January 30, 2013 – Manipur News

Bad habit infiltrates every where

Hundreds of spectators were waiting for the international polo tournament to start the other day at the historic Imphal Pologround. The shade caused by the setting of the sun was extending eastward yet the match could not be started. Amidst the rapturous clapping of the crowd came the announcement “no matter whether the chief guest watches this game or not the match will be started because the game cannot be played when the sun had set in”. The chief guest came but after the game had ended the first chukker (a chukker lasts seven minutes). The functional president, who attended the function in time and had witnessed the uproar and anger of the crowd, might have asked him why he came late. Yesterday three day Bharat Nirman campaign organised by PIB in collaboration with other sister organisations began at mini conference hall at Thoubal DC complex. The invitation card indicated the starting time of the programme as 10.30 am but it started at 12. 30. Reason being the chief guest was not available and her deputy was assigned the task of gracing the occasion. Imagine the plight of the common people, who came at 10. They had wasted time sitting idle in the echo filled hall. The time wasted could have been used either in attending on ailing parents or in digging pond or nullah. Precious time was wasted without doing anything. When will our leaders realise that every function state level or village level is important. If they cannot attend a function in time question will arise where lies the necessity for these VIPs to light the candle to mark the inauguration of a function. A function can be held without lighting the candle and also without any VIP adoring the dais. If they will not be able to attend the function in time a culture will need to be evolved so that organiser can start a function by just reserving a seat or two for the VIP and the latter can occupy the seat when they come. Then the speaking style of the VIPs also needs to be reformed. They cannot waste time while speaking. They start their speech by mentioning the names of all present in the crowd and on the dais. Cannot they start the speech by addressing the crowd as ladies and gentlemen in the same manner English speaking people are doing? Imitating the VIPs the mediocre speakers also mention the names of the dignitaries present at the function. These verbose are wastage of time. Vivekananda was hailed when he started his speech addressing the Americans as brothers and sisters of America. He received unending claps for the opening words. If he mentioned the names of the religious leaders present on the occasion he would not have been remembered. Nevertheless the top executive and head of the state always keep time. They attend function at the right time. This is known to all organisers. Therefore any function attended by them starts in time. A lesson must be learnt from them. But who cares attitude is shown. This needs to be checked. The question arises who will do that? It is to be done by you and I. Do not attend the function, which does not start in time.

