June 19, 2014 – Page 2

CCDO warns of stir if demand not met

Informing that the Social Welfare Minister has promised to meet its demands by June 30, the Coordinating Committee on Disabled Organisation, Manipur CCDO Thursday warned of sustained agitation beginning July 1 in the event of the Minister failing to …

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CHC Jiribam refutes charges on its doctors

Jiribam being located 223 km away from Imphal, Community Health Centre CHC Jiribam stands as the only reliable health care centre not only for the people of Jiribam sub division, but also for the neighboring districts of Tamenglong, Churachandpur and…

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Two doctors of a flashback

By Tungshang Ningreichon During one of the Christmas games we play in the village I fell down like an eagle that missed a swoop. The game as silly as its

By Tungshang Ningreichon

During one of the Christmas games we play in the village I fell down like an eagle that missed a swoop. The game as silly as its name, “eloping” is mostly for the youth where boys and girls form into pairs and we race towards the goal post that stands like captain Barbossa’s legs.

My game partner obviously was faster and stronger. I could not keep up with his speed so I toppled like a witch with stone tied around her legs. My chest hit hard against the ground and for once I thought my heart that even bad love and romance could not break had broken into pieces this time. For days I was in pain and became almost immobile. I tried a few home treatments including heat fomentations but the pain continued so I went to Imphal to see a doctor.

The impatient person that I am, I suspect the fall aggravated this unique quality we all possess, so to save time, I decided to go to a private hospital hoping that it would be less crowded but I was wrong. The hospital was packed! It seems to say that people were impatient like me or more possibly they were either very rich or prefer to spend a little more instead of going to a government hospital. The consultation fee was rupees 200 then compared to rupees 5 in the nearby government hospital. The fee must be higher now with the rising temperature and temper of people around us.

As we stood in the queue, some people were breaking the un-spelled discipline shoving papers and money from the corner, and our receptionist was attending to them. Later, he got up, left his seat, got himself a cup of tea and was behaving typically like an SBI staff we often encounter during our trips to the bank. My time bomb was ticking. It had to explode as the fuse is shorter by default than the rest. I went and confronted the receptionist. He was not to be outdone. He shouted back at me. But like the wave in an ebb, the rest joined in and we raised the same voice, harmoniously! The receptionist had to get back to the job while this ‘villain of the moment’ got the ticket and went in to see the doctor.

The doctor after examination said I should continue the heat fomentation as the chest is still swollen. I was also given some medications and was asked to report back after two days which was unusual, without X-ray, scan or other reports. I said I live in the village so it would be difficult to return unless very necessary. As I stood up to leave the doctor said ‘wait’ like he was to scribble more illegible names of medicines (in medical studies handwriting and cursive writing is not a subject you see).Instead, he ordered coffee, asked me what I do, where I live as I remember that there were five or more patients waiting after my turn. He gave me his contact details like I would badly need his emergency advice. I was amused and so was my cousin who was with me. We both enjoyed the coffee anyway since we were hungry. We left confused!

After a Christmas well spent it was time for me to go back to my ghetto. On the flight I was seated with a father and his daughter who must have been about my age or perhaps younger as her skin was softer, fairer and without the freckles that decorate my face. We struck a few pleasantries and the she said “I get scared when I fly so allow me to hold you when I get sick”. I was not prepared for what came next. She cautioned me but her warning was a little too mild. Every time the plane rocked she would hold me so tight, pinch my hand and squeeze me like I owe her some money! She had major flying phobia and flying over Delhi during winter you know can be a horrible experience with the thick fog and smog. Our journey was getting obnoxious. I was getting sick too. The role reversal was getting unpleasant. I drank some water and few minutes later I was strong again to be her catharsis bag.

The journey came to an end. The father handed me his card. He turned out to be one well known pediatrician whose name I have heard often. He was attending a conference in Delhi so there was a car waiting for them and they offered to drop me. I declined. They insisted. The direction we were heading towards was the same so I sat in the car thanking my stars for the few hundred I saved from the prepaid taxi to reach my hostel, had I taken one. Before I got off the father said that I must come and visit them the next time I am home. That never happened.

