MNREGA Implementation in Assam
Manik Boruah, Assistant Programme Manager, C-NES attended a press meet jointly organized by North East Social Trust(NEST) and Centre for Micro- Finance and Livelihoods (MFLs) at Guwahati Press Club on the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)- 2005 for the year 2010-11. Arif Hussain, Executive Director, NEST, Mr. Partha Patowary, Executive Director, MFLs, Ms. Keteki…
Speed boat to C-NES
A Switzerland based company, RIB (rigid inflatable boats) Expeditions and Adventures, has extended a helping hand towards emergency medical care in the char saporis of Assam. The company has donated an inflatable speed boat that will operate in Tinsukia district and will support the Tinsukia Boat Clinic run by C-NES in partnership with NRHM. The…
Kalyani Health Club Award
Population Foundation of India (PFI) and C-NES have been working together from November 2009 for a project “Mobilizing the Unreached” towards Family Planning, Reproductive Child Health (RCH) and Awareness building . This three-year project has been supporting the ongoing partnership with NRHM focusing on propagating family planning methods. The family planning intervention includes developing a…
Hasina: stop pursuing Yunus
As Bangladesh celebrates the ICC World Cup and all of us rejoice in its newfound status as an international sporting venue, there remainissues of concern. One is the way Sheik Hasina Wajed’s Awami League government has gone after the Nobel Prize winner Mohammad Yunus, iconic leader of the vast micro-credit movement that has pulled millions…
The school on an island
A two-kilometer walk across the island took us past homesteads and through scrub and recently ploughed fields. Suddenly three children took off from nearby, running over the narrow path, emerging at a neat bamboo and thatch hut. A bamboo fence ran around it, hemming in a little patch of grass. A small group of men…
NE Bandhs and ASEAN: Will we make it?
What do bandhs have in common with ASEAN, the Association of South East Asian Nations, that conglomerate of the energetic nations of SE Asia (although three are LDCs or Least Developed Countries – Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos)? Obviously bandhs and ASEAN don’t go together, although there are some from time to time and Thailand, of…
SB Numali waits for high water
SB Numali, the boat donated by Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) to the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), is ready for service. The boat crew is waiting for high water to come, to move it to Sonitpur, where the boat will provide health…
Seminar at Delhi
A national seminar is being held on 'Little known fighters against the Raj: figures from Meghalaya' in New Delhi on March 7 at Jamia Millia Islamia, organized by the Saifuddin Kitchlew chair and Centre for NE studies there. Speakers include Prof David Syiemlieh, Pro-Vice Chancellor od North East Hill University, Prof L Gassah, dean of…
Response to the Award by Niketu Iralu
Honourable Chief Minister of Assam, Shri Tarun Gogoi; Honourable Minister for Culture, Co-operation and Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Bharat Narah, Shrimati Shakuntala Choudhury, Shri Robin Bordoloi, MLA for Guwahati, Shri and Shrimati Bolin Bordoloi, and others of the Bordoloi family present, distinguished personalities of Assam, ladies and gentlemen, I am simply stating what is most obvious…