The Assam government has announced the annual state civilian awards for 2023. Former Chief Justice of India and current Rajya Sabha MP, Ranjan Gogoi will be given the 'Assam Baibhav' award, the state's highest civilian award, said Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Addressing a press conference at Lok Sewa Bhawan at Janata Bhawan in Guwahati, the Assam Chief Minister said that, from January 16 onwards the state government will provide ration cards for 42,85,745 new beneficiaries and the total number of ration cards is 10,73,479.
"The state government has taken lots of initiatives to develop the tourism sector of the state and the state has witnessed a massive growth of tourists footfall in the state last year. Our government will bring a new Tourism Act in the upcoming state assembly session," Jayanta Malla Baruah s
The agreement was signed in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and a 29-member delegation of the ULFA's pro-talks delegation, including 16 ULFA members and 13 from civil society.
The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)'s pro-talks faction on Friday signed a tripartite Memorandum of Settlement pact with the Centre and the Assam government on Friday in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Aligned with the National Education Policy 2020, the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in collaboration with the Government of Assam's flagship Arohan scheme is actively engaged in motivating meritorious students to pursue STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subject
Assam Health Minister Keshab Mahanta said that the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Regional Branch of NCDC at Rani will be held within a month.
Taking to his social media handle, Ranoj Pegu on Wednesday wrote on X, "Consequent to the conversion of all government and provincialized madrasas into general schools under SEBA, @SchoolEdnAssam has changed the names of 1,281 ME madrasas into ME schools by a notification today.
It may be noted that Chief Minister Sarma launched Amrit Brikshya Andolan and as a part of the drive, over 1 crore (1,11,17,781) seedlings of commercially valuable tree species were planted across the state on a single day on September 17.