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Morigaon (Assam), Jun 14  :   The IT and social media cell convenor of BJP's Morigaon district unit in Assam, Nitu Kumar Bora, was arrested for posting objectionable remarks against Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on social media.

Morigaon Superintendent of Police Swapnanil Deka said Bora posted in his Facebook account that Sonowal and his home department were mute spectator when members of a particular community indulged in activities against hindu women.

The accused allegedly stated that the home department should be handed over to Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

"We arrested him yesterday for his communally provocative and objectionable post against the Chief Minister.

He was later released on bail," Deka said.

Bora's Facebook timeline gives his introduction as "Convenor, Information Technology & Social Media Department, BJP Morigaon District at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)".

When contacted, BJP Assam unit spokesperson Aparajita Bhuyan informed that party has already initiated steps against Bora.

"A report has been sought from the district committee.

Accordingly, if he is found guilty, we will definitely take action against Bora," she added.                                                                   [Agencies]
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Guwahati, Mar 22 :   A journalist of a news TV channel was attacked with knives and seriously injured in an attack in a restaurant Ganeshguri locality here, police said Friday.


Chakrapani Parashar, a journalist of satellite news channel News18/AssamNE, was stabbed by some workers of a restaurant adjacent to his office when he was on duty on Thursday night, police said.

Police have detained four accused in connection with the attack.

Parashar sustained serious injuries in various parts of his body and was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he is stated to be out of danger, the police said.

Trouble began on Thursday afternoon when Parashar went with his unit to cover a fight between the main accused, who runs a restaurant in the same building as the news channel and some youths while playing Holi, News18 Assam/NE Deputy Manager (Operations) Aparup Barua said.

"Though the news was not telecast, the restaurant owner started an argument with Parashar for covering the incident. In the evening when about five to six of our journalists, including Parashar, went to the restaurant to settle the matter amicably, the accused took out a dagger and stabbed him repeatedly," Barua said.

The accused has a criminal record and was arrested earlier too, he said.

Various political parties - national and regional and journalists organisations have condemned the attack on Parashar.

The Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has expressed concern over the attack and demanded stringent actions against the culprits. It also urged the state government to ensure security to media persons by enacting a special protection law at the earliest.

In a statement here on Friday, EMFA claimed that increasing instances of physical assaults are being reported from various parts of the country and the Centre should take the matter seriously.

It also appealed to all media persons across the country to be united over the issue.          [Agencies]
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Diphu (Assam), Feb 22 :  A hardcore militant of People's Democratic Council of Karbi-Longri (PDCK) was apprehended Friday along with arms and ammunition in Karbi Anglong district of central Assam, police said.

The operation was jointly carried out by the Army and police at Borlangfer area of the district.

Based on specific inputs about movement of PDCK extremists in Borlangfer area, a joint team comprising of Army and Police launched an operation and apprehended the militant identified as Welson Terang alias Mongwe Terang of Bokaram Tokbi gaon, under Dolamara police station, said Karbi Anglong district Superintendent of Police Gaurav Upadhyay.

A .22 pistol with magazine and 6 live rounds of ammunition were recovered from his possession, Upadhyay said.

Welson was earlier a hardcore member of Karbi People's Liberation Tigers (KPLT) and involved in extortion, kidnappings, etc., The SP said, adding, he was arrested in 2013 and 2015.

After getting released on bail, Welson joined PDCK and was involved in extortion and recruitment of youths into the extremist outfit, Upadhyay said.

In July last year, Welson along with his associates, had mounted an attack on a police team at Bokaram Tokbi gaon, he said.                      [Agencies]
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Guwahati, Feb 17 :  Launching a blistering attack on the Congress, BJP president Amit Shah said Sunday that the opposition party cannot "nurture" the country's democracy and for it only "family matters".


Naming Congress leaders from the Nehru-Gandhi family, Shah claimed that the oldest party of the country does not have "internal" democracy.

"Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi -- I am not mentioning the future name. No question of involving workers at all. Such parties cannot nurture the country's democracy and fulfil its objectives," the BJP chief said at a party meet here.

Taking a dig at the Congress, he said the party, which does not have "internal democracy", cannot strengthen the country's democracy.

"That is why, only one family ruled the country for 55 years... Nehru-Gandhi family of the Congress ruled these 55 years. But what has the country got?" Shah said.

