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A bamboo bridge connecting Laatu with Karimganj

This is the Laatu bamboo bridge which has replaced an old RCC structured based bridge connecting Laatu withKarimganj. Previously there was a huge RCC bridge but heavy flood had eroded it. It is connecting around 5000 people living there with rest of the places in the Karimganj district. Surprisingly the condition of the bridge is same as it was a year before leaving the localities’ with unending problems. Because of this condition of the bridge the people of this area can not call for 108 in an emergency situation. Even the students have to walk a long way for betters studies. It is too sad to say that many girls of these areas have given up their studies. The localities’ has alleged that when the election approaches nearer ministers came there and even promises to reconstruct the bridge but till date no such promises are been kept.

Whatever may be the reason for this delaying in the reconstruction of this bridge, but the people of this area are greatly hindered by this. Government should see into this and should save the lives of peoples of Laatu and the other neighboring areas of it

TRAFFIC JUMP - a new problem for Silchar

                   Silchar is a city strategically located at the centre of five states and two international boundaries. It is the source of communication and a commercial hub. Rightly it is said that it is the second highway of the North-east after Guwahati and is connecting the region with the main land. It is thickly populated town with approx 10 lakh population. Over the past few years, the city is constantly witnessing a huge influx of people from nearby smaller places due to city's increasing future prospects and other developments in the field of education, medical facilities, and the more recently booming real estate market and other commercial businesses, making the city quite an overcrowded one. It has now the second highest population in the state, although the difference with the highest populated city i.e., Guwahati, the capital of Assam, is quite huge. And with this increased number of population Silchar is under the pressure of overcrowded traffic. Whereas Silchar is gifted with narrow broken roads with stagnant water by the Silchar Municipality.

 Today the no. of vehicles plying in the roads of Silchar has manifold. But the condition of the roads is detorating day by day which finally results heavy jump in the roads. Especially the roads are not geared up to take the load of such increased traffics. Just count the no. of vehicles ply in the way of Rangirkhari during peak hours of a day, it is approx 75wheelers, 200 two wheelers, 100 three-wheelers per mintute.For poorly maintained narrow roads of Silchar such massive traffic is beyond the control of small detachment of traffic police deployed for the purpose.Richshaw and thela puller being slow moving are the major cause of jamming the roads. It is soon needed to be replaced by town buses which will control the increasing no. of autorichshaws and rickshaws. In Silchar town there is no severe traffic rules. Motorcyclist drives without helmets and overtakes from wrong sides. On average, every third day there is a fatal motor cycle accident. Auto drivers take pride to overtake from wrong sides. Footpath is laddered with petty shops. Silchar court is over burdened with motor vehicles accident cases, which is much higher than any other town of Assam. Unless an early and drastic step is taken by the Govt, Silchar will be a difficult place for us to live in.

CHILIES – SPICY OR COSTLY…….what you all say!!!

Do you like to have spicy food that to with lots of Chillies into it? If it is so you have to compromise with the taste you like. as the chillies are now more costly rather than spicy.Affected by incessant rainfall and the monsoon floods, the prices of fresh vegetables have gone up like anything in past few weeks at the sources. On the other taking the advantage of situation retailers are charging very high from the consumers in all the markets of Assam.

Vegetables are among the basic commodities for a man to live. That’s why a consumer is left with no option but to pay the price fixed by the traders even the consumers are not left with the option to bargain.

The prices of green chillies have gone up like never before. In market vendors are changing Rs 160 per 1kg whereas in wholesale it is Rs 90 per kg. Against it bulk prices of Rs 12 per kg.Really it is unjust able to charge double rates though it is natural that retailers would charge higher than the wholesalers. Really this year monsoon is not only affecting the upper Assam but lower too mainly the poor and the middle class people.

Is really there is no end for dis?????????

It is more than a year but still the situation is the same which was a year before or more than that.Realy should we say that there is no end of this problem, people have suffer from this problem some more years or for lifetime. It was a year before when there was great shortfall in the production of the LPG gas because of the blast in the plant site.

The major cause for the shortfall is the halt in production in Numailigarh refinery, but according to the Indian oil officials the shortage in the international market is the main reason for this.

Adding to this the situation is becoming more worse for the common people because of the middleman who are taking the advantage of the situation by charging more than even thousand or Rs 500- 600 extra for a single cylinder.

Even the indifferences between Central Govt. and the IOCL, the crises of LPG were worsening in the country particularly in Northeast which includes Barak Valley areas also.

Silchar has 4 LPG agents serving nearly 50,000 consumers but it is also reeling under an acute shortage from last year. And there is no hope of immediate respite from the ongoing situation. Locals believes that LPG agencies are hand in glove with the black marketers’ and are fully enjoying this situation as it has doubled their incomes too.prevoiusly one had to wait for 21 days for getting a cylinder after booking but the situation is such that one had to wait for at least 45 days that also there is no home delivery. To get a cylinder he had go to the agency and had wait for his turn that to ha had stand in line along with other consumers and their numbers even crosses 150.

Mr. Amol Kanti choudhury an retired serviceman and one of the consumers standing for his turn outside a gas agency said that a truck can carry at least 300 cylinders however the agencies distributes 100 only and the rest vanishes. One of the other consumers standing over there said that it takes more than a month to get a cylinder through the domestic distribution system but black marketers can  supply you anytime but they sell them for Rs1200 which two times more than the actual cost.

Miss Mehga Bhattacharya an university student mainly from Tripura living in rent for her studies in silchar shared that she was so helpless that she  purchased a half cylinder from a black marketer last month but paid him full price of it.

“Generic are also effective”

Generic medicines sound new…..yes this term was new to me like many others when I heard the term for the first time in the 4^th episode of Amir khan’s show‘satyamev jayetay’. The particular episode was on the discrepancies and corruption involved in selling of medicines in our country. And the was very successful in making the term popular.Though generic drugs are not a newly introduced medicines; in fact India is global leader of these medicines.

 The generic name is the official medical name for the active ingredients of the medicines. These drugs are having the same chemical composition as branded drugs are and sold under their chemical name. As Paracetamol a painkiller is the generic name for branded drugs for branded drugs Crocin and Calpol.

But generic medicines are not as popular as the branded ones are. There are many reasons behind the unpopularity of these drugs. The first is that this drugs are much cheaper than the branded ones for which the pharmaceuticals doesn’t practice their sell. Besides the different pharmaceuticals, dealers and semi-dealers Doctors to be playing a role in restricting the circulation of this cheaper drugs. Chemists have to hand out exactly what’s written on the prescription. And many Doctors even who are practicing in Government hospitals don’t hand out generic medicines. There is a distinct lack of awareness also among the among people about the effectiveness of the generic medicines. Also since these medicines comparatively cheaper than the branded drugs, people who can afford branded drugs don’t prefer to buy them believing that they are less effective.

To promote cheap drugs in market in 2008, Government had set up a scheme to set up generic drugs store around the country. Though according to the plan more than 3000stores were to be opened but they were successful in setting up only 300.The department of pharmaceuticals of the Government is responsible for promoting this cheaper generic medicines but they not fully successful in their job.Satyamev jayetey had played an important an important role in Maharashtra government giving medicines the green signal to allot more generic medicines stores in the state. Generic medicines are the answer to better health care for all. And the way to promote these drugs is to curb illicit medical practices. Through the MCI guidelines dictate that Doctors should prescribe generic medicines. The Jan Ausadhi scheme should to strengthen.