February 9, 2012 – Manipur News

RTE Act and rights of children in Manipur – E-Pao.net

RTE Act and rights of children in ManipurE-Pao.netNow the question is how far the children in Manipur have been able to enjoy their fundamental rights of access to free and quality education in Manipur. With a fresh academic session just about to start…

RTE Act and rights of children in Manipur
E-Pao.net
Now the question is how far the children in Manipur have been able to enjoy their fundamental rights of access to free and quality education in Manipur. With a fresh academic session just about to start, the craze for parents to send their children to …

Manipur university eves advance to quarters – E-Pao.net

Manipur university eves advance to quartersE-Pao.netImphal, February 09, 2012: With two wins and a loss Manipur university advanced to the quarter finals of the All India Inter Zonal Inter University Women's Football Tournament being held at Chenna…

Manipur university eves advance to quarters
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Imphal, February 09, 2012: With two wins and a loss Manipur university advanced to the quarter finals of the All India Inter Zonal Inter University Women's Football Tournament being held at Chennai as Group B runners-up.

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DoNER Minister Finalizes Five-Year Revitalization Plan of Dr. B. Borooah Cancer Institute

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New Delhi, Feb 9: In a significant development, the Board of Directors of Dr. B. Borooah Cancer Institute (BBCI), Guwahati under the Chairmanship of Minister for Development of North Eastern Region ( DoNER), Sri Paban Singh Ghatowar finalized a five year revitalization plan in New Delhi on 30th January, 2012. The funding is expected at a total cost of Rs. 197 crores, the majority of which will be through North Eastern Council (NEC) of Ministry of DoNER and the rest through Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India and Government of Assam. Shri Paban Singh Ghatowar underlined the need to bring it at par with international standards to meet the future needs of the patients. The 4th Tripartite Agreement involving NEC, DAE and the Government of Assam was signed by Sri Paban Singh Ghatowar as Chairman of NEC. Sri P. P. Varma, the Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, signed the agreement on behalf of the Government of Assam. During this period a PET CT Scan Machine, Radiation Medicine Centre, Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Second CT Simulator Machine, Micro-Vascular Surgery facilities will be introduced. The second unit of 100 bedded Guest House for patients will be constructed for the benefit of patients coming from the distant places of the North-Eastern Region. Additional Quarters for Grade – III Employees and Nurses and Deluxe Paying Cabin will be constructed to further augment the infrastructure facilities.
The DoNER Minister emphasized on prevention and early detection of cancer through public education and liberal distribution of Information, Education and
Communication materials through Gram Panchayat. The Secretary, Ministry of DoNER on behalf of the all the members of the Board, complimented the Director BBCI and the team for timely execution of the project and which helped the institute to treat 5022 cancer patients and examined 50400 patients in 2011.
The Board appreciated the role of Indian Council of Medical Research and Department Bio-Technology, Union Ministry of Science of Technology for releasing grants-in-aid to BBCI for various research projects.

The pharmaceutical laboratory that supplied the medicines has been sealed.
Surviving victims are battling for survival at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack .
State Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has ordered a judicial inquiry into the incident. A retired high court judge will conduct the probe, Orissa Chief Secretary B K Patnaik said.
Those affected by the hooch disaster would be provided free treatment,Patnaik said.

EC censures Khurshid

The Election Commission has censured Union Law and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid for his remarks on sub-quota for minorities, and said he violated the election code of conduct. According to the Election Commission, Khurshid violated the model code of conduct by making promise of nine percent sub-quota for minorities and that it expects him not to repeat such violations.
The poll panel said that being the Law Minister of the country, Khurshid should have been more careful and set an example for others. The Election Commission had earlier issued notice to Khurshid on a complaint by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that he violated the model code of conduct by announcing nine percent sub-quota for Muslims if the party was voted to power in Uttar Pradesh. Khurshid, however, later told the Election Commission that his remarks promising job quota for minorities was made as a Congress leader and not as a Union law minister or minorities minister.

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PM says top priority for Dedicated Freight Corridor project

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New Delhi, Feb 9: The Prime Minister has directed that the Dedicated Freight Corridor Project costing nearly one lakh crore rupees should be given the highest priority by Central Ministries and urged the State Governments to also do so. The project will connect a land mass over 3300 kilometers in the country and could prove to be a backbone of India’s economic transport facility. The Western corridor from Dadri in Uttar Pradesh to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust near Mumbai will be
1499 kilometers and will connect Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra with an exclusive high speed railway track. The Eastern Dedicated Freight
Corridor from Ludhiana to Dankuni will be 1839 kilometer long and will connect Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal. A major part of Western
corridor will be funded with Japanese assistance and nearly two third of the Eastern corridor will be built with World Bank assistance. The Sonnagar- Dankuni section will be executed on PPP mode. Indian Railways is also investing a substantial amount in the Project.
In a meeting held in the Prime Minister’s Office, the Chief Secretaries and the representatives of the States assured the full cooperation of their state governments in taking forward this important project.
It was decided that Monitoring Committees will be constituted by the State Governments to resolve the issues relating to the Dedicated Freight Corridor project especially land-acquisition in an expeditious manner. The representatives of the nodal authority
Dedicated Freight Corridor Cooperation India Limited (DFCCIL) will be overseeing progress of work with the targeted project completion date being March 2017.
The DFCCIL has said that 67% of the land-acquisition has been completed through the Railway Amendment Act 2008 and as of now the project by and large is
on target. The Prime Minister’s Office will be closely monitoring progress of the project so that necessary action is taken in a time-bound manner.

