Manipur News

IMPHAL, June 7: A joint review meeting of various projects and schemes implemented in the state under the NLCPR was convened this morning at the conference hall of Old Secretariat Imphal this morning which was attended by seven visiting officials of different central ministries and head of departments of the state government led by the state chief secretary.The joint official delegates of central ministries headed by the secretary DoNER, Joyati Chandra, jt. secy. DoNER PK Patnaik, director DoNER Udal Shankar and PR Mishra, director MHA North East in charge Dr. MC Mahenathan, director Ministry of Finance, Vandita Kaur and advisory to the Planning Commission of India, SN Brahmo conducted an inspection tour of sites where projects under the NLCPR is undergoing at present.The tour which was conducted this morning included visits of the construction sites of Thoubal Multipurpose project (Maphou Dam), Sagolmang Kharasom bridge, Capitol Project, NIT at Lamphel, City Convention Centre, Sewerage Project.According to an official source, the meeting started at 11:00am after the completion of the tour and further monitored the official progress reports of the various schemes and projects undertaken in the state funded by the Ministry of DoNER under NLCPR since 2000.According to the source, the visiting central officials during the review meeting today expressed their appreciation of the efforts of the various line departments in the implementations of the projects and schemes even though there have been multiple disturbances caused by the deteriorating law and order situation of the state.Further, the visiting central officials also suggested the state officials to submit the Utilization Certificates of the completed works in time in order to avoid the delays in the release of phase wise funds for the implemented projects of the state.In the meantime, director DoNER Joyati Chandra, during a short press interview soon after the joint review meeting at Old Secretariat this afternoon, expressed her appreciation of the efforts of the state government while implementing the projects and schemes under NLCR during this last two years. She further said that the state government has been implementing a total of 135 separate projects and schemes under NLCPR since 2000 for which the DoNER ministry has already released a total of Rs.1119 crores for the proper implementation of the projects. Besides out of the approved projects 46 projects were already completed and many of the remaining projects are in the completion stage while some projects are in progress.It is also mentioned that, the progress in the implementation of the various projects under NLCPR in the state might be due to stability of the existing state government and frequent monitoring of the construction works of projects both by the state government and officials concern from the centre, she added.Director DoNER finally mentioned that, delaying of launching of the propose helicopter services into the state was due to delay in the clearance from the ministry of Civil Aviation and there are possibilities of the project taking more time as the officials of the civil aviation are in the process of surveying to launched helicopter service not only in the state but also for the entire states of North east, she added.

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NEW DELHI, June 7 (MIC) : Delhi Police made one of its biggest drug hauls in recent years while probing the nexus between international drug smugglers and militants. The cops arrested Ram Naresh, a Delhi-based smuggler, with 250kg of Ephedrine and Amphetamine tablets worth over Rs 200 crore. Officials said these drugs are smuggled from Delhi to Myanmar and China via Manipur by conduits based in northeastern states and sold in parties. Proceeds from the sales are used by terrorist outfits to fund their activities. Ram Naresh used to procure the drugs from one Rakesh of `Grand Pharma` in Patiala , officials said. The tablets were kept in 50 polythene packets in 10 wooden boxes and the consignment was supposed to be sent to Guwahati through a transport company in Janakpuri. The accused had kept the boxes at his driver`s house in Dabri area before coming to Delhi by air, where he was intercepted near IGI airport on Saturday, the officials added. Delhi Police had unearthed the nexus in March-April this year when it arrested two suspects — Yaiphaba and Napoleon — and seized 200kg of ephedrine from them. Information about Ram Naresh came to light during interrogation of Napoleon and Yaiphaba. Police traced him near the airport on Saturday around 4.30pm when he got down from an IndiGo Airlines flight. Sources said he had come from Guwahati after a meeting with associates to whom he supplies drugs. His driver Jameel Ansari was waiting for him in his Scorpio and took him to his house at G-1 block in Sitapuri, Dabri. “Jameel unlocked the ground floor of the house and both loaded 10 large white bags in the car and started moving. We stopped them for checking but Ramesh refused to cooperate after which we seized the consignment and arrested him,” said an official. Ramesh was not able to provide a satisfactory reply about the consignment or show any documents, said officials. “Each polypack contained 500gm of small white coloured tablets. When we checked the tablets with the narcotics drug detection kit, the tablets were found to be ephedrine and amphetamine. The total weight of the 10 boxes was 250kg and it is worth Rs 200 crore in international market,” a source said. Sources said Ramesh disclosed that “these tablets were to be sent to Myanmar and China through Guwahati and are used for preparing ecstasy and other drugs for sale in parties. Ephedrine is in high demand in China “. He named his associate in Gurgaon as one Umesh Mehra, who is involved in trafficking of drugs with him for a long time. “He disclosed that he had to send the consignment on Saturday to a Robindro in Manipur,” said the source.