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Network of Agromet Service

Kalpana Palkhiwala
District-level agro-meteorological advisory service, providing a 5-day weather forecast for farmers, in 550 districts made operational by the India Meteorological Department is providing information through mobile to about 2,500,000 farmers for planning their agricultural activities.
The Agromet Advisory Services through various channels have resulted in significant increases in farm productivity, resulting in increased availability of food and higher income generation. It has helped the farmers not only in increasing their productions but also reducing their losses due to changing weather patterns and others problems. There is need to ensure that all farmers, small, marginal and big, are able to benefit from the Agromet Advisory Services.
At present about 15 percent of the farmers are benefitting from the SMS services and about 24 percent farmers are aware about Agromet services. The economic benefit of these services which has been estimated by NCAER at Rs.50,000 crores per year is extrapolated to rise to Rs.211,000 crores if the entire farming community in the country were to apply Agromet information to their agricultural activity.
Still no doubt there is a long way to go in not only increasing production but raising the income of farmers and reducing their losses and ultimately distress. It is a challenging task for the Government, IMD as well as the other stake holders to achieve this. However making use of IT and developments in the field of information technology transfer many new initiatives are in pipeline to far reach the AAS service by the IMD. Soon IMD will be launching spoken web service so that farmers across the country can soon get their agriculture and weather-related queries answered and it will also provide an interactive medium for the farming community which will be of great use to illiterate farmers who are not technologically equipped.
Dissemination
Disseminating agrometeorological information is part of a process that begins with scientific knowledge and understanding and ends with the evaluation of the information. The task of AAS is to provide information to help farmers make the best possible use of weather and climate resources. For a very long time programme like Krishi Darshan were the only source of information for farmers across the country. In the changing scenario and revolution IT sector the dissemination of information to farmers too is taking multi-channel routes. Good communication and working relationships mechanism have been set up under IAAS with the largest agricultural extension agencies in the country, network of Krishi Vigyan Kendras (Agriculture Science Centres), Kisan Call Centre etc., to promote participatory methods for interactions with farmers. Due care is being taken regarding content of the message which must be relevant to the weather based farm decision making by the farmer. This involves the identification of weather & climate sensitive decisions and interactions between the weather forecasters from meteorological Centres of IMD and the agriculture scientists from Agriculture Universities and Institutes of Indian Council of Agriculture Research to develop weather based advisories and technological decisions. Information is disseminated through multi-modes. It includes All India Radio, Doordarshan, Print Media (local news paper in different vernacular languages), internet as well as group and individual relationships through email, telephone etc. The use of media such as mobile, e-mail or the Internet by the farming community is on significant rise. SMS and voice messages on mobiles are the latest techniques to reach out to the farmers.
Of late encouraged by many State Governments Maharashtra, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Kerala, many private firms started disseminating advisories through SMS to the farming community under PPP mode. Like Reuter Market Light, Handygo, Vritti Solution, IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL) and Nokia are disseminating the agromet advisories through SMS and Interactive Voice over cell phone to farmers at 15 states namely Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh. State Department of Agriculture, Government of Maharashtra has taken an active role in disseminating advisory in local language through SMS to the farming community of Maharashtra. At present 2.8 million farmers are benefited by this service.
Awareness Programmne
As the interaction between the weather and agriculture is complex, it is not just a case of applying a simple solution and expecting the same to be implemented by the farmers. More targeted weather and climate information can increase preparedness and lead to better economic, social, and environmental outcomes for farmers. Given the current concerns with climate change and it’s impacts on crop productivity, there is an urgent need to sensitize the farmers about the projected climate change in their regions and the different adaptation strategies that can be considered to cope with the projected change. Hence, awareness process to understand the influence of weather and changing climate on sustainable agricultural production is an integral part of the service. Under IAAS, awareness programs for farmers highlight the farming community about the climate change and its impact on agriculture are being conducted. 76 such programs have been conducted across the country so far.
Feedback
Regular feedback from farmers, State Agricultural Departments and Agricultural Universities, ICAR and other related Institutes is being collected and processed for further improvement of services. Feedback informations are collected from Regional and stations of DD, AIR, and FM channels, Krishi Vigyan Kendras, ATMA, CSCs, NGOs, VRCs and VKCs and by participating in kisan melas and field visits. India Meteorological Department (IMD) in collaboration with AMFUs, SAUs, IITs etc., also published Agromet Brochure in 14 regional languages highlighting the activities of IAAS.
Impact Assessment
Impact assessment of weather forecast based agro-advisory service shows that in most of the cases use of AAS advisories resulted in decline in the
cost of cultivation up to 25% for the study crops. In some cases, cost of cultivation did increase up to 10% as a result of follow up action on AAS advisories, but this was more than offset by the consequent increase in net returns up to 83%, with a modal value of 20%. The major crops which benefited most from the use of AAS service are paddy, wheat, pearl millet and fruits and vegetables. This proves the usefulness of AAS advisories.
This also endorses the need for dissemination of Integrated Agro-Meteorological Advisory Service (IAAS) information to farmers on a wider scale and convincing them about its positive impacts on a sustainable basis. Equally important but the most challenging task would be to enhance the accuracy of weather forecast and to make the AAS more useful and demand-driven for the farm households
In spite of advances made in weather forecasting and operational agromet advisory services to the users, the real value in terms of offering right advice at right time to the farmers is somewhat lacking.
The integrated agromet advisory services was launched with a dream to provide real time crop and location specific agromet services up to village level is a long way not only in reducing weather and climate related risks in Agriculture but also promote scientific agriculture. Hence to overcome the hurdle in shortfall of observation, seamless weather forecast, manpower, real time information flow, Research and Development (R&D), dissemination etc., IMD proposes to extend this service to block level by developing block level forecast and advisories using satellite and remote sensing data, establishment of District agromet field unit, assist various research organization by providing online agromet data and creating a Centre for Research and Excellence in Agrometeorology (CREAM) at Pune during the XIIth Five Year Plan and thereby reaching the target upto village. (PIB Feature.)

