Great News for today :

Today, His Exillency Governor Janaki Ballav Patnaik visited flood and erosion affected area of Majuli. He was accompanied by Hon'ble W. R. Minister R. L. Pegu, Upper Assam Commissioner and CEO (MCLMA) S. I. Hussain, Deputy Commissioner of Jorhat Mr. Ramesh Jain.

  - Abakash Majuli

Callous babus rob Assam's Majuli island of Unesco tag :

Kumari Selja's callous culture ministry has put a spanner in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's dream of getting Majuli, an island on the Brahmaputra, the coveted Unesco world heritage site status.

For the third time, Unesco rejected the appeal to include the world's largest freshwater island near Assam's Jorhat town on its coveted list. And this happened because the culture ministry submitted "incomplete documents" to the UN organisation. The ministry's highpowered heritage advisory committee had promoted Majuli for the Unesco nominations following requests from the PMO. PM Singh has been reportedly pushing hard for the unique island as he represents the state in the Rajya Sabha.

But the advisory panel repeated the same mistakes of "incomplete documentation" that Majuli had suffered during its two earlier attempts in 2008 and in 2010. It was rejected again on "technical grounds", a letter received on March 12 stated. The Unesco's world heritage committee said the submitted documents didn't carry a list of the Vaishnavite monasteries called "sattras", some built during the time of Assam's 16th-century saint philosopher Shankardev, which were singular and needed to be protected.

Amazingly, when Unesco dismissed the proposal in 2008, it recommended that a complete list of the 31 surviving sattras be attached. Similarly, the proposal got rejected in 2010 for "missing out on clearly defining the universal value of the site".

The goof-up was appalling because a consultant was hired this time and paid a hefty fee to do the paperwork.

The advisory panel, chaired by former Union tourism secretary Sujit Banerjee, has conservation architect Shikha Jain as its member secretary. Moreover, among the 10 other members, it has Amitabh Kant of the Incredible India fame and former Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) director general C. Babu Rajeev. Ministry sources said most of the committee members were not even aware of the rejection.

A senior ASI official said: "It was double embarrassment for India as we are in the Unesco world heritage committee to scrutinise nominations from other countries."

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/unesco-rejects-appeal-to-include-majuli-island-on-its-list/1/178575.html

- Abakash Majuli

A lot of thanks to the human rights depttt from all majulians :

RAJNITIA MAJULIR JONOTAK ARU KIMAN HUHIBO....???

Dispur takes stock of Majuli damage:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120713/jsp/northeast/story_15721273.jsp

"We are Thankful to all those groups who are coming forward to help us....

It is our great pleasure that ASSAM SAHITYA SABHA, ALL ASSAM LEKHIKA SAMAROH, ADDA GROUP GUWAHATI etc, etc are ready to help us... We want more..."

- Abakash Majuli

World Heritage Nominee- Majuli........

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Rise in homeless living on Majuli dykes:

The recent wave of floods in Majuli rendered over 6,000 people homeless, forcing them to live on embankments... 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Rise-in-homeless-living-on-Majuli-dykes/articleshow/14839768.cms                                                                                          

Everybody loves a good flood - Hindustan Times

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/ColumnsOthers/Everybody-loves-a-good-flood/Article1-885952.aspx

Efforts on to include Majuli island in UNESCO world heritage list 
 http://shar.es/tt72g

 

"Abakash Majuli" is a group which aims for the development of the second world largest river island and the largest river island in Asia i,e. "THE MAJULI". Majuli is a place of cultural diversity. We need to make our Majuli as a cultural centre. We will try to solve the problems facing by the people of Majuli due to natural calamity like flood. People are not getting proper facilities in hospitals. whenever a person suffers from any major disease then they use to come to Jorhat or to Guwahati or to somewhere else because those disease are not curable in Majuli. There is not a single blood bank in Majuli. If there is blood bank than there is no blood. Here question arises, why people of Majuli are facing these type of problems?? Whether these people don't have the right to live or these people are born only to face these type of problems??? So, we need help from the people of assam, from the government of assam, from the government of india to help these victims, to solve the problems facing by the people of the largest river island in ASIA i,e. "THE INCREADIBLE MAJULI".....

HELP US TO SAVE MAJULI....

If anyone is interested to help us then you may contact the undersigned....
1) Amlan deep Bora.
President, Abakash Majuli
contact no.: 9864742821

2)Jadab chandra Bora.
Secretary, Abakash Majuli
contact no.: 9435646676 

-Abakash  Majuli