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In the wake of the growing chant for more liberalization of economies around the globe and the unabashed worship of the market, there are many extremely well informed voices calling for caution against dropping all economic regulatory mechanisms. It is true market worship has led to a path of growth generally, but critics are now calling attention to the fact that growth alone cannot be development. Development, they say is not about the size of GDPs and GNPs alone, but also of a number of other conditions, some subjective and others objective. One of these is environment. Among the others are: gender empowerment, equitable distribution of income, public health etc. The most economically and militarily powerful nation, the United States of America, has often been the subject of case studies in probing these issues. Some of the questions asked by Nobel Prize winning economists like Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz should be able to rhetorically present the nature of the problem. Why is this most developed nation also dotted with the most number of prisons in the world? According to Stiglitz, (“Roaring Nineties”) some of the American states spend more money on prison maintenance than on primary education. It is true that these rich societies have enough to spend on both prison and education, but the picture narrates of something extremely dysfunctional? Again according to a study by Amartya Sen and John Dreze (“Development as Freedom”), Black Americans although on the average they command incomes many times higher than people in the Third World countries even after taking into account the differences in the cost of living, have a lower life expectancy than many of the latter societies. Markets also have seldom shown respect for the environment, and hence the world’s most well endowed market, the USA’s refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol on world environment. These are facts and figures that point out how incomplete the traditional notions of development are. The issues are many, but on the morrow of the World Environment Day on June 5, it would be a profitable exercise to reflect on the many awesome aspects of the environment question.The question is large and can even go beyond easy comprehension. Viewed with an evolutionary sense of time, there seems nothing that anybody can do about the changes that happen to the earth’s environment. As for instance, who can prevent the next Ice Age from happening, for science today has determined that the Ice Epochs are a cyclic event, just as the earth’s seasons are, although on a much longer cyclic path. Seasons happen because of the earth revolves around the sun and also because of the inclination of its axis at 23.5 degrees against the plane of its revolution. It is now also established that the earth’s axis is not just inclined but also wobbles by about 4 degrees and this wobbling is thought to be the cause behind Ice Ages. In evolutionary terms this cycle may take millions of years to complete, but all the same it is inevitable. The last Ice Age, a minor one according to scientists, ended about 12,000 years ago, and it is only after this event that the race for modern civilizations was flagged off. Life forms also go extinct. This is again a fact about life on earth. Millions and millions of species of life have died out while million others have come out of oblivious existence to take centre stage in the earth’s 4.5 billion years. If a comet hit had not wiped off the predatory dinosaurs about 64 million years ago, scientists believe the species of life that evolved into modern man could have remained an insignificant creature perhaps the size of a house lizard, out of its own survival instinct. Evolutionary scientists like the late Stephen Jay Gould (author of best-selling “Wonderful Life”) and Simon Conway Morris (author of the authoritative “The Crucible of Creation”) have demonstrated through the study of fossils that on the one hand life just wants to be (the sole purpose of the creature called sponge seems just to hang around at one spot throughout its life until it comes to an end), and on the other, that life forms almost with an uncanny certainty, go extinct from time to time. They have also argued quite convincingly that evolution is not centred around humans and its sole purpose is to preserve life, not necessarily human life. The awesomeness of the mysteries of life is in a pristine sense, religious. If we reflect on it with earnest, it should humble even our greatest problems. On Environment Day then, let us learn to be humble.