Five held

Discovering the movement of UG cadre in Khongjom Maning Leikai, troops of 15 Assam Rifles and 27 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector under HQ IGAR (South) launched joint operation in the area and apprehended one UNLF cadre on 08 Jan 2012. The apprehendee was identified as No 2145, SS Pvt Mutum Romesh Singh alias Khunthiba, 25yrs, s/o Mr Dhanonjoy, r/o Khongjom Maning Leikai.
On getting specific information regarding presence of three UPPK cadres troops of 43 Assam Rifles of the Red Shield Division apprehended two UPPK cadres and one lady OGW of UPPK from Kangpokpi. They were identified as SS 2 Lt Maibam Ratan, SS Rect Offr Angom Ingobi Singh and Nengneikim Khongsai . One 9mm Pistol was found in their possession. They were handed over to Police Station Sekmai.
In another operation troops of 25 Assam Rifles of the Division apprehended one cadre of Hill Tiger Force (HTF) from Muolhoi village, lower Haflong. The cadre was identified as John Gabriel, s/o Lalngithang Infimate, r/o lower Muolhoi, Haflong of Dima Hasao district of Assam. The individual was involved in a bomb blast in January this year. He was handed over to Police Station, Haflong.

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WAD condemns meaningless killings

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Imphal, Feb 9: Women Action for Development (WAD) condemned the increasing human rights violation in the state. In a statement WAD said, “Despite of all efforts from various civil societies and NGOs, human rights violation are still on rise. Almost everyday or the alternate day, the killings of innocent people are reported in the state. Over and above, nos. of widows and orphans are increasing day by day in an alarming rate.
It may also be recalled that in the year 2011 there were a number of occurrences of Bomb Blast in Manipur in which 7 innocent people lost their life and many people were injured. During the months of Jan and Feb. 2012, 13 people were killed in encounter by the armed force (both state and non-state actors) which was claimed by JACs as fake encounter. Besides 8 people were also killed in blast related incidents in connection with the 10th assembly election held on 28th of January this year.
However no, culprits were reported to have been brought to justice. The Government’s efforts to tackle such crimes to date have not worked in ways that had been expected in spite of numerous legislations that are framed by the state itself.
Besides, concrete measures and policy of the government to protect the lives of innocents from crimes and injustice are not visible. If such heinous crimes are not barricaded timely from its continuing pace, the prospect of our future generation will be fainted. It is also our firm believes that to shun such crimes and violence, the responsibilities of the state is of utmost importance. Keeping in view of the increasing crime against humanity we would like to appeal to all the concern stakeholders, civil societies, NGOS to response collectively the human rights violation in the state. WAD further appeals to all the state and non state actors to stop killings of innocent people.
We would also like to ask the State to intervene such serious crime and further demands the following from the concern authorities:
Ensure “RIGHT TO LIFE” , ensure proliferation of small arms and respect rule of law.”

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Old question papers given again in recent MCS exam : DESAM

Imphal, Feb 9 NNN: Another controversy emerged on Thursday of setting the same question paper of the earlier examination for the Manipur Civil Service Combined Competitive (Main) Examination 2012 conducted by Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC), with the Democratic Students’ Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) accused the authority of being corrupt in conducting the most competitive and responsible examination of the State
.This time English literature paper-I question for the MCS combined competitive examination, conducted by MPSC was made a copy of the same question from the same competitive exam of the year 2005, DESAM president LC Santosh told the media at the former’s office here.
The exam was conducted only in the interest of a handful of people including the members, secretary, chairman and exam controller of the commission and not in the interest of the public, Santosh alleged.
The prelim exam of the MPSC exam 2012 was also found with at least seven wrong questions copying out from the Internet and some others with unrelated topics, Santosh said.
He said the DESAM has already banned the said prelim exam and any individual who has appeared in the competitive exam would be helped by the student body to fight in the law court against the authority for negligence and added that DESAM would urge the concerned authority to ensure smooth conduct of this exam with proper responsibility in the future.
The Manipur Civil Service Combined Competitive Exam was held on February 6 amidst various controversies involving complaints of misleading answer keys.
As many as 713 candidates registered for the competitive exam, of which 61 candidates failed to turn up for the exam.
The Preliminary Examination for the combined competitive exam was conducted on September 11, 2011 and the results for the same were declared September 24 the same year.

Day: February 9, 2012