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IMPHAL March 9: Noted playwright Budha Chingtham  was awarded the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Award for best script for his play ‘Mythical Surrender’ at a formal ceremony held at Hotel Taj at New Delhi yesterday.
The award was given after the theatre festival hosted at Shri Ram Centre and Kamani Theatre which commenced from March 2 and concluded yesterday.The play was among the ten selected from across the nation out of 250 plays and received 9 nominations. Along with the best script award ,director of the play Deepak Ningthouja received the award for best choreographer award and  award for innovative sound design went to N Jayadeva. The award carry a cash prize of Rs 1 lac each.
The play is based on the violation of human rights in the North East and centered on a woman(Sanarei) who is violated by serpentine creatures and conceives. She sacrifices her son to save the future of the society.

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IMPHAL, March 9: Tight security have been made in the entire greater Imphal, Mantripukhri and Lamphel areas on the eve of the proposed visit of the President of the India Pratiba Devi Patel to the state capital and the subsequent 40 hours general strike called by the MPLF to boycott her visit to the state.
In the meantime, all forms of security rehearsal for the proposed visit of the President of India have already been done yesterday at Imphal Airport to give her a guard of honour and full deployment of maximum strength of the state security forces have been made since this evening along the Tiddim road from Imphal Airport to Raj Bhavan Imphal.
According to a highly placed official source, the state home department considering the existing turmoil of law and order situation of the state and owing to the boycott by the underground MPLF on the proposed visit of the President of India from this midnight has taken utmost care providing tight and full-proof security to the visit of the President.
According to the source, a total strength including two SPs, four Additional SPs, 10 DSPs, 30 Inspectors, 55 Sub-Inspectors 31 Assistant Sub-Inspectors, 46 Head Constables and 351 police constables of the state police department have been detailed as security for the proposed visit of the President of India from Imphal Airport to Raj Bhavan along the Tiddinm road. On the other hand the first round of security rehearsal for the deputed stated forces were conducted today at 2nd MR Ground and Air Field of Imphal Airport today which was attended by 152 personnel of the state police forces, headed by Additional SP (Imphal West) with 38 Sub Inspectorss, 35 ASIs and 48 women constables from eight district police stations of the state except Ukhrul under Tamenglong have been detailed the security measures for the proposed visit of the President.

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IMPHAL, March 9: Tight security have been made in the entire greater Imphal, Mantripukhri and Lamphel areas on the eve of the proposed visit of the President of the India Pratiba Devi Patel to the state capital and the subsequent 40 hours general strike called by the MPLF to boycott her visit to the state.
In the meantime, all forms of security rehearsal for the proposed visit of the President of India have already been done yesterday at Imphal Airport to give her a guard of honour and full deployment of maximum strength of the state security forces have been made since this evening along the Tiddim road from Imphal Airport to Raj Bhavan Imphal.
According to a highly placed official source, the state home department considering the existing turmoil of law and order situation of the state and owing to the boycott by the underground MPLF on the proposed visit of the President of India from this midnight has taken utmost care providing tight and full-proof security to the visit of the President.
According to the source, a total strength including two SPs, four Additional SPs, 10 DSPs, 30 Inspectors, 55 Sub-Inspectors 31 Assistant Sub-Inspectors, 46 Head Constables and 351 police constables of the state police department have been detailed as security for the proposed visit of the President of India from Imphal Airport to Raj Bhavan along the Tiddinm road. On the other hand the first round of security rehearsal for the deputed stated forces were conducted today at 2nd MR Ground and Air Field of Imphal Airport today which was attended by 152 personnel of the state police forces, headed by Additional SP (Imphal West) with 38 Sub Inspectorss, 35 ASIs and 48 women constables from eight district police stations of the state except Ukhrul under Tamenglong have been detailed the security measures for the proposed visit of the President.

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IMPHAL, March 8: As observed in different parts of the globe, the International Women’s Days was also widely observed in the State today.The women’s day was observed at Nupi Keithel, Imphal jointly organized by the All Manipur Nupi Marup, Kwairamband Nupi Keithel Semgatpa Sagatpa and Kanba Lup, and the centre for organization Research and Education (CORE) with the support of the Manipur State Commission for Women with a simple ceremony of thanksgiving prayer and offerings to the Keithel Lairembi.

