Category: Projects
Health campaign gets big push: three new vessels for three districts
SB Swaminathan, Tunsukia The C-NES-NRHM partnership’s health campaign through our boat clinics in the Brahmaputra Valley got a surge of energy in the past weeks with three new boats being pressed into service in Tinsukia, Morigaon and Dhubri districts. The SB Swaminathan and SB Rustam, which have been funded from donations by the prominent editor [...]
Snippets from the Boat clinics
The Dhemaji Boat Clinic, “SB Shahnaz” has a more popular name now- the “Doctor’s Boat” given to it by none other than the children of the saporis (river islands). They run along with the boat from the river bank, waving their hands in great anticipation as the boat passes by their area. This is a [...]
Boat Clinics in flood-hit areas
Guwahati Sept 3: As monsoon floods and marooned villages flash on our TV screens and the front pages of the media, the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, (C-NES) has been quietly providing health services to communities on the river islands of the Brahmaputra in Assam, reaching thousands who do not have access [...]
Thousands benefit from C-NES-NRHM partnership for health of island dwellers
Guwahati, 30 April 2008 – In a new initiative, health teams, including doctors, nurses, and community organizers, have been traveling under extremely challenging conditions to reach thousands of people with health services in the island populations of Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Morigaon and Dhubri districts in Assam, bringing health and healing to many who have been [...]
The Ships of Hope
For centuries, the Brahmaputra river has swept along its long journey from Tibet to the Bay of Bengal, touching the lives of tens of millions with its enormous power, physically, culturally and economically. Every year, lakhs of people are displaced and extensive property, crops and livestock are destroyed in annual floods in Assam and other [...]
Impact of armed conflict on women in Nagaland and Tripura
The Centre conducted a study on the ‘Impact of armed conflict on women’ in the states of Nagaland and Tripura at the request of the National Commission of Women. The coordinator was Ms. Preeti Gill, Advisory Council member and editor, Zubaan. Researchers and assistants in the two states include Ms. Wecheteu Kapfo and Mrs. Akule [...]
World Bank Award
The Centre is one of 20 winners (June 2004) of a nationwide competition organized by the India office of the World Bank to consider innovative ideas, which if implemented, could make a difference to rural problems. The C-NES project, which included a model to scale, was titled: A Ship of Hope in a Valley of [...]
By the Brahmaputra: Regenerating livelihoods (2002 to 2005)
The Centre, through its Managing Trustee and four researchers in Assam (all from the state of Assam) has been working by the Brahmaputra river, to develop an information and data bank of economic activities along the river and the livelihoods of people in six districts of Assam (Kamrup, Darrang, Jorhat, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh and Dhubri), especially [...]
World Bank picks Hazarika’s ship idea
Recognizing innovativeness, creativity and a pro-people approach, the World Bank has awarded a national award to the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, which is run by the eminent writer and editor Sanjoy Hazarika, for its idea “A Ship of Hope in a Valley of Flood.” Altogether 20 innovators from across India were [...]
Review of drinking water projects in Dimapur and Aizawl
DoNER approached C-NES, to conduct an ‘Evaluation cum Impact Assessment Study for the Augmentation of Water Supply Project at Dimapur, Nagaland, and Aizawl, Mizoram’. Two teams were set up, one in Nagaland under Neichute Dulo of Entrepreneurs Associates and a Mizoram team under Mr Denghnuna, former secretary to the state government. Among other things, the [...]
State Development Report: Assam
The Centre was asked by Government of India (Planning Commission) to work with two other prominent institutions to develop the Assam Development Report (2002), which encapsulates a vision for the state, with a specific timeframe for change. The report, which was released by the then Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee in December 2002, is [...]
Sanjoy Hazarika discusses the film in Frankfurt with the head of the
Indo-German Friendship Association at a meeting while Ms. Caroline
Bertram of the Asia Department of the Boll Foundation listens
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‘Conflicts in the Northeas,t Internal and external effects’ edited by Sanjoy Hazarika and V.R. Raghavan, is a outcome of three years research project ‘ Internal conflicts and transnational consequences’ by Centre for Security Analysis, Chennai supported by Mac Arthur Foundation. To procure this book please contact C-nes or Centre for Security Analysis (www.csa-chennai.org).