That was more than 5 years ago or so. Today I recall these two episodes in my life and I laughed like I was on a few drags of ganja and the effect dawning on me. Two men. Same profession. Different memory.

To the doctor on the flight I wish I had gone and met them when I came home few months later because a pediatrician should be your second best friend when you become a mother, a parent.

To the other doctor I went to, I say ‘thank God it was just the chest and not a more private anatomy’!

(Tungshang Ningreichon is a happy mother from Langdang, Ukhrul and writes occasionally for the love of stories, histories and memories.)

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Blot, Disgrace, Danger

By B.G Verghese The new government’s efforts to make a flying start have come a cropper with the effrontery, boorish and indisciplined conduct of one of its Ministers of State,

By B.G Verghese

The new government’s efforts to make a flying start have come a cropper with the effrontery, boorish and indisciplined conduct of one of its Ministers of State, V.K. Singh, former Army Chief. He has rubbished an affidavit filed by the Defence Ministry to damn in the most strident and irresponsible terms the character and appointment of Lt. Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, next in line to succeed his own successor, Gen Bikram Singh, whom he had brazenly slandered. Singh has accused Gen. Suhagof being a criminal protector of murderers and dacoits.

This broadside followed a Ministry of Defence affidavit in the Supreme Court defending Gen Dalbir Singh’s promotion as Eastern Army Commander, categorically rejecting Singh’s earlier disciplinary ban on him while Chief as “extraneous, illegal and premeditated”. The MOD affidavit was in response to an appeal by another general officer, Ravi Dastane, against an Armed Forces Tribunal order clearing Gen Suhag of the charges levelled against him by Singh.

It is after this stinging rebuke by the MOD that Singh tweeted his infamous diatribe seeking to reopen a closed chapter. The public disquiet and anger this clear case of misconduct aroused in the public mind was only partly put to rest by the Finance-cum-Defence Minister, Arun Singh, who told the LokSabha that the Government “fully defends” the appointment of General Suhag. The Defence Minister pleaded that the armed forces should be kept above politics and then argued that Singh’s tweet should not be raised by Members “as it could prompt the Minister (Singh) to defend himself”. Translated, the advice of the Government to the public is “shut up, and sweep the matter under the carpet”.

That is what the former MOD, Anthony did, and fanned the rot in the highest echelons of the armed services; and this is what ArunJaitleyis now advocating, irrespective of its effect on service morale and discipline. In this midst of this flaming controversy of great sensitivity, the Prime Minister has chosen to remain stoically silent, thereby, approving both Singh’s indefensible conduct and ArunJaitley’squestionable response. Is this consistent with Mr Modi’s slogan of less government with more governance”?

Singh should have been censured and dismissed from the Government for stepping far beyond his limits, politicising the armed forces and speaking with a forked tongue. How can he remain Minister for the Northeast after proclaimingGen Suhaga defender of murderers and dacoitsin the very area over which both will have oversight? The man should go. He gave his solemn word of honour thrice to earn his next promotion and broke his word every time, as the Supreme Court sternly noted – to pave the way for preferment for his own kith and kin. And then he had the temerity to defy and sue the previous government while in uniform on a bogus age controversy, something he is venomously attempting to do again as a minister in clear contravention of his oath of office and collective cabinet responsibility.

On the entrance to the Chetwode Hall at the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun, is emblazoned the armed forces’ hallowed credo:“The safety, welfare and honour of your country comes first, always and every time. The honour, welfare and safety of the men you command come next. Your own comfort and safety come last, always and every time”. Singh conveniently forget his age long back and successively his honour and the welfare of his men, putting his own petty “comfort” first and always, every time. Is this to be the mettle of India’s ministers?

This is too serious a matter to be buried. The incident underlines the importance of appointing a full-time Defence Minister immediately. The Finance Minister is sufficiently burdened and is a stranger to Defence. Less government cannot mean no government. Mr Modi will be making a disastrous start if he does not act swiftly and decisively. Singh is expendable. The honour and prestige of the Army are not.