Laying the foundation stone of a nine-storey building that will house the new state headquarters of the BJP in Assam, Shah, in an apparent dig at the Congress, said that "brain, hard work, patriotism do not matter, only family matters".

Stating that such practices are not prevalent in the BJP, he cited his own example, explaining how he rose to the position of national president from a booth worker who put up posters in 1982.

"Our democracy is the biggest in the world. Born in a poor tea seller's house, (prime minister) Narendra Modi is the leader of the world's biggest democracy," he said.

Shah said many political parties across India are working in different ways in the democratic system, but the BJP is different from all as it has preserved its internal democracy even today.

"In every three years, we conduct elections from booth level to that of the national president. That is why the BJP has not become any family party, but remains a party of workers only. BJP has become a national party, not a regional party. It never got split after poll results.

"Father, son or daughter, son-in-law, these things never happen in the BJP. Many parties are just family parties," he said.

Shah claimed that when Modi got the mandate to form government, 60 crore people did not have bank accounts, 18 crore had no gas cylinders, 10 crore were without houses, 2.5 crore had no electricity and 10 crore were bereft of toilets at homes.

The BJP chief said the Modi government has worked to solve these issues.

"We have to win the 2019 elections not for the BJP, but for the development of India and Assam," he said.

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Lakhimpur (Assam), Feb 17 :  BJP president Amit Shah said Sunday the sacrifices of the 40 CRPF jawans, killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, would not go in vain as the BJP government at the Centre, unlike the erstwhile Congress dispensation, would not compromise on any security issue.

Addressing a rally here, Shah said the gruesome attack was carried out by Pakistan-backed terrorists, who would not be spared at any cost.

"This cowardly act was done by Pakistani terrorists. Their (jawans') sacrifices will not go in vain, because there is no Congress government at the Centre. It is BJP government and the Narendra Modi government will not compromise on any security issue," he added.

Slamming the opposition Congress and its former ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), Shah said both the parties did nothing to implement the Assam Accord despite ruling most of the period since signing of the pact in 1985.

"We will not allow Assam to become another Kashmir. That is why we have brought NRC (National Register of Citizens). We will deport each and every infiltrator with the help of NRC. We are committed to that," he added.

On the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which the Centre failed to table in Rajya Sabha, the BJP president said misinformation were being spread as if it was only for Assam and other parts of the Northeast.

"It was not only for Northeast, but for all refugees in entire country. The way demography is changing in Assam, without the Citizenship Bill, the people of the state will be in big danger," he added.              PTI
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Hailakandi (Assam), Oct 2: A man has been held guilty by a district court in Assam for the rape and murder of a minor girl.

District and Sessions Court Judge, Hailakandi, Debasish Bhattacharjee on Monday convicted Jashimuddin Borbhuiyan in the rape and murder case of the 13-year-old tribal girl.

The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on October 4.

The girl, a resident of Betcherra village, bordering Mizoram, was raped and killed by Borbhuiyan on March 14.

The incident had sparked an outrage among the locals who had taken out rallies and protest marches demanding stringent punishment for the perpetrator.

Congratulating Superintendent of Police Mohneesh Mishra and his team, Hailakandi Deputy Commissioner, Adil Khan said, "The SP and his team delivered what we had promised to the people of Hailakandi six months ago.

"This will reaffirm the faith of the common man in our administration, police, judiciary and the entire criminal justice system".  (PTI)
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Rupohi (Assam), Sep 21: At least six fishermen were electrocuted and as many injured when a live high-voltage wire touched the water of a pond in Nagaon district of Assam Friday, police said.

The incident happened in Rupohi area under Juria police station when the 11,000-volt power line, hanging loose over the pond, touched the water.

Villagers had informed the electricity department around 5 am about the wire being loose but they were told that the wire was dead, police said quoting the residents.

After an hour the fishermen went into the pond, the wire was activated leading to the electrocution, the villagers said.

The injured were rushed to the civil hospital in Nagaon, police said.

Armed with sticks, irate villagers went to the residence of the electricity department official's house and damaged his car, police said.

State Power Minister Kesab Gogoi is headed to the site on the instruction of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, official sources said. (PTI)

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Jorhat (Assam), Sep 15: A pulse revolution is taking place in the country with a quantum leap in its production since 2009-10 to reach 25.23 million tonnes in 2017-18, a MULLaRP project coordinator has claimed.

The production of pulses had remained stagnant at around 14 MT for two decades continuously, Dr Sanjeev Gupta, Project Coordinator of All India Coordinated Research Project on MULLaRP (Rabi Crops) said here on Friday.

