DIBRUGARH: The Dibrugarh will soon have Rs 16 crore worth of waste management plant at Jokai area, 8 km away from Dibrugarh town. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) sponsored project would be constructed on acquired two hundred bighas of land and are expected to be completed, if everything goes well, by the mid 2013.

Disclosing this at a press meet held at Circuit House today, the Dibrugarh MP and Union DoNER Minister, Paban Singh Ghatowar, hoped that the project would end the menace of garbage disposal, a long felt demand of local citizens as well Dibrugarh Municipal Board. Expressing serious concern over the perennial rain fed flood in the Dibrugarh town, Ghatowar stated that the ADB had agreed to give loan of Rs 150 crore for clearing and strengthening of main drain from Paltanbazar to Sessa River.

Indian Air Force, Army, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) are being engaged in relief and rescue work

The flood situation remained grim in the State on Monday with more new areas submerged across 16 districts, including some parts of Guwahati city, marooning nearly 14 lakh people in the State. A total of 1,972 villages had come under floodwaters, official sources said. The government has opened 169 relief camps for the marooned, the sources said, adding that over 2.31 lakh people were staying in these relief camps.

GUWAHATI, Sept 23 – Even as a few individuals come forward to pledge their organs for donation, the trend in Assam does not appear encouraging.

The residents allege that several people of the area received multiple splinter injuries during the frequent gelatin blasts carried out by these stone quarries to smash the hard rocks

GUWAHATI: The setting up of illegal stone quarries along the ‘disputed’ stretch of the Assam-Meghalaya border has resulted in large-scale cutting of hills and wanton deforestation in the inter-State border areas located in the Assam side.

GUWAHATI: The flood situation in the State has deteriorated on Sunday with 15 districts reeling under its impact. More than 8 lakh people have been affected in the current wave of floods. Sources said seven people have died in floods in Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and Chabua during the past one week.

The government has sounded an alert, as water level in most of the rivers in the State continue to rise owing to incessant rains in some upper Assam districts as well as in neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh.

DIBRUGARH, Sept 20 – Incessant rainfall since past few days has severely affected Upper Assam districts, causing flood and claiming lives in several places in the region.

DIBRUGARH, Sept 14 – The small tea growers are likely to suffer this year around again with bought leaf tea factory owners signalling for shutdown of factories due to erratic Administered Price Mec

DIBRUGARH, Aug 29 – The State tea industry is set for another revolution with the creation of a separate Small Tea Growers’ Development Directorate in the tea-growing district here by October next,

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $2.5 million to the erosion-affected families in Assam to support their livelihood and harness their skills.

Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam, which had shown signs of improvement last week, took a turn for the worse on Wednesday following heavy rainfall in some parts of the state in the past 48 hours.

Official sources said over 75 villages in Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts have been inundated afresh due to flash floods since Tuesday. Over 70,000 people have been affected afresh by the rising water levels in the two districts, where dykes in Brahmaputra and Jiadhol rivers have broken down at some places.