September 12, 2013 – Manipur News

Imphal: Bomb blast kills five, injures five others

Five persons were killed and as many injured when a powerful bomb exploded at Nagamapal area in Imphal West district of Manipur on Friday evening, police sources said.

VWSC to operate water supply schemes in Tamenglong

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Imphal, Sept 12: The Village Water Sanitation Committees (VWSC) have formed to operate and maintain the water supplies programmes and sanitation programmes in their respective villages in the Tamenglong district.
This was stated by GaijinglungThaimei, Assistant Engineer, Public Health Engineer department (PHED) Tamenglong on Thursday during the technical session on the second day of the undergoing three days Bharat Nirman Public Information Campaign about the flagship programs of the Central government at Tamenglong headquarters.
So far VWSC have been formed and engaged for the water supplies programmes and sanitation programms in 28 villages of the hill district, says GaijinglungThaimei,Assistant Engineer of PHED.More than 100 villages have also applied for the said programmes where the department will provide most of the required materials and equipment for the purpose.
The said VWSC will also monitor the maintenance of the water supplies besides overseeing the water security in their respective villages,he added.
“It is not enough to tape water from any available source for drinking purposes as it need to treated first”, Assistant Engineersaid.
He also informed that the department has started to implement National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRWP) with a targeted water supply of 55 litres per head per day within the radius of 100 meter of the said water supply schemes.
He said that 80 per cent of the disease in the world is water borne diseases due to lack of water sanitation and 13 million people in a year due to water born disease.
The best way to maintain the water security is to preserve forest in the water catchment area. Ten years back water was available in plentiful at Duigailong but now scarcity of water is well known to everyone. Another method to have drinking water sustainable in Tamenglong is to harvest rain water and construct check dam,the officer felt.

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New maternity scheme IGMSY introduced in Tamenglong

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Imphal, Sept 12: For the first time in Manipur, a new monetary benefit program for the pregnant mothers has been introduced in Tamenglong district.
The new scheme called Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY), a conditional maternity scheme was introduced under Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) to provide monetary help to the pregnant women after it was launched on March 14,2011, according to Child Development Project Officer M Memcha Devi of Social Welfare Department, Tamenglong.
Project Officer M Memcha Devi was speaking during the technical session of second day of 3 day Bharat Nirman Public Information Campaign at Town Baptist Church hall in Tamenglong district head quarter today.
Press Information Bureau, Government of India, Imphal organised the campaign in collaboration with its sister Offices in Manipur and District administration of Tamenglong.
The Tamenglong district administration has even started to provide beneficiaries in most sub-divisons, says Project Officer M Memcha Devi.
As per the IGMSY scheme, the government provides Rs 4000 in cash on an instalment basis in three phases of pregnancy-pre-natal,natal and post natal period. The cash awards were deposited to the bank accounts of the concerned pregnant mothers, she added.
A total of 550 Anganwadi workers along with 488 Anganwadi helpers were working across the 550 Anganwadi centres and 62 mini Anganwadi centres, she said. About 158 Anganwadi centres were constructed including 34 in Tamenglong centre 38 in Tamei in Tamenglong district.So far 3077 pregnant mothers and 3025 nursing mothers have been given the benefits of the scheme,she added.
Though the ICDS, a centrally sponsored scheme implemented through the state governments to reach the unreached in each and every habitation of the country by improving nutritional and health status of children below 6 years of age and pregnant women and lactating mothers, was launched on October 2, 1975 with 33 projects across the country on an experimental basis under the Ministry of women and child development, it was first launched in Ukhrul district in Manipur.
The scheme was implemented in Manipur with 42 projects. Similarly it was implemented in Tamenglong with 5 ICDS projects since January 1, 1983.

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11,000 Sanitary toilets constructed in Tamenglong

