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. 128 www.assamtribune.com Google Play ePaper app for The Assam Tribune Pages 12 Price: 6.00 GUWAHATI, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2020 p2 Militans storm maternity p5 Tea producers’ body seeks p9 Govt considering relaxation in clinic, kill 14 in Afghanistan aid from State govt FDI policy for real estate Modi announces mega economic package Wuhan step NEW DELHI, May 12: In a big push to country was producing PPEs. BEIJING, May 12: revive the COVID-hit economy, Prime Fourth phase of lockdown to be different The Prime Minister’s address to the Wuhan, the Chinese city Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday an- nation came a day after he held a marathon where the deadly novel nounced massive new financial incentives of the lockdown is scheduled to end on pillars – economy, infrastructure, technol- has provided an opportunity to India to six-hour meeting with chief ministers on coronavirus emerged in on top of the previously announced pack- May 17. ogy driven system, vibrant demography become self-reliant and emerge as a pow- the road ahead after May 17 when the 54- December last year, has ages for a combined stimulus of Rs 20 lakh About the financial package, the Prime and demand, he said. erful country globally in the 21st century. day nationwide lockdown is due to end. decided to test the city’s crore, saying the coronavirus crisis has pro- Minister said it will be around 10 per cent The Prime Minister also hinted at big- “We are standing at a crucial juncture. There have been growing demands by entire 11 million population after new cases vided India an opportunity to become self- of the GDP and “will play an important role ticket economic reforms in coming days, This crisis has a message for us. It has industries, workers and several political were reported for the first reliant and emerge as the best in the world. in the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ (self- and said beginning Wednesday, Finance provided us an opportunity,” he said, as- leaders to withdraw the lockdown as it time in weeks, sparking Apart from the Reserve Bank of India reliant India campaign), adding that the “an- Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will announce serting that “we have to protect ourselves has been having a devastating effect on the fears of the second wave of (RBI) assistance, the government had last nouncements made by the government so details of the special economic package. and move ahead as well”. economy and livelihoods of a large section the virus attack. – PTI month announced a Rs 1.74 lakh crore to far, the decisions of the RBI and today’s Modi said getting fatigued or exhausted India’s self-reliance addresses concerns of people. III Also see page 2 provide benefits to the poor, including cash package totals to Rs 20 lakh crores”. was not an option in confronting the un- about world’s happiness, cooperation and During their interaction with Modi on Aarogya Setu transfers, Rs 50 lakh insurance cover and The special economic package will have precedented challenge posed by the pan- peace, Modi said, adding medicines supplied Monday, several chief ministers favoured NEW DELHI, May 12: steps to ensure food security. emphasis on land, labour, liquidity and laws, demic and India has to make sincere efforts by India have infused new hopes in the world extending the lockdown while a number The Indian Railways, which In a televised address to the nation, Modi and will be for “our labourers, farmers, to become a self-reliant nation by trans- which is fighting battle of life and death. of others pitched for allowing economic had on Monday “advised” also said there will be a fourth phase of the honest tax payers, MSMEs and cottage forming the crisis into an opportunity. He said when the crisis began, not a activities to resume to provide relief to the passengers availing the lockdown which will be very different from industry”, Modi said. Asserting that just one virus has de- single Personal Protective Equipment millions of poor hit by the stringent meas- special trains that started operating from Tuesday to the earlier three phases. The third phase India’s self-reliance will be based on five stroyed the world, Modi said the pandemic (PPE) kit was made in India and today the ure. – PTI install the government’s Aarogya Setu mobile application, has now made it “mandatory” to do so. – PTI State entering decisive phase: Himanta AI HQ sealed STAFF REPORTER government has also said tests toilet facilities and drinking legislative assembly constit- NEW DELHI, May 12: should be conducted on only water systems in the facili- uencies with the help of the Air India has sealed its GUWAHATI, May 12: As- symptomatic people. The oth- ties,” Sarma, who reviewed