He was speaking at the inaugural day function of the Annual Group Meet at the Assam Agricultural University (AAU).

Lentil, lathyrus, rajmah, peas and some other minor pulses are secondary winter legumes which together contribute 14 per cent of the total pulses production, he said.

There is ample scope for bringing additional area under these pulses in newer niches areas such as rice fallows, tal (lake) areas, hill agriculture and in intercropping for remunerating cropping system, Gupta said.

An estimated additional 3.0 million hectare can be brought under such pulses cultivation across the country.

The improvement work on these crops was initiated in the country at the beginning of the 20th century particularly with the establishment of the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa in Bihar in 1910, he said. (PTI)
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Guwahati, Aug 27: Nearly 50 per cent of all adults in Assam are tobacco users, according to a survey.

Around 48.2 per cent of all adults in Assam, of whom 62.9 per cent are men and 32.9 per cent women, either consume smoke tobacco or use smokeless tobacco, the Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2 (GATS2) said.

The survey found that 13.3 per cent of all adults in Assam currently smoke tobacco and 41.7 per cent of the adults use smokeless tobacco.

Noting that 'khaini' (chewing tobacco with lime) and betel quid with tobacco are the most commonly used tobacco products, it said 23.1 per cent of the adults use khaini and 19.0 per cent use betel quid with tobacco.

The mean age at initiation of tobacco use has increased from 18.1 years in GATS1 to 18.5 years in GATS2.

Consumer Legal Protection Forum, (CLPF) Assam, an NGO that has initiated several tobacco related intervention programmes in the state, today said the state has shown a significant rise in tobacco consumption from 39.3 per cent during the last survey in 2009-10 to 48.2 per cent now.

The prevalence of smokeless tobacco use has increased significantly by 9 percentage points, secretary of the CLPF Ajay Hazarika said.

The ascent in tobacco consumption in Assam is an indicator that government needs to strengthen tobacco control efforts and people need more awareness on the health and financial burden that tobacco use brings with it, Hazarika said.

"The rise in number of tobacco users especially smokeless is a cause of worry because it is easily accessible to children and youth. We are working in the state through our programmes to protect the public, especially youth and children from exposure to tobacco use," said Ashim Sanyal, Chief Operating Officer of Consumer VOICE, a NGO.

According to the GATS2 survey, tobacco use is the leading single preventable cause of deaths worldwide. Each year an estimated seven million deaths are attributed to the use of tobacco

It said India is the third largest tobacco producing nation and second largest consumer of tobacco world-wide. (PTI)

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Imphal, Aug 22: Seven labourers were injured when an under construction bailey bridge collapsed in Manipur's Jiribam district today, police said.

The bailey bridge was being constructed over Gorkhale river to connect Borberkra village to Jattarpur. At around 8 am this morning the bridge collapsed injuring seven labourers, they said.

The injured labourers were rushed to Borbekra health centre from where they were referred to a hospital in Silchar in neighbouring Assam, the police said.

District officials said the 160 feet long bailey bridge was being constructed by a private contractor and the project was being funded by the Rural Development Ministry under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. (PTI)

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New Delhi, Aug 20: The Assam government has announced a financial aid of Rs 3 crore to Kerala, which is hit by a massive flood that has so far claimed 210 lives and caused widespread destruction.

In a statement, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said the people of his state have expressed profound grief and sorrow at the unprecedented floods that hit Kerala.

"We can very well realise the pain perpetrated by the floods to the people of Kerala as the people of Assam face such kind of furry every year," he said.

In view of the catastrophic flood, the chief minister announced a financial aid of Rs 3 crore to Kerala, the statement issued here said.

"Seeing the deluge and the sufferings of the people of Kerala, the soreness of the people of Majuli, the largest river island, comes to my mind and I pledge to share the sufferings of my brother and sisters in Kerala as I do with the brothers and sisters back home in Assam," Sonowal said. (PTI)
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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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Silchar (Assam), Aug 3: Six of the eight-member Trinamool Congress delegation left Assam this morning after overnight detention at Silchar airport, an official said.

Two others -- MPs Mamatabala Thakur and Arpita Ghosh -- would leave the state later in the day, Cachar district Deputy Commissioner S Lakshmanan said.

"We are going back. The police have not allowed us to go out. We requested them several times but they refused. We spent the night in three rooms at the airport," Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, who was among those detained, said.