Another matter that cropped up last week is also a matter of concern. It is an IB report to the effect that the “anti-development” activities of certain foreign-funded NGOS have been anti-national and that their opposition to major nuclear power, mining, railway, dam and infrastructure projects on environmental and other grounds has caused endless delays and cost the country something of the order of two to three per cent of its GDP. This writer has been a long and strong opponent of Ludditism, “nostalgia” and environmental and displacement no-no-ism by the Narmada BacahoAndolan, the anti-POSCO and Vedanta lobbies, the anti-Nuclear fundamentalists and others but has always argued the need for a dynamic balance. Dissent is important and serves as a useful safety valve. It would be grossly illiberal to label all criticism and even opposition to certain development programmes as suspicious and seditious. These NGOs may get foreign contributions but if they keep within FCRA regulations there should be no reason to harass and hound them.

What is particularly worrying is the report that the IB report plagiarises a September 9, 2006 speech of Mr Modi in Gujarat on the occasion of the release in Delhi of “NGOs, Activists and Foreign Funds : Anti-nation Industry”. This reportedly consisted of a collection of articles by RadhaRajan and KrishenKak on the alleged anti-Hindu and corrupt practices of certain NGOs and activists. Is the IB re-activating a private agenda based on old,unproven, partisan prejudices?

This concern is reinforced by other straws in the wind such as renewed calls by right-wing ideologues to revisit history and other textbooks. The withdrawal of certain books, some published long back, on account of “hurt sentiments”, reinforces a sense of liberal disquiet. This is censorship by threat of muscular redress.

As disconcerting is the Chattisgarh government’s plan to deploy more helicopters for logistical use against Naxals in Bastar. This is perfectly legitimate, but will achieve little without reconstructing a broken legal framework under the 5th Schedule, putting in place a proper administrative-cum-delivery cadre, and co-opting the corporate sector to speed, technologically support, manage and market the development effort. Large industries, mines, power plants and connectivity need not be inimical to tribal welfare if put under a strict corporate social responsibility framework, first outlined by the Supreme Court’s Samatha judgement in the 1990s and since further refined.

Meanwhile, there have been some positive developments too. Environmental clearances have been fast-tracked for key projects long stalled and the height of the Narmada dam has been allowed to be raised by 17 metres to the full, project height. This will augment storage four-fold and augment hydro=-electric generation. The argument that the Narmada canal network will take another two to three years to complete and additional storage displacing some 200,000 people is therefore not required, is specious. Raising the dam will increase storage fourfold and augment hydro-electric generation. As for displacement, Madhya Pradesh has no more land to offer. Those displaced, some only partially, will have to accept cash compensation and be aided to settle elsewhere and be trained to take up non-farm occupations. This is increasingly the order of the day as the land can no longer support growing numbers on shrinking holdings.

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HRD Minister to lay foundation for Manipur State University – KanglaOnline

HRD Minister to lay foundation for Manipur State UniversityKanglaOnlineThe minister highlighted that Manipur is a State which does not have industry, trade and commerce, natural resources or locational advantage and therefore the Education sector is ve…

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The Boss is Always Right

The recent IB report insinuating that NGOs receiving foreign funds work against national interest is comic as much as it is outrageous. It is also reminiscent of the days of

The recent IB report insinuating that NGOs receiving foreign funds work against national interest is comic as much as it is outrageous. It is also reminiscent of the days of institutionalized xenophobia when the mysterious “foreign hand” was conveniently used to explain away every social disorder. The Northeast, where grievances were numerous, ranging from simple demands for statehood under the Indian Constitution to complete sovereignty from it, was a prime focus of this glare of the intelligence establishment. For some years now, it had seemed a new era of liberalism based on trust and respect of the voices of democratic dissent was dawning, but now this optimism seems belied.

The men behind the IB, as many observers have already pointed out, are mere playing to what they believe is the taste of their new boss in Delhi’s corridors of power in the tradition of bureaucratic sycophancy so familiar in the Indian officialdom, otherwise this allegation should have been their conclusion long ago as there is nothing new about foreign funds for social activism. Adding credence to this hypothesis is that the foreign funds singled out for the insinuations are those that support ecological conservation, human rights, anti-mining campaigns, gender equality, indigenous peoples’ rights etc. Ironically, the report has nothing to say of foreign funds that flow liberally into the mining sector, dam building, and other private businesses and enterprises which fall into activities categorized by the State as progressive investments.

