By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 46) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter April – June 2019) Visitors from USAID and SAATHII A team comprising officials from USAID and SAATHII (Solidarity and Action Against the HIV Infection in India) visited the Brahmaputra Community Radio Station (BCRS) on 9th May 2019 and Jorhat Boat Clinic on 11th May…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 45) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter January – March 2019) C-NES at Arogya launch event Programme Manager Ashok Rao and Communications Officer Bhaswati Goswami attended the launch event of Arogya, a community based intervention and control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) organized by Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) on 12th February,…
उभरता पूर्वोत्तर/लहरों पर तैरता अस्पताल असम के कुल भूखंड में से करीब 6 फीसद हिस्सा नदी द्वीप क्षेत्र है। जहां असम की कुल जनसंख्या में से करीब 10 फीसद आबादी रहती है। यानी करीब 30 लाख लोग इन द्वीप गांवों में रहते हैं। असम में 13 जिले नदियों के किनारे स्थित हैं। ब्रह्मपुत्र नदी अपने…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 44) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter October – December 2018) C-NES- Boll Project: The Assamese Sikhs: Negotiating Transitions Sanjoy Hazarika giving his remarks at the eventNiyati Singh presenting the reportManjit Singh speaks at the panelA section of the audience Heinrich Böll Stiftung in collaboration with C-NES and Majha House, a Punjab…
C-NES hosted a 34 member team of the State Constitution Drafting Body Myanmar on a study tour to North East India. The event on "Building Partnerships,Learning from each other; North East India and Myanmar.Hectic sessions was held on 9th and 10th of December 2018- learning and sharing before they proceeded to Manipur. Mizoram was the…
Guwahati -- The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) organized a panel discussion on ‘Assamese Sikhs in Transition’ a research project which has been prepared in collaboration with Majha House and supported by Heinrich Boll Stiftung (HBS). The Panel which was held on 27th November 2018 at the Kanaklal Baruah auditorium of…
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Johannes van de Ven, Managing Director, Good Energies Foundation, Switzerland along with Harish Hunda, MD of SELCO and Huda Jaffer ( also from SELCO) made a recent visit to Jorhat districts Majuli island and took a trip onboard the Jorhat Boat Clinic "Nahor" as it sailed onwards for a health trip to Bhekeli Island. It…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 43) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter July – September 2018) Researcher on the Boat Clinic: Pratyasha Acharya, a Market Research Associate working for the US based UnitedHealth Group, accompanied the Kamrup Boat Clinic health team Kaltuli char of Chhaygaon, Kamrup on 10th July 2018. She also visited the Boat Clinic unit…
There have been very few events in my life which have not only been life-changing but also provided a great learning opportunity. A recent trip that I undertook to Assam definitely qualifies as one of those. The backdrop to this experience relates to learning more about ‘healthcare’ coupled with my need to venture out on…