CLIMATE CARE - NORTHEAST INDIA

MONOJ GOGOI The UN’s ‘ International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples’ is celebrated across the world today on August 9, 2021. This year the UN decided ‘Leaving no one behind: Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract '  as theme of the Day. This one is one of the most significant Days to think and take local and global decisions for the rights of the indigenous people inhabiting with their own culture and lifestyles across the globe. Through a resolution (47/214), taken on 23 rd December, 1994, the UN General Assembly had decided 9 th August to be observed as the International Day of the World Indigenous Peoples as on this day in 1982, the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights had held the first meeting. The number of indigenous people across the world is estimated around 476 million which would be approximately 5% of world’s total population. But in the context of poverty, illi

  MONOJ GOGOI AUG 4 Th , 2021 A severe storm hit more than 10 villages near Dhunagiri and Bihpuria  this morning under Bihpuria revenue circle in Lakhimpur district. The storm, accompanied by strong wind flattened innumerous houses, granneries, cowsheds, standind crops and uprooted many trees which also affected in damaging houses. The uprooted trees created blockade the roods in many places and disrupted electricity to the area. The most afeected villages in this storm were Dah Gharia, Bholukaguri, Kalbari, Aunibari, Ronganoi Chenimara, Gongrabari, Bahgarha Pathar, Puroni Bahgorha etc. Ramchandra Hazarika, a village headman, informed that the storm started around 5:10 am this morning and continued upto an hour which ravaged the area. He also told that this was an unprecedented and unseasonal. This type of storm was never witnessed in this season, some of the elderly people of the area informed. Bijoy Doley, the secretary of Village Disaster Management Committee (VDMC) of Dah Gha