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IMPHAL, June 7: The state government aims to complete the ongoing biometric data collection to facilitate the issue of the Unique Identity Number (Aadhaar) to all residents of the state by October this year. The state Planning department has been made the nodal department in the state for the project, wherein biometric data of the state populace is being collected after a MoU had been signed between the state and the Unique Identification Authority of India, (UIDAI) to facilitate the issue of Unique Identity Numbers in the state.According to a source, the UIDAI had also entered into a MoU with the Registered General of India (RGI) for collection of the biometric data during the National Population Registration (NPR) exercise, based on which the Aadhaar No. will be issued by the UIDAI to all residents enrolled.The source also maintained that the UIDAI has appointed the Bharat Electronic Ltd (BEL) as the enrollment agency and the collection of the biometric data has been undertaken through BEL vendors, Manitron, etc. The concerned Deputy Commissioners of all districts will also helped in the conduct of the exercise, the source further added. Meanwhile, it has been already notified recently that the state government has decided to use the Aadhaar No. as proof of address and identity proof for individuals during the implementation of central flagship and Central Sponsored Schemes (CSS).The source further mentioned that the state government has decided that KYR+ data (incorporating services and entitlement that could potentially be linked with Aadhaar number) shall be collected along with the biometric data by the enrolment agency, BEL and that a format for KYR plus data caption will be circulated by the Planning department in due course.Further, it is also officially instructed that DCs of each districts will assign a supervisor to assist collection of biometric data and maintaining a record as envisaged in the handbook of Aadhaar of UIDAI.In the meantime, according to an official notification issued by the special secretary Planning government of Manipur Sajad Hassan, the DCs should also carry out awareness campaigns in their respective districts regarding the exercise. They will provide BPL list and maintain record of BPL beneficiaries of MNREGS/NOAP/PDS/RSBY/JSY, etc. enrolled during biometric data collection as well as provide incentives/create facilities to BPL beneficiaries of welfare schemes, so that cost of enrolment of BPL individuals at the enrolment centre nearest to them is reduced. These data shall be furnished to the state level implementation of UID Committee/Planning department, and it is also mentioned that the state planning department should provide the DCs with IEC materials as well as funds (provided under 13th Finance Commission Award) as incentive to attract BPL residents, the official notification added.

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IMPHAL, June 7: Security forces have arrested at least three militant cadres from counter insurgency operations conducted at different parts of the state.A statement issued by the SP Thoubal district, the Kakching Police team conducted search operation at Kakching Lamkhai and arrested one cadre PREPAK (VC) at about 10:30 am yesterday.The arrested cadre is identified as one Oinam Charlie alias Myko alias Shidadba Singh, 28, s/o O. Ibotombi Singh of Oinam Mamang Leikai, Bishnupur district.It said that on preliminary investigation the individual disclosed himself as s/s corporal and to have joined the outfit in December, 2003. He was trained at Chalong, Chandel district, and allotted with army number 203578, it further added.In another incident the Porompat police have arrested two cadres of the UPPK yesterday morning around 5 am from Singjamei Bheigyapati Leikai near Singjamei Bridge informed a statement issued by the SP Imphal East district.The individuals have been identified as one Ningombam Ajitkumar alias Sanjit alias Abung Singh, 35, s/o (L) N. Chandramani Singh of Singjamei Khongangpheidekpi and Thokchom Boying alias Boby Singh s/o Th. Chaoba Singh of Ningomthong Kitnapanung.The release further stated that the arrested cadres were active members of the group and that they had disclosed their involvement in various extortion activities from the Horticulture Department, PHED, Veterinary Department, general public etc to raise party fund.Meanwhile, another statement issued by the PRO IGAR (S) has stated that combined forces have arrested six militant cadres in separate incidents.It said that the 23 Assam Rifles has arrested five PREPAK (VC) cadres and recovered arms and ammunitions, yesterday from counter insurgency operations conducted in the general areas of Talau and Chingingkhok of Ukhrul district.The arrested cadres have been identified as one Waribam RL alias Tomba, 36, s/o W. Samu of Talau Mayai Leikai, army No. 06610 (Batch No. 02 s/s pvt.), Sibam Sarat Chandra alias Ngamba alias Thawanjao Meitei, 40, s/o Dhaja Meitei of Talau Maning Leikai, army No.07509 (Batch No.1 s/s pvt), Keisham Saraf alias Koklei, 48, s/o K. Yaima of Chana Mamang Leikai, army No.06509 (Batch No.1), Khongbamtabam Iyatomba alias Athouba, 47, s/o KH. Ibohal Meitei of Sabunkhok Mayai Leikai, army No.03610 (Batch No.02) and Thangjam Binoi, 46, s/o (L) Th. Isotombi of Yaingangpokpi Makha Leikai, army No.01610 (Batch No.02).One Chinese 9mm auto rifle with magazine, 2 Chinese 9 mm auto pistol with magazine, 18 live ammunitions of 9mm and 20 live ammunitions of AK-47 were recovered from the arrested individuals. They have been handed over to the Lamlai Police along with the recovered items, further added the statement.The statement further stated that a combined team of 30 AR, 33 AR along with Manipur police had arrested one UNLF cadre during an operation launched in the general area of Haipak Mapham in the wee hour today at about 1:30 am.The cadre is identified as one s/s lt. Thounajam Sana alias Ratan Singh, 36, s/o Th. Kula, No.503. He was also handed over to Lamlai police station, the release added.