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Imphal, Sept 12: A total of around 11,000 individual household toilets out of targeted 13000 toilets have been constructed across the 171 villages and 269 habitations in Tamenglong under the under central government sponsored Nirman Bharat Abhiyan(NBA) scheme. Besides another 212 more toilets for schools and 50 community toilets were also constructed.
Assistant Engineer Gaijinglung Thaimei of Public Engineering Department, Government of Manipur informed this while giving a presentation as a resource person on Nirman Bharat Abhiyan on the second day of 3 day Bharat Nirman Public Information Campaign at Town Baptist Church(TBC) hall in Tamenglong district head quarter today. Press Information Bureau, Government of India, Imphal organised the campaign in collaboration with its sister offices in Manipur and district administration Tamenglong.
The step to provide is being taken up under the initiatives of the centre’s NBA schemeto stop open defecation and also to live neat and clean for a healthy society, he added. “Now we can see the quality life in parts of Tousem sub-division as well.”
To create more awareness, the government also introduced the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) since 1999 under NBA scheme as part of intensifying the Information Education and Communication initiatives in the district.
“We’ve also started to institute Nirman Gram Puraskar(NGP), an award for the Open Defecation Free(ODF)villages,”he informed.“Three villages of Tamenglong have applied for the NGP award this year, the official added. The villages are Taobum,Longchai and Kamanga Khasi.”
It may be noted that Manipur has so far produced two gram panchayat villages which have received the NGP awards in the recent past. Thus the two villages Maklang and Utlou villages in Manipur’s Imphal West and Bishnupur districts become ODF villages and cleanest villages in the state.
Interestingly Magic shows and entertainment programmes by song and drama division also enthralled the gathering as fillers. Many residents of Tamenglong have thronged the TBC hall to get the health care facilities during the free health camp which was organised as part of the on-going campaign.

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Pot holes

Pot holes at Waheng Leikai and the ones near AIR entry point to name a few are really dangerous. The simple question is why these pot holes cannot be filled up? Whose orders these engineers are waiting for? Do not state PWD have funds for repairing roads? This question is being raised now. The quality of the road is dismal. At Lamphel the roads were under the flood water. The newly black topped roads will have the black cover peeled off when the flood waters have run away. Black topping at such road running at low lying areas is wastage of money. What is needed to be done at such road is raising its level. Our engineers are advised not to recommend black topping of the road, which are prone to flood. The amount spent in black topping can be used in raising the level of road. The roads can be black topped after it has gained respectable height. That way the quality of the road will improve. But it happens in some areas the level of roads is raised repeatedly unnecessarily. That is also wastage of public money. If the main roads are full with pot holes one can imagine what is happening at the lanes and by lanes. Why it happens? Our elected representatives are to be blamed for it. They have not supervised the condition of the roads in their constituency. If they supervise they will be able to tell the PWD where it has gone wrong. On the eve of elections they went with folded hands pleading for support and making false promise that if they are through in the election they would do whatever they can to bring a change in the constituency. Nothing has changed. These elected representatives think the responsibility of repairing or improving a road lies what the Government. What they do not attempt to know is that they are also part and parcel of the Government, whose voice is seriously heard by the men in direct charge of the roads. The gap between the ruled and rulers are also widening. The simple people do not think of going to the residence of elected representatives to demand repairing of roads or nullah. If any one of them moves to their residence it is for getting personal and direct benefit. Always remember the representatives who pay scant attention on the improvement of roads and nullahs are always rejected by the voters when elections are held. These roads and nullahs are faces of our representatives. It is spoilt.

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AR reaches out

16 Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ 10 Sector Assam Rifles of HQ IGAR (S) organised an interactive session with the Village Headmen and Secretaries of Tangkhul Villages at Shangshak with an aim to increase the level of cooperation and mutual understanding between Assam Rifles and the local populace. During the session, exchange of thoughts regarding the introduction of community hall development projects, provision of solar lights and computers for schools were put fwd. A total of 105 people from the neighbouring Tangkhul villages participated and it was followed by a musical session, light refreshments and lunch. The villagers were glad as they got an apt forum to project their points and also recommended more such kind of events to be organised in the future. In another endeavour of reaching out to the local populace, 18 SIKH of 9 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of IGAR(S) conducted ‘SHRAM DAN’ alongwith the managing committee of ISKCON Temple, Imphal and the locals from the nearby villages. The exercise was aimed to assist the temple committee in the preparation for the forthcoming festive season which shall witness a number of programmes being organised.

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Bamboo threatened by Chinese products

IMPHAL, Sep 12 NNN : Indian bamboo industry is constantly threatened by China as the country exports as much as 260 loads of raw incense sticks to India each day, said South Asia Bamboo Foundation, Guwahati on Thursday.
SABF, Guwahati founder executive director informed this while participating in the opening function of a three-day seminar on “Indigenous Bamboo and Cane Culture in Manipur” at Anthropology Department, Manipur University here.
In his speech, Kamesh said that China exports 260 loads of raw bamboo incense sticks to India on daily basis and this has posed a serious threat to the Indian bamboo industry.
He said in India, bamboo production is still underdeveloped due to stigma and lack of full-time workers and these two factors apart, artisans are undervalued.
China has become a major bamboo furniture producing country in the world today because its artisans are full-time workers and simultaneously it is trying to dominate the world market, he said. He said it is the right hour the Indian Government take steps to tackle this problem especially in NE region that has the 56 percent of bamboo trees grown in the country.
The seminar is being roganised by the Manipur University’s Anthropology Department under the sponsorship of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal.

