Document 6557907

HIMALAYAN MIRROR
North East
Briefcase
Suspected NLFT
insurgents abduct 11
construction labourers
Agartala, Oct 11 : Suspected insurgents of banned National
Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have abducted 11 persons
from Amchurmukh, near Rajivnagar in Mamit district of neighbouring Mizoram, a senior police official said on Saturday.
Uttam Bhaumick SP (Police Control) said 16 people including five from Chakma tribal community were coming towards
Tripura by a jeep which was stopped at gun point at
Amchurmukh and then five tribals were freed and the rest 11
persons were abducted. The incident occurred at about 9 PM
last night and the area is near the Mizoram-Tripura border.
Superintendent of Police of North Tripura district, Abhijit
Saptarshi said he was in touch with his counterpart in Mamit
district so that the ultras could not sneak into the Bangladesh
territory, which is just five km from the spot from where the
workers were abducted. Bhaumick said the kidnapped persons
are construction labourers from Karimganj district of Assam.
PiramalSwasthya crosses 5
million beneficiary
benchmark in Assam
HM Report
Gangtok, Oct 11: PiramalSwasthya, (formally known as
‘Health Management and Research Institute’ -HMRI)the nonprofit organization supported by the Piramal Foundationtoday
announced that they have crossed the 5 million beneficiary
benchmark in Assam, reaching out with healthcare solutions to
the underprivileged within the region in a time frame of three
and half years. This accomplishment comes within 40 months
of starting the operations and is a milestone in the primary
healthcare sector in India.
Piramal Swasthya is a not-for-profit organization working to
make healthcare accessible, affordable and available to all segments of population, especially the most vulnerable. It was
launched in Assam in November, 2010, where they worked in
association with the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) of
Assam to set up a call centre for pregnant women. Through this
initiative, their efforts were focused on reducing the Maternity
Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR).
Initially, only the 104 - Health Information Helpline (Sarathi
104 Call Centre) was launched and subsequently more projects
were added to the Piramal Swasthya service lines - such as the
Village Health Outreach Program (Sanjeevani Services),
Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) Outgoing call center, Mobile Medical Units (MMUs), World Diabetes
Foundation (Denmark) initiative and an upcoming
Telemedicine Project (NRHM).
NORTHEAST
GANGTOK, SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER 2014
Burdwan blast: Persons arrested from
Assam part of JMB module
Guwahati, Oct 11 : The
Assam police on Saturday
claimed that the persons
arrested on Friday from
Barpeta district for suspected involvement in the
October 2 Burdwan blast
were a part of a module
operating
under
the
patronage of Jamatul
Mujahideen Bangladesh
(JMB), allegedly involved
in the blast. An Assam
police spokesman claimed
that preliminary investigations reveal that one of the
arrested person Shaikhul
Islam alias Abdulla is an
important member of the
module operating in
Assam and an associate of
Shakil
Ahmed
alias
Shamin, a JMB activist
who died in the IED blast
in Burdwan of West
Bengal.
Shaikhul had been
trained in Jehad in Simulia
Madrassa of Burdwan and
also in another Madrassa
in
Murshidabad,
the
spokesman
claimed.
Militants kidnap 11 people from Mizoram
Agartala/Aizawl, Oct 11
(IANS) : Militants have
kidnapped 11 people from
Mizoram along the interstate border with Tripura,
police said Saturday.
"NLFT
(National
Liberation
Front
of
Tripura) extremists Friday
evening abducted 16 construction workers from
Rajivnagar village along
Tripura-Mizoram border.
Later, the rebels released
five people," a Tripura
police officer said.
He said all the 16 people
- Bengali Muslims and
Chakma tribals - were residents of southern Assam's
Karimganj district.
They went to Rajivnagar
village under Mamit district in Mizoram as construction workers. They
went to Mizoram through
Tripura's Kanchanpur area.
Police suspect that
abductors might have taken
these
people
to
Bangladesh.
"The NLFT rebels might
have taken the hostages to
Bangladesh as the place is
just a few kilometre away
from the India-Bangladesh
border.
"Senior police officials
have asked the Border
Security Force to hold a
flag meeting with the BGB
(Border
Guard
Bangladesh) to rescue the
hostages," the official said.
The security forces of
Tripura and Mizoram have
jointly launched a search
operation to rescue the captives and to nab the militants.
