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Deb welcomes Centre's decision to scrap Article 370

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Agartala, Aug 5 : Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Monday welcomed the Centre's decision to scrap Article 370 of the Constitution.

The government on Monday revoked Article 370 to take away Jammu and Kashmir's special status, and proposed the bifurcation of the state into two union territories, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

"Special status for J&K ends, Jammu & Kashmir is now a Union Territory with assembly & Ladakh would be separate Union Territory with no legislature. I welcome @narendramodi ji led Govt's 'J&K reorganization bill' for the betterment of valley's people," Deb tweeted.

He further said, "Dream of Dr Syama Prasad Mookherjee's 'Ek desh, Ek Vidhan, Ek Pradhan aur Ek Nishan' has become true today". [Agencies]

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Tripura to hand over 20 government schools to ISKCON

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Agartala, Jun 21 : Tripura government has decided to hand over 20 state-run schools including 13 closed institutions to ISKCON to run them, Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath said Friday.

The 13 schools are closed as they don't have any student. In 147 other government schools there are a maximum of only 10 students, he said.

"The council of ministers in its meeting held on Thursday evening decided to hand over 20 schools including the closed 13 schools and seven schools from 147 schools, which have maximum 10 students to the authorities of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), who agreed to provide quality education in those schools", Nath told a press conference.

'Indian Tribal Care Trust', a wing of ISKCON would run the schools, Nath said, adding the schools are located in remote and tribal areas of the state.

The minister said the BJP-IPFT government which came to power in the state last year after ousting the Left Front was trying to reform the education system in the state.

"Initially they (ISKCON) opted for 53 schools but we have decided to give them 20 schools for five years of which 7 in West Tripura district, one in Gomati district, two in Khowai district, three in Sepahijala district and seven in South Tripura district, would be handed over to them for five years. They promised us to impart quality education", the Education minister said.

Nath said the state government and 'Indian Tribal Care Trust' would soon sign a MoU and the terms and conditions include that at least there would be 30 students in each of the schools and the schools must be affiliated to the CBSE or ICSE and they should follow the guidelines of Right to Education Act of the Central government.

The state government would distribute free books, uniforms and mid-day meals and the ownership right would be with the state government, he said.

Tripura has 4,389 government and government-aided schools, he said.

Nath said the council of ministers also decided to introduce metered auto-rickshaw service in Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) areas and town bus service for creating a better transport network system to commuters. [Agencies]

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Tripura govt presents Rs 17,530cr budget for 2019-20

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Agartala, Feb 25 : Tripura Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma on Monday presented a tax-free and zero-deficit budget of Rs 17,530.46 crore for the fiscal 2019-20.

He later told reporters that the state government could achieve 14.5 per cent revenue growth compared to last last year, due to better tax management and administrative disciplines.

In the budget speech, Dev Varma, who is also the finance minister of the state, said the collection of own tax revenue is projected at Rs 2,048.95 crore, while non-tax revenue is estimated at Rs 285.21 crore in 2019-20.

The total receipts from the Centre is projected at Rs 12,764.30 crore in the budget estimate, and the total expenditure at Rs 17,530.46 crore, including revenue expenditure and capital expenditure.

The gross borrowings for 2019-20 is estimated at about Rs 2,430 crore, the minister said.

Dev Varma said the state government has decided to increase the social pensions from Rs 700 to Rs 1,000 per month in the first phase for certain categories of beneficiaries.

He said sugar at subsidised rates will be supplied to households under all categories in the next financial year.

Free smart phones will also be provided to students completing their graduation.

The minister said under the Mini Dairy scheme of NABARD, 10,000 cows (2 cows per family) to women members of 5,000 families will be provided to give a boost to milk production in the state, for which the Tripura government shall provide 100 per cent interest subvention.

A total of 1,867 check dams will be constructed, which will create "enormous" opportunities for pisciculture, drinking water supply and irrigation, he said.

Dev Varma added that 2,110 self-help groups will be formed and livelihood opportunities will be created for 52,030 families. [Agrencies]

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Tripura CM launches Rs 1,000cr forest management project

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Agartala, Jan 16 : Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Wednesday launched a Rs 1,000-crore Sustainable Catchment Forest Management (SCATFORM) project for local communities living in and around forest areas in the state.

Deb said people residing in such areas have been facing problems in accessing forest resources and water, due to soil erosion.

