CLIMATE CARE - NORTHEAST INDIA

  MONOJ GOGOI Gopal Toppo, 23, a students’ activist and teacher died this morning at his home in Factory Line of Ananda Tea Estate in Lakhimpur district. Toppo had been suffering from severe chest pain for last few months and this morning at 6:00 am he succumbed to this.   He was continuing as education secretary in the Ananda unit of All Adivasi Students’ Association of Assam (AASSAA) and also serving as teacher at Saint Don Bosco School near Ananda Tea Estate. The fellow student activists of the area expressed deep grief and hoisted the AASAA flags during his cremation. The AASAA secretary Joseph Minj mourned at his sudden death and conveyed his condolences to the bereaved family. He told that the organization lost a very active leader with high potentiality in the district. “He was the only son of the family and also sole breadwinner. Therefore we request the government and also the tea estate authority to help the family with some financial assistance. Adivasi Sahitya Sab

MONOJ GOGOI     June 5, 2021 : The World Environment Day, observed for the first time in the United States in 1974, has become one of the most celebrated events of the United Nations for it’s importance in the present context. In Assam, many Non-Governmental Organizations including Guwahati based Aaranyak, Jorhat based North East Affected-Area Development Society (NEADS) and People’s Action for Development (PAD) with Head Office at Gogamukh in Dhemaji district observed the event abiding by the Covid-19 protocols imposed by the government. The World Environment Day has become more significant to create awareness among the world community on deteriorating environment across the globe. Human activities, like massive combustion of fossil fuels, excessive use of natural resources in unscientific manner, huge deforestation, human encroachment to natural bodies like fresh water sources, protected forest areas etc has debilitated the earth atmosphere. The emissions of Green House Gases