[Assam] NSUI extends financial aid to IAS aspirants (The Assam Tribune, 27.08.2007)

[Buljit Buragohain]

NSUI extends financial aid to IAS aspirants
By A City Reporter
 GUWAHATI, Aug 26 – In connection with the celebration of 63rd birth anniversary of the former Prime Minister late Rajiv Gandhi, the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), extended a helping hand to ten Indian Administrative Service preliminary qualifiers from the State. 

In a programme, held at the Bishnu Nirmala Library in the city, cheques of Rs thirty thousand were distributed among the IAS candidates in order to help them in their preparations for the main examinations. 

Later, in an interactive programme with the candidates, HN Das, former chief secretary of Assam, shared his experiences as an IAS from the State. Das asked the candidates to utilise the facilities available nowadays in order to do well in IAS examinations. Anil Goswami, former principal, Cotton College and Noni Gopal Mahanta of Gauhati University also encouraged the students to do well in their examinations. Bibhuti Bhushan Borthakur, president of the State NSUI presided over the meeting. 

The candidates getting financial aid from the NSUI are Papori Konwar from Dhemaji, Padma Pani Bora from Jorhat, Biswa Pegu from Dhemaji, Raktim Saikia from Guwahati, Sabyasachi Kashyap from Guwahati, Siladitya Chetia from Guwahati, Nayan Jyoti Nath from Biswanath Chariali, Pritam Dutta from Biswanath Chariali, Bidyut Medhi from Abhayapuri and Ashique Zaman from South Salmara. 

“All the candidates were present on the occasion and most of them came from New Delhi to receive the aid,” said Borthakur.

   
  (The Assam Tribune,27.08.2007)



       
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