"The project would help improve forests in the targeted catchment areas, and the ecosystem would be conserved. It would also create livelihood of the people living in and around the forest areas," he said.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) would bear 80 per cent of the cost and the rest would be funded by the state and central governments.

A total of 1,447 check dams will be set up in hilly areas in seven districts out of the total eight districts of Tripura within a timeframe of 10 years, the CM added. PTI

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Drug peddlers hatching conspiracy to eliminate Tripura CM: BJP

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Agartala, Sep 19: Myanmar-based drug peddlers have issued a threat to the life of Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb as he has called for making the state drugs-free, the ruling BJP in Tripura has claimed.

Veteran BJP leader and former minister Ratan Chakraborty told a press conference on Tuesday that Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had received reports that drug peddlers in Myanmar had hatched a conspiracy to eliminate Deb.

"We have also got inputs from our party sources," Chakraborty said.

The drug peddlers in the region were unhappy with the chief minister as he had called for making the north-eastern state drugs-free, he added.

"So, they have hatched a conspiracy to kill the chief minister," the BJP leader said.

When contacted, police officers refused to comment on the matter.

Chakraborty said the BJP workers were also asked to ensure that the chief minister's security cordon was not breached under any condition.

According to reports, over 50,000 kg cannabis have been seized, along with narcotic pills, heroin, brown sugar and other intoxicants, in the last six months in Tripura and over 120 people arrested in connection with these seizures. (PTI)

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Bru repatriation: Mizo officials return from 'futile exercise'

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Aizawl/Agartala Sep 3: With only four of the 5,407 Bru families returning to Mizoram since the final repatriation process began on August 25, the state government termed it a "futile exercise" and withdrew the officials sent to neighbouring Tripura to oversee the exercise.

The officials who were deployed in the six Bru relief camps of North Tripura district have already returned, Mizoram Additional Secretary for Home Lalbiakzama said Monday.

The repatriation process was scheduled to continue for a month till September 25.

"The state government is regarding it a futile exercise in view of the mood at the relief camps. We had to withdraw the officials as no Bru family returned since Tuesday (August 28)," Lalbiakzama said.

Between August 25 and 27, only four refugee families returned from the relief camps in Tripura. Thereafter, no Bru refugee showed any interest in heading back, he said.

In a November 2016 survey, 32,876 Brus belonging to 5,407 families were identified as bona fide residents of Mizoram, who could be repatriated. However, in a recent study, just 2,753 people belonging to 423 families expressed their willingness to return.

The Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF), an organization that has been fighting for the rights of the community, signed an agreement with the Centre and Mizoram and Tripura governments in July to accept a repatriation package.

The agreement stipulated that Rs 4 lakh for each repatriated Bru family would be deposited in the bank account of the head of the family and Rs 1.5 lakh doled out as housing assistance.

Each repatriated Bru family would also be given Rs 5,000 through Direct Benefit Transfer every month and free ration for two years.

Senior officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs had said the relief camps would be closed down by the first week of October and assistance allotted for the inmates to be discontinued forthwith.

A section of the refugees, however, were not happy with the package offered to them and demanded more.

Mizo Bru Displaced People's Coordination Committee (MBDPCC), another organization of the refugees in Tripura, sought central security after their repatriation.

"The Brus fled Mizoram during ethnic clashes since 1997. We will now feel insecure on our return. We want central security, cluster villages and Area Development Council if we have to return," MBDPCC president Laldinliana maintained.

Thousands of Bru refugees from Mizoram fled to Tripura during an ethnic violence in 1997. The clashes broke out after a forest official was killed by Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) militants.

The Centre, in association with the governments of Mizoram and Tripura, was repatriating the displaced Brus in phases.

Though several Bru families have returned to Mizoram over the years, many refused to leave Tripura citing security reasons and inadequate package. (PTI)

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Wait over, insurgency-hit families in Tripura find new homes

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Agartala, Aug 28 : An obscure colony in the remote South Narayanpura village near India-Bangladesh border is the new address of 39-year-old Minati Das, who along with her family was forced to flee home during the three-decade-long insurgency in Tripura.

Das, along with thousands other displaced families in West Tripura, had since been living in makeshift slums, working as maids and daily wagers to make ends meet.

