibling compared to the other, accounted

for nearly two-thirds of the differences

between people in online media use.

For the study published in the journal PLOS

ONE, the team analysed online media use in

more than 8,500 16-year-old twins.

The researchers compared identical twins –

who share 100 per cent of their genes – and

non-identical twins – who share 50 per cent of

their genes. – IANS

Media addiction: yourgenes to blame

Social media

addiction could

be influenced by

your genes, say

researchers

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ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Pakistan today

successfully conducted the first test flight

of the Ababeel surface-to- surface ballis-

tic missile (SSM) capable of carrying a

nuclear warhead up to 2,200 km.

Ababeel has a maximum range of

2,200 kilometres and is capable of deliv-

ering multiple warheads using Multiple

Independent Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV)

technology, the Inter Services Public

Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.

“The test flight was aimed at validat-

ing various design and technical param-

eters of the weapon system,” it said.

Ababeel is capable of carrying nuclear

warheads and has the capability to en-

gage multiple targets with high precision,

defeating hostile radars, the ISPR said.

“The development of the Ababeel weap-

on system was aimed at ensuring surviv-

ability of Pakistan’s ballistic missiles in the

Pak test-fires N-capableAbabeel missile

growing regional Ballistic Missile Defence

(BMD) environment,” the release said,

in an obvious reference to India.

The Ababeel test came on the heels

of a successful test of submarine-

launched cruise missile, Babur-III, on

December 9.

“The successful attainment of a sec-

ond strike capability by Pakistan repre-

sents a major scientific milestone; it is

manifestation of the strategy of meas-

ured response to nuclear strategies and

postures being adopted in Pakistan’s

neighbourhood,” the military had said

after the Babur-III test.

The missile, launched from an undis-

closed location in the Indian Ocean from

an underwater, mobile platform, had hit

its target with precise accuracy, the

Army had said.

Babur-III is a sea-based variant of

ground-launched cruise missile Babur-

II, which was successfully tested in De-

cember last year. – PTI

BEIJING, Jan 24: Senior Chinese offi-

cials, Beijing-based diplomatic corps,

defence attaches and foreign media pro-

fessionals today attended a reception

hosted by the Indian Embassy here

ahead of the 68th Republic Day. China’s

Assistant Foreign Minister Kong Xuan-

you was the chief guest at the reception.

Addressing the gathering, Indian Am-

bassador to China Vijay Gokhale said 2016

was an important year in India-China re-

lations as a number of bilateral visits took

place. From the Indian side, last year was

marked by the visits of the President,

the ministers of Defence and Finance, the

National Security Adviser, while China’s

Secretary of Central Political and Legal

Affairs Commission, State Councillor,

Foreign Minister and Chairman of Na-

tional Development and Reforms Com-

mission visited India, he said.

On the state of relations between the

two countries, Gokhale quoted Prime Min-

ister Narendra Modi’s comments made in

New Delhi on January 17 in which he said,

“I see the development of India and China

as unprecedented opportunity for our two

countries and the whole world.”

“At the same time, it is not unnatural

for two large neighbouring powers to

have some differences. In the manage-

ment of our relationship and for peace

and progress in the region, both our

countries need to show sensitivity and

respect for each other’s core concerns

and interests,” Modi said. – PTI

Chinese officials attend India’s R-Day reception

LONDON, Jan 24: The popular pat-

tern lock system used to secure millions

of Android smartphones can be cracked

within just five attempts – and more

complicated patterns are the easiest to

crack, security experts have warned.

Pattern lock is a security measure that

protects devices, such as mobile phones

or tablets, and which is preferred by many

to PIN codes or text passwords. It is used

by around 40 per cent of Android device

owners, researchers said.

In order to access a device’s func-

tions and content, users must first draw

a pattern on an on-screen grid of dots.

If this matches the pattern set by the

owner, then the device can be used.

However, users only have five attempts

to get the pattern right before the de-

vice becomes locked.

New research from Lancaster Univer-

sity, University of Bath in the UK and

the Northwest University in China,

shows for the first time that attackers

Android pattern lock can be crackedcan crack pattern lock reliably within five

attempts by using video and computer

vision algorithm software.

