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  • Bodo Accord marked starting of finish of insurgency in Assam: Amit Shah

    Union Home Minister Amit Shah Sunday stated that solely BJP, below Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s management, could make Assam “corruption-free, terrorism-free and pollution-free”.
    At a rally in Assam’s Kokrajahar, Shah stated the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) Accord marked the start of the top of insurgency in Assam and that the political rights, tradition and language of all communities of Assam are safe below the BJP authorities.
    At a ceremony to mark the primary anniversary of BTR Accord Day, Shah was quoted by information company ANI as saying, “This rally is a reply to those who disturbed the peace in Assam by spreading venom in the name of Bodo and non-Bodo. Today, Bodos & non-Bodos both are present here.”

    Addressing the first anniversary celebrations of the historic Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) Accord in Kokrajhar, Assam. Watch dwell! https://t.co/PG1XjWHPl5
    — Amit Shah (@AmitShah) January 24, 2021
    Shah took a dig on the Congress saying the social gathering, too, had entered into a number of pacts with militants however none of these have been adhered. PM Modi and BJP are dedicated to fulfil Bodo Accord clauses, he added.
    “Prime Minister Narendra Modi initiated the process to end insurgency in the Northeast by signing the Bodo Peace Accord. Efforts were made for settlement for Bru-Reang issue & 700 members of 8 armed groups laid down arms,” he stated.
    With the Bodo Peace Accord, Shah stated Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the message, “wherever there is unrest in the Northeast, negotiate and pave the way for peace.”
    Shah additional stated, “Please identify those instigating disputes in the name of Assamese and non-Assamese, Bodo and non-Bodo. They are not doing it for our development but are playing politics. It is high time that people of Assam teach a lesson to such people.”
    He stated Rs 500 crores has been sanctioned to construct highway community in Bodo area, asserting that the transfer will take the realm on the trail of improvement

  • Those voters excluded from NRC can vote in Assam: CEC Sunil Arora

    Image Source : PTI Those voters excluded from NRC can vote in Assam: CEC Sunil Arora 
    Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora on Wednesday mentioned these excluded from Assam’s up to date National Register of Citizens (NRC), if their names are on the ultimate electoral rolls, can vote within the meeting polls more likely to be held in April-May. The up to date NRC below the direct supervision of the Supreme Court was launched on August 31, 2019, excluding the names of 19,06,657 individuals. A complete of three,11,21,004 names had been included out of three,30,27,661 candidates.
    The CEC cited a Union Home Ministry notification of August 29, 2019 that clarified that the exclusion of an individual’s title from the NRC doesn’t quantity to his or her declaration as a foreigner. “Since the people, excluded in the NRC, have their names in the final voters’ list, they can exercise their franchise in the elections,” he advised the media.
    Those voters who had been excluded from the NRC in Assam additionally forged their votes within the final Lok Sabha elections in 2019.

    Meanwhile, the ultimate electoral checklist in Assam on the premise of January 1 because the qualifying age, was printed on Monday. Assembly polls are to be held on the premise of the ultimate electoral rolls, which have enlisted a complete of two, 29, 92, 505 voters together with 1,12,34,579 girls. Compared to the ultimate photograph electoral roll of final yr, the state has registered a rise of two.46 per cent voters on this yr’s closing voters’ checklist.
    Arora, accompanied by Election Commissioners Sushil Chandra and Rajiv Kumar and senior officers, arrived in Guwahati on Monday and throughout the three days held a sequence of conferences with the political events, police nodal officers, election associated regulatory companies, district deputy commissioners and cops, state dwelling secretary and different senior central and state officers to evaluation the ballot preparedness.
    The EC additionally held conferences with Assam Chief Secretary Jishnu Baruah, Director General of Police Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, and Chief Electoral Officer Nitin Khade.
    The full bench of the EC left Guwahati for Kolkata on Wednesday and through its three-day keep there would maintain an identical train in regards to the West Bengal meeting polls.
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  • PM Modi to deal with Tezpur University convocation in Assam on Jan 22

    Image Source : PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi will tackle the convocation of Tezpur University in Assam on January 22.
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi will tackle the convocation of Tezpur University in Assam on January 22, the central college mentioned on Wednesday. The prime minister will just about tackle the 18th convocation of the college from New Delhi and confer levels and diplomas upon college students who handed out in 2020, an announcement mentioned.

