[asom] Recent activity, Early Bird's
That is wonderful, Moloy. Keep up the good work. I read the reports in the English dailies from Assam but never get a true picture. Yours was down to earth and practical. Please send us more reports like this. With the invasion of industrialization, beels and birds will be hard to come by. But there must be a voice against all this to slow the process. Send us some pictures if you can. Dilip Deka Houston, Texas, USA moloy baruah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BIRD CENSUS AT JENGDIA BEEL , AN IBA SITE On 6th of January a team consist of Moloy Baruah, Mayur Plaban Barua and Pulakesh Talukdar counted bird species at Jangdia beel near Lenga village at North Guwahati which was declared an Important Bird Area in Assam out of 48 such places in the state. 26 varities of bird species covering around 2500 bird in total were counted while two important species Grey Headed Eagle and Grey Heron were recorded. It is worth mentioning that the whole area is owned by a cooperative farm established in 1958 and due to ongoing plaguing activity with diesel pumps on to displace water logging , disturbances had driven away most of the birds to other areas. It is also worth mentioning here that Early Birds has been doing water fowl census since 1992 in four areas of the state namely, Khamranga(Thakurkuchi) Amchang W/L sanctuary, Jangdia and Chanddubi near Loharghat. VETERINARY CMP AT BURHA MAYANG ( POBITORA) O 12th of January The Early Birds , in continuation in its drive to protect the wild life areas of the state and to make them disease free from the infectious disease borne by the domesticated cattle groups had organized a free vaccination cum treatment camp at the forest office of Pobitora wild life division at Burha Mayang . One hundred eighty four cattle including buffalos were vaccinated . A good number of medicines were also distributed. Those who participated were Moloy Baruah, Pulakesh Talukdar and two veterinarians Joy Prakash Sharma and Dannis Gogoi. The Early Bird team feels that the number of sentry camps have to be increase as the improved road condition from Guwahati via Chandrapur to Mayang had also open the gate to the smugglers ,miscreants and poachers as well.
[asom] 50 years of AEC Electrical department
50 years of AEC Electrical department Dr Satyajit Bhuyan The Assam Engineering College (AEC) came into being on September 5, 1955. It started its journey with the Civil Engineering department and that too with an intake capacity of only sixty students. Inaugurating the college the then Prime Minister Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru spoke, Well, you know, how important engineering in its various forms is today. This is more and more the world of the scientists and the engineers and I am glad that you have started the college I am happy to be associated today with this opening ceremony of this AEC. Engineers are above all builders. We have got to build India. we have got to build Assam and I hope the young men and women who got through this college will build well and truly. Thus AEC came into existence with some kind of singularity, some type of specialty. Every educational institute has got its own characteristics. None can forget his alma mater be it a primary school or high school or college. With their own specialties they still draw our attention. In the minds of alumni, teachers, employees and well wishers, AEC is also unique. It is singular by itself. It was established to define an agenda of technical education for a remote area. AEC was born to show bright dreams to some enthusiastic youths of the region. Its mission was to contribute solely to the development of this forlorn region. At a time when the North-East appeared to be far off from the main land of India, when recent developments could not touch this area, AEC alone tried its best to carry the flame of technical education to all the corners of this region. Service of AEC still continues. Thus AEC started functioning with a mission, with a unique objective. It started the journey under the able leadership of late H P Baruah. He himself was like an institution. Under the British regime he was the first engineer from the NE to become the Chief Engineer of PWD. The man who was instrumental in establishing AEC was a man of multifaceted personality. In 1915 he topped the list of Civil Engineering discipline from Calcutta University. His contribution was not confined to technical fields only. He was a prolific writer and published a number of technical papers and Assamese books. In a sense, the founder principal of AEC, late H P Baruah was a legendary figure. The dream project of H P Baruah and many others started yielding fruit from 1960. The first batch of graduate engineers in Civil Engineering came out in that year. But in the mean time two new branches namely, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical engineering were also introduced in 1957 and the output of these departments started coming from 1962. Initially the intake capacity of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering were thirty each. Capacity enhancement was made effective from 1962 onwards. The Electrical Engineering department was started with a few faculty members and supporting staff. Some students of the first batch were Nilomoni Baruah, R N Chowdhury, Sisir Kakoti, Prasanna Dutta, Membor Gogoi, Pradip Phukan, Jugal Hazarika, Anil Baruah, Bani Baruah, Mon Mohan Deka, Pradip Guha, Haren Dutta etc. Most of them became renowned engineers of the State. At the early stage. The Electrical Engineering department got the service of some dedicated teachers likeD