SILCHAR : Tripura was a princely state during the British-raj and gateway to Shillong and Calcutta through Sylhet and Commilla, now in Bangladesh. Tripura was annexed to India in 1949. During the pre-independent days, the Maharaja of Tripura did not permit the Britishers to open tea gardens in Tripura. JC Das, a prominent personality in the tea industry, said most of the tea gardens in Tripura were opened by the land lords of undivided Bengal and ICS officers of Bengal as well as professors of Murari Chand College, Sylhet.
SHILLONG: The State Government’s failure to live up with the committed urban developmental reforms underlined by the Union Ministry of Urban Development has had its impact on the centrally funded third phase of the Greater Shillong Water Supply Scheme (GSWSS).
SHILLONG: The inability of the State Government to conduct Municipal elections in the State has hit the overall implementation of the Greater Shillong Water Supply Scheme (GSWSS) (Phase III) under the JNNURM after the Central Government decided to cut the 2nd installment of fund to the State by 10 per cent.
SHILLONG: Seventeen towns and cities have been chosen as benificiaries under the Rajiv Awas Yojna. In pursuance of the Government’s vision of creating a slum-free India, a new scheme called ‘Rajiv Awas Yojana’(RAY) was launched on June 2 this year, which is expected to cover about 250 cities across the country by the end of the 12th Plan.
The New Shillong Township project was conceived to accommodate the future population of Shillong as projected in the Shillong Master Plan and the State had earmarked 500 hectares of land to be acquired in Phase-I – for uses like administrative, commercial, community facilities, institutional, general housing and basic infrastructure, Ampareen said.
SHILLONG: The introduction of a fleet of forty new buses in Greater Shillong has ensured that the commuters need not wait for transportation. The Barik Point, the heart of the city, is now found to be deserted.
Meghalaya Chief Secretary WMS Parait today said bamboo resources should be used as a means of livelihood and improvement of rural economy. Parait said that rural population, bamboo resources and industrial units were correlated for economic development.
SHILLONG: The Indian Institute of Management, Shillong has once again proved that it aims to create world class management professionals who are concerned over the environment and society. Inspired by IIM Shillong Director Prof. AK Dutta, members of the ECoBiZ Club have come up with a noble initiative.
SHILLONG: Residents of Keating Road, Malki, Laitumkhrah and Lachuamiere areas in Shillong are facing drinking water crisis because a 12-inch-diameter feeder pipe of the British-era reservoir that can hold 50,000 litres of water was damaged when it rained incessantly in the city recently.
Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh, after inspecting the reservoir, said her department was taking eme