    “The convocation will be held in a blended mode observing COVID-19 protocols, where only PhD scholars and toppers will receive their degrees and gold medals in person,” it mentioned.

    The college will award the remaining college students with their levels and diplomas just about. A complete of 1,218 college students will obtain their levels and diplomas within the convocation.

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    Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Tezpur Lok Sabha MP Pallab Lochan Das may also attend the programme.

    “Assam Governor and chancellor of Tezpur University, Jagdish Mukhi, will preside over the convocation and award the degrees and diplomas to the students virtually,” the varsity mentioned.

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  • Bhupesh Baghel reaches Kamakhya temple, prosperity of Chhattisgarh and congress worship in Assam

    Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel is on a two-day Assam tour. After reaching Guwahati on Monday afternoon, he reached the world well-known Maa Kamakhya temple straight from the airport. He noticed mom Kamakhya and wished for the nicely being of Chhattisgarh. At the identical time, took the blessings of Congress to wave in Assam elections. The Chief Minister was accompanied by Secretary in-charge of Assam and Vikas Upadhyay, Parliamentary Secretary in Bhupesh authorities, Assam Congress President Ripun Vora, MP Pradyut Bordoloi, Ram Gopal Agarwal from Raipur, Vijay Bhatia, National Secretary from Maharashtra and Assam Incharge Prithviraj Sathe of Assam Pradesh Congress Many leaders have been current.

  • Hunter in-charge Purandeshwari is killing BJP due to agitation: Bhupesh Baghel

    Before leaving for Assam, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has made an enormous assertion concentrating on the BJP. The Chief Minister mentioned that BJP has tried to discredit the farmer motion not as soon as however many occasions. The farmer will not be a dealer, the BJP has additionally made comparable allegations. Not solely this, BJP agitators are typically known as Pakistani, Chinese, Khalistani. The farmers of the nation is not going to suppress nor again down. NIA is giving discover to farmers. Attacking the BJP motion, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel mentioned that in-charge D. Purandeswari Hunter is killing. Therefore, BJP leaders are compelled to agitate. They don’t have anything left now. During this, CM questioned the BJP whether or not he would promote paddy within the open market. Will not reap the benefits of Chhattisgarh authorities’s scheme.

  • Assam types panel to establish ‘collaborators’ of unlawful migrants

    The Assam authorities on Tuesday introduced the formation of a brand new committee, comprising 5 cops, “to take immediate and proactive steps to identify the intermediaries, facilitators, collaborators facilitating the infiltration of illegal migrants from across the international border into Assam”.
    “The formation of the new committee has been done to strengthen the existing mechanism of dealing with illegal migration into Assam,” a authorities supply advised The Indian Express.
    The committee is led by Subhrajyoti Borah and contains Partha Protim Das, Kakoli Banya Baruah, Sukanya Das and Rukma Buragohain. According to an order by the DGP’s workplace on Tuesday, police in all districts of the state “would take legal action in their respective jurisdictions on the recommendation of the Committee wherever required”.
    The National Register of Citizens (NRC) printed in August 2019 excluded over 19 lakh folks. Moreover, Assam additionally has a border wing of the state police that investigates suspected ‘illegal foreigners’ and refers their circumstances to the Foreigners Tribunals. Local electoral authorities mark individuals as Doubtful Voters and their circumstances are referred to Tribunals too.

