GUWAHATI: Many schemes under the State Irrigation Department are in the inoperative state. But the department is now gearing up to expedite the process of renovating these schemes to improve irrigation facilities in the State.
Nearly two lakh persons have been affected by the flood that has hit Assam's twin districts of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji.
200 villages inundated
Four people have lost their lives so far in the flood that has inundated nearly 200 villages in the worst-affected Jonai sub division, official sources said here on Sunday.
The Lakhimpur and Dhemaji district administrations have pressed into service motor
Jorhat, Jan. 3: The Assam State Transport Corporation has allotted 15 new buses for rural routes across the state as a New Year gift for people living in the remote areas.
The buses will start plying with immediate effect.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today staged a massive protest meeting at Gerukamukh demanding a halt to construction of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project at Gerukamukh.
The protest meeting which was attended by several State-level leaders of BJP, besides the former president of the party Rajnath Singh, was participated by more than seven thousand people coming from different parts of