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Counter insurgency school, Vairengte (Mizoram) awarded Unit Citation

AIZAWL, Jan 30 NNN: Training and research establishment of the Indian Army, the Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJW) in Vairengte in Mizoram, which is one of the premier counter-insurgency training institutions in the world, has been awarded with Unit Citation for its meritorious contributions to the Indian Army.
Lieutenant General K Surendranath PVSM, AVSM, VSM, General Officer Commanding in Chief conferred the Unit Citation today to the CIJW School, in recognition of its meritorious contributions in enhancing training ethos of the Indian Army. The Award was received by the Commandant, Major General Rajeshwar Singh, SM, in a short function held at Nair Hall in the CIJW School premises this morning.
The Army Commander lauded the efforts of the school for its invaluable contributions towards nation building, imparting time tested specialized counter terrorism skills, constantly updating training methodology & training infrastructure so as to impart best possible training across the globe to combat the multifaceted prolonged and invisible war. The Army Commander also said that the award is meant, not for the past, but rather for enhancing better service in the future. Appreciating its invaluable service in the last 42 years, he also wished and urged that the training school may continue to be a great asset for the nation and be an excellent one in the world.
Lieutenant General K Surendranath, while interacting with the training troops after the award function, asked about the training system, to which the soldiers from different foreign countries, replied that the training being imparted to them in CIJW School is excellent.
In reply to media query, one of the trainees from Bhutan said their training is for 8 months duration; and they got the opportunity as provided by the Indian Government. And, the present training units includes from Bhutan, Myanmar, Fiji, UK, Nepal and others. He also expressed his satisfaction over the training imparted to them. CIJW School has hosted visiting military units for training from the United States, Nepal, Bhutan, Russia, United Kingdom, Israel, France, Bangladesh and many other nations.
Meanwhile, in a press communique, the CIJW School said, “The Indian Army has been battling the scourge of insurgency/terrorism for a prolonged period. The CIJW School is functioning as Indian Army’s nodal agency for imparting training in Sub Conventional Operations. The school has been doing a yeoman service to the Nation by imparting training on counter insurgency aspects to the Indian Army as well as to CAPFs. This has enabled the Security forces to conduct successful counter insurgency operations with minimal causalities to own troops and avoiding collateral damage. Large Number of Foreign Armies are seeking training their contingents at CIJW School. The training imparted at the School has empowered the soldiers of the Indian Army as well as CAPF and even those from Friendly Foreign Armies to meet almost all the challenges posed in insurgency infested areas.”
The Award conferment function, attended by Army officials and soldiers that filled the hall with delighted spirit, ended with light delicious refreshment in front of the hall.
CIJW was established in 1967 as the Jungle Training School. It was initially located in Mynkre, near Jowal in Jainta Hills district of Meghalaya. In 1968, the designation was changed to Eastern Command Counter Insurgency Training School. On 1 May 1970, it was upgraded to a Category A Training Establishment of the Indian Army, given its current name and relocated to Vairengte, Mizoram.
The reputation of the CIJWS lies in the fact that the training module is framed in a highly scientific manner – soldiers receive training in identifying improvised explosives devices (IED), jungle survival, counter terrorism, and interrogation techniques. The training focuses on physical fitness, reflex firing techniques and tactical lessons. The module for training is practical oriented with number of lectures, discussions, case studies, sand model exercises & outdoor exercises.
Taking into account the successes in combating militancy to a great extent, New Delhi in 2001 threw the school at Vairengte open for soldiers from other countries with three US army officers being the first overseas batch to be trained. After the 9/11 terror strikes in the US the jungle warfare school at Vairengte began attracting military cadets from across the world. In 2003, a group of about 100 elite US commandos completed a three-week anti-insurgency combat training at the institute. France, UK, Israel and Italy are the latest have sought India’s help to train their soldiers in counter-insurgency operations at this elite facility. CIJW School presently trains over 7000 officers and soldiers every year. The school’s motto is to “fight the guerrilla like a guerrilla”.

Youth exhibition held at DC office

Mail News Service
Imphal, Jan 30 : The two days Youth Exhibition (Yuva Kriti) organised by Nehru Yuva Kendra Imphal at DRDA Hall,Imphal West D.C.Office Complex,Lamphelpat was inaugurated by Prof. N. Mohendro Singh, Former Member, Steering Committee, NE Vision 2020 and Dr. Kh. Somorendro Singh Director,ICM Imphal on the 30th January,2013. 30 stalls for handlooms,handicrafts and food items were being exhibited in the Yuva Kriti. . Jackie Ruivah, Zonal Director, NYKS presided over the inaugural function. In his key note address Y. Laksman Singh, Dist. Youth Co-ordinator NYK Imphal pointed out the guidelines of Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangthan. The main objective of the programme was to provide opportunity to the talented youths to showcase their traditional skills such as traditional arts, crafts, handlooms, handicrafts and food items prepared and produced by the youth Clubs,SHGs and the young artisans.
In his address to the youths Dr. Kh. Somorendro Singh Director ICM, Imphal announced that the Yuva Kriti organised by NYK Imphal is a success. Prof. N. Mohendro Singh, advised the young artisans to develop skills and the personality so that they will be answerable about their products. Production and learning go together. As such the exhibitors should be customer friendly. Mrs.Jackie Ruivah, Zonal Director, NYKS appreciated the efforts made by NYK Imphal for organising the Yuva Kriti in a befitting manner.