By covertly videoing the owner

drawing their pattern lock shape to

unlock their device, while enjoying a

coffee in a busy cafe for example, the

attacker, who is pretending to play

with their phone, can then use soft-

ware to quickly track the owner’s fin-

gertip movements relative to the po-

sition of the device.

Within seconds the algorithm produc-

es a small number of candidate patterns

to access the Android phone or tablet.

The attack works even without the

video footage being able to see any of the

on-screen content, and regardless of the

size of the screen, researchers said.

Results are accurate on video record-

ed on a mobile phone from up to two-

and-a-half metres away – and so attacks

are more covert than shoulder-surfing.

It also works reliably with footage re-

corded on a digital SLR camera at dis-

tances up to nine metres away, they said.

Researchers evaluated the attack us-

ing 120 unique patterns collected from

independent users. They were able to

crack more than 95 per cent of patterns

within five attempts.

Complex patterns, which use more

lines between dots, were easier to crack

because they help the fingertip algo-

rithm to narrow down the possible op-

tions. – PTI

Around

the WORLD

Italy avalanche

toll rises to 14FARINDOLA, Jan 24:

The death toll from an

avalanche in central Italy

climbed to 14 today as

hopes began to fade that

any of the 15 people still

missing might be found

alive under a mountain

resort buried by tons of

snow and rubble.

Firefighters located half a

dozen bodies within a few

hours today, doubling the

death toll six days after

the disaster. – AP

China officialjailed

BEIJING, Jan 24:

China’s state-run energy

giant Sinopec’s former

chief was today sentenced

to 15-and-a-half years in

prison and fined nearly

USD 470,000 for

accepting bribes and

illegally possessing assets.

Wang Tianpu, former

general manager of oil

giant China Petroleum and

Chemical Corporation

(Sinopec Group), was

handed down the

sentence by the

Nanchang City Intermedi-

ate People’s Court in east

China’s Jiangxi

Province. – PTI

Contempt noticeto Imran Khan

ISLAMABAD, Jan 24:

The Election Commis-

sion of Pakistan has

issued a contempt notice

to cricketer-turned-

politician Imran Khan

after he allegedly accused

the top election body of

bias in a case of foreign

funding. – PTI

Legal jolt to May’s Brexit plansLONDON, Jan 24: In a huge setback

to British Prime Minister Theresa

May’s Brexit plans, the government

today lost a landmark legal challenge

after the Supreme Court ruled that she

cannot unilaterally trigger the process

of Britain’s exit from the European

Union and must seek the Parliament’s

approval.

The judgement means the British

Prime Minister cannot trigger Article

50 of the Lisbon Treaty to officially

begin Brexit negotiations with the 28-

member EU until Britain’s MPs and

peers give their backing. It has now

been confirmed that a new Bill will be

tabled in the Parliament “within days”

for this purpose.

The government had argued that it

already had the executive powers to

trigger Article 50, but Supreme Court

judges rejected the case by a majority

of eight to three.

Reading out the ruling, Supreme

Court president Lord Neuberger said:

“By a majority of eight to three, the

Supreme Court today rules that the

Government cannot trigger Article 50

without an Act of Parliament authoris-

ing it to do so.”

The official judgement in the case

concludes: “The change in the law

required to implement the referen-

dum’s outcome must be made in the

only way permitted by the UK

Constitution, namely by legislation.

“In a joint judgement of the majority,

the Supreme Court holds that an Act of

Parliament is required to authorise

ministers to give notice of the decision

of the UK to withdraw from the

European Union.”

The government had lost a

High Court case brought by anti-

Brexit campaigners last November,

leading to the landmark appeal in the

Supreme Court heard by all 11 justices

of Britain’s highest court. – PTI

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI 15SPORTS

Originating from Japan, ‘su

do ku’ is a mind game and a

puzzle that can be solved

with proper reasoning and

logic. Fill the grid with digits

in such a manner that every

row, every column and every

3 x 3 box accommodates the

digi ts 1 to 9 without

repeating any.

Solution of last problem

SU DO KU

MELBOURNE, Jan 24:Stan Wawrinka won a bad-tempered clash with Jo-Wil-fried Tsonga to reach the Aus-tralian Open semifinals as Ve-nus Williams’ late-career

Wawrinka wins grudge match as rising Venus shinessurge sent her soaring intothe last four on Tuesday.