The women of the unique Nupi Keithel have always believed that the future of Manipur lies in the preservation and strengthening of women’s economic power. It is significant that this International Women’s Day 2011 also marks the successful occupation of the newly constructed Nupi Keithel complex in Imphal by women vendors.

The day was also observed by the Kanglei Chaokhat Lamching Lup (KANGLEICHAL), at the Manipur press club, Imphal. The programme was attended by Dr. U. Deben Singh, MLA Wabagai Assembly constituency, Th. Ayangleima Chanu president Kangleichal, Y. Leirik Leima president KAGNLAMEI, Kakom Lunglu Kamei president Kabui Mother’s Association and AK. Janaki Leima, president Meekhol.

A seminar session was also organized marking the day on the theme “Manipur Khunaida Meira Paibi” (the role of Meira Paibi in Manipur Society).

The United NGOs Mission-Manipur, (UNM-U) in collaboration with the District Women’s Committee of Tamenglong district, also observed the day at the Indoor stadium, Tamenglong under the theme “Equal access to Education, Training and Science and Technology: Pathway to decent work for Women”.

The observation was graced by RK. Ragaisin ceo, TADC, as the chief guest, Rev. Kaiba Riamei, advisor DNC as functional president. Apart from them many other public leaders, religious leader official of the UNM-U including the co-convener, M. Sobita etc attended the observation.

M Sobita in her key-note addressed maintained that the International women’s Day has been observed worldwide since the early 1900, a time of great unrest and critical debate occurring amongst women, and when women’s oppression and inequality was spurring women to become more vocal and active in campaigning for change.

She further added that the as in various other parts of the world, the people were also gathered in the Indoor Stadium in celebration of women’s contributions to the society, communities and to the whole human race, the advancement that women have made in improving her condition and status, and also as a reminder that a lot more needs to be done to remove the shackles of oppression, suppression and inequality that still continue to imprison women and prevents her from reaching her full potential.

Giving an account of the start of the day, she maintained that it was tabled for the first time by Clara Zetkin, leader of the “Women’s Office” for the social Democratic Party in German in 1910 at the second International Conference of Working Women held in Copenhagen. She had proposed that every year in every country there should be a celebration on the same day, a Women’s Day, to press for their demands.

She further added that today, the day is an official holiday in China, Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. The United Nations which observed International Women’s Day for the first time in 1975 has adopted the theme – Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent works for women this year.

She ended by appealing to all to acknowledge the truth in the statement ‘women Rights are Human rights as stated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, present secretary of state of Amirica in Beijing.

The observation also saw a Zeme dance troupe presenting a cultural dance.

The day also observed by The Naga Women’s Union (NWU) and Indigenous Women’s Forum of North East India (IWFNEI).In an emailed statement the union said that it had observed the International Women’s Day with the theme “Equal Access to Education, Training, and Science and Technology: Pathway to Decent Work for Women”, at the Tangkhul Avenue Community Hall, Imphal.

The observation was attended by representatives of different tribal women’s organisations including the Zomi Mothers’ Association and the Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights.

Explicating on the theme, speakers reiterated that education is a basic human rights in itself, and key to the enjoyment of human rights also, it said. And pointing out that in the knowledge driven society of today, access to education itself is not enough but it has to be meaningful and relevant, speakers called attention to the need for science education and formal training of women as an economic imperative as well as an ingredient towards social progress and political stability. Pointing out stumbling blocks in the achievement of equal access to education, speakers mentioned the need for gender equality in every levels of decision-making, the need for ensuring access to other basic necessities such as gender specific healthcare and sanitation etc.

It informed that the celebration of International Women’s Day will continue for the fortnight with further focus on issues of discrimination & violence against women. NWU in collaboration with other organisations will undertake programs for education and awareness building of women’s rights at the community level, and networking and mobilization to strengthen relationships among different communities.

The day was also observed by the All Manipur Women’s Voluntary Association (AMAWOVA) under the theme “Let us carry the Struggle Forward” at the Manipur Dramatic Union (MDU) Hall.