June 14, three Tripura
traders and their driver
were kidnapped by NLFT
guerrillas from the same
area of Mizoram. However,
they were subsequently
freed by the rebels.
After the erection of
fencing and strengthening
the security along the
India-Bangladesh boundary with Tripura, the NLFT
extremists use Mizoram as
corridor for their cross border activities.
The NLFT guerrillas,
with their base in
Bangladesh, have been kidnapping people in Tripura
and Mizoram to collect
ransom.
Mizoram has unfenced
and porous international
border of 404 km with
Myanmar and 318 km with
Bangladesh.
Tripura also shares 856km-long border with
Bangladesh and some parts
of the border areas are still
unfenced.
Tripura shares 109 km
borders with Mizoram and
53 km borders with Assam.
Police crackdown in Goalpara inhuman: Ajmal Third edition of Tata Social Enterprise
Guwahati, Oct 11 : Even
as the state government
launched an enquiry into
the recent protests by flood
victims in Goalpara's
Bolbola area, and the subsequent police crackdown,
All
India
United
Democratic
Front
(AIUDF) president and
Dhubri MP Badruddin
Ajmal accused the Assam
government of being intolerant of democratic agitation.
So far, sixteen people
have been arrested for ransacking vehicles and pelting stones at police personnel on Wednesday when
flood-displaced
people
from the Bolbola area were
protesting against the low
quality of grains and other
government-supplied relief
material.
"The state has failed to
provide decent quality
grains. When the people
took to the streets, the government used force to quell
them. This is inhuman,"
Ajmal said.
Four NDFB militants arrested in Assam
Challenge kicks-off
HM Report
Siliguri, Oct 11: Tata
group, today, announced
the commencement of the
Tata Social Enterprise
Challenge 2014-15, a joint
initiative with the Indian
Institute of Management
Calcutta (IIM-C), a quest
for India’s most promising
early-stage social enterprises. The endeavour of the
challenge is to create an
ecosystem for social entrepreneurship and encourage
sustainable, scalable and
measurable social impact.
Teams who either have
an early stage venture (not
older than 3 years) or a
promising idea with a plan,
that can create sustainable
social impact in India, can
submit their business plans
online, by logging onto
www.tatasechallenge.org.
Impact Proposals (detailed
Business Plans) are invited
in the areas of agriculture,
food and dairy, healthcare,
water and sanitation, technology and development,
education & skills development, housing, handicrafts,
energy
and
microfinance/financial
inclusion. The ventures will
be judged on three parameters - Business Model,
Social
Impact
and
Sustainability.
The last day to submit the
Impact Proposal (business
plan) online is November
15th, 2014.
The Challenge also
invites the general public to
nominate, through the initiative’s website, social
enterprises they know who
fit the eligibility criteria.
Vice President, Corporate
Affairs, Tata Services, Atul
Agrawal, said, “We are
truly delighted as Tata
Social Enterprise Challenge
enters its third year, taking
forward the Tata group’s
ethos of giving back to society, through acts of entrepreneurship and innovation.
The third edition, has in fact
been more comprehensively designed to engage and
integrate a larger network of
social entrepreneurs with
the introduction of regional
seminars,
discussion
forums
and
online
resources. We urge enterprising minds to participate
in this Challenge in their
journey to be champions of
social change.”
Manipur’s WW II heroes to get pension
Murabari (Assam), Oct.
11 : A joint team of the
Army and the Assam police
recently arrested four cadres
of the National Democratic
Front
of
Bodoland
(Songbijit) faction and one
militant of the Rabha
National Liberation army
from Murabari area.
The arrested cadres were
involved in extortion and
kidnapping cases in Baksa
and Udalguri districts.
(ANI)
Imphal, Oct 11 : The state
cabinet has decided to help
18 World War II veterans of
the state by starting a
monthly pension scheme for
them.
According to official
records, 18 WWII veterans
live in the state but their
number is believed to be
more than 30.
Most of them served in
the Assam Regiment during
the British rule.
A large number of soldiers of both the Japanese
and Allied Forces were
killed and injured in various
air and ground battles across
Manipur, one of the main
sites of WWII.
The twin WWII wars of
Imphal and Kohima are considered as the greatest ever
battles fought involving the
British forces.
