Assam villagers resist excavation for flood mitigation project
GUWAHATI The police in eastern Assam’s Jorhat district have served a notice to a Raijor Dal leader, an Indian Institute of Management alumnus, for allegedly instigating villagers to resist excavation for a flood mitigation project. Farmers and members of the fishing community living around a network of wetlands, including Kenduguri Beel and Kawoimari Beel, have…