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Thangal sports meet held

SENAPATI, Jan 30 NNN: Brig. S.K Sharma, Commander 59th Mountain Brigade as the chief guest and Senapati District Olympic Association president T. Robert Maram as guest of honor graced the grand finale of the 4th edition of the General Thangal Memorial Sports Meet, 2013 organized by United Thangal Sports Association (UTSA) at Mayangkhang village ground in Senapati district.
Attended by village leaders, social organizations, a large crowd and football enthusiasts the memorial trophy concluded with praises and laurels. The event witnessed one of the finest local footballing fest for boys and volley ball for girls which were represented by 11 Thangal tribe villages. In the finals, prominent football powerhouse village Tumuyoan Khullen won the coveted memorial trophy defeating Makeng Cheijinba Village by 3-0 margin. Worngam of the champion team won the best player award while Lucky son from MCYC won the best goalkeeper title. The women’s volleyball championship was won by Ningthoupham girls defeating Makeng Cheijinba Village girls.
Encouraging the youths to involve in sports and tap its resourceful talents, Brigadier Sharma stated that, physical fitness along with mental works is an important essence of a healthy living. The army commander also spoke on the employment opportunities in recent times provided by the State and Center Government through paramilitary recruitment. Based on the memorandum submitted by the host club, the Army officer assured to consider constructing a youth hall cum guest house at Mayankhang village.

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National Canoe Sprint Championship

MNS:- Governor, Gurbhachan Jagat today inaugurated 23rd National Canoe Sprint Championship, 2012-13 at the newly developed Water Sports Complex at Komlakhong. Addressing the function he said, “Canoeing and Kayaking is a fairly new sport in Manipur with the Association formed in 1995. But during the short period, it has been able to produce about 33 International paddlers besides five National coaches. This shows that the Association is active and works hard towards the development of the sport in the State. We now have two water sports complex, one at Takmu and one here. As developing and maintaining such complexes are costly, I wonder whether Manipur can sustain the two complexes. However, I hope that the facilities available are fully utilised by the Association and the paddlers.
He congratulated the State Association for their efforts in organizing this Championship and and thanked the National Federation for awarding this Championship to Manipur. He expressed good wishes to the Chairman of the Organising Committee, Dr. Kh. Ratankumar Singh, Minister (Works & Transport) and his team for the initiative and the onerous responsibility of not only developing this Complex but also for acquiring new boats and paddles for this Championship.
This Championship, is being participated in by about 700 paddlers from about 20 teams and for Manipur it is no easy thing to provide accommodation to them. He said sufficient accommodations is provided so that the paddlers can concentrate on the competition. Manipur, because of its location, does not have much opportunity to conduct National level Championships, but this year this is the third discipline in which Manipur has conducted National Level Championships. He thanked all the participants for their coming to Manipur to compete. It must be realized that any team from Manipur has to travel the tiring journey for every competition held. Spreading the championships across the country provides an avenue for the sportspersons to know every part of the country, which will bring better understanding among different communities. This championship, he hoped will provide an impetus to our young paddlers and motivation to specialize in canoeing and kayaking and will also attract more youth towards this sport. As everyone is aware, the field of sports has become very competitive and every discipline has to compete with other disciplines not only for spectators but also for competitors. Some games have large followings, but other games are also growing at a fast pace. The objective is to attract more for better competition, leading even to amendments to the rules to make it more competitive and attractive.Works minister Ratankumar also made a speech at the function. He said, “My connection with Canoeing and Kayaking dates back to 2009 when the first state Canoeing and Kayaking Championship was organized.”
He said, since then, he had been the chairman of all the state championships.
“I have thrilled with this adventurous and Olympic sport. I dream of this sport to bring in this lesser known part of the famous Loktak Lake, the largest fresh water lake of Northeast India.”
He said driving forces behind his dreams were T Dushanta Singh, organising secretary of the 23rd National Canoe Sprint Championship, IS Bindra, former president, IKCA and BS Khushawa, secretary general, IKCA.

