– The much-hyped MGNREGA has once again failed to meet its main target – providing 100 days employment to each jobcard holder in Tripura.

There is an urgent need to make all the Northeastern States well-equipped in handling disaster keeping in mind their vulnerability, said Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar. “Everybody knows that the North East including Tripura falls under seismic zone V, considered as most vulnerable tremor zone, but the region is still lagging behind in terms of disaster preparedness, he said while addressing a two-day worshop on Disaster Management at Prajna Bhavan here recently.

Agartala, Nov. 2: The Union department of disaster management has raised the hackles of the Tripura government by warning about possible earthquakes and their likely disastrous effects on the state.
What has become a source of major concern is that North Tripura and Dhalai districts have been identified as “most vulnerable” to earthquakes.

Agartala: Altogether 2000 buildings including Neer Mahal, Raj Bhavan and Ujjayanta Palace have been identified as potential structures for retrofitting work keeping in mind Tripura’s vulnerability to earthquake.

“In course of a preliminary study, experts identified at least 2000 buildings across the state which need retrofitting given their long existance,” said PWD Minister Badal Chowdhury while talking to media persons at Civil Secretariat here on Wednesday.

AGARTALA: Tripura’s current population stands at 36, 71,032, having registered a growth of 9.12 percent in urban population in 2011 compared with the preceding 2001 when the urban population stood at 17.06 percent, according reports in Tripura media.

Successful implementation of the literacy programmes like ‘Sarva Shiksha’ has helped the State achieve an overall literacy rate of 87.75 percent where rural population stands at 85.58 percent and urban marks 93.61 percent.

Agartala: Tripura has witnessed a 23 per cent drop in the malaria cases as compared to 2009, a top health official said on Sunday.

Citing that four deaths had been recorded in hospitals this year, Director of Family Welfare and Preventive Medicine department Dr R K Dhar said there has been a sharp drop in the number of Malaria fatalities recently.

Agartala: Malaria has turned into an epidemic in remote hamlets of Dhalai district in North Tripura claiming 15 lives over a month, officials said here today.

The health directorate sent a contingent of specialist doctors in the affected areas and had been holding health camps in the locations besides, mobilising more doctors in Manu, Chawmanu and Chailengta Primary Health Centres.

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AGARTALA: Upbeat by the possible reserve of coal in West Tripura’s Tulasikhar area, a far-flung tribal hamlet, local authority of Geological Survey of India (GSI), has sent a report to the Ministry of Coal and Mine, official sources said here on Friday. In the report, the GSI has recommended further study in and around Tuidangkhi, 40 km from Khowai subdivision town.

AGARTALA, Dec 18: Following a report of fresh cases of Meningococcal Meningitis in remote locations of North Tripura, the state government has demanded 1.83 lakh vaccines from Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, State Health Minister Tapan Chakraborty said.

Supratim Dey / Kolkata/ Guwahati June 15, 2009, 0:29 IST

Germany has come forward to fund a 15 million euro Tripura government project for socio-economic development of tribals and forest resource management.