In a relief that came after thirty years, the BJP-led state government recently handed over land pattas (deeds) to 235 families in West Tripura and Sipahijala districts.

Of them, 55 families have received their deeds earlier this month for settlement at South Narayanpur village.

"This is my shelter now. I am happy with 1296 sq ft area allotted by the government. At least, I have a place to stay," Das said.

Tripura witnessed its worst ethnic riot between the tribal and the non-tribal communities in the 1980s, killing over 6000 people.

Sajal Poddar, the secretary of 'Paschim zila and Sipahijaala Udbastu Unnayan Committee' (organisation for the wellbeing of the homeless), however, claimed that only a small percentage of the total number of families displaced during the insurgency and ethnic riots has received the pattas.

The committee that had been fighting for the rights of the homeless people over the past 18 years demanded a plot and Rs 5 lakh for every family.

"Back then, Sipahijala was a part of West Tripura district. Of the 6,500 families displaced from the district during insurgency, only 202 have received pattas in West Tripura and 35 in Sipahijala," he said.

State Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath, too, agreed that the armed insurgency had rendered thousands of families homeless.

"During my speech in the Assembly as the leader of the opposition in 2006, I had presented a statement which clearly specified that around 3 lakh people from 60,000 families across the state had to flee homes due to the insurgency," he asserted.

After the situation settled down, the families could not return homes as the local indigenous people had taken over their land and property, ruling BJP Vice-President Subal Bhowmick said.

For Rabin Banik, 33, who fled his home at the age of 13 from Jampuijala village in Sipahijala district, the 1296 sq ft land allotted to him in South Narayanpura, enough to build just one room, a makeshift kitchen and a toilet, has come as big relief.

"I would not like to compare my new home with the old one anymore. After fleeing my village we lived on pavements and dirty slums at Mullapara in West Tripura for years. This is a big relief for my family," Rabin, who works as a daily wager, said.

The memories of ethnic tension still haunt some of the displaced people, who do not wish to return to their village any longer.

Rajesh Das, who also hailed from Jampuijala village, once considered as the hub for vegetable cultivation, feels visiting his village might lead to more trouble.

"No one is interested in going back. Who knows, going back may spark off another ethnic tension there. We want to settle down peacefully on the land provided to us by the government," he said.

The new inhabitants of South Narayanpura village, however, complained that the area lacks electricity and drinking water supply.

"We manage to set up a hand pump at the village as the nearest water supply point is one kilometre away from this village," said Rajesh Das.

One of the villagers said on the condition of anonymity that the people in the colony use hook lines from a high tension power line to electrify homes.

"Local BJP MLA Dilip Das visited our colony a month ago and promised to arrange for water supply and power," he said.

BJP vice-president Subal Bhowmik, when asked about the living conditions of the colonies, said his party will take steps to ensure proper rehabilitation.

"We have launched many movements in the past (during Left rule) for the rehabilitation of the homeless. We are trying to provide them amenities so that they can lead a normal life," Bhowmik added.

Veteran CPI(M) leader and former deputy speaker Pabitra Kar said the erstwhile Left Front government had always been sympathetic to the problems faced by the displaced people.

"Our government had allotted lands to several families at Sipahijala and West Tripura. We had also planned a scheme to rehabilitate the displaced members, but that scheme could not be implemented as the Election Commission had announced assembly polls for February," he added.

The BJP-IPFT combine government came to power in March 9, ending the 25-year of CPI(M)-led Left Front rule in Tripura.PTI

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Tripura govt declares holiday today for death of Vajpayee

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Agartala, Aug 17: The Tripura government has declared a holiday today as a mark of respect to the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who died in New Delhi yesterday.

A notification, issued here last night, said all government offices and educational institutes and banks run by the state government would remain closed today.

The state government also declared state mourning for seven days with effect from yesterday. Throughout the mourning period the national flag will fly at half mast, it said.

Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb flew to New Delhi and paid floral tribute to the late leader yesterday.

In a message Deb said, "we lost a great statesman of the country. His demise is an irreparable loss to the country."

Vajpayee died at the age of 93 at the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), New Delhi. (PTI)

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Number of excluded people will change in NRC in Assam: Sarma

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Agartala, Aug 10: Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said the number of people excluded from the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state will "drastically" change at the end of the process of claims and objections.

The final draft of the NRC in the state is not a major issue as it is not the final one, he told reporters here yesterday.