Besides Roy, MPs Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Ratna De Nag and Nadimul Haque, West Bengal minister Firhad Hakim and MLA Mohua Maitra were in the delegation.

They were sent by there by TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to assess the situation in Assam post-NRC.

After they landed at the airport yesterday afternoon, they were stopped and taken under preventive detention.

Banerjee had accused the BJP of imposing "super emergency" in the country. (PTI)

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Guwahati, Jul 14: Assam government is committed towards providing quality health care to the people of the state and Atal Amrit Abhiyan has been a major move in this direction, state Health and Family Welfare Minister Pijush Hazarika said today.

Stating that nearly 1.6 crore people of the state have received health cards under this scheme, Hazarika said it is targeted to cover nearly 92 per cent of the total population within the next six months.

Inaugurating a free mega health camp here under the aegis of Atal Amrit Abhiyan, he laid emphasis on the scheme covering nearly 60 hospitals across the country and about 4,600 patients from the state receiving quality health care since April last.

The minister congratulated the Asha workers present in the camp for their commitment and contribution to the health care sector.

The free mega health camp was organised to register patients for health cards under the scheme and free health check-up under different medical departments.

The participating hospitals in the camp were from Gurugran, Kolkata and Guwahati.

Atal Amrit Abhiyan provides comprehensive coverage and cashless medical treatment benefits upto Rs 2 lakh to every individual from BPL and low income households across Assam for treatment of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, kidney diseases, neurological conditions, neonatal diseases and nurns. (PTI)
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Lanka, July 4: An alleged attempt to kidnap a two-year-old girl child from her house in Nagaon district of Assam has been foiled by the intervention of the locals, police said.

The child's mother said that an unidentified person had entered her house, through a door left ajar, at Bhalukmari in Lanka area at 8 pm yesterday and asked her to hand over the child to him.

When she refused to do so, the man hit her, snatched away the child and started running, the mother told reporters today in the presence of policemen.

She chased the man and on hearing her screams, neighbours rushed to the scene, she said.

On seeing the locals, the man left the child on the road and fled from the spot, she said.

The police reached the spot and lauched an operation to trace the suspected kidnapper. (PTI)
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Guwahati, Jun 23 : The flood situation in Assam, which had shown improvement over the last two days, has reversed with two more districts being affected by the rising waters, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said today.

Vast tracts of land in Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts have been freshly inundated, taking the number of affected districts to six, an ASDMA report said.

A total of 2,22,792 people in 369 villages have been affected in the current wave of floods, it added.

The deluge has so far claimed 24 lives.

The flood-affected districts were Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Hojai, Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj, the ASDMA report said.

The three districts of Barak Valley -- Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj -- have been severely affected by the floods. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is currently on a visit to these areas to review the situation.

Karimganj is the worst-hit district with 1,55,792 people affected, the ASDMA said.

The authorities have set up 142 relief camps, where 27,871 people have taken shelter. Karimganj itself has 133 of these camps.

The floods had also damaged crops over 2,378 hectares of land and infrastructure, including roads, bridges and embankments, the report added.  PTI
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Guwahati, Jun 18 : Five more persons were arrested today in connection with the lynching of the two men at Dokmoka in Assam's Karbi Anglong district, taking the total arrest so far in the brutal killing to 36.

Altogether 71 persons have been arrested from different parts of Assam, with 36 for killing the men and 35 for spreading rumours and hate messages in social media, an Assam police spokesman said.

The five arrested today were--Raikom Timung, Mensing Kro, Roben Mech, Bikram Hanse and Protap Kro.

The two friends, Nilotpal Das and Abhijeet Nath, had gone to the picnic spot Kangthilangso under Dokmoka police station in Karbi Anglong on June 8 last and while returning, their vehicle was stopped at Panjuri by a group of irate villagers who pulled them out, started beating them on the suspicion of being childifters and lynched them to death.

A video circulated on social media had shown Das pleading that he was an Assamese but it had no impact on the killers.

The killings evoked widespread protests and demand for exemplary punishment for the guilty.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had announced that the cases will be tried in fast track courts.PTI
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Guwahati, Jun 15 : Two persons were arrested today for their alleged involvement with the lynching of two men in Assam's Karbi Anglong district last week, taking the number of people arrested in the murder case to 30, a police official said.


The Assam Police spokesperson identified the persons arrested today as Bubai Rabha and Bijay Swargiary.

