Manipur News

IMPHAL, Oct 6: The Governor has re-constituted the Board of Visitors of Manipur Central Jail, Imphal and Manipur Central Jail, Sajiwa for two years with IFP executive editor M Dhanabir Meitei as a member and district magistrate Imphal West as chairman.

The other members are CJM, Imphal West, WAD secretary SObita Mangsatabam, IMC chairperson Aribam Nimai Sharma and MNP+ president L Deepak Singh.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/10/ifp-executive-editor-appointed-member-of-board-of-visitors-of-jails/

CHURACHANDPUR, October 6: The State Malaria Officer (SMO) also the State Nodal Offer(SNO) Jamkhokam Kuki led a team of two doctors and consultant of IEC/ BCC, and visited Rangkai Village, in Churachandpur which is considered the epi-centre of Dengue detection in the district.

The team had also met with the CMO Churachandpur Thangchinkhup Guite at his office.

The team who came to take stock of the situation also met with Dengue patients at their homes mostly in Rangkai area.

They also distributed pamphlets and leaflets to create awareness among the people regarding Dengue.

It may be mentioned that 10 out of 27 suspected cases have been tested positive of dengue so far.

The official team also check for breeding grounds of mosquitoes in the area.

They said they will further monitor the situation and if required come again.

The SMO also said they plan to open another isolated ward in the district hospital for which they had already met with the MS Churachandpur District Hospital S Samte.

It may be mentioned that the first test for dengue was conducted on the first of this month and the confirmation of positive case came back on October 3 in the district.

The district medical authority had also conducted fogging last month and was repeated this evening in the area in an effort to control mosquito breeding.

By an order from the office of CMO/DMO, fogging was repeated today, especially in Rangkai and its surrounding areas including the SP`™s residence.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/10/state-malaria-officer-led-team-visits-churachandpur-village-to-check-for-dengue/

IMPHAL, Oct 6: The Department of Information & Public Relation will be conducting a photography contest cum exhibition with from October 28 to 1 November on four themes related to visual journalism.

There will be 52 prizes for the contest including consolations. A photography workshop which will be attended by experts will also be held during the exhibition, said DIPR director Salam Somorjit today at the press club.

Stating that details can be availed from the office of the DIPR, he said the last date for entry of submission will be October 20.

The competition and the exhibition will promote photo journalists.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/10/dipr-to-conduct-photography-contest/

IMPHAL, October 6: Irom Chanu Sharmila was produced before the Court of Akash Jain, Metropolitan Magistrate, Patiala House Court, New Delhi in connection with case no 476/02/2012 FIR No 222/2006 Parliament Street Police Station.

Her matter was listed as item no. 40 and her statement was recorded around 11.30 am according to a statement from Human Rights Alert executive director Babloo Loitongbam.

It said Sharmila wanted to explain her struggle to the Magistrate but the Magistrate wanted to confine her only to the relevant questions.

It said an emotionally charged Sharlima wept in the Court and Senior Advocate V.K. Ohri, Advocate Divya Sunderajan and Advocate Kezhosano Kikhi assisting her, persuaded her and helped her in recording the statement.

Sharmila stated before the Magistrate that she was picked up by the police on the night of October 6, 2006 because the government was concerned that national and international media have started taking interest in her struggle against AFSPA, it said.

She admitted that she denied medical attention but also clarified that she did not need it as her health was fine at that point of time, after all she have been on hunger strike since the year 2000 she asserted, according to the statement.

She also recorded that her struggle is to demand the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act or its total removal from Manipur, it added.

She stated that the application of this Act has resulted to untold sufferings on the Manipuri people and hundreds of women have been raped. But the armed forces indulging in these criminal acts cannot be prosecuted because they are protected by the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, it said.

The hearing on the case will continue tomorrow 7 October 2015 in the same Court and one defend witness will be examined, it said.

It may be mentioned that Irom CHanu Sharmila left Imphal for Delhi yesterday with a team of nine including haill staff, police personnel and medical staff.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/10/afspa-causing-hardships-in-manipur-emotionally-charged-sharmila-tells-court/

TAMENGLONG, October 6: A team of Tea Board of India visited Tamenglong district to inspect tea plantation in the district.