Wawrinka and France’sTsonga, who have been atodds in the past, argued heat-edly at the first-set changeo-

he will play the ever-popularRoger Federer, his Swiss com-patriot.

“It’s not easy to playagainst him, he’s a strongplayer,” Wawrinka said ofTsonga, adding that barringa big upset he expected toface Federer next.

“In the semis I play Roger.It’s going to be tough to havesome fans but I hope somepeople will cheer for me.”

Earlier Williams’ age-defy-ing campaign reached newheights as she beat Russia’sAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova tobecome the oldest woman toreach a Grand Slam semifinalin 23 years.

Williams, 36, won 6-4, 7-6(7/3) to reach the last fourwithout dropping a set andmove towards a possible ninthGrand Slam final against hersister Serena, 16 years aftertheir first.

“Why shouldn’t I?” said theseven-time Grand Slam-win-ner, who is thriving again af-ter a battle with an autoim-

mune disorder, when asked ifshe could win her first majortitle since 2008.

“I try to believe. Should Ilook across the net and be-lieve the person across thenet deserves it more?

“This mentality is not howchampions are made. I’d liketo be a champion, in particu-lar this year. The mentality Iwalk on court with is, ‘I de-serve this’.”

Next up for Williams is herhard-hitting, aggressive fel-low American CocoVandeweghe, who stunnedFrench Open champion Gar-bine Muguruza to reach herfirst Grand Slam semifinal.

The tall, powerfulVandeweghe smashed 31 win-ners past the Spaniard andraced through the second setin just 28 minutes to completea lopsided 6-4, 6-0 upset win.

“It’s amazing to be in a sem-ifinal. But, you know, not sat-isfying. I want to keep going,keep playing,” said the 35th-ranked Vandeweghe, 25.

“There’s more things to doout on a tennis court that I’mhoping to achieve.”

Muguruza admitted shehad been taken by surprise byVandeweghe, despite her ear-

Venus Williams of the United States celebrates after winning the women’s singles quarterfinal match

against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia at the Australian Open in Melbourne, on Tuesday.

Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka celebrates after winning his men's singles quarterfinal match against

France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Australian Open in Melbourne, on Tuesday.

ver and there was no love lostas the Swiss charged to a 7-6(7/2), 6-4, 6-3 win.

It puts 2014 championWawrinka, 31, into his thirdMelbourne semifinal where

lier wins over defendingchampion Angelique Kerber,Eugenie Bouchard and Chi-na’s Peng Shuai.

“I was surprised. I thinkshe played unbelievable.

Three times we played in thepast, she didn’t show this lev-el. She played very good. Herserve, her shots were there.She barely missed,” Muguru-za said. – AFP

MELBOURNE, Jan 24: Sa-nia Mirza and Rohan Bopan-na set up a mixed doublesquarterfinal clash against eachother at the Australian Openafter winning their respectivematches, here today.

Bopanna and his Canadianpartner Gabriela Dabrowskiknocked out the fifth-seededteam of Yung-Jan Chan andLukasz Kubot 6-4, 5-7, 10-3 intheir second round match.

Later, Sania and her partnerCroatian Ivan Dodig, seededsecond, overcame stiff resist-ance from Saisai Zheng andAlexander Peya to triumph 2-6, 6-3, 10-6.

Austrian Peya served a dou-ble fault at 5-5 in the decisiveSuper Tie-Breaker but afterthat the second seeds reeledoff five straight points to seal

MUMBAI, Jan 24: WriddhimanSaha’s career-best first-class knockof 203 was the stand-out perform-ance as Rest of India lifted the IraniCup after effortlessly chasing downa 379-run target set by Gujarat withmore than two sessions to sparehere today.

Saha’s 203 and skipper CheteshwarPujara’s unbeaten 116 helped Rest ofIndia overhaul the target with six wick-ets still in hand.

Wicketkeeper Saha and Pujara,unbeaten on 123 and 83 respective-ly last evening with a team score of266 for four, carried on in imperi-ous fashion on the fifth and finalmorning to steer the team home anhour before lunch in 19.1 overs atthe Brabourne Stadium here.