    “No illegal migrant — that is a migrant without valid papers — just flies and lands in Assam. There is a network and nexus that facilitates illegal migration. This step will help in nabbing these collaborators,” the supply added.
    The improvement comes on the heels of the Assam election, anticipated in April-May. Infiltration into the state from Bangladesh stays a contentious pivotal theme within the state’s politics — though Bangladesh denies any infiltration.

  • India’s recoveries cross 1 crore-mark; 20,346 new COVID instances reported in 24 hours

    Image Source : PTI India’s recoveries crosses 1 crore-mark; 20,346 new COVID instances reported in 24 hours
    India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 1,03,95,278 with 20,346 infections being reported in a day, whereas the recoveries breached one crore-mark, in accordance with the Union Health Ministry knowledge up to date on Thursday.

    The demise toll elevated to 1,50,336 with 222 individuals succumbing to the illness in a span of 24 hours, the information up to date at 8 am confirmed.

    The quantity of people that have recuperated from the illness surged to 1,00,16,859 pushing the nationwide restoration fee to 96.36 per cent, whereas the COVID-19 case fatality fee stands at 1.45 per cent.

    The COVID-19 energetic caseload remained beneath 3 lakh for the sixteenth consecutive day. There are 2,28,083 energetic instances of coronavirus infections within the nation which includes 2.19 per cent of the entire caseload, the information acknowledged.

    India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.It went previous  60 lakh on September 28,

    India Coronavirus statewise tally:

    . No.
    Name of State / UT
    Active Cases*
    Cured/Discharged/Migrated*
    Deaths**
    Total
    Cumulative
    Cumulative
    1
    Andaman and Nicobar Islands
    28
    4859
    62
    2
    Andhra Pradesh
    2896
    873855
    7125
    3
    Arunachal Pradesh
    88
    16609
    56
    4
    Assam
    3039
    212328
    1057
    5
    Bihar
    4184
    248410
    1420
    6
    Chandigarh
    256
    19525
    323
    7
    Chhattisgarh
    9109
    273030
    3447
    8
    Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
    5
    3372
    2
    9
    Delhi
    4481
    613246
    10625
    10
    Goa
    870
    49893
    744
    11
    Gujarat
    8594
    236323
    4329
    12
    Haryana
    2672
    258281
    2934
    13
    Himachal Pradesh
    1281
    53782
    952
    14
    Jammu and Kashmir
    2459
    117690
    1900
    15
    Jharkhand
    1449
    113545
    1040
    16
    Karnataka
    9196
    902817
    12124
    17
    Kerala
    65252
    722421
    3209
    18
    Ladakh
    219
    9243
    127
    19
    Madhya Pradesh
    8516
    233862
    3670
    20
    Maharashtra
    51969
    1852759
    49825
    21
    Manipur
    479
    27642
    363
    22
    Meghalaya
    154
    13230
    141
    23
    Mizoram
    88
    4160
    8
    24
    Nagaland
    137
    11737
    80
    25
    Odisha
    2026
    327008
    1887
    26
    Puducherry
    372
    37327
    635
    27
    Punjab
    2998
    159500
    5412
    28
    Rajasthan
    7698
    300690
    2723
    29
    Sikkim
    464
    5358
    129
    30
    Tamil Nadu
    7665
    803328
    12188
    31
    Telengana
    5053
    282177
    1559
    32
    Tripura
    64
    32843
    387
    33
    Uttarakhand
    3515
    87529
    1549
    34
    Uttar Pradesh
    11939
    569959
    8441
    35
    West Bengal
    8868
    538521
    9863
    Total#
    228083
    10016859
    150336
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  • Over 1.3 lakh names faraway from electoral roll: Assam govt

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    The Assam authorities on Monday mentioned names of over 1.3 lakh individuals have been deleted from the lately printed electoral roll. In a written reply to a question from Congress MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed, Election Minister Keshab Mahanta mentioned the deleted names primarily comprise those that have shifted completely or are lifeless voters.
    The minister mentioned a complete of 1,31,859 names had been deleted from the photograph electoral roll after the draft record was printed on November 18 this yr.
    He mentioned that as per the Registration of ELectors Rules, 1960, the Electoral Registration Officer can strike off names of lifeless individuals or of individuals not resident of a specific constituency earlier than the ultimate publication of the voter record.