The observation was graced Th. Iboyaima president Irabot Foundation Manipur, L. Memchoubi president Poirei Leimarol Meira Paibee Apunba, Manipur and Chongtham (O) Usharani president AMAWOVA as the chief guest, guest of hounour and functional president respectively. The All Manipur Nupi Marup and Manipur Keithel Nupi Marup Kwairamband Nupi Keithel also observed the day at the Irawat Memorail hall.

NEW DELHI, March 8:Marking the observation a painting Exhibition on the spirit of Sharmila was launched at the Art Gallery of Department of Arts and Aesthetic, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi organized by Manipur Research Forum Delhi (MRFD).

The exhibition was inaugurated by Prof. Parul Dave Mukherji, Dean, School, JNU. Bishnupriya Dutt, Prof. H.S Shivpraka and Dr. Oinam Bhagat, Department of Philosophy, JNU.

Fourteen painting on canvas was painted by NEOGENE, a group of young Manipuri artist on the occasion of the festival of hope, Justice and Peace to commemorate the completion of one decade of hunger strike. The exhibition will continue till March 14.

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IMPHAL, March 8: Eleven persons including nine (six children) family members of the proscribed KCP (Sunil Meitei) who are settled at Mizoram Bongkon village running computer centres and shops have been abducted by unknown armed persons suspected to be security personnel yesterday night.
Chirom Ibopishak, a relative of Sunil Meitei while briefing media persons today at Manipur press club this afternoon regarding the issue stated that the family members were abducted from their homes late last night by unknown armed persons suspected to be security personnel.
He further identified the abducted family members of the proscribed KCP (Sunil Meitei) leader as Ch Geeta, 37, w/o the leader and their four children identified as Redical, 13, Thoiba, 8, John, 5, and Alangsana a 2 year old infant.
According to the spokesperson, the armed persons have also abducted Ch Sunil Meitei, brother of Sunil Meitei, his wife Ch Indubala and their two children identified as Monalisa, 6 and Tomba, 3. alongwith the family members of the leader, the armed persons have also taken two neighbours of the family identified as  Konsam J.K, 50, s/o K. Lokhon of Wangkei and Ingudum Bipin, 30, s/o Jugindro of Nambol Oinam.
He further maintained that the abduction was reported today morning at around 9 am by the locality of Bongkon village saying they were abducted by armed persons suspected to be security personnel yesterday night at around 9 pm.
In the meantime he has requested to release the children and hand them over to their family members on humanity ground.
Meanwhile an official release of the SSP Imphal West L Kailun have maintained that the Imphal West district polica in co-ordination with the Aizwal Police have arrested four members of the KCP (Sunil Faction) from Bongkawn area of Aizwal late last night at around 11 pm.
It has further identified the arrested cadres as one Konsam Inaocha alias J.K Singh, 35, s/o K. Lokhon alias Lakshaman of Wangkhei Thokpam Leikai, Imphal East district at present Bongkawn, Lunglei road Jari Sean, Chirom Herojit alias Abung, 29, s/o Ch. Shyam of Wahengkhuman Mamang Leikai at present Bongkawn Market, Ingudam Bipen Singh, 32, s/o I. Jugindro of Nambol Oinam Leikai Ingubam Leikai at present Bongkawn Hillar Veng, Thounaojam Ningol Chirom Ongbi Gita alias Gitanjali, 35, w/o Chirom Premkumar alias Tiken alias Sunil of Wahengkhuman Mamang Leikai.
It said they were actively involved in extortion from businessmen, contractors, general public and Government officers through mobile phone for the last 6 months. The individual will be brought to Imphal after obtaining necessary orders from Local court in Aizawl, it said.