This was the 15th time in the last19 editions that Rest of India hadwon the tournament, which is in its55th year.

Rest of India finished with 379 forfour in 103.1 overs to cruise home

Saha, Pujara guide Rest to Irani crownin style.

The duo’s fifth wicket unbrokenpartnership was worth 316 runs in 78.5overs. It was the second-best in thetournament’s his-tory after thehighest of 327 forthe fourth wicketbetween RaviShastri andPraveen Amre forMumbai againstthe Rest at Ben-galuru in 1990-91.

Both the bats-men were largelyuntroubled by thenewly crownedRanji Trophychampions’ bowl-ing attack eventhough the targetset by Gujarat,who had taken a handy 132-run firstinnings lead, was stiff.

The winning hit by Pujara, a step-

out lofted shot to long-on for his 16thhit to the fence off Hardik Patel, sum-marised the domination he had on theGujarat bowling along with Saha. The

Rajkot-born batsman stayed at thewicket for just over 400 minutes andfaced 238 balls to remain unbeaten.

Saha’s unconquered effort, after hereached his first-ever double centurywith a four off Karan Patel, lasted 346minutes and 272 balls. It was also the

highest score bya wicketkeeperbatsman in thetournament’shistory.

The Bengaland India stump-er struck 6 sixesand 26 fours inthis importantknock that hascome before theselectors sitdown to choosethe Test team forthe one-off gameagainst Bangla-desh in Hydera-bad next month.

Saha had got injured after play-ing in the first two Tests in the five-game series against England and his

place in the team had been takenby Gujarat skipper Parthiv Patel.Parthiv had led his State to the Ranjicrown for the first time by defeat-ing Mumbai in the final.

Rest had more or less ensured vic-tory last evening itself as they needed113 runs with Pujara and Saha, whocounter-attacked the bowling withgusto when his team was in deep trou-ble at 63 for four, firmly entrenched.

The duo sailed along merrily on thefourth morning with Pujara duly com-piling his 6th hundred of the first classseason, including three in Tests, and37th overall before Saha went past hisprevious career-best score of 178made in the Ranji Trophy against As-sam seven years ago in Kolkata with acouple to square leg. Saha laterreached his double ton just in time asPujara completed the task soon afterwith another boundary hit.

Brief Scores: Gujarat: 358 & 246 vs Restof India 226, 379/4 (Wriddhiman Saha 203 notout, Cheteshwar Pujara 116 not out, HardikPatel 2/104). – PTI

The victorious Rest of India team pose with the Irani Trophy, on Tuesday.

Sania, Bopanna toclash for semis spot

the issue.One Indian is now certain

to feature in the semifinalsand if Leander Paes managesto win his quarterfinal withpartner Martina Hingis, thesemifinal will again featuretwo Indians.

Paes and Hingis are upagainst local favourites Saman-tha Stosur and Sam Groth.

Meanwhile, in the juniorsevents, Siddhant Banthiareached the boys doublesquarterfinal with Turkishpartner Kaya Gore with a 6-3, 7-6(6) win over sixth seedsZizou Bergs and Yshai Oliel.

However, Mihika Yadavwent down fighting in girlssingles second round with a2-6, 1-6 defeat against 10thseeded Japanese Mai Honta-ma. – PTI

State school karatekaswin medals

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: Assam won six medals inthe 62nd National School Games Karate Champi-onship held at Indore recently, a release stated.

The medal winners are: Vaswati Nayana Shi-vam (silver in girls’ U-14, 46kg), Ayushman Pach-ani (silver in boys’ U-14, 45kg), Punit Jakhwal(bronze in boys’ U-14, 60kg), Jyotishman Kashyap(silver in boys’ U-17, 50kg), Dhrubajyoti Talukdar(silver in boys’ U-17, 70kg), Nishad Ali (bronze inboys’ U-17, 70kg).

River Rine win Budcricket tieSPORTS REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: River Rine Club of Guwa-hati registered a 23-run victory against Youth Clubin today’s match of the Bud Cricket Club organ-ised Jugal Kishore Newatia Memorial Trophy BudChallenge Cricket Tournament at the MangaldaiStadium.