    On November 18, the draft electoral rolls for the 126 meeting constituencies in Assam had been printed, containing 2.24 crore voters, together with 1.17 lakh first-timers.
    The draft record, nonetheless, witnessed a rise of 76,020 electors from the final last roll printed on February 14 this yr.
    The election to the 126-member Assam Assembly is probably going in March-April of subsequent yr.
    The 2016 elections gave a fractured mandate and no occasion has an absolute majority within the present meeting.
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  • COVID vaccination dry-run in 4 states begins on Monday: How the mega inoculation plan will unfold

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    Image Source : PTI COVID vaccine dry-run in 4 states begins on Monday: Here’s how the mega inoculation plan will unfold A two-day dry run has been deliberate by the Centre to evaluate the readiness of the mechanism laid out for the COVID-19 inoculation drive in 4 states together with Punjab, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, and Gujarat. The train might be carried out on December 28 and 29. The Union Health Ministry has ready an in depth guidelines to information the 4 states within the dry run. The National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration of COVID-19 (NEGVAC) has really useful three prioritised inhabitants teams together with, healthcare employees (about 1 crore), frontline employees (about 2 crore), and prioritized age group (about 27 crore).  The Union Health Ministry stated the current chilly chain system consisting of 85,634 tools for storage of vaccine at about 28,947 chilly chain factors throughout the nation might be used. The present chilly chain is able to storing a further amount of COVID-19 vaccine required for the primary three crore prioritised inhabitants. READ MORE: Oxford COVID-19 vaccine could change into the primary to get Indian regulator’s nod for emergency use THE VACCINE DRY RUN The dry run will embody vital knowledge entry in Co-WIN, a web-based platform for monitoring of vaccine supply, testing receipt and allocation, deployment of crew members, mock drill of session websites with take a look at beneficiaries, in addition to reporting and night assembly.  The train will even embody testing of chilly storage and transportation preparations for COVID-19 vaccine, administration of crowd at session websites with correct bodily distancing. Each state will plan it in two districts and ideally in 5 totally different session-type settings — district hospital, group well being centre (CHC) or main well being care centre (PHC), city website, non-public well being facility, and rural outreach. According to the Health Ministry, the train will allow end-to-end mobilisation and testing of COVID-19 vaccination course of (besides the vaccine) and test the utilization of Co-WIN in area setting, linkages between planning, implementation and reporting mechanisms, determine challenges and information the best way ahead previous to precise implementation together with enhancements which may be required within the envisaged course of. This will even present hands-on expertise to programme managers at varied ranges. The dry run will even focus majorly on the administration of any attainable adversarial occasions following immunization (AEFI) in addition to on adherence and administration of an infection management practices on the session website to forestall illness transmission. The mock drill will embody concurrent monitoring and evaluate at block and district ranges, and preparation of suggestions to be shared with the state and the Centre. Stating that the Central authorities was gearing for the roll-out of the coronavirus vaccine throughout the nation, the well being ministry stated that coaching of trainers and those that shall administer the vaccine has been taken up in varied states.  To strengthen the human useful resource for the vaccine introduction and roll-out and detailed coaching modules have been developed for various classes of vaccine handlers and directors, together with medical officers, vaccinators chilly chain handlers, ASHA coordinators and all others concerned within the implementation course of at totally different ranges. The coaching consists of all operational features of coaching like organisation of vaccination classes, use of Co-WIN IT platform for administration of your entire vaccination course of, deployment of HR chilly chain preparedness, administration of adversarial occasions,  communications and intersectoral coordination, biomedical waste administration, an infection prevention protocols amongst others. READ MORE: Chinese vaccines are poised to fill hole, however will they work? Latest India News

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