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TINSUKIA: The affected families of Baghjan blowout lifted their indefinite oil blockade on Thursday following bipartite negotiation with Oil India Limited (OIL) at OIL Headquarters in Duliajan.
The residents had been resorting to the stir since Tuesday. After the compensation issue was disposed off by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the activists of Baghjan Gaon Milanjyoti Yuva Sangha (BGMYS) were left in despair.
The blockade has been lifted on the condition that certain adjustments would be made after the Tinsukia district administration submits its final field-survey report which is at the completion stage.
Mentionably, apart from the actual victims of Baghjan several pressure groups backed by students organizations and political lobbies attempted to squeeze OIL for money on compensation plea. However during the initial days of blowout, they succeeded in making the district officials carry out preliminary survey works at the affected areas. Th
Baghjan villagers resort to blockade; talks with OIL today
The villagers of Baghjan, affected due to gas blowout from an oil well, resorted to indefinite oil blockade from Tuesday due to alleged non-payment of full compensation to them.
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DOOMDOOMA: The villagers of Baghjan, affected due to gas blowout from an oil well, resorted to indefinite oil blockade from Tuesday due to alleged non-payment of full compensation to them.
In a joint statement to the media issued by the president and the secretary of the Baghjan Gaon Milanjyoti Yuva Sangha (BGMYS), Satyajit Moran and Tikhnajit Hazarika respectively stated that they (the affected villagers of Baghjan) were not fully satisfied with the judgement pronounced by National Green Tribunal (NGT) on February 19.
Assam & NE will be the India s New Growth Engines, Says PM Modi
PM Modi said that the Centre and Assam government are working together for the all-round development of the State and maximum welfare of the people.
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New Growth Engine
Assam & Northeast: Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation three mega projects worth Rs 3,222 crore from here in Dhemaji district on Monday. The projects include three gas-and-oil-based ones. He also virtually inaugurated the Dhemaji Engineering College and laid the foundation stone for Sualkuchi Engineering College in Assam.
The Prime Minister dedicated to the nation the INDMAX Unit at Indian Oil s Bongaigaon Refinery, Oil India Limited s Secondary Tank Farm at Madhuban, Dibrugarh and a Gas Compressor Station at Hebeda Village, Makum in Tinsukia district remotely from Dhemaji district.
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Centre, state govt working for development of Assam, says PM Modi ANI | Updated: Feb 22, 2021 14:27 IST
Dhemaji (Assam) [India], February 22 (ANI): Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Monday said that the Centre and Assamese government are working collaboratively for the development and balanced growth of the state, adding that the previous governments have been giving neglecting the region. Centre and Assam government working collaboratively to develop State infrastructure and provide balanced growth which is one of the major factors of this development was Assamese infrastructure. Despite the State having great potential, former governments gave it sautela (step-motherly)treatment by overlooking development in various sectors, PM Modi said as he inaugurated various projects in the Silapathar and Dhemaji in poll-bound Assam.