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Family Planning initiatives by Dhubri Boat Clinic Unit II

Along with reducing the high Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR- 390 per 1,00,000 live birth) Infant Mortality Rate (IMR- 61 per 1000)  in Assam, reducing the high Total Fertility Rate (TFR- 2.6)  in the state is an important focus area of C-NES’ Boat Clinic health initiatives under NRHM. After constant awareness sessions by the health teams…

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By the Brahmaputra (Vol:16)

C-NES Newsletter (For the quarter October – December   2011) Editorial China backs off the Brahmaputra The Bard can rest peacefully – China backs off the Brahmaputra Bhupen da can rest in peace – at least as far as his beloved Brahmaputra and Lohit are concerned.  That is, if we are to believe the Chinese.  In quick…

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Sanjoy Hazarika to speak, screen film at German University

Sanjoy Hazarika has been invited to speak at the inauguration of an international conference on the North-east followed by the screening of his film, ‘A Measure of Impunity,’ on 15th December 2011 at the University of Göttingen, Germany.  He will be participating in the workshop titled Performing Identity: Ethnicity and Ethnonationalism in the South-east Asian…

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A Krishna Kumar, Managing Director SBI handing over the keys to Sanjoy Hazarika

SBI donates multiutility vehicle to C-NES

State Bank of India on Monday extended its corporate social responsibility arm to C-NES by donating a multi utility vehicle (Mahindra Bolero). The vehicle donated to the organization will enable the programme management team(PMU) of C-NES, based out of Guwahati for using it for better monitoring and mobility to the health camps to supervise the…

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C-NES’ Community Radio Station at Dibrugarh

A new radio station -- Brahmaputra Community Radio Station (BCRS), on the banks of the Brahmaputra – is being set up by C-NES in collaboration with UNICEF, Assam at Maijan ghat, Dibrugarh as part of an effort to democratized mass media, with reporters and writers from communities of the area. Community radio across the world…

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Sanjoy Hazarika presents Boat Clinics at international conference

Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee of C-NES, presented  the work of the Boat Clinics in Assam at an international conference in Delhi on Sunday, Nov 20, 2011. He spoke on 'Waters of Hope: Health Innovations and Interventions on the Brahmaputra' at the conference, the final presentation of the final session 'The Way Forward' at the Conference:…

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C-NES to launch Community Radio station in upper Assam

Inauguration of the Brahmaputra Community Radio Station (BCRS) Studio at Maijan Borsaikia gaon, Dibrugarh on November 30, 2011 by the Deputy Commissioner, Dibrugarh, Dr KK Dwivedi, IAS. C-NES in collaboration with UNICEF, Assam has set up the station at Maijan, Dibrugarh, on the banks of the Brahmaputra. The radio station will benefit the communities of…

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Bhupen Hazarika: His message lives on

In every household in Assam, a lamp has burned these past few days to honour the greatest figure that most people of this beautiful but blighted state, locked away in India's eastern borderland by distance, lack of growth and conflicts, have known in perhaps hundreds of years. Why just in Assam? Across India, South Asia…

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