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Night road block protest to demand ILP introduction

SHILLONG, Sept 12 NNN : The ‘night road block’ in Meghalaya has entered the third night tonight imposed by prominent civil and student organisations of Meghalaya demanding the implementation of Inner Line Permit (ILP) system in the state.
Khasi Students Union (KSU), FKJGP, HNYF, Garo Students Union (GSU), JSSU, CSWO, KWWADA, ADE and RBYF have been spearheading the demand for the Inner Line Permit in the state.
Meanwhile, fourteen of the twenty-two villages Rangbah Shnongs or headmen under the Umroi area in Ri-Bhoi district have extended their support to the pro ILP activists in their fight for the implementation of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) into the state. The Rangbah Shnong, however also want that the government should come up with a ‘Registration Act’ rather than the proposed ‘Tenancy Act’ apart from the ILP to tackle illegal influx into the state.
Umroi Umdohbyrthi headman Pynwanbor Sylliang told reporters during a press conference said majority of the village heads of Umroi area have
unanimously decided to support the demand put forth by the ten ngos for the introduction of the ILP in the state.
Sylliang informed over 14 village heads out of the 22 villages under Umroi area attended the meeting.Ten organisations have started their second phase of agitation across the state to pressurize the state government that the state government must implement the ILP.
Stating that there is a need to preserve the identity of our indigenous people, Sylliang said, “We have also decided to introduce registration offices in the different village to verify the credentials of the people coming from outside to work in the area right from labourers to office workers.” He informed that such people will be directed to register themselves with the respective dorbar shnongs.
Sylliang felt this exercise will further help to keep check inflow of outsiders into the state.”
Quoting the chief minister Mukul Sangma who recently said that there are other mechanisms which are more effective than the ILP, Umroi Umdohbyrthi former headmen LR Lyngkhoi said, “We strongly rejected the statement made by the chief minister when the situation in the state is quite serious.”Lyngkhoi said the everyone doubt that the proposed State Tenancy Act which the state government claims it is better than the ILP will address the issue of influx.” According to him the Tenancy Act will only protect and safeguard the tenants instead of the indigenous people.
Lyngkhoi however suggested that the government needs to revisit the tenancy act and instead replace it with a registration act. He said more than the tenancy rules the state must be equipped with a mechanism that will ensure that all people coming from outside get themselves registered with the government involving the traditional institutions as part of the process.
“Registration is important as this will deter outsiders to over stay and it will also help in reducing crimes,” Lyngkhoi stated.
Meanwhile, the village heads also expressed their resentment on the centralization of powers by the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) which in turned has worsen up the situation in the state. “We demand the KHADC being the custodian of customary laws to safeguard tribal lands to decentralize its powers at the Dorbar shnong level,” Lyngkhoi said. He said the state government and KHADC needs to empower the Rangbah Shnongs in tackling issues .

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Teacher denied award

IMPHAL, Sep 12 NNN : An ideal High School teacher from Manipur is now upset after he failed to claim the prestigious National Teacher Award 2013 due to the laxity of the state Government.
Koijam Tolendro, who is 51-year-old, is a senior graduate teacher at Prajja High School, Lamshang in Imphal West district and a resident of Lamshang bazaar. He was one of the two selected teachers from Manipur who was to honour by the President by conferring the award on Teacher’s Day, September 5 in New Delhi.
Two teachers from every state of the country are chosen for the award which is given on the occasion of Teacher’s Day every year. Ch Nishikanta, Headmaster of Thambalkhong Junior High School was the lone teacher from Manipur who received the award on the occasion of Teacher’s Day, he said.
Tolendro said, “I failed to claim this award since the concerned authorities of the state Government didn’t inform me on time.”
He was talking to reporters at the school when he added that he applied for the award through the state Education Department after recognizing his achievements in the field of teaching.
He said, “He came to know that he was selected for the award on the website of Ministry of HRD, but it was too late.”
Tolendro received the state Teacher’s Award in 2005 and was among the top 10 teachers of the country selected for taking part in the National Level Science Teachers Congress in 2007. He had also attended several national and international conferences.