The hypocrisy however does not end here. Foreign funds for instance are also available in terms of scholarships and fellowships for studies abroad. It will not be a surprise at all if some or many of those very same IB officers who have put together the report on foreign fund flow into the social sectors of the country, have their children studying abroad on foreign scholarships and thereafter working in the countries where these funds originated from. It would indeed be very interesting to do an assessment of the number of top bureaucrats and functionaries of the Government of India, who would fall into this category. This is important, for if NGOs can be influenced by foreign funds to soft peddle the vested interests of the countries these funds originate from, top bureaucrats also obviously would become soft towards the counties which availed fellowships to their children, and thereby opening up employment avenues for them there. People in positions of power, capable of determining the country’s policy directions in a profound way, coming under the influence of the soft diplomacies of foreign powers this way obviously should be seen as compromising the interest of the country much more than NGO environmentalists and human rights defenders.

There is one more interesting inference to be made from the IB report controversy. It has exposed the abject lack of the spirit of philanthropy in this country. That NGO activism is a vitally essential part of the democratic polity is beyond argument. Indeed the United Nations is the mother of all NGOs. The Geneva Conventions, The Hague Laws, etc would all fall within this broad wing of democratic governance, sometimes even referred to as the fifth pillar of democracy. Their birth and existence were all premised on the assumption that while the State is inevitable, there is nothing to presume the State can do no wrong, and in fact, left unchecked the State can do immense wrongs. An adversarial role for themselves against the State hence is the logic of their very existence – not to destroy the State but to prevent it from doing wrongs in their “nationalizing” and “developmental” projects. But NGOs are not authorized to levy taxes to raise their own money. This is the sole prerogative of the State. They are not businesses of profit either. They therefore have to depend on charity to run their campaigns.

The stark and shameful fact is, there is virtually no such funds independent of the government within the country. This is precisely because the notion of donating to charity is alien to the ethos of this country. The country has so many Fortune 500 billionaires today, but not a single worthwhile charity under their names. So if activists in the country want to work towards alleviating poverty or the misery of AIDS, or fight deforestation, check degradation of land by mining, conduct media sensitizing programmes… they would have no choice than to look to the philanthropies of the likes of Gates, Ford, Fulbright,

Agassi, Rockefeller, CARITAS, CORDAID etc, for help. This is a country where the rich are interested only in dodging taxes and not donating to public funds. Few or nobody believe in giving back, they only believe in taking.

In those “foreign countries” with huge charitable funds, even teenage stars like Taylor Swift and Matt Damon donate selflessly to public charities. In India, as an India Today story put it, even potential Bharat Ratna and unparalleled cricket star, Saching Tendulkar, entered his profession as an actor in the income tax return form, claiming he has acted in TV commercials, so he can save a few crore rupees. The list of Indian billionaire tax dodgers is intimidating. But of course, how would IB report writers be interested in these mundane affairs. They only want to change their hues in keeping with the change of bosses.

Leader Writer: Pradip Phanjoubam

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Dental chair purchase case returns to haunt RIMS director

Non-bailable warrants lodged against Sekharjit, Fimate: Source By DNbir IMPHAL, June 19: The Chief Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has lodged two separate cases against the present RIMS director Prof L

Non-bailable warrants lodged against Sekharjit, Fimate: Source
By DNbir
IMPHAL, June 19: The Chief Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has lodged two separate cases against the present RIMS director Prof L Sekharjit Singh, former director of the institute Prof. L Fimate and their associates, on corruption charges.

Sources disclosed to the IFP that the CBI had submitted the FIR copies before the District and Session Judge Manipur East on May 23, 2014.

The FIR number of the case lodged against L Sekharjit is Cril Misc case no 41 of 2014 Ref RC no.6 (A) 2014/IMP u/s 120-B/420 IPC, rwt13 (2)/13(1) (D) Prevention of Corruption Act while the FIR no. lodged against L Fimate is Cril. Misc case no. 40 of 2014, Ref. RC no. 5(A)/2014(A) 2014/IMP u/s 120-B/420 IPC, rwt13 (2)/13(1) (D) Prevention of Corruption Act.

Both the cases are non-bailable, maintained the sources.