River Rine gathered a commendable 201 for ninein their stipulated 40 overs and chasing the target,Youth Club were all out for 178.

Brief scores: River Rine Club 201/9 (TrinathRao 49, Subham Das 41, Manish Bharti 30, ArijeetBarooah 28; Priyankar Chakraborty 3/35). Youth

Club 178 (Atul Kr Singh 36, Dilwar Khan 24, RajuMastar 20, Vinod Sharma 17, Raju Shah 16; Ari-jeet Barooah 4/36, Sameer Sharma 2/15).

Today’s match: Sputnik Club vs Ace Club.

TT camp at Jorhatconcludes

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: The three-week long ad-vanced table tennis camp, organised by the AssamTable Tennis Association (ATTA) and conductedby the Jorhat District Table Tennis Association(JDTTA) at the Kushal Konwar Memorial IndoorStadium at Jorhat, concluded today.

As many as 80 children attended the camp.For the first time in the history of the district

association, foreign coaches were brought in toimpart coaching. In the concluding function thecoaches – Jong Hyok Im and Jong Son An, bothfrom South Korea – were felicitated.

Today’s function was attended by Dr ZakirAhmed and Chiranjit Baruah, president and vicepresident of the JDTTA respectively, Angan JyotiBaruah and Rishi Sarma, joint secretaries of thedistrict association, Nayan Jyoti Sarma, treasurerof the ATTA, and Dr Tapan Dutta, president of theKushal Konwar Memorial Indoor Stadium, Jorhat.

Rockybul Hussain and Tridib Duarah, presidentand secretary of the ATTA, extended full supportto the district TT body for successful conduct ofthe 21-day coaching camp.

Certificates were distributed to all the partici-

Centre, BCCIto suggest names

of officialsNEW DELHI, Jan 24: The

Supreme Court today asked theCentre and BCCI to suggestnames in sealed covers for ap-pointment in the committee ofadministrators to run the apexcricket body.

A bench headed by JusticeDipak Misra also allowed BCCIto suggest three names afterfollowing the due process to rep-resent it at the ICC meeting duein first week of February.

The bench, also comprisingJustices AM Khanwilkar and DYChandrachud, made it clear thatthe names to be given for ap-pointment in the committee ofadministrators and the repre-sentative for the ICC meetshould be in consonance withthe judgement and subsequentorders passed by the apex courtin the matter. The bench askedBCCI and the Centre to give thenames in sealed cover by Janu-ary 27 and posted the matter forhearing on January 30. – PTI

Ecclestoneforced out as

Formula 1 bossLONDON, Jan 24: Bernie

Ecclestone has revealed thathe was removed as Chief Ex-ecutive Officer of the Formula1 Group by US-based LibertyMedia, which consolidated itstakeover of the motor sport.

The 86-year-old Britonshared the news with Germanmagazine Auto Motor und

Sport on Monday, reports Efe.“I was deposed today. I am

simply gone. It’s official. I am no

longer the leader of the compa-ny. My position has been taken

by Chase Carey,” Ecclestone

said, referring to the 21st Cen-tury Fox vice-chairman who

became chairman of F1 in Sep-

tember. Auto racing’s interna-tional regulatory body, the FIA,

gave its approval last week to

Liberty Media’s acquisition ofcommercial rights to F1 for $4.4

billion. – IANS

pants in today’s function, which was anchored byDebojyoti Srutikar, secretary of the district asso-ciation, stated a press release.

Dhemaji Opentennis endsSPORTS REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: Ayaan Borthakur of NETFclinched the U-14 Boys’ title defeating Aditya Pra-tim Bhagawati of Chachal Complex 8-6 in the Dhe-maji Open Tennis Tournament which concluded to-day at the Dhemaji Tennis Club courts, Dhemaji.

Simanta Bhagawati pairing with Hakim Ali wonthe veterans’ doubles title defeating Amit Chutiaand Luku Borthakur.

