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LAMKA, April 20: The SSPP, Siamsinpawlpi (Paite Students’ Welfare Organization) conducted a career guidance camp at Hebron Veng’s YPA Hall, New Lamka with the main focus on the higher secondary school students who will be facing a new career prospect in the near future.

Many students from the area came out in large numbers packing the hall where several imminent speakers were elaborated on diverse topics with the sole aim to provide a stepping stone to the students as they travel along life’s long journey.

Around 700 students participated in the function.

With two govt colleges and more than five privately run colleges and several schools with higher secondary classes, CCPur has a literacy rate of 84% which is slightly higher than that of the whole state.

It is worth recalling that apart from being responsible for the revival of many Government run high schools in the hills, the SSPP under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Tribal Affair, Govt of India at present also runs a residential High School for the under privileged community, which presently accommodates 570 student though it had only a capacity for 500 students.

The said school is located at Ngathal which was established in 1998 .

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IMPHAL, April 20: The CorCOm while remembering the sacrifices of the forefathers of Manipur during the Khongjom Laan or the Anglo-Manipuri War 1891 has praised the sacrifices, said a press statement of the umbrella body of six militant outfits based in Manipur.

The statement said that the forefathers had gone into war with the mighty British with the full knowledge that they will be defeated, which has once again reminded that the Manipuris cannot live attached to some bigger communities.

It said on the first day of the Anglo-Manipuri war on March 24, 1891, the the brave Manipuri army defeated the Britishers and burnt down the British Residency. Five British officers were awarded the death penalty for stealthily attacking Manipur and inflicting injuries to people including woman and children, the statement continued.

Elaborating further, it said that the incident was narrated to the 12the Madras Infantry Lt CJW Grant by 42nd Gorkha Regiment Jamandar Birbal Nagarkati.

Hearing about the incident, Grant telegrammed his superiors in the then Government and led 50 soldiers of the Madra Infantry along with Birbal Nagarkati’s Gorkha soldiers towards Manipur from Tamu, it continued.

On receiving the telegram from Grant, the British Government on March 31, 1891 announced war against Manipur and attacked Manipur from three sides, it said.

General T Graham led the Tamu column which was met with full resistance by Yengkhoiba Major leading  100 Manipuri soldiers at Thoubal.

The last battlefield of the war was at Khongjom, it said and added that Wangkhei Meiraba and his group tried to ward off the British attack on Manipur palace at Wangjing.

The statement further said that the 1891 Anglo-Manipur Laan was a war filled with sacrifices to safeguard Manipur territory and independence. The war was filled not only by the sacrifices of the elders but with the sacrifices of youths like Sengoisana, Heirankhongja and Chinglensana among others, the CorCom statement said.

What was unfortunate was that the Lt Col RHF Rennick led Silchar Column on April 27, 1891 took over Kangla, the statement said.

The statement has further appealed to the people of Manipur to remember the sacrifices of the forefathers on the Anglo-Manipur Khongjom Laan memorial day on April 23.

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IMPHAL, April 20: A press release from the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights in Manipur and the UN has informed that Ms. Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences (UNSRVAW), who will be on an official mission to India from 22nd April to 1st May, 2013 has scheduled a consultation meeting with civil society organizations, women human rights defenders, victims and other advocates working on violence against women on 28th April at Imphal, Manipur.  The scheduled visit follows an invitation sent on 13th March from the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights in Manipur and the UN (CSCHR) to visit Manipur and the North East region during her mission. Civil society organisations and groups including individuals, women human rights defenders and other advocates working on the issue of violence against women and girls in the North East region are preparing for a regional consultation meeting that has been scheduled for 28th April 2013 at Imphal.

Hailing the first ever formal visit of a distinguished official of the UN with a human rights mandate to Manipur as an historic occasion, the press release said that the UNSRVAW will address violence against women broadly, focusing on both its causes and consequences according to the mandate. The Special Rapporteur will study the different manifestations of violence against women in the family both domestic violence and culturally justified practices that are violent to or subordinate women, in the community including rape/sexual assault, sexual harassment, violence perpetrated or condoned by the State (institutional violence) and violence in the transnational sphere that will include violence against immigrant women, asylum seekers and refugees).

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