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By A Staff ReporterIMPHAL June 6: The ongoing Jiribam to Tupul rail head construction at Rangkhong will be stopped beginning June 12, if the due compensation amount for land acquisition is not distributed by the concerned authorities within the stipulated time.
The announcement was made by G Aching, village secretary of Rangkhong village at office chamber of K Panmei, vice chairman of the Hill Area Committee, Manipur Legislative Assembly today.
He further stated that about 29 houses have been affected by the ongoing rail works since the inception of the works in 2009, the concerned DC and district administration have been intimated about the issue, but a deaf ear has been turned to the loss of the villagers. “We have lost our arable land and our houses, we have been suffering for the last two years but our woes have remained unaddressed, we are given a step motherly treatment as we are viewed as ignorant villagers, we have been living as refugees”, a visibly distraught Aching said .
He stressed that since the compensation has not been awarded, the villagers’ social existence has been greatly affected.
Supplementing the grievances, chairman of Rangkhong village, R Dinglin stated that five villages located within Noney area namely Awang Khul, Rangkhong, Lukhambi, Nungtek and Marang Ching have been affected by the railway line construction.
“Our ancestral land, farms and streets, houses and cemetery tombs have been ravaged, mudslides are a frequent occurrence during the rainy seasons as a fallout of the excavation works, our woes have yet to be addressed by the concerned authorities, as a result we have decided to oppose the construction of the rail head” he added. The villagers appealed to the government to give the deserving compensation within the deadline of June 12, failing which the ongoing works will be stopped and other forms of agitations will be carried out.

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By A Staff ReporterIMPHAL June 6: The Manipur Press Club located at Majorkhul has recently reported some paranormal activities.The club which is an official destination of the All Manipur Working Journalist’s Union, apex scribe body of the state and a favored spot for holding press meets and important functions has now become a controversial place among the journalist fraternity that haunting have occurred inside the club building recently.
The paranormal activities report culled from various sources stated that, near midnight, a female voice singing could be heard, sound of heavy footsteps on the ceiling and stairs, and a reported sighting of a female form.
Many occupants of the club building ,at present masons, press club chowkidar  and a senior correspondent have reported witnessing the specter.
The club chowkidar, Kalu was also in a state of hysteria after an encounter with the apparition  a few days back and a local shaman was called to tend to his condition. The shaman also exorcised the building by throwing rice inside the club building and the outdoor areas of the club premises. The chowkidar in a state of delirium went up the stairs till the fourth floor and allegedly came down from the bamboo scaffolding erected for construction of the club upper floors.
“ I don’t know what happened but a voice kept calling me, and I rushed to the top floor and I heard a scream like someone falling down, I don’t know what came over me ,but I came down the scaffolding instead of taking the stairs”, a visibly apprehensive Kalu told this IFP reporter.
The chief mason in charge of the club construction also stated similar comment that many of his workers also left the work after encountering the bizarre activities. “ One of my workers came all the way to Serou,Kakching at night saying that he had had enough and can’t stay at the club anymore”. The chief mason also said “ I came down one night after hearing a noise downstairs, as costly tiles were kept below, I feared that someone might be attempting to rob the tiles, I had a torch light in hand, there was no one, later from near the toilet, I saw a female form suddenly rushing up the stairs in a flash, a chill ran down my spine and I had another similar encounter”, he said that he had goose bumps recounting his experience.
The story was also told in a similar manner by a senior correspondent of a national paper who occupies a room at the first floor of the club building. “ I mostly work late, one night I heard a sound of singing, it sounded like a girl and I went down to investigate.