Chaired by chief minister
Okram Ibobi Singh, the cabinet on Thursday decided to
pay a monthly pension of Rs
1,200 each to the veterans, a
source in the state government said.
The Mizoram government
pays the same amount to its
war heroes, the source
added. An Imphal-based
research group, the Second
World
War
Imphal
Campaign
Foundation
(SWWICF), has informed
various Japanese WWII
research groups that wreckage sites of two Japanese
fighter planes have been
identified. The foundation
identified the wreckage sites
of a British and two
Japanese fighter aircraft,
which were shot down by
British bomber 'Wellington'
and fell into the Loktak
Lake. The two were christened 'Oscar'.
'Wellington' was also hit
subsequently on June 17,
1944.
"All the three planes fell
into the Loktak. We have
identified the six British
crew members and they
were buried in the Imphal
war
cemetery,"
said
Yumnam Rajeshwor Singh,
founder of SWWICF.
"The Japanese research
teams were happy with our
job in identifying the wreckage sites and they would
give details of all the crew
members of the two ill-fated
planes to us soon," said
Rajeshwor, who is the member of Burma Campaign
Society,
London
and
International Guild of
Battlefield Guides, UK.
C O R R I G E N D U M -01
TENDER
NO.
DY.
CE/CON/JRBM-1/RPSF
VEHICLE/2014/05
TENDER NO. CON/J1/2014/AUGUST/01
DT.
13.08.2014
Due to unavailable circumstances the date of opening of
the above noted border is
rescheduled on 30.09.2014 at
15.00 hrs in place of 19.09.2014
at 15.00 hrs
All other terms & conditions
will remain unchanged
Instructions had been
allegedly
given
to
Shaikhul to look for potential Muslim youth for
motivation for Jehad.
Deceased Shakil Ahmed
had visited Barpeta on several occasions under the
cover of conducting garment business for motivating the youths for terrorism, he added.
Investigations are on to
identify those members of
module and to arrest them.
Meanwhile, the six persons, arrested on Friday
from
Barpeta,
were
remanded to 14 days
police custody by the
Kamrup Chief Judicial
Magistrates Court on
Saturday with effect from
yesterday. The six include
the father-son duo of
Shiraj Ali Khan and
Shaikhul Islam, Rafikul
Islam, Jahuruddin, Golam
Osmani and Sarbesh Ali.
Top policy makers
to converge in
Guwahati on
October 17 and 18
Guwahati, Oct 11 : Policy
markers are expected to converge in Guwahati on October
17 and 18 2014 for
Northeastern region (NER)
Infrastructure
Conclave
2014-Unlocking Investment
Potential
in
NER
Infrastructure Development".
PHD
Chamber
of
Commerce and Industry is
organizing the event. Doner
minister V K Singh,
Sarbananda
Sonowal
Minister of State for Youth
Affairs and Sports, Uma
Bharti Minister for Water
Resources,
River
Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation, Kiren Rijiju,
Minister of State for Home
Affairs, Ministry of Home
Affairs is expected to participate in the event.
The Conclave will identify
gaps in implementation of relevant policies, share good
practices and lessons learned
in order to work towards the
development of North
Eastern Region to reach the
same level of economic
growth.
CORRIGENDUM
TENDER NOTICE NO.
DY.CE/CON/BB/Sept/01
The following changes have
been made in the Tender No.
Dy. CE/Con/BB/Launching
Appron /SB/04 as published
vide Tender Notice No. Dy.
CE/CON/BB/Sept/01.
Contractor(S)/ firm(s) is/are
requested to follow the
changes made in S/No.5 of
Schedule-B as published today
treating the earlier published
one as cancelled.
Should be read asScheduled-B:
S/No.5: Description of
works: Grouting the slope
boulder pitching (having nominal thickness of 0.60M to
1.05M) already laid in slope
with plain concrete (1:3:6)
(nominal Mix) with screened
hard stone aggregate of
approved quality, properly
graded with 20 mm nominal
size with contractor's own
labour
and
materials
(Excluding the cost of cement)
tools, plants and machinery.
