82 years of service to the nation PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM GUWAHATI & DIBRUGARH GET IT ON RN-1127/57 TECH/GH – 103/2018-2020, VOL. 82, NO. 115 www.assamtribune.com Google Play ePaper app for The Assam Tribune Pages 12 Price: 6.00 GUWAHATI, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020 p2 COVID-19 cases in US p7 NHM to look after essential p9 Govt considering packages for cross 1 million-mark health services in Nagaland sectors facing distress: Gadkari Centre allows conditional movement of stranded people NEW DELHI, April 29: norms in seating. register the stranded persons The states and Union Territo- Ferry service Migrant workers, tourists, The Home Ministry order, within their states and Union ries falling on the bus transit to Majuli students and other people however, did not specify whether Territories, it said. route will allow the passage of GUWAHATI, April 29: stranded in different parts of the a person or a family can travel in In case a group of stranded such persons to the receiving To ferry people stranded country were on Wednesday a private vehicle, and if allowed, persons wish to move between states and Union Territories, it due to lockdown, IWT allowed to move to their under what conditions. one state and Union Territory said. department resumed respective destinations with “Due to lockdown, migrant and another state and Union On arrival at their destination, service on April 25 and since then, altogether certain conditions, giving a big workers, pilgrims, tourists, Territory, the sending and they would be assessed by the 982 passengers from relief to the distressed people. students and other persons are receiving states may consult each local health authorities, and kept Majuli to Nimatighat and In an order, Union Home stranded at different places. other and mutually agree to the in home quarantine, unless the vice versa have been Secretary Ajay Bhalla said They would be allowed to movement by road. assessment requires keeping the transported till today. buses shall be used for trans- move,” he said in an order The moving persons would be persons in institutional quaran- This special free ferry port of such groups of stranded issued to all states and Union screened and those found tine, the order said. service will continue till people and these vehicles will Territories. Territories should designate and sending such stranded asymptomatic would be allowed They would be kept under May 2. – Staff Reporter be sanitised and will have to Listing the conditions, the nodal authorities and develop persons. to proceed, according to the watch with periodic health check- Action plan follow safe social distancing ministry said all states and Union standard protocols for receiving The nodal authorities shall also Home Ministry. ups, it said. – PTI GUWAHATI, April 29: Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday directed the Austerity State water resources State Govt announces measures department to prepare an action plan for dredging G The Administrative the river beds of the Department cannot im- tributaries to increase the austerity steps plement any new SOPD water carrying capacity of the rivers. He was STAFF REPORTER employees, but has put on cent. From tax on foreign liq- scheme without the ap- chairing a review meet of hold new projects and will uor, the State got Rs 6 crore proval of the Finance the department. – Staff GUWAHATI, April 29: give priority to complete old in April as compared to Rs department. Sanction- Reporter Citing an eighty per cent ones. 65 crore in March. Similarly, ing power delegated to the Administrative de- Tag removal drop in revenue collection Finance Minister Himanta from fuel taxes, the State got in April due to the lock- Biswa Sarma said the cur- Rs 60 crore compared to Rs partments relating to GUWAHATI, April 29: the issuance of adminis- Nalbari and Golaghat down, the State Govern- rent fiscal situation was a 360 crore in the previous trative approval and fi- districts are likely to ment today announced a worry for the State govern- month,” he informed. move out of the ‘red zone’ slew of austerity meas- ment as the revenue collec- The committed expenses nancial sanction in re- category soon, while the ures, which included re- tion for the month of April of the State government – spect of SOPD Schemes ‘containment zone’ tag of duction in establishment fell to Rs 193 crore (SGST which includes salaries, pen- has been withdrawn un- city’s housing complex expenditure, ban on gov- Rs 68 crore, CGST Rs 61 sion and interest on loan – is til further orders. How- Spanish Garden is likely crore, IGST Rs 62 crore and around Rs 3,600 crore every ever, the delegated to be lifted tomorrow, ernment functions and