Day: February 24, 2015

IMPHAL, February 24: If there is any shortage of money in providing health care to the people, Andro assembly constituency MLA Thounaojam Shyamkumar said, he would even share his local area development fund to save their lives.

He was speaking at the inaugural function of the 24X7 Yairipok Yambem Public Health Centre in Andro. He further said that as an elected representative of the Andro people, he has the responsibility to provide good health care, education etc. The Local Area Development fund is not only meant for development but can also be used in the health sector too, he said.

Assuring the medical staffs of the Yambem PHC 24X7 that the local meira paibis would take care of their security every day, he appealed them to feel at home at the PHC because five local women from several villages will be deployed for providing them security on a daily basis.

He has also urged the Health minister, Health director and the State government to make the Keithel Manbi PHC and Maoirangpurel PHSC fully functional 27X7 in the interest of the people.

He said the present Health director is the right person for the post of the NHRM mission director because no other directors of the past were as perfect as the current director. Under the leadership of Dr Ibomcha, the entire State has been provided with equal medical facilities.

Under the watch of Dr Ibomcha, the State has an infant mortal rate which is lesser than most of the other states in India. There was a time when infant mortality was quite common in every village but now it has seen a drop as Primary health centres are set up everywhere, Shyamkumar said.

Speaking as the president at the inaugural function, the State`™s health director Dr Okram Ibomcha said under the health directorate, there are 86 PHCs which are yet to be completed and 421 functional PHCs.

The time of delivering a baby is the most dangerous period in the life of a woman, so let`™s stop the culture of home delivering babies at home, he appealed, adding that the State government has plans to remove the grievances of people by making the PHCs fully functional 24X& with delivery facilities across the State. The Moirangpurel PHSC will soon be upgraded to a PHC and the Keithelmanbi PHC will also be soon upgraded to a 24X7 functioning PHC, he said.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/02/shyamkumar-proposes-to-spend-lad-fund-on-providing-health-care-to-people/

IMPHAL, February 24: The Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) has sent a reminder to the Chief Minister of Manipur demanding changes of terminologies and further issues of redefinition, replacement of clauses in the draft bill, the Manipur regulation of visitors and tenants bill, 2015.

In a statement issued by S Rajendrakumar, secretary to convenor, pointed out that the JCILPS submitted important proposals on February 14 for the ILP bill during the ensuing Assembly session demanding an important legislation of Protection of the indigenous Peoples of Manipur and necessary legislation to the effect.

It revealed that during the meeting held on February 14 with the Chief Minister and the representatives of the JCILPS, the contents of the Government proposed draft bill were disclosed to the representatives however it completely bypassed the aspiration of the people of Manipur.

Subsequently, as a representative of the movements for the interest of the indigenous people the committee recommended certain modifications in the draft bill of the Manipur Regulation of Visitors and Tenants Bill, 2015, it said.

Further elaborating on their modification, the committee reportedly pointed out that in the title of the Bill, the word `Visitors`™ was vague and innocuous, rather demanded a suitable terminology `Non-indigenous` or `Non-Manipuri` or `Migrants` in lieu of `Visitors`.

It put forwards that the passing of the bill in the proposed draft would legitimize the presence of people who had earlier resided in Manipur since 1949, and demanded a cut-off base year 1951 as an unavoidable component in the proposed legislation in order to mitigate demographic and socio-economic imbalance developing in the multi-ethnic population of Manipur.

Observing that a clear objective in the bill for protection of the indigenous peoples of Manipur and its land from demographic marginalisation must be mentioned in the Bill, it held that the objective should be `the necessity to protect the Minorities, distinct ethnic Manipuris who deserves their rightful preservation such as social, cultural, economic and political practices`, etc.

It continued that in the reminder the committee also asked the Chief Minister that the indigenous people in the context of Manipur be inserted in the bill as the ethnic communities who had been born in the state along with those who had merged into the population through kingship and through sharing of its socio-economic, cultural and multi-ethnic civilisation of the state.

In the meantime, it further demanded inclusion explicit legislations like a permit or a pass for migrants as regards to their purpose, whereabouts and validity etc of their presence.

It also said that a cut-off of base year of 1951 to all people participating and creating of demographic influx into the state besides prohibiting land ownership rights to all non-indigenous people and necessary procedure be included in the preparation of the bill proposed.

Further narrowing down to the menace of migrant influx, it urged that a full fledged labour department which has outreach in all the district of Manipur be strengthened in operational matters for registration and regulation of inter-state migrant labourers, and its necessary rules be framed.

At the same, demanded the inclusion mechanism for detection and deporation of illegal migrants or other non-indigenous people, in the proposed bill.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/02/jcilps-demands-change-of-terminologies-and-more-in-the-draft-bill/

IMPHAL, February 24: Villages which have been traditionally engaged in sericulture farming are targeted to be projected as model villages of sericulture by providing maximum help from the Sericulture department, stated the department`™s director, Waikhom Ibohal.

He was talking to the media at the sidelines of the inaugural function of the five-day training programme for beneficiaries under the North Eastern Region Textile Promotion Scheme 2014-15, organised by the Imphal East District Sericulture Officer at Heingang Ibudhou Laiharaopham Community hall.

Before the training programme, the director told media persons that the State was one of the most favourable States for starting Sericulture projects in India, adding that sericulture farming has been practiced by our ancestors as a traditional activity. He expressed that during his tenure, villages like Khurkhul, Andro, Pheiyeng and Thongjao which have been engaged in sericulture farming since time immemorial are targeted of being developed into model villages of Sericulture.

Secondly, the Sericulture project recently taken up under the North-Eastern Region Textile Promotion Scheme, 2014-15 must be successfully groomed to start bi-volatile cocoon production. The farmers should also co-operate with the department to make the project successful so that sericulture is revived in the State, he said.

Stressing that highlighting the potential of Sericulture in our State to the people of Manipur was his first priority, he said Mother Nature has gifted Manipur a soil which is conducive for sericulture farming of four varieties of silk such as Muga, Mulbbary, Eri and Oak Tasar with a quality which is very different from other Indian States.

In the second phase of the Manipur Sericulture Project after Japan stopped funding the NERTPS 2014-15, the four districts of Imphal East, Imphal West, Thoubal and Bishnupur have been ordered to take up training programmes for selected farmers.

In this regard, the training programme was a continuation from the ones at Thoubal, Bishnupur and Imphal West. Today, 150 selected farmers from Imphal East district participated in the programme which will go on for five days.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/02/sericulture-dept-to-project-villages-engaged-in-sericulture-farming-into-model-villages/