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IMPHAL, March 7: In order to maintain law and order and provide adequate security measures for smooth conduct of the 10th session of the 9th Manipur Legislative Assembly which will start from tomorrow, the state government has taken up tight security arrangement at four different security zones.
Besides, all set of preparation has been completed for the ensuing first session of the year tomorrow as all forms of sitting arrangement inside the assembly hall have also been made completed this evening.
According to a highly placed official source, the entire surroundings of the Assembly secretariat will be under the tight security vigils during the session is going as a heavy team of state forces led by one SI, one ASI, one Head Constable, one armed section of Manipur Police Reserve Line Imphal west and 10 Recruited constables from MPTS Pangei along with anti riot equipments will be made station along the Assembly Road in the Northern Flank, on inspector, one SI and three police constables each will be guards at gate N0-. 3 of the Assembly hall and they shall frisk the visitors  before entering  inside the Assembly Compound, the same strength of the state police forces will also be deployed at Eastern Flank along Indira Park, and Southern Flank covering the areas of outside boundary wall including Congress Bhavan, Roop Mahal Tank and Building area adjoining Assembly Complex, road crossing of BT Road and Family Welfare road near transformer. Besides the at the Western flank outside boundary wall covering Uraban Family Welfare road, Assembly road crossing near Hao Keithel and Mayur Hotel the same strength of the state forces will also be deployed.
The official source further mentioned that, during the session hours, enough security will be also deployed at the building tops of GM, Hall, Imphal, building top of L Dayamoi near Mangang Lodge, building top of Mass Hotel and building top of Manipur State Cooperative Bank, Imphal.
Further heavy security deployment led by one SI one Head Constable 10 Recruited Constables from MPTS with anti riot equipments, three Women Home Guards, one Armed Sections from MR ad nine armed personnel from IRB shall also be made the selected outer core zone of Imphal City during the session at Krishnapremi Oil City, Moirangkhom and similar strength of the state forces will also be deployed at the areas of  Keishamthgong Bridge, Nityaipat Chuthek near Souther gate of Raj Bhavan Imphal,  Western bridge of Sanjenthong and in the front of Cm Bungalow, Maharani Bridge and Hathi Chowk, Kasturi Bridge,  Bridge near SS Hotel, road crossing near Jajal Provision, near Sani Mandir, Thangal bazaar,  Khoyathong Turning, in the front of LIC office, Imphal, in the front of Old Power House Keishampat.
The source further mentioned that two anti riot squads equipped with anti-riots equipments will also stationed in the front of GM Hall and at Alu Gali during the session is going on.
On the other hand in view of the smooth and successful conduct of the Assembly session, certain traffic regulation in and around the Assembly Secretariat has been made which will be implemented during the session.
As per the new traffic regulation, the vehicles of Chief minister and Ministers shall enter through gate No. 1 and exit through Gate No. 2 of the Assembly complex and vehicles of  Speaker and opposition leaders/Deputy Sepaker, Chairman of HAC, Vice Chairman HAC and Chairman of three financial Committee of the assembly shall parked inside the Assembly compound.
The vehicles  of MLAs shall enter through Gate No. 3 and exit through the same gate and park at the western side of the Family Welfare Department, the vehicles of Government Secretariat, Deptts, press shall not enter the Assembly compound and shall park at the western side of the Family Welfare Department, the private vehicles of the Assembly Secretariat staff and employees shall not be allowed to park inside the Assembly compound and shall park at the Eastern side of Indira Park. Further the official vehicles of the Assembly secretariat, Medical Team, Fire Tender of Manipur Fire Service shall be allowed to park inside the Assembly Compound and the vehicles of the visitors  shall not enter beyond the crossing points of NH-39 the Eastern side and Assembly road at the western side and all the Assembly secretariat staffs to invariably display their Photo ID cards.
In the meantime, it is also further ordered that no vehicle other than the VIP, minister and MLAs, security forces deployed maintaining law and order in connection with the Assembly session shall be allowed to pass through the Assembly road either from the Eastern side of the road crossing NH-39 or Assembly and Family Welfare road from 9 am of March 8. Further, the Assembly road will be closed from the evening of March 7 till the Assembly session is over.
Jeep Taxis, Auto’s, vans etc. which parked in front of GM Hall, Imphal shall move at the Eastern side of the NH-39 opposite Adarsh Laboratory, Imphal, the official order added.