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By A Staff ReporterIMPHAL, June 6: The proposed sitting of the State Advisory Board on NSA under the chairmanship of Justice (Retd) SP Rakhkowa along with two members of the board Dr. Yamini Kanta Pukan, Sr. Advocate and Jodginder Singh Sr. Advocatewhich is scheduled to be held from June 7 at the board office located at Sajiwa Jail, Manipur.
The proposed sitting will examine the cases of the detention of the 17 under trials mainly members belonging to separate under ground outfits who were apprehended by the security forces during the counter insurgency operations.
According to an official source, the official scheduled of the first round of sittings will be convened following and official intimations from the state Home department seeking the official approval of the board for the detentions of 17 under trials identified as Konsam Laxman Singh alias Anil alias Angamba, 42, s/o late K Manihar Singh of Khuyathong Polem Leikai,  Salam Keshorjit Meitei alias Boy alias Jila, 32, s/o S Shamungou Singh of Slanthong Nandiebam Leikai,  Thokchom Nanao Singh alias, 34 s/o late Th. Birjit Singh of Thameiband Hijam Dewan Leikai,  Chingakham John Singh alias Chingkhuba, 35, s/o Ch Bira Singh of Andro Bazar, Yuman Domen Singh alias Tayai, 29 s/o Y Labango Singh of Nambol Moijing, Sanabam Samananda Singh alias Bung alias Bungcha, 20, s/o S Tarapn Singh of Nambol Kabowakching Mayai Leikai.
Other undertrials are identified as Longjam Thoithoi Singh alias Lukhoi alias Naocha alias Samson, 29 s/o L Itobi Singh of Akham Mayai Leikai,  Ninghtoujam Idom Singh alias Chamba, 35, s/o later N. Tomba Singh of Leimaram Awang Leikai,  Wahengbam Dilip Singh alias Pomel alias Ibomcha alias Tomba, 30, s/o W Thambal Singh of Toubul Maning Leikai,  Mayanglangbam Ibomcha Singh alias Sarkar, 32, s/o late M Soba Singh of Heirangoithong Maibam Leikai,  Ahiebam Ningol Thingujam Ongbi Sorojini Devi alias Soro alias Iteima, 39, w/o Th Subhash Singh of Heierangoithong Maibam Leikai presently residing at Uripok Tourangbam Leikai, RK Manisan Singh, 32, s/o RK Khedasana Singh of Wangjing Heitupokpi, Yumnam Surjit Singh alias Abung alias Amit, 27, s/o Y Mani Singh of Motbung Meitei Leikai, Sagolsem Ibochou Singh alias Rojen alias Mani, 51, s/o S Changou Singhy of Sekmaijin Khunou,  Thoudam Sanjit Singh, 31, s/o Th Manihar Singh of Uchiwa Awang Leikai,Arambam Deva Singh, 46, s/o late A Lairen Singh of Sakmaijin Bazar and SalamAmuba Singh, 35, s/o S Isheihanba Singh of Hiyanglam Awang Leikai.
The official source further mentioned that, the state home department has already recommended the detentions of these 17 under trials soon after they were apprehended by the security forces and following official proceedings of concerned district magistrates under Section 3(2) of the NSA Act 1980.
The source also mentioned that finalization for the detention of the said 17 undertrials will be finalized only after three rounds of sitting of the board which are scheduled on June 7, 8 and 13, the source added.