"It is not proper to come to a conclusion regarding the NRC in Assam. It is just a draft. In our NRC, names of many people are not there. This number will drastically change after claims and objections are taken into consideration," said Sarma, who is also the convenor of the North-East Democratic Alliance, formed by the BJP along with regional political parties.

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, who was present during the interaction with reporters, said he was unaware of any demand for updating NRC in the state.

The NRC revision has rocked Assam since the publication of its final draft on July 30. Names of over 40 lakh people have been excluded from the draft of the NRC.

Sarma suggested that other states could replicate the Assam model of NRC after the process was complete.

"Let Assam produce a correct and perfect NRC. Then people should try to replicate it," he said.

On NDA ally Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura's demand of NRC revision in Tripura, Sarma said there was no "huge requirement" for such a decision.

"Going by the demography of Tripura, I don't think there is a huge requirement. Assam's demography has changed. NRC revision is being done in Assam as per the Assam Accord. But in Tripura, there is no accord, no cut-off date, neither in any way to generate any legacy document," he said.

Another regional party, the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura, too had demanded an NRC revision and deportation of foreigners who had illegally migrated to Tripura from neighbouring Bangladesh. (PTI)

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App based transport service in Tripura soon: Minister

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Agartala, July 27: An app based transport service will soon be launched in Tripura, state Transport Minister Pranajit Singha Roy said.

Under the new service, auto rickshaws and cabs can be booked, availed and paid via mobile applications, Singha Roy told reporters yesterday.

The service will help the people during the coming Durga Puja season, he said.

Six service providers had expressed interest in launching the service, but the state has chosen 'Jugnoo', which caters to several other states.

The service will be available in Agartala, Bishalgarh in Sipahijala and Udaipur in Gomati districts, the minister said.

He said other service providers might be roped in later to cover other routes.

Joint Transport Commissioner Sabyasachi Singh said 'Jugnoo', formed by a handful of IITians in 2014, runs app based auto and cab services in big cities including Bhubaneswar and Chandigarh, besides Singapore. (PTI)

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Free Ration for ten tribal blocks in Tripura: Minister

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Agartala, July 6 : The Tripura government will distribute free ration to about 62,000 tribals in the remote areas for two months immediately, a minister said today.

The decision was taken in a cabinet meeting last evening, state Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath told reporters.

He said "the BPL families in ten tribal blocks will get this facility for two months because during this time they face shortage of foods."

He also said that one family would get 20 kg of rice per month and for this 2442 tonnes of rice would be required.

The government also announced a hike in transport fare by 20 per cent in view of increased fuel prices and other material cost, Transport Minister Pranajit Singha Roy said. PTI

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Prime accused in Chakrabarty lynching case arrested in Tripura

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Agartala, Jul 6 : Nine persons, including prime accused Sunil Mohan Tripura, have been arrested in connection with the lynching of a man for campaigning against rumour-mongering on child-lifting in Tripura, the police said today.

While Sunil Mohan was arrested yesterday from Sabroom in south Tripura district, another accused Hiren Tripura was held from the student hostel of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar College of Belonia sub-division of the same district early today, IG (Law and Order) K V Sreejesh told PTI.

"We have got the video footage of the killing of Sukanta Chakraborty. He was held on the basis of the footage and complaints. We have found from the footage that all the accused were involved in the killing," he said.

Seven persons have been arrested earlier.

Four police personnel including one Assistant Sub-inspector of police and two personnel of the Tripura State Rifles (TSR) have already been suspended in this connection.

Sukanta Chakraborty (33), a resident of the Sabroom sub-division of South Tripura district, was lynched by a mob on June 28 last, when he was returning from Kalacherra village after campaigning against the child lifting scare in the state.

He was hired by the state Information and culture department.

A woman and a hawker were also beaten to death on the suspicion of being child-lifters in separate incidents in the state on the same day.PTI

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Tripura IIIT to start functioning this year: Minister

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Agartala, Jun 29: The Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) will start functioning from the current academic year, Tripura Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath informed the Assembly.

The IIIT will initially operate from the campus of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Agartala, the minister said yesterday in reply to a calling attention notice moved by Sushanta Chowdhury and Dilip Das on the progress of establishing the IIIT in the state.