Chaliha. N N Sengupta. S P Bhattachadee, J R Chowdhury, B Talukdar, S K Dey Purkayastha. J N Sonowal, K N Khound, A N Sarma, P K Tamuli etc. In the education system the teacher student relation is of utmost importance. At that time the relation was so cordial that the engineers passed out in early batches still feel elated by those memories. It still persists and is ideal. In the initial years the laboratory facilities in the department were not up to the mark. Some batches were taken to Bengal Engineering (B E) College, Sibpur in West Bengal for laboratory works. The syllabi were prepared in consultation with those of B E College. The students were accustomed with T- square, set-square, slide rule etc. The transistors just came into the pages of text books. The calculators, digital computers, micro-processors etc came to rule the arena only after several decades. Job opportunity was good. Passed outs were absorbed quickly. The first lady student of the department was Reeta Dutta. During the last fifty years the Electrical Engineering department produced above 25,00 graduates and a few post graduates. Today aspiring students from the region on may even fulfil their dream of getting PhD from this department. Now it has become electrical and Instrumentation Engineering department with an intake capacity of sixty in Electrical Engineering and twenty in Instrumentation Engineering. On one side the Electrical and Instrumental Engineering department is flourishing even with limited resources - its alumni are serving far and wide. But now the scenario in tec
[asom] Price of teen gangrape: Rs 26000
Price of teen gangrape: Rs 26000 P. BRAHMA CHOUDHURY TELEGRAPH INDIA Kokrajhar Jan. 18: A bunch of rapists who forced themselves on a teenaged girl got away with a fine of Rs 26,000, courtesy the benevolence of village jurors whose collective wisdom could think of little more than a wad of notes as the perfect punishment. This travesty of justice would have gone unnoticed had the Kokrajhar unit of the All India Democratic Womens Association not intervened and brought it to the notice of the media and the district administration. The victim, a 15-year-old Santhali girl from West Karigaon, was visiting her aunt at Singimari near Kokrajhar on January 7 when the incident occurred. We heard about the incident only the next day, the victims father, Mangal Mardi, told representatives of the womens association when they visited the village. Three days after the incident, the gaonburhas (headmen) of the victims village and the place where the incident occurred convened a meeting at Singimari and ordered the culprits to pay Rs 26,000 in compensation. If that wasnt a mockery of the law already, only Rs 15,000 was meant for the victim. The gentlemen who conducted the trial presumably shared the rest. A senior police officer involved in the investigation that was ordered at the behest of the womens organisation said evidence was being culled from various sources to nail the culprits. We have the names of 15 people. Action will be taken against anyone found guilty. Organisations representing the Adivasi community were, however, silent on the case. A member of the All Adivasi Students Association of Assam said the accused were from influential families, which is why nobody had spoken out against them. Yasoda Brahma of the womens association said it was a shame that such a shocking incident had gone almost unnoticed. It is alarming that crime against women, especially rape of minor girls, is increasing in a place where women are supposed to be regarded highly. The president of the Bodo Progressive Fronts womens wing, Malati Rani Brahma, echoed her. It is unfortunate that women are no longer safe in society. What is even worse is that we do not guarantee justice to the victims. On the first day of the New Year, a 9-year-old was raped at Balajan Tinali. Raben Mondol, aged 50 and a father of three, was the culprit. On January 2, a mob caught Sushil Das, a driver, when he allegedly tried to molest a 12-year-old at Srirampur. Das was caught when the screams of the victim alerted residents. The mob thrashed the accused before turning him over to the police. A day later, Binode Narzary, 30, of Chetnaguri allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl of the same village. Narzary pounced on the girl and raped her when she went to the paddy field. Villagers caught the culprit and beat him up before calling the police. In yet another incident, a man was caught trying to molest a 5-year-old at Gurufella, under Gossaigaon police station, on January 4.
[asom] Don't purchase petrol on 22nd JAN
F.Y.I. Dear Friends! Petrol in Pakistan Rs17 per litr Malaysia Rs 18 per litr In Indiait's 48 per litr Why this difference in Asia itself? World Market CRUDE Oil is not the reason for this. It's all Gain for private owners? As we are the general public, or Common Man as R.K.Laxman wud hv said, we have to raise our voice, let's raise thru Emails. Forward this to all Indians who care. IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE DID NOT PURCHASE A DROP OF PETROL FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES. AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET LOSS OVER 4.6 BILLION DOLLARS WHICH AFFECTS THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE OIL COMPANIES. THEREFORE "TUESDAY jan22nd" HAS BEEN DECLARED "STICK IT UP THEIR BEHIND" DAY AND THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION SHOULD NOT BUY A SINGLE DROP OF PETROL THAT DAY. THE ONLY WAY THIS CAN BE DONE IS IF YOU FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN REMEMBER : JAN 22nd 2008 -- Kind Regards, Sayali Kale