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Centre’s plan is to keep people’s health sound

Mail News Service
Imphal, Jan 30 : The Government of India’s plan is to keep the people’s health sound, that is why the government is spending huge amount of money on Total Sanitation Campaign, said L. Swamikanta, Director, Communication and Capacity Development Unit (CCDU), Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Manipur.
Speaking on Total Sanitation Campaign during the Bharat Nirman Public Information Campaign at the Mini Secretariat Hall in Thoubal district today, Swamikanta further said that every household should have a low cost sanitary toilet. Such a simple toilet can be constructed at the cost of just about Rs 10,000. The CCDU bears Rs 4000 and the Gram Panchayat should contribute about Rs 6000 to construct an ordinary sanitary toilet.
Through film slides, the CCDU Director showed how to construct simple and easy toilet.
He said, Manipur has abundance of rainfall. The annual rainfall in Manipur is about 15 centimeter. However, there is complete drought of the concept of rain water harvesting in Manipur.
Calling upon the audience comprising largely students from the nearby schools, the Director said, God has given the people of Manipur an abundance of rainwater. “We should collect and store up the rainwater by using easily available methods. We should not waste the rainwater.”He also demonstrated various methods for harvesting rain water through the film slides. He showed some chemicals used in testing the rainwater whether the water contains iron and lead, etc. He said , the Department is considering to distribute the chemical kits, which cost a little over Rs 2000 to the schools and the Gram Panchayats in Thoubal district to encourage rain water harvesting.
Swamikanta told the students to wash their hands properly before having food. Calling a few students upon the stage, the resource person demonstrated how dirty their hands were by washing their hands with a glass of water into a plastic bucket. Then he asked the students to drink the dirty water, but the students refused saying that the water was dirty. Thus the resource person could easily convince the large number of students that dirty hands carry a lot of germs. Having food without washing your hands means consuming the germs. The students went home convinced.
L. Ibomcha SE Rural Circle No. 1 PHED Manipur speaking on the second day of the Bharat Nirman campaign held at the Mini Secretariat conference hall at Thoubal DC complex said one must use safe drinking water to keep oneself in good health and added that 40 percent of the diseases prevalent can be controlled by using safe drinking water.
He also said drinking water supply is an important flagship programme. Total sanitation and supply of drinking water are the two main missions of the flagship programme. He stressed the need for both centre and state Governments going together for the successful implementation of the two programmes.
Plans are afoot to provide drinking water to all the villages in Thoubal district. A website has been launched and by visiting the site one can know the area covered by rural water supply scheme. He also said village water supply committees have been formed which can ensure regular supply of drinking water to problem villages. Each committee will have not less than two members in charge of each scheme. Engineers of the PHED will teach appointed members of the committees on how to mix chemicals in the water and laying of pipes. The rate of tax varies according to the number of population of the villages. Villages having not less than 2000 villagers will pay less tax than those having only 300 villagers.
PHED will extend help in maintenance of the water supply scheme in case of calamities and major damages occurring but for minor damages the repairing must be done by committee themselves.
On the second day of the campaign a free medical camp was also organized. More than 200 persons received medical treatment and medicines free of cost.

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Mgnregs Can Improve Standard Of Living Of Poor