The respondents in Sekharjit’s case include Dr Rajiv Ratna Singh (RR Singh) Professor of Dental College cum principal in-charge; E Devendro Meitei-chief account officer of RIMS; Prof H Shanti Singh of Anaesthesia Department and one Gopal Lal of M/S Mukherjee enterprise, Thakur road, Kolkata.

It has been learnt that the case was filed with regards to irregularities in the supply of Dental chair including other misappropriations.

M/S Mukherjee enterprise is the main supplier of the dental chair.

During the period, H Shanti was in charge of Medical Superintendent of RIMS (March 1, 2011 to February 28, 2013).

Prof Sekharjit took charge as director of RIMS on September 14, 2010 and his tenure as the director of RIMS will expire on September 13, 2015.

Meanwhile the respondent of the case lodged against the former director, Prof L Fimate is Dr Tomcha professor and head of department Radio Therapy, RIMS. Fimate held the post of director of the institute from December 22, 2003 to June 20, 2010.

The case is represented by CBI on behalf of the state.

The CBI is reportedly conducting hectic investigation to frame charge sheets against the respondents at the earliest, further added the source.

HRD Minister to lay foundation for Manipur State University

IMPHAL, June 19: Union Minister for Human Resoures Development, Smriti Zubin Irani has accepted an invitation from the State Education minister to visit the State to lay the foundation stone

IMPHAL, June 19: Union Minister for Human Resoures Development, Smriti Zubin Irani has accepted an invitation from the State Education minister to visit the State to lay the foundation stone of the conversion of the various DM colleges as a cluster State University.

According to a statement of the commissioner Hr & Technical Education, Manipur, the Union Minister has sought a “convenient date for the same.”

It said Okendro has thanked the Ministry of HRD for the approval for conversion of the various DM Colleges as a cluster into a State University under Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) with Central government financial support, and invited the Union HRD Minister for the foundation laying function at Imphal shortly.

The approval was made under the Project Approval Board of RUSA on May 13, 2014

The State Education minster had called on the Union Minister Smriti Zubin Irani in her Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi office.

“During the meeting that lasted for about 30 minutes, Education minister raised various important issues of the State pertaining to the Education sector.”

The minister highlighted that Manipur is a State which does not have industry, trade and commerce, natural resources or locational advantage and therefore the Education sector is very crucial and important to ensure that the future of the students and youths of Manipur are nurtured properly to achieve their best potentials, it said.

Okendro had also highlighted the plight of 421 Part-Time Lecturers of Govt. Colleges who had put in 16-20 years of service at very paltry emoluments and who have crossed the maximum age for recruitment and requested for a compassionate consideration on the proposal of the State Govt. for assistance under RUSA for their absorption into regular service, it said.

Further according to the statement, Okendro had also appraised the minister for consideration under RUSA of the setting up of the300-beded hostel cum counselling and career guidance centres for students of Manipur

The Union HRD Minister assured setting up of atleast two hostels for girl students from the North-East States in Delhi and also mentioned that she had deliberated the setting up of such Hostels in Delhi and Bengaluru with the Union DoNER Minister by the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, it said.

“On behalf of the Governor of Manipur and the Manipur University, Education minister also invited the new Union Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Zubin Irani to grace the Foundation Day of Manipur University on October 13, 2014 marking the conversion of MU into a Central University.”

“Various issues pertaining to SSA and RMSA were also raised by Education minister, during the meeting. Project proposals with DPRs were also submitted to MHRD today for setting up five new government B Ed colleges in each of the five Hill districts of Churachandpur, Tamenglong, Ukhrul, Senapati and Chandel under central funding,” it said.

“On behalf of the government of Manipur, the minister also presented the State Emblem of “Kangla Sha” alongwith a painting to the new Union Human Resources Development Minister during the meeting.”

Education minister was accompanied by P Vaiphei, commissioner (Hr. & Tech. Edn.).