In the Boys’ U-18 final, Aditya Pratim Bhagawa-ti lifted the title defeating Abhishek Baruah 8-3.In the Girls’ U-14 singles, Ishita Dahutia defeatedAreena Phukan 8-4 to win the title. In the Girls’U-18 category, Nishtha Rani Borphukan of Dibru-garh defeated Meghna Bharadwaj of India Club 7-2 to win the title.

Final results: (Boys’ U-12) Manan Nath bt Ary-an Borah (6-1). (Boys’ U-14) Ayaan Borthakur btAditya Pratim Bhagawati (8-6). (Boys’ U-18) AdityaPratim Bhagawati bt Abhishek Baruah (8-3). (Girls’

U-14) Ishita Dahutia bt Areena Phukan (8-4). (Girls’

U-18) Nishtha Rani Borphukan bt Meghna Bharad-waj (7-2). (Veterans’ singles) Hakim Ali bt RajibHandique. (Veterans’ doubles) Simanta Bhagawa-ti/Hakim Ali bt Amit Chutia/Luku Borthakur.

Army conductmini marathon

GUWAHATI, Jan 24: Troops of the Red Horns

Division in association with the civil authoritiesconducted a mini marathon on January 22 at Rang-

ia District Sports Association Stadium. The aim ofthe event was to bring the civil population, civil

administration and Indian Army to a common plat-

form to enhance harmony and sovereignty in thecountry. The event was organised in the run up to

the Republic Day celebrations.

A large number of people participated in theevent and an overwhelming response was seen on

the ground from public especially the youth. Dig-

nitaries who attended the event were Kailash Kar-tik SDO (civil) Rangia and Pranab Kumar Pegu,

SDPO Rangia.

Gomshar Bashumatari from Goreswar and Rabi-na Boro from Rangia stood first in their respective

category, stated a press release.

Bedo threatens toknock out Sarita

CORRESPONDENT

IMPHAL, Jan 24: Hungarian Zsofia Bedo, oppo-nent of L Sarita Devi in her professional debut fight,has vowed to give the former World Champion arun for her money.

Before leaving for India from Budapest, Hun-gary, Zsofia said that Sarita is not going to lastthe all four rounds. Although Sarita’s responseat the training camp in Rohtak has been shortand terse: “You are finished”. The two are slat-ed to meet at Imphal, on Sunday, according to apress release.

30-year old Zsofia in a telephonic chat withthe promoters of the event as per the releasefrom Sporty Solutions Limited, a Noida basedsports marketing company stated: “I tried toknow more about my opponent. When you searchfor boxer Sarita, you find pictures of a lady intears. I am going to add more such images tointernet. Trust me.”

Gold medallist in Khelo India Khelo TT meet Prayashi Baruah of Assam (Front row 2nd R) along

with other medallists pose for a photograph with ATTA secretary Tridib Duvarah and other officials

Carfew Roy, Nandini Baruah and Subhrajit Singha in Guwahati, on Tuesday. – UB Photos

NEW DELHI, Jan 24: The AllIndia Football Federation (AIFF)president Praful Patel today tooka veiled dig at Goan clubs for nothaving the required “band-width” to continue in revampedtop tier league as they are “notinvesting” in foot-ball while provid-ing excuses.

All the threeGoan club own-ers – ShivanandSalgaocar, Shrin-ivas Dempo andPeter Vaz (Sport-ing Clube deGoa) had takenan united stand to oppose theproposed restructuring thatmakes ISL a top-tier leagueand relegates I-League to thesecond division.

“The clubs which havepulled out were not investingin football. They blame otherreasons but the real reason isthat they don’t have band-

‘Goan clubs that pulled outdidn’t have bandwidth’

width now to continue,” theAIFF president did not takenames but it was clear to eve-ryone about the clubs he wasreferring to.

India’s club football sys-tem was thrown into turmoil

last year whenformer champi-ons Salgaocarand fellow Goanside SportingClube de Goawithdrew fromthe current edi-tion of the I-League opposingAIFF and IMG-

Reliance’s proposed struc-ture for the new domesticseason as the reason.

Late last year, anotherGoan club Dempo also pulledout of the national league.

Praful said that I-League isstill country’s premier nation-al league and it remainsAIFF’s “top priority”. – PTI

Patel

16 THE ASSAM TRIBUNE, GUWAHATI WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017

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