MORIGAON, Aug 5 - The District Legal Service Authority (DLSA) here organised a free eye check-up and treatment camp among the inmates of Morigaon District Jail on August 1 in collaboration with the Morigaon Civil Hospital. As a part of the National Blindness Control programme, the camp was organised at Morigaon District Jail.
Inaugurating the camp, Mahmood Ahmed, District & Sessions Judge, Morigaon said that blindness is a curse and due to ignorance and illiteracy, this evil cripples many families in rural Assam. Emphasising upon a healthy environment among the undertrial and other inmates of the jail, he said that eye care is a part daily life of human beings and that should be maintained in jails also.
Explaining the purpose of the camp, Ranjita Agarwal, secretary, DLSA, Morigaon said that as part of the National Blindness Control Mission scheme, the DLSA is looking after the eye care of the inmates on humanitarian grounds.
Dr Lakhydhar Sarmah, eye-specialist, Dharamtul PHC and his medical team comprising Moni Kumar Deka, Assistant of Eye ward Bhurbandha PHC, Bimal Patowari, Dibya Jyoti Mahanta and Jogen Kalita, all employees of Eye ward of Morigaon civil Hospital conducted the eye treatment camp and detected patients from among jail inmates for operations.
Fund curtailment decried: Four Tiwa organisations namely� the All Tiwa Students� Union (ATSU), Tiwa Women Association (TWS), Autonomy Demand Struggling Forum (ADSF) and Tiwa Cultural Society (TCS) have expressed serious concern over the move of Assam Government to cut the funds of the Tiwa Autonomous Council (TAC).
In a press release, these organisations said that the State Government had sanctioned Rs 43.90 crore to the TAC during 2015-16 financial year. But to their utter surprise, in this financial year i.e., 2016-17, the Government had sanctioned only Rs 30 crore as fund to the TAC. The Tiwa organisations criticised the State Government for the curtailment of the general fund of TAC terming it as cheating the tribal people of central Assam.
The organisations in a press release said that generally the budget of every autonomous council is enhanced every year. But the budget allocation to TAC was decreased. If the State Government does not change the fund allocation pattern to the TAC, the organisations threatened to go on an agitational path, the press release added.