Altogether 65 people have been arrested from various parts of Assam for killing Nilotpal Das (29) and Abhijeet Nath (30) and spreading rumours and hate messages on social media.

Of them, 30 have been arrested for killing the two men and the rest for spreading hate messages and rumours on social media.

On June 8, Das and Nath had gone to Kangthilangso waterfall in Karbi Anglong district. While returning, their vehicle was stopped at Panjuri Kachari by villagers, who pulled them out from the car and beat them for hours before killing them mistaking them for child-lifters.

The brutal killing was recorded by locals on their mobile phones and circulated on social media.

Earlier today, representatives of All Assam Students' Union and 28 other tribal organisations met Assam Director General of Police Kuladhar Saikia and discussed the issue.

The delegation demanded exemplary punishment for the culprits through a fast-track court and requested the police to make the process error-free so that they cannot escape the law through "loopholes of the legal system", an AASU release stated.

The group also requested the police department to sensitise people against superstition and ensure students from Karbi Anglong, studying across the state, are not victimised.

Yesterday, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal assured that the accused in the case would be tried in a fast-track court as per the demands of the people.

A team from Assam Human Rights Commission visited the site of the lynching and enquired about the incident.

Alfajoz Timung, the main accused who was out on bail in a murder case, was arrested yesterday. He had allegedly asked the villagers over the phone to stop the duo's vehicle and spread rumours of them being child-lifters.PTI
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Guwahati, Jun 12: Another person has been arrested in connection with the lynching of two men on suspicion of being child lifters in Assam, taking the number of people arrested in the case so far to 24, police said.
The person was arrested from Karbi Anglong district during search operations, which were continuing along with investigations, an Assam Police spokesman said here today.
Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Mukesh Agarwal was monitoring the investigations.
Besides the 24, five others were arrested from Diphu town today for misuse of social media in connection with the incident.
"They have been found to be involved either in recording the incident on mobile phones or circulating the video clip on social media with statements, comments to incite hatred between different communities," the spokesman said.
The crackdown on the misuse of social media was launched by the police as investigations have brought to light that messages posted on social media on child lifters having entered the state from outside, may have led to the lynching of the two men.
The police have issued an advisory asking people to help prevent spread of rumours on social media.
In a shocking incident on Friday, two friends -- Nilotpal Das (29) and Abhijeet Nath (30) -- had gone to the Kangthilangso waterfalls in Karbi Anglong and while returning, their vehicle was stopped at Panjuri by a group of irate villagers, who pulled them out and killed them by beating them up for hours on the suspicion that they were child-lifters.
Parents of Nilotpal -- Gopal Chandra Das and Radhika Das -- have appealed to the people not to give credence to rumours. They also urged the people not to politicise the issue.
"We are grateful to all for extending their support to us in this hour of grief but we appeal to all to maintain peace and calm", they said in a statement issued here.
They have also appealed to the government to ensure that no more lives were lost due to superstitious beliefs and to create awareness in each village of the state by involving all parties, organisations, students' unions and others. (PTI)
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Guwahati, Jun 12: The Assam government plans to introduce an awareness programme -- 'Sanskar'-- in all development blocks and panchayats in the wake of incidents triggered by superstition and ignorance including the lynching of two persons in Karbi Anglong district.
A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal here last evening, an official release said today.
"Assam is known all over India for its unique hospitality and people coming from all over the country must feel an ambience of friendliness where ever they go in the state," the release said quoting the chief minister.
Sonowal asked authorities concerned to frame modalities for the programme and a suitable roadmap to implement the programme at all levels of the state so that any unfortunate situation does not arise due to superstitions.
The chief minister also informed parents of the two youths, who were killed in Karbi Anglong district on Friday on the suspicion of being child lifters, about the programme.
The parents advocated the need for generating awareness throughout the state so that society could be empowered to prevent recurrence of such an incident in future, the release said.
They also expressed their willingness to participate in such programmes if the need arises, the release added.
Assam Science Technology and Environment Council (ASTEC) would be the nodal agency and the programme would involve all deputy commissioners, superintendents of police and all government departments concerned in a district, the release said.
Local bodies, womens' organisations, voluntary organizations, media persons, leading citizens, academicians, MPs and MLAs from ruling and opposition parties would be stakeholders of the programme, the release said.
Social activist Birubala Rabha, who has been tirelessly fighting against witch-hunting, will also be involved in the programme. (PTI)
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