Day: July 3, 2012

Aizawl, July 3 NNN: The Hmar Students’ Association (HSA) today demanded that the Government of Mizoram stops segregating the Hmar peoples.
In a memorandum submitted to the Mizoram government, Hmar students’ body reacted to the direction of state government of Mizoram to take measures not to allot/issue house pass/site to the ‘Hmar refugees’; measures to segregate them from the local population and not to issue job cards under MGNREGS to the Hmars in Mizoram and measures be taken not to enroll the Hmar refugees in the ensuing Special Revision of Electoral Roll, 2012 in Mizoram.
The memorandum stated that Vanhela Pachuau, Chief Secretary, Government of Mizoram along with officials from various departments convened a meeting on October 20, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. and derived a segregationist resolution under Memo No. D. 32020/24/2010-HMS dt. 21.11.2011, which was directed to the Hmar tribe, one of the Mizo tribes of Mizoram. According to the minutes of the meeting, R. Lalremsanga, Under Secretary to the Government of Mizoram, Home Department was directed by the government to take necessary actions against the Hmar tribe on mentioned above points.
“The order, by ostracizing the Hmar tribe, spelt out measures to deny the community of their constitutional and citizenship rights. It stands against the rightful interests of a community whose rights and entitlement cannot be suppressed by a bias and unjust order. The insensitive order is detrimental to the unity and integration of the Mizos; it stands opposed to the collective interests of the same and negates the Hmar tribe of their fundamental rights. The assented order is parallel to the Nuremberg Laws that was dictated by Adolf Hitler under the Nazis,” said the memorandum. The memorandum further stated that the Hmar peoples cannot be “refugees” in Mizoram; and shall never be.
“We mould and built Mizoram with our blood and sacrifices. The sacrifices of our forefathers should not be negated by few narrow minded policy makers to serve their selfish end. Our forefathers have founded and named many of the villages and towns of Mizoram after various Hmar clans much before the colonial and imperial invasion that survive till today. The Hmars are a major tribe in Mizoram. Despite that, the attempt, on the part of the government and its institutions, to “segregate”, seclude and suppressed the Hmar peoples’ and their rights shall not be received in silence. We shall not tolerate the insulting order that has already dehumanise us. We stand with our rights and entitlement to secure the future of the Hmar peoples’ with respect and dignity; we shall not be alienated from them,” the Hmar students’ memorandum pointed out.

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New Delhi, July 3 : The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Joint General Manager-I)(A Brigadier-level Officer) of Central Stores Depot(CSD), Mumbai in an on-going investigation of alleged bribery case.
The arrested accused was produced today before the Special Judge, Mumbai and was remanded to CBI custody till 05.07.2012.
During the initial investigation, it is further revealed that the Joint General Manager-I(Brigadier level Officer) also had allegedly accepted Rs.7.5 lacs from Mumbai-based private firm supplying consumer products for taking favourable decision at various stages such as introduction of items, price revision, and issue of supply orders. It was also revealed that the accused allegedly invested ill-gotten money in Real Estate at Panchkula.
The instant case was earlier registered on the information that the said private firm allegedly acted as marketing arm and representative of number of companies against the policy laid by CSD. The firm through its Director & officials of CSD entered into criminal conspiracy with each other and in furtherance of the said conspiracy manipulated various demands of CSD items of firm in favour of the clients.The CSD officials allegedly favoured the firm at various stages in CSD such as Introduction of
items, price revision, delayed & excess supply, demand creation, budget allocation etc. In lieu of favourable decisions, the firm through it Director had allegedly paid huge illegal gratification regularly to officials of CSD.
The CBI had earlier arrested another Joint General Manager, CSD (under Ministry of Defence), Head Office, Mumbai; a Director of a Mumbai based private firm supplying consumers products and two other private persons on 30.06.2012 in this case.The arrested accused are presently in police custody.
Further investigation is continuing.
The accused arrested on 02.07.12 is Bridadier Anuj Kainthla, Joint General Manager-I, CSD, Mumbai.
The accused arrested on 30.06.12 are, Bikas Ranjan Daschaudhary, Joint General Manager, CSD, Head Office, Mumbai; Milind Govilkar, Director of M/s. Sankalp Consumers Products Pvt. Ltd; Vilas Harer, a private person & Manohar Vibhute, a private person.

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Shillong, July 3 NNN:  In the spirit of Public Private Partnership (PPP), a three week workshop on ‘Teaching Khasi to Non-Khasi Speakers’ got underway at the Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Culture (DBCIC), Mawlai organized in collaboration with the Department of Linguistics, North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) and Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore.
The workshop was inaugurated on Tuesday by the Vice Chancellor of NEHU, Prof AN Rai.
In his Inaugural address Prof. Rai said, “We need to enjoy and love the learning of language as this will help us to appreciate the culture of the people.”
Basing on his life experiences he shared with the audience the importance of the learning of a language. He spoke of an unstructured formula that was needed in the learning of language.
“There is no structured formula to learn a language, unstructured way of conversation quickens our learning capacity of speaking and conversing a language,” he said.Fr. Barnes Mawrie, an expert in the Khasi language and culture was the Guest of Honour for the inaugural session. In his speech he stressed on the importance of learning a language and Khasi in particular. He encouraged the participants to make use of the opportunity to learn Khasi.
He said, “The learning of Khasi will help you in your day to day conversation.”
Dean School of Humanities, NEHU, Prof. Juanita War, in her observation of language learning said that language learning involves risk taking. By giving the anecdote of a child who imitates the teacher in the learning process, Prof. War was able to draw the attention of the participants on the need to be guided in the learning of a new language.
HOD, Linguistics, NEHU, Dr. Umarani Papuswamy, designed the classes with the help of the team of teachers. In her speech she underlined the importance of learning the language well.
She encouraged the participants to make use of the opportunity given to them. With the help of qualified teachers from the university, Dr Umarani was full of confidence that the participants will enjoy and gain from the workshop. She encourages the participants the best in the learning of the Khasi language.
Earlier, Director of DBCIC, Rev Fr. Joseph Puthenpurakal, welcomed the gathering and said that the generous and hard working spirit seen in the planning of this workshop will lead every participant to gain from it.

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