Why Assam Forensic Science Dept. lagging behind in lab up-gradation race?
A section of school teachers, under plan category in the state are demanding to the authorities concerned that they should be absorbed under non-plan category. Ironically, the Science Department of the State is on the other hand urging the State Government to convert its non-plan budgetary expenditure into plan expenditure. “The full-fledged office of the Forensic Science Department, here is the only one of its kind in the entire North-east. However, Manipur and Meghalaya are the other two states in the region where offices of the department have been started recently. Thus, the Forensic Science Department, an important wing of the State police Department, has been playing an important role in investigating into crimes in the investigation of about 1,500 crime cases per annum,” said Dr Kamaleswar Goswami, former Director of the department. At present, the office has ten departmental sections, such as, General Chemical Analysis, Narcotic, Drugs & psychiatric, Toxicology, Explosives, Gen
