Assam Relief Camp

Blog: Rahul Gandhi visits refugees in Assam relief camps

Kishalay Bhattacharjee | Wednesday September 12, 2012

Six weeks into the violence that hit Lower Assam, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi joins the long list of politicians on relief camp tourism. He had a lot to cover in a day's time; camps in Kokrajhar, Dhubri and Chirang districts.

Administration will fire at anyone who resorts to arson and violence: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Sunday August 26, 2012

With the death toll in the Assam clashes reaching almost 80, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said, "Administration will fire at anyone who resorts to arson and violence." Mr Gogoi's warning came after five more people were killed on Saturday in Chir...

Five killed in fresh violence in Chirang district of Assam

Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Sunday August 26, 2012

Five people have been killed in fresh violence in Chirang district of Assam. They were reportedly coming from a relief camp to buy groceries.

'We are living here without any self-respect'

Written by Sandeep Phukan | Wednesday August 22, 2012

As we drove into the trouble zone, the calm almost deceived us. For over a month now, these parts of lower Assam have been tense, angry and scared. But on National Highway 31, connecting Assam to North Bengal and the rest of India, there were no visi...

In Assam, over two lakh people are still refugees

Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Wednesday August 22, 2012

It has been more than a month since ethnic violence broke out in parts of lower Assam. Ever since then people there have been tense, angry and scared. Nearly two and a half lakh people, both Bodos and minorities, are still in 224 relief camps, althou...

Seven-member Central team visits Assam relief camps

Press Trust of India | Tuesday August 21, 2012

A seven-member central team consisting of joint secretaries visited several relief camps in strife-torn Korakrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri districts today in lower Assam to take stock of the situation.

Sonia Gandhi arrives in Assam, visits relief camps: 10 developments

Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Monday August 13, 2012

Congress president Sonia Gandhi is visiting trouble-torn districts of lower Assam today. 77 people have died and 400,000 people were rendered homeless; many of them are still living in crowded, filthy relief camps. Mrs Gandhi's party is in power in A...

Sonia Gandhi arrives in Assam, visits relief camps

Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Monday August 13, 2012

Congress president Sonia Gandhi arrived on her first visit today in Assam's troubled Kokrajhar and Dhubri districts, almost three weeks after it was affected by ethnic violence that left 77 people dead, and several lakhs displaced.

In Assam's relief camps, the battle for life rages on

Reported by Alok Pandey; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Sunday August 12, 2012

The politics over ethnic clashes in Assam has spilled over to Mumbai with violent clashes between the police on one side, and protesters on the other. Thousands of kilometres away, in Assam, there is politics over the identity of those from the Musli...

Rohima Begum, with her baby born at Assam relief camp, has nowhere to go

Reuters | Friday August 10, 2012

There was little time to do anything but grab her two young boys and run as fast as she could when the gunmen came into the northeast village in the dead of night and began firing. Along with scores of other villagers, nine-months pregnant Rohima Beg...

First signs of normalcy in Assam; villagers leave relief camps, return home

Alok Pandey | Thursday August 9, 2012

Normalcy seems to be returning in Assam, which has been witnessing ethnic clashes for over a fortnight now. Due to the violence, nearly 4 lakh people have been displaced and over 70 are dead.

Assam violence: The politics of rehabilitation

Reported by Alok Pandey | Thursday August 9, 2012

At a relief camp set up at the Bidyapur High School in Chirang, Assam, 55-year-old Abdul Jaleel is very angry when asked what he thinks about the demand of Bodo leaders and the BJP that only those with Indian identity papers among minorities at relie...

Assam debate in Parliament is headlined by Sonia Gandhi vs LK Advani

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Wednesday August 8, 2012

Parliament devoted most of its first day in session to Assam and the violence that has killed 70 people, and displaced another 400,000, who are now living in relief camps desperately short of basic supplies.

Blog: An MP describes his visit to Assam's relief camps

By Asaduddin Owaisi (As told to Amit Chaturvedi) | Wednesday August 8, 2012

Asaduddin Owaisi, a Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad and the president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), has visited Assam twice in the last two weeks.

In Assam, even 1000 doctors would not be enough

Reported by Alok Pandey | Tuesday August 7, 2012

In seven days from now, on Independence Day, the Assam government hopes that the four lakh people packed into 250 relief camps will return to their homes. Ask any of the families who are living in squalor at these camps and they will tell you that is...