Rate includes the cost for filling the gaps of boulder pitching properly with grout, curing, royalty, all taxes with all
leads, lifts ascents and
descents etc., complete in all
respects as per specifications
& as directed by the Engineer
in charge. (Consumption of
materials for grouting will be
(a) Cement 1 Bag, (b)
Aggregate 20mm 0.22 Cum,
(c) sand 0.11 Cum. (Payment
for supply of cement will be
separately). Unit: Sqm
All other terms & conditions
remain unchanged.
DY. CE/CON/Jiribam-1
N.F. RAILWAY SILCHAR
FOR AND ON BEHALF OF
THE PRESIDENT OF
INDIA
Dy. Chief Engineer/Con-1,
N.F. Railway, Dibrugarh,
For & on behalf of the
President of India
“BE A PARTNER IN
THE TURNAROUND OF
INDIAN RAILWAYS”
"Serving customers
with a smile"
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Assam CM
Tarun Gogoi
turns 81
Guwahati, Oct 11 :
Assam Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi on Saturday
turned 81, but he spent
the day resting on the
advice of doctors.
The chief minister, suffering from cough due to
dust allergy, had undergone a medical check up
at the Guwahati Medical
College Hospital here on
October 8 and was
advised rest for a few
days by doctors.
CMO officials said that
the chief minister would
not celebrate his birthday,
but would spend the day
with his family.
Gogoi is serving as the
chief minister of the state
for the third consecutive
term since 2001.
TENDER NOTICE NO.
CEE/CON/MLG/15/2014
Dtd.30.09.2014
Open tenders in sealed cover
are invited for the following
work from the Tenderers having
Electrical Contractor license.
(1)TENDER NO.EL/ CON/
05/ 2014/LMG-SCL
Name of work its location:
Electrification of newly constructed pit line at SCL stabling
yard in connection with LMGSCL Gauge Conversion work,
Provision of battery charging &
pre-cooling facilities at Badarpur
yard. Electrification of sick line
shed with provision for power
supply to EOT crane welding
line, pre-cooling point etc.
Supply, installation, testing and
commissioning of constant
torque. 3 phase solid state alternator testing drive at Silchar sick
line shed. At Silchar commissioning of 2x380KVA DG sets
along with distribution panel &
other testing equipments, wiring
& electrification of office building and store of SSE/Elect/SCL
& Construction of 11/0.4 KV
2x500 KVA Sub-station at new
location of silchar power house
& Provision of lighting arrangement in the Station yard &
Goods yard.
(2) TENDER NO. EL/ CON/
11/2014/RNY-MZS
Name of work with its location:
Hiring operation, maintenance
of 62.5 KVA DG and 15 KVA
DG set for providing power supply to Officer's Rest House at
North LAkhimpur, Gogamukh
& Murkongselek for a period of
18 months (548 days) in connection with RNY-MZS-GC
Project.
(i) Tender Value: (1) Rs.
5,56,34,273/-,
(2)
Rs.
54,31,362/-, (ii) Earnest Money:
(1) Rs. 4,23,180/-, (2) Rs.
1,08,630/-. (iii) Cost of Tender
document: Rs. 10,000/- for
Tender (1) and Rs. 5,000/- for
Tender (2), (iv) Address of the
office from where the tender
form can be obtained: office of
the CEE/Con/N.F. Railway,
Maligaon, Dy.CEE/Con/N.F.
Railway,
Lumding
&
OSD/Con/N.F. Railway, 1st
Floor, 3- Koilaghat Street,
Kolkata- 700001 for Tender (1)
and Office of the CEE/Con/N.F.
Railway/ Maligaon for Tender
(2): (v) Date & Time for purchasing tender form: With effect
from 10.10.2014, (vi) Date &
time for closing of Tender: Up to
13.00 hrs of 31.10.2014, (vii)
Date & Time for opening of
Tender: at 10.00 hrs of
03.11.2014, (viii) Tender opening
place:
General
Manager/Con, N.F. Railway,
Maligaon, Guwahati-11, (ix)
Website particulars, complete
details can be seen and address
of the office from where the tender form can be purchased etc.:
www.nfrlycontruction.org.
In case any of the days herein
mentioned above us declared a
Bandh or Holiday on any
account, the tender paper will be
received/opened on the following working days as per same
timings and at same places.
Chief Electrical
Engineer/Con
N.F. Railway, Maligaon,
Guwahati-11
For & on behalf of the
President of India
"Serving customers
with a smile"