Nath said the project was approved by the Centre in Public Private Partnership (PPP) model in July, 2012. The project was delayed by six years due to lack of initiative by the erstwhile Left Front government, he said adding that the newly formed BJP-IPFT government was not ready to waste a single day on the matter.

"The construction for the IIIT will be made on a plot of 52.08 acres land at Bodhjungnagar. Meanwhile, we want to start the first academic session in NIT campus this year, Nath said.

He said it would commence with Computer Science and Engineering courses in which thirty students would be admitted in the first batch. Electronics and Communication would be started in the next academic session.

The project will be set up with an estimated cost of Rs 128 crore, he said. (PTI)

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CBI to probe killings of 2 journalists in Tripura: CM Biplab Deb

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Agartala, Jun 23 : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has agreed to take over investigations into the killings of two journalists in Tripura last year, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has said.

Santanu Bhowmik, who worked for a local television channel, was killed when he went to cover a road blockade agitation in the Mandwai area of West Tripura district on September 21 last year.

Another journalist, Sudip Dutta Bhowmik, a crime reporter with a vernacular newspaper, was killed inside the headquarters of the Tripura State Rifles' (TSR) 2nd battalion at RK Nagar in the same district on November 20 last year.

The trial in the Sudip Dutta Bhowmik case in the Additional District and Sessions Judge Court was stopped following orders from the Tripura High Court.

The state police's Special Investigating Team (SIT) had probed the killing and filed a charge sheet. It also investigated the Santanu Bhowmik case, but hasn't filed a charge sheet yet.

The CBI has decided to take over the investigations into the cases, Biplab Kumar Deb said.

Deb told reporters late last night that the state cabinet had sent separate proposals to the Centre to probe the two cases to ensure justice to the affected families.

"Today, we feel relieved as the CBI is going to investigate both the cases. With this, the BJP-IPFT government has fulfilled yet another promise made in the party's vision document," he said.

CBI sleuths would investigate the cases to ensure justice to the two families. The government had taken positive steps so that the media could work with full freedom in Tripura, he said.

Deb said the government had already taken steps for a steep hike in pension for accredited journalists -- from Rs 1,000 to Rs 10,000 -- and providing financial assistance to the ailing scribes.

Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath said democracy turns fragile "when the media is not free to perform its duty".

"As the BJP's state unit president, Biplab Kumar Deb had promised a CBI probe into the two cases if the party was voted to power. Today, the promise has been fulfilled," he added.

The Agartala Press Club and other journalists' bodies, which had staged protests in the capital town demanding a CBI probe into the killings, have welcomed the decision.PTI

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Flood situation in Tripura improves

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Agartala, Jun 18 : The overall flood situation in Tripura has improved with water level in all major rivers flowing below the danger level, officials said.

"Work for the distribution of relief materials, food and medicines is in full swing. We are keeping a close watch on the situation," D Darlong, district Magistrate of Unakoti which is the worst-affected, said over phone from Kailashahar.

Over 72,000 people are still staying in relief camps in Unakoti district, he said.

Chief Public Relations Officer of the Northeast Frontier Railway, P J Sharma said train services have been restored in the Lumding-Badarpur hill section but some portions of railway track are still under flood water in between Badarpur-Silchar and Manu-Ambassa-Agartala affecting passenger train services.

The Badarpur-Silchar section in Assam and Manu-Ambassa-Agartala section in Tripura remained suspended since Jun 13 due to landslips at several locations, he said.

Three pairs of passenger trains - Agartala-Silchar, Silchar-Dharmanagar and Agartala-Dharmanagar - could not run in the two sections because of the landslips caused by flood, Sharma said.

"Efforts are on to restart the train services as early as possible," he said.

As part of a contingency arrangement, one pair of special passenger train will run from Agartala to Badarpur today, Sharma said.