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Census work badly done : NPF

IMPHAL, Sept 12 NNN : The Naga Peoples Front (NPF), Manipur State unit said that as long as the Manipur government achieves its ‘target’ more re-verifications of census are bound to continue.
The census reports of 2001 and 2011 in respect of Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul sub-divisions of Senapati district, have been rejected by the state government of Manipur on the ground that there have been abnormalities of population growth which was not possible.
“No matter how many re-verifications are conducted by the Registrar General of India (RGI), the Manipur government will not accept the reports if they turn out to go against its interest. There is a motive of the Manipur government in this connection,” alleged Athuan Abonmai, general secretary of the NPF, Manipur state unit. He questioned whether those people in Senapati district whose names are rejected in the census count be made the citizens of China or Myanmar or any other country if the government really refuses to accept them. Athuan Abonmai also said never ending re-verifications of the census have wasted the time of busy farmers in the district.
Altogether 19 officials of the Registrar General of India (Census) led by deputy director SK Chakarbarti are now conducting the census re-verification task in the three sub-divisions of Senapati district since last week. They are leaving for New Delhi on coming Saturday.
On September 4, in a memorandum submitted to Dr. Chandermolly, director of the Registrar General of India, the NPF questioned, “How many verifications and re-verifications are needed ?”
According to the NPF, even if re-verifations are done hundreds of time, it appears that the Manipur government will never accept unless its target is achieved.
The NPF then said, “It is so ironical to say that the Manipur state government has certain agenda to reduce the population of the said three blocks of Senapati district.”
It alleged that the state government had rejected ‘the physically counted’ census data both 2001 and 2011 and that too after the provisional census data was published which amount to violation of fundamental rights of the concern citizens.
“As the officially verified and accepted figures of the population were rejected by the Manipur government, a joint re-verification of census 2001 and 2011 were carried out by S.K Chakrabarti, DDG and Dr. MC Mehanathan, Director Ministry of Home from May 9-10 in 2011 and found hundred pencent correct,” the NPF pointed out.
“However, the state government has rejected all these genuine data. The state government estimated the population at 40% done randomly. Such discriminatory attitudes of the state government have to be checked. the justifications of high rate population in the hilly tribal areas of those three blocks were clearly made by the concern SDOs and the deputy commissioner,” the NPF stated.
“The Manipur state govenment is determined to reduce forcibly the cityzen’s population of the tribal dominanted Sub-Divisions namely Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul. It is another form of genocide penetrated to the minority tribal by Manipur government. Tribals in the said blocks are living death in this planet and both the government of India and Manipur government treated them as persona non-grata”, the NPF fumes.

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Black day to be observed

IMPHAL, Sept 12 NNN: Kukis are all set to observe the Kuki Black Day on Friday in New Delhi, Assam, Manipur and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, the Kuki National Front (KNF-N) has cautioned that its dawn to dusk bandh on September 13 marking the Kuki Black Day will be enforced strictly. The KNF-N asked those participating the Kuki Black Day to attached a black flag each in their vehicles and paste print-outs in the vehicles with the distinations written in it.
Meanwhile, the Kuki Students’ Organisation, Delhi said will observe the ‘Kuki Black Day’ on the September 13. The event will be observed with a peaceful and silent candlelight march of over 500 students at Jantar Mantar at 5pm.
“This day of mass mourning marks the commemoration of the inhuman massacre of over 900 innocent Kukis between 1992 and 1995 by the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isaac-Muivah) or more popularly known as NSCN-IM,” the KSO-Delhi said. According to the KSO-Delhi, this incident has been termed differently by different media and writers. “The BBC World termed it as ‘Ethnic Cleansing by Naga Separatist’. CNN had covered it as ‘Genocide’. PhannoujamTarapot in his book ‘Manipur Bleeding’ referred to the episode as Ethnic Cleansing and so does Pradip Phanjoubam in his book, ‘Where the Sun rises when shadows falls.

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Chandel NagaKuki joint meeting on Sep 16

Under the aegis of All Tribal Chiefs and Public Grievances Forum ATC PGF Chandel District, a joint meeting of various Civil Societies of different tribes of Naga and Kukis of Chandel District has been convened on September 16 at Japhou village community hall at 11 am to discuss and adopt resolution on protection of land in the district Source Hueiyen News Service

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Day: September 12, 2013

Imphal: Bomb blast kills five, injures five others

VWSC to operate water supply schemes in Tamenglong

New maternity scheme IGMSY introduced in Tamenglong

11,000 Sanitary toilets constructed in Tamenglong

Pot holes

AR reaches out

Bamboo threatened by Chinese products

Night road block protest to demand ILP introduction

Teacher denied award

Census work badly done : NPF

Black day to be observed

Chandel NagaKuki joint meeting on Sep 16

Liangmai Council concerned

Financial literacy awareness campaign

NSCNIM accords reception to ‘Home comers’ from ‘K’

Teacher blames Govt for missing national award

Blood donation camp at Thoubal district hospital

New maternity scheme introduced in Tamenglong

CCpur hospital clash KCP accuses VDF men of first strike

NPF ridicules Govt over census reverification