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There is a tendency in Manipur for things to always return to square one. The avenue for a way out of this depressing stagnancy eludes the imagination of one and all, including our leaders, intellectuals and the numerous NGOs in the field of social works. The shared obsession seems to be to analyse, dissect, scrutinize and then either rubbish or glorify the past compulsively and then blame each other or else some external agency or the other for all the misery and misfortune that is everybody’s fate. Maybe there is some truth in this vision but it certainly cannot be the whole truth. To think this is so would be to reduce the social organism that we all are part of, to a simplistic mechanics of stimulus and responses only. And this we know cannot be, for the being and the soul of any society is far more complex, and we would contend, infinitely so. The difficulty in sizing up a society or its mores completely lies in this complexity and not to any attributable flaws of the past, as the current intellectual tradition in social analysis in the state seems to suggest. If social issues were so clear cut, and there were no ambiguities about remedial measures, most social problems ought to have disappeared by now everywhere in the world. The greatest thinkers have discovered, or others discovered after they are long gone, that this has never been the case and cannot ever be so as well.
The linearity of our social analyses has had some very serious consequences. For instance we seem to be a society which sees salvation in the past, at the cost of even ignoring the future. From the point of view of this limited linear vision, this is totally understandable. At least in its structure as a chronological sequence of events, there is a definitiveness about the past and this makes it comparatively simple to grasp, or at least it does not make it seem out of grasping distance. We would not say the same thing about the substance that gave form to this structure, but even here the same definitiveness associated with past events thins out the desperation to get the diagnosis right. The unfortunate thing is, this approach in our effort to come to grip with the past, is often extended to our quest for an understanding of the future. This, we would contend is flawed, for one thing there is nothing linear or definite about the future. In fact, the biggest flaw in historical materialism of the Marxist variety is precisely this linear and deterministic view of history and the future. This modernist outlook it seems is infectious, and hence our problem solving efforts have seldom acknowledged that the future is about discovering previously unknown and unexplored equations. The foundations of our mainstream as well as the numerous prevalent alternate politics today have never been built on any such broad platform, negating in the process the well known, one line definition of politics as “art of the possible”. Unlike the past which is a dead process and circumscribed in time and memory, the field for the future is wide open. We cannot erase the Chahi Taret Khuntakpa chapter in our history, but creative vision of the future can prevent similar historical catastrophes.
While we cannot possibly forget our past, or ignore what we have inherited from it, we do feel there is an urgent need for our society to tone down some of its claustrophobic obsession with the past and develop a vision of the future that is not everything about undoing the past or based on any utopian ideal, but in the light of it as precisely “an art of the possible”. Only when this understanding becomes the standard, realistic terms for resolutions to most of our conflict situations, both internal and external, can begin to dawn. If the question is about past wrongs and their impacts on the present and the future, surely as creative, autonomous beings that all human individuals are, we can overcome these impacts. In structural terms, democracy guarantees this possibility. In spiritual terms too, the prison of “coloniality” of even formerly colonized worlds, cannot contain this same creativity that gives the individual the capability of sizing up his predicament and affect the changes necessary to overcome that state of mind. It is depressing that our public discourses seldom have approached the future without the past as the sole measuring tape. Let our future go beyond the status of being just a response to our past.

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By A Staff ReporterIMPHAL, June 6:  A high level official team of Ministry of Department of Northeast Region (DoNER)  led by DoNER secretary Jayati Chandra and includes joint secretary PK Patnaik and directors of the ministry Dr. Udal Sankar and PR Mishra besides Dr. MC Mehenathan, director ministry of home affairs (Northeast in-charge), Vandita Kaur, director (PF-1) ministry of finance and SN Bromho Choudhuri, advisor planning commission have arrived state capital this afternoon and conducted official inspections and review development works which have been funded by non-lapsable central pool of resource (NLCPR).
 According to the source, the purpose of the visit of the high level team is to inspect various development works being initiated with funds from NLCPR. The visiting team will visit and inspect work sites of various developmental projects with state officials beginning tomorrow morning. Later at 3 pm on the same day, a high level meeting will be convened at the conference hall of Manipur secretariat here, added the source.The officials from the state will be led by chief secretary DS Poonia in the high level meeting tomorrow.
The official source informed that the visiting dignitaries held a meeting with the state transport department in the afternoon today moments after their arrival.The discussion in the meeting mostly centered on traffic problems and shrinking parking space in Imphal and the possibility of the introduction of the newly acquired and much awaited low floor public transport buses, added the source.

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By A Staff ReporterIMPHAL June 6: In an endeavor to address the rising crime perpetrated against women in the state, a monthly magazine titled “Nupigee Punshi” has been launched today at GM hall by MLA Th Nandakishore.
The magazine is launched under the aegis of Young Women Help Organization with Arambam Robita,who is also the secretary of the Organization as the editor of the magazine.
The function was also attended by ex-chairperson of Manipur State Commission for Women, Dr Ch Jamini and social worker Laishram Nabakishore.
In the keynote address, Arambam Robita stated that the initiative to launch the magazine was to address and inform the public against the rising violence and crime perpetrated against women.
“We have an aim to spread awareness among the public, especially to the women so that the victims can know how to address the situation and what help can be sought, we have the belief that the crime rate will decreased if awareness is provided through our publication”, she said.
MLA Th Nandakisore in his speech as the chief guest commended the motive behind the inception of the magazine.He stated that the elected legislators need to address the issue of the rampant violence committed to women. He opined that the monetary benefits given to widows under the scheme of the Family Welfare department needs to be increased.
Today’s program saw a full audience mainly comprising of widows and victims of conflict incidents.

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