suspension of industrial cess Rs 2 crore) as compared month. power of the depart- Health Minister Himanta ments in respect of Biswa Sarma said. – Staff exemptions, to “rational- to Rs 932 crore (SGST Rs Stating that the “crisis was Centrally sponsored Reporter ize expenditure and opti- 406 crore, CGST Rs 276 still developing”, the Minis- mize available resources” crore, IGST Rs 193 crore and ter said the austerity meas- schemes and externally Panel formed during the crisis period. cess Rs 55 crore) in the cor- ures announced today could funded projects will GUWAHATI, April 29: Unlike many other states, responding month last year. be either extended or cur- continue. G The State government the government, however, “The revenue collection tailed depending on the situ- The Establishment has formed an advisory People hailing from Rajasthan on board a sleeper bus on their homebound journey amid lockdown, in Guwahati on Wednesday. – UB Photos did not slash the salaries of has dropped by eighty per ation. Expenditure for the first panel of senior physicians quarter of the Financial headed by Dr Tapan Year 2020-21 has been Saikia for spending the capped at 10 per cent of funds contributed in the Actor Irrfan Gandhian Assam Arogya Nidhi. The Govt fears community 10 from Assam in Delhi the total budget instead total contribution in the Khan passes Hema Bharali of 20 per cent. account till date is Rs 107 away G All expenses pertain- crore. – Staff Reporter transmission in no more quarantine centres ing to industrial exemp- MUMBAI, April 29: Irrfan tions, subsidies and in- Mishap kills 2 Khan, as much at home in the SPL CORRESPONDENT centres in the national capi- centives of various sec- JORHAT, April 29: Two Hollywood superhero film Lower Assam tal after being declared tors have been suspend- labourers, who were on a The Amazing Spiderman as NEW DELHI, April 29: positive for the dreaded ed until further orders. truck carrying posts for in the introspective The STAFF REPORTER out if there is another person At least 10 persons hailing novel coronavirus. porcupine construction to No reimbursement of Lunchbox , lost his battle with in the cycle who got the infec- from Assam have been check erosion on the GST to industries will be a rare form of cancer and died GUWAHATI, April 29: tion from her grandfather Brahmaputra bank, died quarantined in different SEE PAGE 6 allowed in the first quar- in a Mumbai hospital on Noting that the 16-year-old which later transmitted to after the vehicle slipped ter of the current finan- Wednesday. He was 54. girl who tested positive for her,” Health Minister Himan- off the road at Neolgaon. cial year. Irrfan, one of India’s finest COVID-19 in Bongaigaon ta Biswa Sarma said, inform- The deceased are Rinku G Purchase of vehicles Das and Pinku Das, both and most versatile actors, is yesterday had come into con- ing that the further investiga- STAFF REPORTER has been banned until brothers hailing from survived by his wife Sutapa tact with a positive patient 36 tion is required into the case WORLD further orders, except in Nimatighat. – Staff and his sons Babil and Ayaan. days ago, the State health de- and the Bongaigaon DC has GUWAHATI, April 29: Vet- case of ambulances and Correspondent He was buried at the Versova partment today said there been has been asked to study Confirmed cases 3,173,442 eran Gandhian, prominent free- vehicles required for po- graveyard. could be “another contact in it minutely. dom fighter and Sarvodaya Cured/Discharged 985,180 lice duty. This will, how- JOCOSERIOUS between” and the case needs Suspecting that the girl movement leader Hema Bhar- Details on page 3 to be studied minutely to might have made more social Death 220,414 ever, be permitted only ali passed away at her Kastur- with the approval of the It is the second tragedy for verify if it was a case of contact as she was in home ba Nagar residence at Ulubari INDIA Chief Minister. the family in less than a week. community transmission. quarantine and not in facility here at 3:20 pm today. G Holding of conferenc- The Maqbool actor lost his “The girl was in home quarantine, Sarma said he him- She had completed 101 Confirmed cases 31,787 es, workshops, semi- mother, 95-year-old Saeeda quarantine. She had come into self will visit Bongaigaon to- years on February 19, 2020. Cured/Discharged 7,797 nars, fairs and functions Begum, in Jaipur just four contact with her grandfather morrow to probe the matter. She was suffering from old- etc has been totally days ago and could not attend – who is a COVID-19 patient age ailments. Death 1,008 banned in the first quar- the funeral because of the na- – 36 days ago. We need to find SEE PAGE 6 Born on February 19, 1919 ter in the physical mode. tionwide lockdown.