The Assam Chief Minister, cruising on his massive mandate in the recent Assembly elections, is wasting no time in getting down to business. In a flurry of activity, Tarun Gogoi has, these past days, instructed members of his Cabinet to formulate their priorities in a document so that he can incorporate these into his annual…
A documentary on C-NES’ unique Boat Clinics is being developed by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi. The film is part of a PHFI project supported by the renowned Mac Arthur Foundation under the title, "Developing Case Studies of innovations in Public Health for Competency Strengthening and Advocacy". The film will be…
C-NES Managing Trustee Sanjoy Hazarika visited Berlin, Germany, at the invitation of the Heinrich Boell Foundation with which C-NES has a partnership. It has concluded a major research study on the Impact of Conflict on Women in Assam and Nagaland and also finished filming a documentary on the same issue. The latter is produced and…
A two day Medical Officers training programme was organized by C-NES in association with NRHM, Govt of Assam, on 3rd and 4th June at Hotel Orchid, Guwahati. The training dealt with issues related to reducing Maternal Mortality Rate(MMR) Infant Mortality Rate(IMR) and Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in the thirteen Boat Clinic operated districts in Assam,…
Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee, who was awarded the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Fellowship for April-May 2011, for writing a part of his latest book on the North-east and its neighbourhood with a focus on margins, borders, State impunity and its impact on women, especially in conflict situations, has completed the fellowship. He made a presentation…
Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee, C-NES has been appointed a member of the National Steering Committee on Health, under the auspices of the Planning Commission, Government of India. This follows the completion of six years of the successful Boat Clinics initiative in Assam that has won national and international recognition and which he has designed and…
I write this at noon on Monday, part of the exigencies of a columnist – and the mystery of the missing Pawan Hans helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu may be resolved by the time it appears in print: we can hope for the best while preparing for the worst. A few days…
There have been four strong blows for the aam janata in the past weeks. One was how Anna Hazare and his team forced the Centre to accept their demands for an omnibus Lokpal Bill to control and review the conduct of those in public life, despite all the messy frame-ups, fake CD/fake recordings and the…
We were on a beach. Somewhere close to Puducherry. The sight was surreal: half-smashed houses with wide open fronts, people still living in them. The devastation was caused not by a sea storm or a cyclone, but by the eroded beach. The sea had crept up to the village; there was no protection between the…
The following is a note by Venkatesh Nayak of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative which works extensively on RTI. It contains a detailed analysis of the Jan Lokpal Bill that is being debated around the country. This analysis is being circulated to encourage informed debate on the subject. This note has been shared with the…