Day: November 9, 2017

IMPHAL | Nov 9

Kayisii, minister of tribal affairs and hills and fisheries, government of Manipur has extended heartiest congratulations to Mary Kom on her wining the Asian Boxing Championship Gold Medal recently held at Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

By A Staff Reporter

IMPHAL | Nov 9

Students of Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Takyelpat burnt down two unused cars and some infrastructures of the institute at its campus today as a protest against the authorities not fulfilling their demands.

The protesting students stopped fire-fighters who had come to the spot to douse the fire. The state police force were also not able to stop the students from burning down of the vehicles and the infrastructures.

Speaking to the media, All Manipur ITI Students Union general secretary, L. Parker said that several memorandums have been submitted to the chief minister, N. Biren, education minister, Th. Radheshyam and to the authority concerned asking for infrastructure development and to review the whole administrative system of the ITIs.

But till today the government has not given any positive reply to their demands so they have taken up the agitation, he added.

The infrastructure in all the ITIs does not match the present day needs and moreover there are many unqualified staffs, he continued.

The general secretary warned that if the government still fails to take up positive action to their demands more intense forms of agitation will also take place in the future.

By A Staff Reporter

IMPHAL | Nov 9

If the poor people were affected by demonetisation, they would have come out on the streets and taken up certain agitation. It is certain that the Congress party was greatly affected by it, said Rajya Sabha MP, Ksh. Bhabananda.

The MP, who is also the state unit president of the BJP was addressing a gathering at Niytaipat Chuthek party office following a rally which was conducted in connection with the four-day observation of national wide “Anti-Black Money Day (Kala Dhan Virodhi Diwas)” which ends today.   

The rally was flagged off from Shumang Leela Shanglen, Palace Compound Imphal and culminated at the BJP state office, Nitaipat Chuthek. 

Bhabananda who also took part in the rally said demonetisation does not give any affect to the poor it only affected the rich people who are using black money. The president said that according to expert economist the country’s economy will grow by the year 2018.  

Works minister, Th. Biswajit who was also present in the gathering lambasted the previous Congress government stating that it was a regime of scam and not for the people.  

The minister said that demonetisation of Rs. 500 and 1,000 notes last year was a risky and a bold step taken up the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi to eradicate black money and black business from the country.

There are a lot of advantages of demonitisation and the disadvantages are only standing in a long queue in bank to deposit money and expenditure in printing the new currency, added Biswajit.

The minister claimed that the previous Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh did not take up any action to investigate the black money circulating in the country as it was bound to give a negative impact to the Congress party. 

Stating that there are many resources in the state which can bring about economical developmental in the state, the minister asked, “Why the previous government had not taken up any process to utilise the resources in rightful ways?”

He said that the current government under the leadership of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi is working at its best level to uplift the poor with the ideology of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas”.

IMPHAL | Nov 9

Institute  of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD) which is under department of Biotechnology, government of India based in Manipur, Takyelpat today signed a historic MoU with Belgium based  Vision on Technology (Vito) in various important fields. 

A release said the MoU was based on climate change, environment, water management, biotechnology, bamboo refinery and bio-resources management etc. during a glittering ceremony held at Hotel Taj, New Delhi on the occasion of  the state visit of the  King and Queen of Belgium  to India.

The MoU was signed by Prof. Dinabandhu Sahoo, director of IBSD and Dr. Dirk Fransaer, managing director of Vito. The  MoU was  signed in presence of HE Didier Reynders, federal deputy Prime Minister and minister of foreign affairs and european affairs, HE Pieter De Crem, federal secretary of State for foreign trade, HE Rudi Vervoort, minister-president of the Brussels-Capital region as well as ambassador of Belgium to India, it said.

In total only 16 MoUs were signed which include ADANI Group, CII, Pharmaceutical Industry, Bharat Electronics, government of Meghalaya, IIT Kanpur, IBSD etc. “We are very fortunate and lucky to be chosen as the only research based institute from the Northeast and the entire country to be part of this historic event. I am sure this MoU is very important for both the countries especially for the socio economic development of Northeast”, said Prof Sahoo.

“With Indian resources and Belgium technologies we will be able to bring a lot of development at the grass root level and bring changes in the life of people”, he added.

Prof. Sahoo who later met the visiting Belgian King Philippe is very happy to inform that things are rapidly changing in Northeast and soon many more developmental projects will be brought to the region, it said.

The MoU is very important which is taking place in the year when both the nations are celebrating 70 years of diplomatic ties, is aimed at deepening the overall political and economic engagement between the two countries, added the release.

Further it continued the royal couple was accompanied by six ministers and a high powered business delegation comprising of CEOs of about 90 Belgian companies, 13 heads of academic institutions and a 30-member media delegation.