Day: August 20, 2014

LAMKA, August 20: Unless the hills people are united, we will get assimilated and our right on land will be taken away from our grip. We must be united to demand implementation of Sixth Schedule of the Constitution so as to safeguard our land.

This was stated by Muan Tombing, president of the All Tribal Students Union of Manipur, ATSUM at the two-day seminar on ‘Primary Education in the Hill District’, which kicked started today at Synod Hall, Churachandpur.

The seminar is being sponsored by the Tribal Research Institute and organised by ATSUM.

In his opening address the president also mentioned that the immediate issue is the 31 percent job reservation offered by the Center, but it has been manipulated to 7.5 percent by the State Government.

DR Seipu Kipgen as one of the resource persons said that it is time to think beyond the physical boundary as the world is becoming a global village. He also maintained that mixing education with politics is one of the root causes of failure in education system.

Dr Seipu also said that practice of substituting teacher by proxy teacher has affected the performance of the schools, which must be checked.

Later in the day Dr Sanga represented paper on the topic ‘Tribal Land Right’, which was followed by lively discussion.

Today’s seminar was attended by SSPP (Paite student) GHQ and jt HQ, ASUM (Aimol student), AMTU (All Manipur tribal student union), Churachandpur District Student Union (CDSU) apart from other local student unions.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2014/08/atsum-seminar-reiterates-six-schedule-status-demand/

IMPHAL August 20: Seven students bodies have opposed the bandh imposed by Emboi Serto led All Tribal Students’ Union of Manipur and its proposed indefinite economic blockade by calling the timing of its imposition as ‘inappropriate’ because the government has asked for some time to act on the demands of the tribal students over the issue of implementation of Central Educational Institution Act, 2012 in Manipur University on Wednesday.

The Churachandpur District Students’ Union (CDSU), Thadou Students’ Association (TSA-GHQ), Anal Student Chandel, Maring Student Chandel, Aimol Student Chandel, Tangkhul Katamnou Saklong (TKS) Ukhrul and Zaliagrong Students’ Union Manipur (ZSUM) Tamenglong have stated that they will not support the bandh imposed by Emboi Serto led ATSUM and the proposed indefinite economic blockade.

The seven student bodies said that the 24 hours bandh will only affect the lives of hills people. Meanwhile, the government has asked for some time to consider the demands of the tribal students’ bodies over the implementation of Central Educational Institution (Reservation in Admission) Amendment Act, 2012 in the Manipur University.

The students’ bodies have stated that it would be a wise decision for the Emboi Serto led ATSUM to call off any form of agitations as the government needs room to reconsider.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2014/08/tribal-students-bodies-oppose-atsum-bandh/

IMPHAL, August 20: Several Zeliangrong bodies have submitted a representation to the director general of police, Manipur declaring the claims of the Zeliangrong Union and the Maram Naga Union settling the Maram assault incident in accordance to cu1stomary law as “abetment of crime.”

Referring to the assault of Ringsanbou Newmai a student of the Don Bosco Maram on July 28, the Zeliangrong Youth Front, All Zeliangrong Students’ Union and the Zeliangrong Union Manipur in a joint statement have said there is no such law in customary, national laws or international laws that such crime should be settled by offering a pig measuring five fist or over exchange of rice plate.

It questioned the basis for their claims especially when the victim is struggling for life and undergoing medical treatment in the ICU of JNIMS hospital?

There ZU and MNU have no authority to discuss this particular matter without the participation, involvement, consent or knowledge of the victim family as such it is total contradictory to customary or any law, it said.

Further according to the statement, the victim family has already declared their stand and position very clear of which was widely publicised in various newspapers that any settlement without delivering justice to the victim shall not be accepted.

It said the ZU and MNU announcing their claimed of settlement on the highly condemned crime shows the conspiracy of ZU and MNU in the crime and accused them of being hand in glove with the accused.

It has further urged the police to take action in the case which has been registered under FIR u/s 326/34 IPC against the accused Hingba Mathew, warden, Josephine Girls Hostel, Maram.

The State Home Minister claimed of “people friendly police” force has now turned into “criminal friendly police” force, if the accused of the murder attempt can be let scot free then the State govt, it said.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2014/08/zelaingrong-bodies-question-claim-of-settling-maram-assault-case/

IMPHAL, August 20: The Language Planning and Implementation Department has taken a firm stand of not following anyone in the matter of the Manipuri language and it’s free to do anything about the development of the language, stated director of the department Dr Laishram Mahabir Singh.

He was speaking on the joint celebrations of the first anniversary of the Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation and the 18th anniversary of the inclusion of Manipuri Languages in the Eight scheduled today at the premises of Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation.

He said that the staffs have suffered for around 20 years to make it a full-fledged department and they are quite a skilled lot to develop the language.

However, the Manipuri language is likely to be divided due to differences between people following the ancient Meitei faith and Hindu religion because the Manipuri language has been mixed with Sanskrit and our own language, he said.

He appealed the people of the State to support in their movement for the development of Manipuri language.

Manipur Science and Technology director Uttam Chand Laishram stated that the Manipur Institute of Technology (MIT) in collaboration with the Manipur Science and Technology will make e- language translations from Bangali to Meitei Mayek to English within two months.

Continuing that with the collaboration of Manipur Science and Technology and National Electronic IT (NELIT) it will also be producing an e- dictionary from English to Manipuri, he said they plan to build software for phones to access the application easily.

Eminent Manipuri Scholar RK Jhaljit Singh expressed his happiness on Language Planning and Implementation department becoming a full-fledged department and has wished for the welfare and development of Manipuri language while also appealing to work hard for raising it to status of a classical language.

There is a need to plan properly for the development of Manipuri language because development a language is hard, he said adding that the Manipuri language has its own script but the language has been mixed up with other languages. Meanwhile, the All Manipuri Students Union (AMSU) also observed the 22rd Manipuri Language Day at its premises.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2014/08/manipuri-directorate-celebrates-its-first-anniversary/