The flood so far claimed three lives in Tripura.PTI

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Prez to declare pineapple as state fruit of Tripura

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Agartala, Jun 6: President Ramnath Kovind would come to Tripura tomorrow for a two-day visit during which he would declare the 'Queen' variety of pineapple as the state fruit, officials said here today.
The declaration of state fruit would be made at a civic reception organised by the state government in honour of the President tomorrow evening.
Kovind would land at the Agartala airport earlier in the day and leave for Udaipur, the headquarters of Gomati district 55 km from here, in a helicopter.
He would inaugurate a 6 km long road from Udaipur town to Tripurasundari temple, considered one of the 51 Shaktipiths of the country, officials said.
The President would also visit the temple and offer Puja there before returning to the Rajbhavan here. The civic reception would be held at 6 pm.
Kovind would return to Delhi the next morning, officials said. (PTI)

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Tripura to provide solar power to 52,000 tribal families

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Agartala, May 22: Tripura government has embarked into a plan to provide power connection to 52,000 odd remote tribal families tapping solar energy by six moths under Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya).
Deputy Chief Minister, holding the charge of power Jishnu Dev Varma said here today that providing power supply from conventional sources to the remote household is not only costly affairs to erect power line also not feasible to maintain them because of distance and accessibility problem.
“The identified 52,000 beneficiaries are spread over 531 villages across the state. In each location hardly 3 to 7 families have residing in the hills. But supplying power from conventional sources via grid would be most inconvenient where solar energy is the best alternative,” Dev Varma said.
He however, pointed out that Tripura is prone to annual natural disaster like thunderstorm, high rainfall and landslide, which mainly affect the power supply line and road communication. This year also Tripura State Electricity Corporation Ltd (TSECL) incurred a huge loss of property and infrastructure due to bad weather.
It was also not possible for the department and corporation to restore the service immediately as per the commitment given under citizen charter. As a result, most of the areas power supply has been affected seriously. Moreover, the corporation did not able to ensure sufficient manpower for providing quality service to the customers and that sometimes create unnecessary chaos, Dev Varma stated.
He underlined that Prime Minister had launched the scheme aiming to provide last mile connectivity and electricity connections to all un-electrified households in rural areas. It has also the provision of providing Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) based standalone system for un-electrified households located in remote and inaccessible villages/habitations, where grid extension is not feasible or cost-effective. Tripura is designing the plan covering both the objectives.
Dev Varma said, poor families would be provided free of cost connection but they have to pay the monthly rent and users bill and added, “If we provide them grid power the corporation shall not only ensure the supply and maintenance of power. But at the same time, payment of monthly bill will be a problem for the poor consumers for which we thought to make solar power available for the families even though installation is costly.”
The ministry of power has sanctioned Rs 800 crore for Tripura to provide power to remaining uncovered 1.41 lakh families by next six months. The government will provide individual solar panel to each of the household having the capacity of three bulbs and two fans. Since, the solar power will not to take into grid, the maintenance of service would be easier and not affect the enter system if break down, he added.
He said the government is going to install smart meter for 1.5 customers would be started soon where consumer would get pre-paid power supply and the recharge of the connection would be possible from any vendor like mobile phone recharge. The smart metering will cut down the cost of unnecessary litigation in TSECL and revenue loss. UNI

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Tripura BJP congratulates party’s success in Karnataka

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Agartala, May 15 : Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb congratulated BJP all India president Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP state leadership for their comfortable victory in Karnataka assembly election.
Talking to UNI,Deb said “The Karnataka result reflects that the people would not accept the negative
politics what Congress did. People of the state voted against the misrule of Congress in last five years. Rahul Gandhi must introspect their political philosophy and relentless falsehood campaign against BJP.”
The election result of Karnataka made it clear that the people of the country largely supported the development agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the modern political thoughts of BJP. The caste based politics and political criminalism were rejected in the country today and Karnataka is a classic example, Deb stated.
“The Congress always before any election pursues communal agenda or creates political tension across the country to gain mileage and there was no difference in case of Karnataka election. Congress leaders demonstrated in front of Rashtrapati Bhawan with 150 MPs against BJP president Amit Shah in a false case. Later, Supreme Court said it was false but Congress did not learn any lesson. But I wish after Karnataka result, Rahul team will realize the pulse of common Indian,” Deb added.UNI

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Tripura Dy CM accuses CPI-M of spreading misleading information

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Agartala, May 15 : Tripura deputy chief minister Jishnu Dev Varma today refuted the allegation of opposition CPI (M) and Congress against the state government regarding imposition of ban on new job.

Talking to newspersons, Dev Varma said the rule of governance has collapsed in 25 yrs rule of CPI (M) and there were massive irregularities in the process of appointment and the employment policy, which compelled the new government to make a temporary halt in new job.

