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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gunajit Pathak, an employee of the Boat Clinic, Barpeta Unit II was feared drowned in the Brahmaputra on 11 February, 2011. Gunajit, son of Mukunda Pathak, a resident of Keotkuchi village in Barpeta district was on way from Manikpur Ghat to Aligaon NC with other team members to conduct a health camp when he accidentally…
Chaman Lal, C-NES Trustee and former Special Rapporteur with the National Human Rights Commission has been selected for the prestigious Nani Palkhiwala Civil Liberties Award 2010. The award was given to him on 7th February 2011 at Mumbai. Niketu Iralu , C-NES Trustee, and noted social activist from Nagaland was given the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award for…
We congratulate C-NES Advisory Council members, Ms. Mamang Dai and Dr. Suman Sahai, who have been awarded the Padma Shri for their prominent roles in the fields of literature and science. These were announced in the Republic Day honours list by the Government of India. Mamang Dai is a well known writer of novels, poems and non-fiction about…