Unsated locals dig up road against govt negligence

IMPHAL, June 19: Decrying government negligence to the prolonged deplorable road condition of the Lamlong to Khundrakpham road, residents including womenfolk led by the local clubs and meira paibi came out and blocked the road since this early morning. The locals lamented that the State Public Works Department has failed to repair the road for long. Locals also used an excavator to dug portions of the blacktopping at three places along the road. This early morning, a large crowd of locals came out along the road starting from Khurai Lamlong Bridge upto Salanthong and placed huge logs and other objects upon the road diverting traffic along other alternative routes. The locals said they have submitted several requests and memoranda to the department for repairing of the road, but to no avail. Around noon, the locals also used an excavator to dig out the black topping and dig large holes across the road at Khurai Lamlong, Khurai Lai Puthiba and Khurai Heikru Makhong. A meira paibi leader lamented that the deplorable condition of the road has caused much inconveniences to not just the locals but to all commuters of the road. Several have been injured in road accidents and some have even lost their lives, she said. The locals have submitted several representations and memorandums to the concerned authorities including local MLA Ng Bijoy and ward members, however, there has been no response from the MLA as well as the concerned authorities, she said.

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Unsated locals dig up road against govt negligence

The locals lamented that the State Public Works Department has failed to repair the road for long. Locals also used an excavator to dug portions of the blacktopping at three places along the road.

This early morning, a large crowd of locals came out along the road starting from Khurai Lamlong Bridge upto Salanthong and placed huge logs and other objects upon the road diverting traffic along other alternative routes.

The locals said they have submitted several requests and memoranda to the department for repairing of the road, but to no avail.

Around noon, the locals also used an excavator to dig out the black topping and dig large holes across the road at Khurai Lamlong, Khurai Lai Puthiba and Khurai Heikru Makhong.

A meira paibi leader lamented that the deplorable condition of the road has caused much inconveniences to not just the locals but to all commuters of the road.

Several have been injured in road accidents and some have even lost their lives, she said.

The locals have submitted several representations and memorandums to the concerned authorities including local MLA Ng Bijoy and ward members, however, there has been no response from the MLA as well as the concerned authorities, she said.

Poor parents return to claim abandoned son

IMPHAL, JUNE 19: An eleven-days-old infant boy abandoned by his family at Raj Medicity on 7 July was handed over to the mother by Raj Medicity through the members of

IMPHAL, JUNE 19: An eleven-days-old infant boy abandoned by his family at Raj Medicity on 7 July was handed over to the mother by Raj Medicity through the members of the child welfare committee on Thursday.

According to Dinesh, Assitant General Manager, Raj Medicity, the mother of the boy along with some members of the child welfare committee came to collect the infant. The infant’s mother was cross-checked by Medicity authorities, during which she produced the documents provided by Raj Medicity and other hospitals to prove that she had given birth to the infant. Further medical investigations by Raj Medicity’s doctors confirmed the veracity of her claim.

“After it was confirmed that the woman was indeed the mother of the infant, he was handed over to members of the child welfare committee in presence of the Police and they later handed over the infant to the mother,” Dinesh said, adding that the infant will be monitored by the child welfare committee members.

Continuing that the parents of the infant hails from Sangaiyumpham,Thoubal, he said as per the infant’s mother, the family had to abandon the infant in the hospital as they don’t have the money to pay the bill for his treatment in the hospital.

The parents of the infant left their infant child in the hospital after which infant’s father went to Tamenglong in search of money where he is engaged in construction works, he added

Parliamentary Secertary Amin Shah has paid Rupees 10,000 as the hospital bill and Raj Medicity deducted the remaining 22 thousand before handing over the infant to the mother.

It may be mentioned that the infant boy was admitted to Raj Medicity with a respiratory problem on June 6 and was abandoned by the family members on June 7.

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MHA to raise two auxiliary battalions in NE

By Madhumita Chakraborty NEW DELHI, June 19 (Vision Communications): The Ministry of Home Affairs has initiated a move to raise two auxiliary battalions to recruit youth mainly from the surrendered

By Madhumita Chakraborty
NEW DELHI, June 19 (Vision Communications): The Ministry of Home Affairs has initiated a move to raise two auxiliary battalions to recruit youth mainly from the surrendered militants of two specific states of the North East, Manipur and Assam.

Talking to the Vision Communications today a highly placed source in the MHA confirmed that altogether 1500 youth from different designated camps would be recruited in next few weeks time.