“The CPI (M) is the master of misleading baseless campaign to trigger chaos and this is also no different. The BJP-IPFT government assumed office only two months ago and now the government is reviewing the policies of the last government including employment and public utility schemes and until we understand the flaws we will not take any action,” Dev Varma argued.

He said that the entire employment policy of previous government and the beneficiaries of the social security schemes were completely politically motivated and thus did not maintain the rules and there was lack of transparency. Because of flaws, the high court and Supreme Court had to intervene in most of the issues of governances and 10,323 posts of teachers were cancelled only because of the administrative faults of the left front government. This government will not go into such illegal and corrupt ways that take little time to start up.

“Our draft employment policy is ready and now under the security of legal issues and sent to different levels for their opinion to make it transparent, constitutional and people oriented. Also the government is framed well defined transfer policy for the public servant to ensure good governance. We are expecting soon the cabinet will approve those policies of the government and very shortly the recruitment process will be started,” Dev Varma stated.

He alleged that Left Front government created huge problems in the governance and converted the whole system into a den of corruption – however, the present government is optimistic that it would be able to fulfill its pre-poll promises and to bring best public policies for development of the state without any political biasness.

Understanding the whole system of governance, which was misused by CPI (M) and formulating proper action plan needs at least six months time for any peoples’ government. The BJP-IPFT government is doing the exercise to understand and rectify the faults in the system of previous government. Obviously, the change in governance and development will be visible at least after six months, Dev Varma added.UNI

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BJP and Congress in war of words in Tripura

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Agartala, May 12: With the protest from Tripura Congress against the decision of the state government decision to keep payment of all allowances meant for the poorest in abeyance and suspend all works on employment-related schemes MGNREGA, BJP today hit back suggesting the opposition to stop disruption without going deep into the problem.
BJP Vice President Subal Bhowmik said that the last CPI (M) government did not comply with the directives of the central government set for MGNREGA scheme.
Tripura got negative score in 25 -points performance scale of MGNREGA in last year and unfortunately because of bad governance of leftist the state scored only 23.
“Both the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister tried hard to convince the central government that it was not the fault of the job card holders but stopping fund of MGNREGA is actually affecting the livelihood of those section on the contrary, the persons who did the mistake are safe. They committed to take action against all the accused officials and political bosses and got the fund release from the ministry,” Bhowmik said.
He also pointed out that when new government took charge the state finance was deficit by Rs 11000 Cr and number of unemployed overshoot 7.5 lakh. There was institutional form of corruption during the Left Front government that prevented normal flow of fund in Tripura, which is actually affecting the development process of the state.
“No allowance has been withdrawn and all of them will start being paid from June after an extensive ongoing review being done by the state government; according to feedback received by the state government many people who do not qualify for the allowances are being paid the same while many who deserve such allowances continue to be deprived; this was done by the previous Left Front government in partisan interest; we do not believe in depriving anybody but we do want that really eligible and deserving people have access to these benefits given from public money,” he said.
In regard to the eviction notices served on dwellers on the banks of River Howrah, Bhowmik said that many dwellers on the river banks have their household in safe areas but they continue to encroach and occupy government land.
All those who have lands and homes in other safe areas will be evicted but we have requested the state government to arrange for alternative rehabilitation for the really landless and homeless people; nobody will be inconvenienced by this as the government is only trying to save the Agartala from flooding and restore the environment, he added.
The Congress yesterday had blockade national highway at Agartala demanding immediate resumption of the payments of all social pensions and schemes. Tripura PCC president Birjit Sinha alleged that an unprecedented situation of crisis has emerged as a result of the state government’s thoughtless decision and they demanded a roll-back of the decision immediately.
“The payment of allowances for disadvantaged people, including old age pension, allowance for widows, women deserted by husbands, physically handicapped people and others have all been suspended in the name of a review ;the government is free to review the names and identities of beneficiaries but why should payment should be suspended? This is a foolish, thoughtless and anti-people decision; besides, a severe crisis has been created by the government’s decision,” Sinha said.
Criticising the temporary stay on recruitment he said that fresh recruitment could be stopped temporarily but why the blanket ban. It is amazing that recruitment has been frozen but one after another OSDs are being appointed by the administration and in one case a retired IAS officer B K Chibbar has recently been appointed on a fat monthly salary but this man was never engaged in developmental administration but worked in other posts; how can he advise the chief minister on development. UNI

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