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IMPHAL, March 7: In order to maintain law and order and provide adequate security measures for smooth conduct of the 10th session of the 9th Manipur Legislative Assembly which will start from tomorrow, the state government has taken up tight security arrangement at four different security zones.
Besides, all set of preparation has been completed for the ensuing first session of the year tomorrow as all forms of sitting arrangement inside the assembly hall have also been made completed this evening.
According to a highly placed official source, the entire surroundings of the Assembly secretariat will be under the tight security vigils during the session is going as a heavy team of state forces led by one SI, one ASI, one Head Constable, one armed section of Manipur Police Reserve Line Imphal west and 10 Recruited constables from MPTS Pangei along with anti riot equipments will be made station along the Assembly Road in the Northern Flank, on inspector, one SI and three police constables each will be guards at gate N0-. 3 of the Assembly hall and they shall frisk the visitors  before entering  inside the Assembly Compound, the same strength of the state police forces will also be deployed at Eastern Flank along Indira Park, and Southern Flank covering the areas of outside boundary wall including Congress Bhavan, Roop Mahal Tank and Building area adjoining Assembly Complex, road crossing of BT Road and Family Welfare road near transformer. Besides the at the Western flank outside boundary wall covering Uraban Family Welfare road, Assembly road crossing near Hao Keithel and Mayur Hotel the same strength of the state forces will also be deployed.
The official source further mentioned that, during the session hours, enough security will be also deployed at the building tops of GM, Hall, Imphal, building top of L Dayamoi near Mangang Lodge, building top of Mass Hotel and building top of Manipur State Cooperative Bank, Imphal.
Further heavy security deployment led by one SI one Head Constable 10 Recruited Constables from MPTS with anti riot equipments, three Women Home Guards, one Armed Sections from MR ad nine armed personnel from IRB shall also be made the selected outer core zone of Imphal City during the session at Krishnapremi Oil City, Moirangkhom and similar strength of the state forces will also be deployed at the areas of  Keishamthgong Bridge, Nityaipat Chuthek near Souther gate of Raj Bhavan Imphal,  Western bridge of Sanjenthong and in the front of Cm Bungalow, Maharani Bridge and Hathi Chowk, Kasturi Bridge,  Bridge near SS Hotel, road crossing near Jajal Provision, near Sani Mandir, Thangal bazaar,  Khoyathong Turning, in the front of LIC office, Imphal, in the front of Old Power House Keishampat.
The source further mentioned that two anti riot squads equipped with anti-riots equipments will also stationed in the front of GM Hall and at Alu Gali during the session is going on.
On the other hand in view of the smooth and successful conduct of the Assembly session, certain traffic regulation in and around the Assembly Secretariat has been made which will be implemented during the session.
As per the new traffic regulation, the vehicles of Chief minister and Ministers shall enter through gate No. 1 and exit through Gate No. 2 of the Assembly complex and vehicles of  Speaker and opposition leaders/Deputy Sepaker, Chairman of HAC, Vice Chairman HAC and Chairman of three financial Committee of the assembly shall parked inside the Assembly compound.
The vehicles  of MLAs shall enter through Gate No. 3 and exit through the same gate and park at the western side of the Family Welfare Department, the vehicles of Government Secretariat, Deptts, press shall not enter the Assembly compound and shall park at the western side of the Family Welfare Department, the private vehicles of the Assembly Secretariat staff and employees shall not be allowed to park inside the Assembly compound and shall park at the Eastern side of Indira Park. Further the official vehicles of the Assembly secretariat, Medical Team, Fire Tender of Manipur Fire Service shall be allowed to park inside the Assembly Compound and the vehicles of the visitors  shall not enter beyond the crossing points of NH-39 the Eastern side and Assembly road at the western side and all the Assembly secretariat staffs to invariably display their Photo ID cards.
In the meantime, it is also further ordered that no vehicle other than the VIP, minister and MLAs, security forces deployed maintaining law and order in connection with the Assembly session shall be allowed to pass through the Assembly road either from the Eastern side of the road crossing NH-39 or Assembly and Family Welfare road from 9 am of March 8. Further, the Assembly road will be closed from the evening of March 7 till the Assembly session is over.
Jeep Taxis, Auto’s, vans etc. which parked in front of GM Hall, Imphal shall move at the Eastern side of the NH-39 opposite Adarsh Laboratory, Imphal, the official order added.

