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…
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…
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…
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…
A baby boy was delivered on 13th February, 2011 at Ghuria sapori in upper Assam’s Jorhat district, under the supervision of Dr Aeron Momin and Dr Debadip Dey, Medical Officers of the Jorhat Boat Clinic. The Boat Clinic health outreach programme reaches out to the state’s vulnerable population who live on islands on the Brahmaputra…
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…