local MLA and district au- headquarters – Airlines serting that the State was en- ers will be put under strict fa- the preparedness with all thorities. House – in Delhi for two days – Tuesday and tering a “decisive phase” in the cility quarantine by the DCs of DCs this evening, said. The DCs have arranged Wednesday – to conduct a war against COVID-19 as the the host districts,” Sarma said, Also, the houses of those buses to transport the peo- thorough sanitization of the train services resume, Health insisting that if the govern- returnees who will be ad- ple from the railway stations building after an employee Minister Himanta Biswa Sar- ment cannot test person, it can viced home quarantine, ei- to the quarantine facilities af- tested positive for the ma today said all those who also not allow the returnee to ther before or after the tests, ter screening. Highly symp- coronavirus, officials said return from red zones will be mingle with the society. will transform virtually into tomatic people will be trans- today. – PTI put under strict facility quar- ported in ambulances from Arrival antine as it would not be pos- the railway stations. GUWAHATI, May 12: sible to test the samples of each Strict facility quarantine for Citing the reasons for the Around 132 cancer patients and every one. people returning on trains inability to test all the return- stranded at Assam Bhavan The first train from Delhi ees, Sarma said the commu- in Mumbai reached Guwahati today in eight carrying 1122 passengers The quarantine facilities “containment zones”. “No nity surveillance programme buses. Health Minister will reach Assam tomorrow. are being set up at schools, member of the family will be launched in the State have Himanta Biswa Sarma said According to the Health colleges and other such build- able to come out of the house detected around 7782 people they will be quarantined at Minister, majority of the pas- ings and the Minister admit- for fourteen days. There will with fever in 10,000 villages Radisson Blu Hotel here. sengers of the first train – 842 ted that their quality might be a committee in the locali- so far. – Staff Reporter The Fancy Bazar area that was declared containment zone being sanitized, in Guwahati on Tuesday. – UB Photos – will disembark in Dibru- not be at par with the stand- ty to monitor it,” the Health “We will have to test the Pompeo talks garh and half of them are from ards of a middle class family. Minister said. samples of all these people WASHINGTON, May 12: Arunachal and they will be “So, those who are return- Once, the facilities ar- as per protocol,” he said, add- US Secretary of State Mike provided buses by the neigh- ing must come with a resolve ranged by the district admin- ing that 15,000 villlages still Pompeo discussed with his Revenue deficit grant bouring state. to bear this struggle during istrations exhaust, arrange- remain to be covered. counterparts from India, “It is not possible to test the the quarantine period. The ments to quarantine the re- Australia, Brazil, Israel, Japan and South Korea the released to 14 states samples of all. The Central PHE department is setting up turnees will be made at the SEE PAGE 6 importance of cooperation, transparency, and SPL CORRESPONDENT Finance Commission, the grant crore to Punjab, over Rs 631 accountability in combating has been released to Andhra crore to Assam, around Rs the COVID-19. – PTI NEW DELHI, May 12: The Pradesh, Assam, Himachal 418 crore to West Bengal and Arrangements ready to Alert TODAY Manmohan Centre on Tuesday released Pradesh, Kerala, Punjab, Tamil Rs 423 crore to Uttarakhand, NEW DELHI, May 12: over Rs 6,195 crore to 14 official sources said. receive train passengers Alive TOMORROW Former Prime Minister states as the second equated The latest revenue deficit Manmohan Singh, who was monthly instalment of the Assam gets grant comes nearly three STAFF REPORTER will halt,” said Subhanan admitted to the AIIMS post devolution revenue def- Rs 631 crore months after the first such grant Chanda, Chief Public Rela- here after suffering icit grant. Assam was allotted that had been issued to the GUWAHATI, May 12: tions Officer (CPRO) of NFR. reaction to a new Rs 631 crore. Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Ben- states earlier. “An equal first in- Maligaon-headquartered He said the standard oper- medication, was Northeast Frontier Railway ating procedure (SOP) of the discharged today. – PTI Office of the Finance Min- gal, Tripura, Manipur, Megha- stalment of the grant, as rec- ister Nirmala Sitharaman in laya, Mizoram, Nagaland and ommended by the 15th Finance (NFR) today said all arrange- Assam government will be WORLD BSF IG ments have been put in place applicable for passengers Confirmed cases 4,205,801 GUWAHATI, May 12: a tweet said the amount will Sikkim.