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IMPHAL, March 6: An Educational Tour for Students, Teachers and Meirapaibis of Manipur to Delhi and Agra organized by 15 Assam Rifles of HQ 9 Sect under the aegis HQ IGAR (South) had the distinguished honour of meeting Pratibha Patil, the President of India, on March 4 at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
According to a release of PRO, IGAR (South) Imphal, the President while speaking to the students, meira paibis and teachers, discussed the social and educational aspects in Manipur. She also encouraged the children to work hard and do well in life. The students, teachers and Meira Paibis also visited the world famous Mughal Gardens and museum inside the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the release added.

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IMPHAL, March 5: As observed annually the All Manipur Women’s Voluntary Association (AMAWOVA) is going to observe the “International Women’s Day” on March 8, at the Manipur Dramatic Union (MDU), hall, Yaiskul Police Lane.
The AMAWOVA said they have been observing the day with focusing on a specific theme. This year the AMAWOVA is going to observe the day with giving special focus on theme “Education”.
The Kanglei Chanura Chaokhat Lamching Lup, (KANGLEICHAL) is also observing the day at the Manipur Press club at 9:30 am. The observation will be the 8th observation organized by the KANGLEICHAL under the theme “the role of Meira Paibis in Manipur”.

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IMPHAL, March 5: As observed annually the All Manipur Women’s Voluntary Association (AMAWOVA) is going to observe the “International Women’s Day” on March 8, at the Manipur Dramatic Union (MDU), hall, Yaiskul Police Lane.
The AMAWOVA said they have been observing the day with focusing on a specific theme. This year the AMAWOVA is going to observe the day with giving special focus on theme “Education”.
The Kanglei Chanura Chaokhat Lamching Lup, (KANGLEICHAL) is also observing the day at the Manipur Press club at 9:30 am. The observation will be the 8th observation organized by the KANGLEICHAL under the theme “the role of Meira Paibis in Manipur”.

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IMPHAL, March 5: In view of the proposed visit of the President of India who is likely to land in Imphal on March 10, security measures have been beefed up in an around Imphal.
As a part of the security measures, a massive cordon search operation was conducted at the busy Paona Bazaar this afternoon at around 2pm, by the Imphal West district police commandos.
Owing to the search operation normal activities in the busy market was disturbed for several hours with shoppers being detained for verification.
During the operation at least 300 youths were detained for verification. Later 19 youths were picked by the police for further verification at the concerned police station. However there are no reports of any arrest till the filing of this report.
In the meantime heavy security measures were seen deployed in an around Imphal in all the strategic points and crossing conducting checking and frisking duty of vehicles. 

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Leader Writer: Hrishikesh Angom – Manipur is rightly called the “power house” of sports in India. The performance of state players at the recently concluded 34th National Games held at Jharkhand testifies the very fact. However, continuous outflow of talented players from the state has become a major concern for the state. Many Manipuri players have represented other states and secured several medals at the National Games. The contribution of these players could have made Manipur the overall champion of the Games, but lack of limited opportunities in the state has compelled them to go to other states. There seems to be a laxity in sports development policy of the state government resulting in discontentment of the players. The state players have brought so many laurels from various international competitions such as Common Wealth Games and Asian Games but they are not given handsome incentives through which they could be motivated to achieve furthermore.

The outflow of talented players from the state itself indicates the failure of the state government towards the development of games and sports. Comparing the performance of Manipur at the Guwahati National Games and Jharkhand National Games, the performance at Jharkhand was lower than Guwahati even though it could secure the second position. The reason behind this retardation is not the degrading performance of the players but the very outflow of players who have secured medals in the last National Games to other states. A medalist of National Games gets handsomely rewarded in other states and as a result the state players have been lured to represent other states. It’s not a question of selfishness but a compulsion for a player to see for opportunities so as to excel in his or her sporting career.

It has been reported that in Jharkhand a gold medalist of National Games will be given Rs seven lakh while silver medalist and bronze medalist will be rewarded Rs five lakh and Rs three lakh respectively. Other states also make lucrative offers to the medalists of National Games. The question out here is not about just money and job but the policy for the development of sports. Nothing can be achieved without necessary help and support even if a person is highly talented. The same thing can be applied to the players of the state. The Manipuri players are mostly from economically backward families and as a result they struggle a lot while trying to pursue their respective discipline of sports.