Besides designated camps other surrendered militants of these two states also can apply if they fulfill the recruitment criterion. There would be no written test. If the surrendered militants upto the age of 35 years are found physically fit with a class eight pass certificate, they would be recruited forthwith.

As per the new formula, all the recruited youth would be given school education and skill training in various discipline for next five years. Those who can pass upto class ten, would be absorbed in regular paramilitary battalions. Those who do not pass class tenth, can easily earn their livelihoods from the skill training in various disciplines they would receive for the five years. The concept of the new format is to make all of them employable.

During the training period, the recruitees would receive Rs. 10,000/- to Rs. 14,000/- per month. They would also be given freedom to choose vocational courses that they want to pursue during five-year long training period.

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“Social Welfare minister assured action against Blind School rape accused before June 30”

IMPHAL, June 19: The Coordination Committee of Disable Organisation Manipur has appealed to the people to wait till June 30 before calling any form of agitation regarding the alleged rape

IMPHAL, June 19: The Coordination Committee of Disable Organisation Manipur has appealed to the people to wait till June 30 before calling any form of agitation regarding the alleged rape of the 13 year old student of the Government Ideal Blind School, Takyelpat till June 30.

Social Welfare minister AK Mirabai has assured that a charge will be framed against the accused before June 30 based on a report already submitted by a high level team, co-convenor Kripa Pheiroijam told the media today.

Speaking to the media during a press conference at the Manipur Press Club today, Kripa Pheiroijam said four days after the alleged rape, several organisations working for the welfare of the differently abled people convened a meeting and formed the committee.

Since then, the committee had carried out a spot investigation and confirmed the rape and has also found that certain individuals were trying to conceal the incident, he continued.

Representatives of the committee had also met with the Social Welfare minister Ak Mirabai today and highlighted various issues confronting the differently abled persons in the State.

The minister has assured to frame a charge against the accused before June 30 and to provide security for the school, he said.

Further speaking to the media, he said the minister has also assured to fulfil their other demands before June 30.

The process for the appointment of a separate commissioner for the differently abled, which is a long time demand of those working for the welfare of the differently abled in the State is also completed and will soon be turned into action, the minister told the committee, he said.

Minister Ak Mirabai had also assured the committee representatives that other demands including financial assistance, unemployment allowances for the disabled will be discussed during the June 21 Cabinet meeting, he said.

Appealing to all organisations to wait till June 30 considering the minister’s assurances, he said that the coordination committee will launch several forms of agitation incase the minister fails to turn into action her assurance before the set deadline.

BJP warmly receives ADC member

IMPHAL, June 19: The Baharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Churachandpur district has stated in a press release today that they had organised a grand reception at the resident of Chungkhosei Haokip,

IMPHAL, June 19: The Baharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Churachandpur district has stated in a press release today that they had organised a grand reception at the resident of Chungkhosei Haokip, executive member of BJP Manipur state for induction of the ADC sitting member from Senvon of Tipaimuk Mr. Lalditsang to BJP on June 17. The release further said that a meeting was held on the issue of public grievances like communication, water, power, PDS etc. and also submitted a memorandum to the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh for completion of NH 150.

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SUK to organise spelling competition

IMPHAL, June 19: The Students’ Union of Kangleipak’s third State Level Spelling Competition under the theme ‘Lottuna leiriba mee-oibagi lousing amadi malemgi hidannabagi lambi puthokpa’ will be organised on June

Interested students must wear their school uniform and report to the hotel at 9 am along with one stamp size photo and their admit card issued by the Union for the competition said the Convenor Organising Committee in a press release.

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Manipur observes ‘Unity Day’, pledges integrity – Times of India

Manipur observes 'Unity Day', pledges integrityTimes of IndiaIMPHAL: Various civil and ethnic organizations of the state on Wednesday pledged to work together to safeguard Manipur's territorial integrity at a public meeting to mark the 13th…

Manipur observes 'Unity Day', pledges integrity
Times of India
IMPHAL: Various civil and ethnic organizations of the state on Wednesday pledged to work together to safeguard Manipur's territorial integrity at a public meeting to mark the 13th 'Great June Uprising/Unity Day' at the Kekrupat memorial here. The day …