Agartala, Jun 27 : The death toll in the week-long respiratory infection rose to 27 in the remote tribal Kangrai locality along the Mizoram-Tripura border in North Tripura.
Principal Secretary, Health, Y P Singh said here today that Health Minister Tapan Chakraborty accompanied specialist doctors to the village yesterday and camps had been arranged.
He said initial reports revealed that the causes of death were acute infection in the respiratory system and gastroenteritis. But he said only 14 deaths were recorded in the hospitals.
However, sources in the area stated that so far 57 people, including 26 children, had been admitted to several hospitals of the sub-division and the administration had sent blood samples of the affected people to Agartala for investigation.
Mr Singh, however, pointed out that there was a report of outbreak of water borne diseases in Autharamura foothills. But no deaths had been reported.
Meanwhile, Congress MLA Subal Bhowmik, who brought the matter to light, said, ''There are also incidences of spread of malaria in the villages. The health department did not take any proactive measure to contain the situation.''
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
National Press to Visit Mizoram
Aizawl: Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India intends to send a 10-member National Press team to study various on-going projects under centrally sponsored schemes such as PMGSY, NREGS, IAY, etc. in Mizoram.
The National Press Team will be touring Mizoram from June 14 -19, 2010, during which it will visit different villages and towns, where scheme projects under Rural Development, PWD, PHE departments are underway or have been succesfully completed. During their stay, Press Information Bureau (PIB) leh Rural Development Department officials will conduct and guide their tour.
The National Press Team will be touring Mizoram from June 14 -19, 2010, during which it will visit different villages and towns, where scheme projects under Rural Development, PWD, PHE departments are underway or have been succesfully completed. During their stay, Press Information Bureau (PIB) leh Rural Development Department officials will conduct and guide their tour.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
SC judge to visit Mizoram
Aizawl, Jun 10 : Supreme Court Judge Justice Altamas Kabir is scheduled to pay a two-day visit to the state from June 14. Justice Kabir, who is also the chairman of National Legal Services Authority, will arrive here on June 14 and attend a legal aid clinic and awareness programme at Sihphir on June 15.
He would also visit another legal awareness and inter-departmental conference at Tourist Lodge, Chaltlang at 1600 hours on the same day.
The programme will also include speeches from Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla and other government officials. Officials from law & judicial, social welfare, women and child development, labour & employment, rural development and officials from other different line departments are expected to attend the conference.
The chief secretary and few government officials held a meeting today to discuss the matter at the secretariat conference hall to preview the SC judges visit.
A culture programme in honour of the visiting judge will be organised at Tourist Lodge. Earlier this week, another Supreme Court judge Justice Dr Mukundakam visited Aizawl. The SC judge, attended a meeting on Access to Justice and Socio-Economic Development organised by the Mizoram State Legal Services Authority.
He would also visit another legal awareness and inter-departmental conference at Tourist Lodge, Chaltlang at 1600 hours on the same day.
The programme will also include speeches from Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla and other government officials. Officials from law & judicial, social welfare, women and child development, labour & employment, rural development and officials from other different line departments are expected to attend the conference.
The chief secretary and few government officials held a meeting today to discuss the matter at the secretariat conference hall to preview the SC judges visit.
A culture programme in honour of the visiting judge will be organised at Tourist Lodge. Earlier this week, another Supreme Court judge Justice Dr Mukundakam visited Aizawl. The SC judge, attended a meeting on Access to Justice and Socio-Economic Development organised by the Mizoram State Legal Services Authority.
Rail services to Tripura, Mizoram disrupted
Silchar (Assam), June 10 (IANS) Rail services to parts of Assam, Tripura and Mizoram have been suspended after damage to an old rail bridge in southern Assam, officials said Thursday.
“After sudden increase of water in a tributary of Jatinga river, a girder of an old bridge was washed away Wednesday night causing the railway bridge to slant,” Northeast Frontier Railway spokesman Subrata Hajong told reporters.
Senior railway officials and engineers have rushed to the spot, 300 km south of Assam’s main city, Guwahati.
A goods train running between Badarpur to Lumding in southern Assam was also stranded after the damage to the bridge.
“Work has been started to repair the railway bridge. We can not confirm when the railway services would be restored in this region,” Hajong added.
The meter gauge railway line passes through the North Cachar area of southern Assam, connecting Agartala and Bairabi in northern Mizoram besides several districts of southern Assam with the rest of the country.
In June 2007, eight people were killed and 15 others injured when seven wagons and the two engines of a goods train jumped the rail and fell into a flooded Jatinga river following the collapse of a 114-year-old railway bridge in the same region.
The accident had led to suspension of railway services in the region for more than four months.
“After sudden increase of water in a tributary of Jatinga river, a girder of an old bridge was washed away Wednesday night causing the railway bridge to slant,” Northeast Frontier Railway spokesman Subrata Hajong told reporters.
Senior railway officials and engineers have rushed to the spot, 300 km south of Assam’s main city, Guwahati.
A goods train running between Badarpur to Lumding in southern Assam was also stranded after the damage to the bridge.
“Work has been started to repair the railway bridge. We can not confirm when the railway services would be restored in this region,” Hajong added.
The meter gauge railway line passes through the North Cachar area of southern Assam, connecting Agartala and Bairabi in northern Mizoram besides several districts of southern Assam with the rest of the country.
In June 2007, eight people were killed and 15 others injured when seven wagons and the two engines of a goods train jumped the rail and fell into a flooded Jatinga river following the collapse of a 114-year-old railway bridge in the same region.
The accident had led to suspension of railway services in the region for more than four months.
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