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Imphal, Jan 30 : Angam Karuang Kom, Block Development Officer, Kakching CD Block today said that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) can improve the standard of living of the poor people in the rural areas thereby improving the economy of the nation.
Kom was speaking as a resource person on the second day of the three day Bharat Nirman Public Information Campaign being held at the Mini Secretariat Hall, DC Complex, Thoubal under the aegis of PIB Imphal.
Speaking on MGNREGS, Kom reminded the audience that included a large number of students that the Scheme first introduced in 2005. The Scheme was implemented in 200 districts in the country for the first time on the 2nd February, 2006. Manipur’s Tamenglong district was included in the first phase. In the second phase, 130 districts were selected for implementation of the Scheme. Churachandpur and Senapati districts were included in the second phase. The third phase which was implemented on the 1st April, 2008 covered all the remaining districts of the country.
He said, the most important feature of MGNREGS is the guarantee of 100 days of employment to every household in the rural areas. Today, the Scheme is being implemented in Thoubal district in letter and spirit.
All the works taken up under the Scheme are recommended by the Gram Sabha which, as a rule, holds its annual meeting on every 2nd October. However, if necessary, the meeting of the Gram Sabha may be held twice or thrice in a year. Once the Gram Sabha has recommended , the works cannot be cancelled by anybody including the MLAs.
Kom said that in other states, all the works of Gram Panchayat are carried out by the Gram Panchayat. But in Manipur, it is not so due to various factors.
Md. Sirajur Rehman Asstt project Officer DRDO Thoubal, who spoke on Indira Awas Yojna on the second day of the Bharat Nirman campaign today held at Mini Secretariat conference hall at Thoubal DC complex said IAY was started to provide houses to the poor people. Beneficiaries should be from amongst SC/ST, minority communities and BPL families.
He said the framers of the policy knew that 83 percent of the country’s population live in rural area of which 73 percent are homeless. IAY envisages to provide houses to all these homeless people of the country, he also said.
The fund allotted for construction of houses under IAY too had been increased. 75 percent of the fund is borne by the centre and 25 percent by the state.
But in NE region the state share is only 10 percent 90 percent is borne by the centre. Fund flow is not a problem. Funds are released in time and the implementing agencies readily hand over the amount to the selected beneficiaries.
He said the list of beneficiaries under IAY is framed by gram panchayats at rural areas. The selection list is displayed at the office of the gram panchayat. Nobody can interfere in the selection of beneficiaries. Old widow, spinsters, victims of atrocities are considered on priority basis in the selection of beneficiaries.
He also said, fund for construction of houses are released in phased manner after seeing the progress of the work. The houses constructed under IAY will also get free electricity connection under RGVY.
He informed the gathering that in Thoubal District in 2012-13, 262 houses could be constructed under IAY.
At the end of the session the expert speaker put questions to the listeners. Those who could give correct answers were given prizes.

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Body found

A dead body of a youth was found floating in the Imphal river near Lilong Arapti Awang Leikai this morning around 7.30 a.m.
The victim was identified as Md. Ifajuddin alias Naha Ibungo (30) of Lilong Leihaokhong. He went missing for seven days. The body wore injuries in the head and ear. Meanwhile a vehicle lifter was beaten to death while stealing a motorcycle this early morning.
The deceased was identified as Md. Nasir alias Tachou (38) Lilong Haoreibi Makha Leikai. Reports said Nasir was beaten to death by a mob after he was reportedly caught red handed by locals while trying to steal a R15 motorcycle at Lilong Kabui Chobok village. However, his two alleged accomplices managed to flee. The incident happened around 2:30 am.

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Girl raped

MNS: A minor girl belonging to Scheduled Caste communities of Kakching was allegedly raped in Thoubal district. According to the source reaching to North East Support Centre & Helpline that a 17 years girl was kidnapped by four men, who was accompanied by three other men, came in a red colour Maruti Van on January 25, 2013 at around 1:30 PM from Kakching. She was raped.
A Fact Finding Team, led by Mr. Madhu Chandra, Spokesperson of North East Support Centre and Helpline and Rev. N Debendra Singh, the member of Manipur Station Minorities Commission after hearing the report rushed to the victim. The fact-finding team went to Kakching police station to register FIR against the charges of kidnapping, seducing and raping a minor girl. Kakching police has registered a FIR No. 14/2013 against the charges of Kidnapping, Seducing and raping a minor girl.
The victim is the member of Scheduled Casts community of Kakching the accused and his colleagues to be booked under Scheduled Caste/Schedule Tribe Prevention of Atrocity Act 1989.

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Day: January 30, 2013

Bad habit infiltrates every where

Network of Agromet Service

Counter insurgency school, Vairengte (Mizoram) awarded Unit Citation

Youth exhibition held at DC office

Thangal sports meet held

National Canoe Sprint Championship

Centre’s plan is to keep people’s health sound

Mgnregs Can Improve Standard Of Living Of Poor

Body found

Girl raped

Ati Vishist Seva medal for Maj Gen Konsam Himalaya

State Minorities Commission discovers boy who put legs on head

State observes Martyrs’ day

Child labour thrives despite legislation

‘Militarism’ spikes UID campaign in State

Contractor locks electricity office over nonclearance of bills

AMCO initiates peace process UCM, AMUCO avers

Vehicle lifter beaten to death

Whole of Greater Imphal is now Silent Zone

Minor girl kidnapped and raped in Kakching