The gold medalists of Delhi Common Wealth Games, namely weightlifter Renuka, weightlifter Sandhyarani, boxer Suranjoy and others have struggled in their life so as to become shining sports stars in the country. Despite of such outstanding performance in various international competitions the state government seems to neglect the meritorious players of the state. These players have once raised complaint against the state government for failing to give the announced incentive awards.Moreover, the sports infrastructures of the state need to be developed to provide better training to the young players of the state. The people of the state should give pay utmost regards to the players who have brought laurels to the state rather than underestimating them as belonging to backward classes. The rich art and culture as well as sports are the real showpieces of the state and so the people should try to upkeep them. The outflow of talented players from the state should also be controlled by providing adequate sports infrastructures as well as incentive awards for encouraging them to perform better in various competitions. Every Manipuri player would have desired to represent the state and win medals for the state but such is not the case out here presently. One day there might be no player to represent Manipur at the National Games if the concerned authority does not initiate policies for the welfare of the sportspersons by providing state-of-the-art sports infrastrucututes as well as lucrative incentives and job opportunities to meritorious players.

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IMPHAL March 4:The DGBR Lt Gen S Ravi Shankar, visited the National Highway NH-53 for the second time in two months, underlining the urgency BRO has accorded to improving the highway. During his last visit he had travelled along the entire 294 Km stretch assessing the works in progress. During this visit, he inspected works around Noney (Km 54), Nungba (Km 136) and Kaimai (Km 166) and expressed satisfaction at the progress.

The immediate concern is to keep the highway open during the monsoon and thereafter further improve it so that the road is completely restored to National Highway standards by end of 2012. With this in view the work being carried out is a combination of strengthening bad patches and resurfacing where the road permits it now. Production centre for supply of wet mix macadam and hot mix are now in position to speed up the work.

The DGBR also interacted with the local formation Commanders and the Chief Secretary of the state. An update was also given by him to the Governor who was keen on keeping abreast with the progress on NH-53. CE (P) Pushpak, Mr Vinod Kumar accompanied the DGBR during the visit,stated a press release by the BRO.

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IMPHAL, March 4: Succesful social reformation and economic sustainability of the state could be achieved only through the recognition of the rights for the labours and the services delivered by them for the welfare of the society.

This was stated by the state Labour and Employment minister, Ph Parijat while attending the inaugural function of the observation of the 40th National Safety Day/Week Campaign held this morning at the Manipur Press Club, Imphal jointly organized by the coordinating committee of the Trade Unions of Workers and the office of the Deputy Labour Commissioner Manipur.

The minister while inaugurating the function further mentioned that, there is an immediate need for the general public to get knowledge of laws and other regulations framed by the state Labour department so as to avoid exploitations of the labours.The state labour and employment ministry has also amended its labor act to include a landmark 28 points for the benefit and protection of laborers in the unorganized sector of the economy under the unorganized social security act, 2008.

The amended act has attempted to address, inter alia, the issue of child labor and the plight of construction workers in the State. While the act has initiated a safety net such as Manipur building and other construction workers’ welfare board, it has also empowered the labor department to monitor child labor closely.

The newly amended labor act and labor welfare board will monitor employers in the unorganized sector and attempt to keep vigilance on unscrupulous employers who engaged laborers unilaterally for more than the universally accepted 8 hours norm and on their repudiation to sufficiently compensate during accidental injury at work, stated the labor minister Parijat.

He further mentioned that, it is also a must for the employers to provide adequade infrastructures and equipments to their labour in order to get satisfactory service provisions from the labour.

The labour minister further mentioned that, as per the official labour tariff fixed by the department, it is a must for the employers to give Rs. 122.10 per day for the unskilled labours, Rs. 129.97 for Semi skilled labours and Rs.132.60 per day for the skilled labours.

The inaugural function of the campaign was attended by Th. Shakhi Devi, president, coordinating Committee of the Trade Unions and the office of the Deputy Labour Commissioner, Manipur, T Pammei, IAS, director of Commerce and Industries, government of Manipur, E Binoykumar Singh, retd. chief engineer (Works), G Tombi Sharma, chairperson Manipur Building and other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board and NS Gokulmani, executive director, Manipur State RSBY Society as president, and guest of honours respectively.

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