The team led by R Kujar, deputy director Regional Office, Silchar visited the district Headquarter and further inspected tea plantation especially in Tml Khunjao area where Tea Plantation are taken up by about 200 households.

However gainful Tea plantation could not done for lack of proper guidance and facilities in the plantation area of about 200 acres here.

According to the general manager of DIC/Tamenglong N Joykumar Singh , the district is known as Land of Tea and Oranges.

So a Common Facility Centre is coming up at Tamnglong, he said.

The Ministry of Medium and Small Enterprises(GOI) has already approved in principle to install the said CFC, he said.

This centre will help to promote the potential of Tea and Orange production at Tml.So Tea Board of India has been requested to suggest better ways to tap the potential available here, he continued.

The general manager, has also said that an `Incubation Centre` would be opened within this month of October at DIC office,Tml.

The concern Ministry has already sanction for the said centre, he said.

By opening this centre, many entrepreneurs would be benefited in this agro based richly grow dist.Training would be imparts to the entrepreneurs like medicinal plantation,tissue culture, mushroom plantation,Lemon,Stabia plantation etc, he observed.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/10/tea-board-of-india-inspects-tea-plantation-in-tamenglong/

IMPHAL, October 6: The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Dr Jitendra Singh has asked the North-Eastern States to expedite the process of Central fund utilisation by them.

According to a PIB press statement, during the first meeting of the Executive Committee of the North Eastern Council (NEC) today in New Delhi, Dr Jitendra had also asked the Chief Secretary of Manipur to personally follow up the land transfer issue for the proposed Sports University at Imphal.

Dr Jitendra Singh said, the most common factors responsible for delay in the completion of various developmental projects include failure by the States to produce Utilisation Certificates on time, delay in submission of DPRs and inability of the State to provide its share of funding, it said.

As a result, not only the projects get delayed but the consequent escalation in the budget leads to further difficulties in timely completion of these projects, he added, said the statement.

Further according to the PIB statement at the meeting attended among others by Union Secretary, DoNER, Ameishing Luikham, secretary, NEC, Ram Muivah, chief secretaries of all the eight Northeast States and member, NEC, CK Das, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the NEC is no longer an advisory body but, in fact, a regional planning body with a wider and more crucial role.

He referred to the recent initiative of constituting inter-ministerial committees of the Ministry of DoNER with other Ministries and at the same time, engaging the Delhi-based Resident Commissioners of different States for the follow up of projects so that the targets could be achieved more smoothly, it said.

For this, he also hinted at revisiting and revitalizing the entire functioning of the NEC, it said.

However, he noted with satisfaction that the NEC headquarter at Shillong has become fully functional and reverberating with activity because the newly appointed Secretary and members are regularly attending the office on full-time basis, it said.

It added, on India`™s `Act East` policy, Dr. Jitendra Singh said, it is his considered view that to `Act East` effectively, we first need to act east proximal and empower the North Eastern region along the international borders.

In this regard, he suggested a number of measures including encouraging the local produce which could find takers for business across the Northeast borders, single window check-posts and limiting the list of items for cross-border trade to products exclusively originating from the region, it added.

Taking a note of the suggestion that the annual budget of NEC had not been enhanced for past almost 40 years in spite of change in fiscal and market scenario, Dr. Jitendra Singh advised Secretary NEC to prepare a comprehensive brief drawing comparative statistical differences in the annual budget allocation and disbursement as it existed in the earlier years vis-à-vis the current year, so that the same could be presented before the Union Finance Ministry with a request to seek appropriate enhancement, it said.

Expressing dissatisfaction over delayed progress of work at the airports at Gangtok, Guwahati and Itanagar as well as slow pace of rail and road projects, Dr. Jitendra Singh said, this adversely affects the progress in every sphere.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/10/doner-minister-asks-northeast-states-to-expedite-fund-utilisation/

IMPHAL, Oct 6: As part of the Coalition for Indigenes`™ Rights Campaign Manipur`™s month long protest against the Merger Agreement, discussions on the pre-merger political status were held at different places.

According to a statement of the CIRCA, discussions were held at Moirang Khunou, Irengbam in Bishnupur district and at Khurai Ningthoubung and Kongpal Leishram leikai in Imphal East.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/10/premerger-discussions-continue/