Month: November 2012

MNS: 28 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector under aegis of HQ IGAR(S) established an Assam Rifles Pavilion in the ongoing Sangai Festival.Assam Rifles pavilion has been established to showcase the history and contribution of Assam Rifles in Manipur. In the pavilion guidelines are given for how to join Assam Rifles/Army and Pamphlets were also distributed giving out details of how to join Assam Rifles/ Army to the visitors. The Assam Rifles pavilion has been a huge crowd puller and has especially attracted the younger generation. Daily approximately 500 people are visiting the Assam Rifles Pavilion and this shows that the people of Manipur want peace and tranquility in this state. The number of people visiting the Assam Rifles Pavilion and their efforts to know about Assam Rifles is the befitting example of close interaction with the Youth and Security Forces. Each and everybody who visited the Pavilion appreciated the works done by Assam Rifles in Manipur.

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MNS: 28 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector under aegis of HQ IGAR(S) established an Assam Rifles Pavilion in the ongoing Sangai Festival.Assam Rifles pavilion has been established to showcase the history and contribution of Assam Rifles in Manipur. In the pavilion guidelines are given for how to join Assam Rifles/Army and Pamphlets were also distributed giving out details of how to join Assam Rifles/ Army to the visitors. The Assam Rifles pavilion has been a huge crowd puller and has especially attracted the younger generation. Daily approximately 500 people are visiting the Assam Rifles Pavilion and this shows that the people of Manipur want peace and tranquility in this state. The number of people visiting the Assam Rifles Pavilion and their efforts to know about Assam Rifles is the befitting example of close interaction with the Youth and Security Forces. Each and everybody who visited the Pavilion appreciated the works done by Assam Rifles in Manipur.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/ar-participates-in-sangai-festival-2/

MNS: Assam Rifles has vehemently denied the opinion expressed in some newspapers that the blast which occured in Khurai Chairen Thongkhong along Imphal Ukhrul road, resulting in injury to one civilian was because of the bomb being accidently dropped from the Assam Rifles vehicles. Reacting vehemently to the opinions expressed, the PRO HQ IGAR (South) said that such an opinion is totally absurd and possibly the result of a perverse imagination motivated by anti national elements. T
he blast was triggered by either a grenade or explosive placed by the terrorists on crowded stretch of road where civilians were present when the Assam Rifles convoy was passing by.
Recent acts have mostly targeted innocent civilians without any humanitarian consideration for local populace. Assam Rifles have always remained the ‘FRIENDS OF MANIPUR’ people and condemn all such incidents of violence perpetrated by anti national elements.

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MNS: Assam Rifles has vehemently denied the opinion expressed in some newspapers that the blast which occured in Khurai Chairen Thongkhong along Imphal Ukhrul road, resulting in injury to one civilian was because of the bomb being accidently dropped from the Assam Rifles vehicles. Reacting vehemently to the opinions expressed, the PRO HQ IGAR (South) said that such an opinion is totally absurd and possibly the result of a perverse imagination motivated by anti national elements. T
he blast was triggered by either a grenade or explosive placed by the terrorists on crowded stretch of road where civilians were present when the Assam Rifles convoy was passing by.
Recent acts have mostly targeted innocent civilians without any humanitarian consideration for local populace. Assam Rifles have always remained the ‘FRIENDS OF MANIPUR’ people and condemn all such incidents of violence perpetrated by anti national elements.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/ar-condemns-bomb-blast/

IMPHAL, Nov 28 NNN: The Manipur State Panchayat Parishad (MSPP) has strongly objected to the move of the state government to omit the pradhans and members of Zilla Parishad from operating the joint-account of MGNREGS, terming it as centralization of power in the hands of the state government and undermining the importance of representatives of the people at grass root level.
According to an order on November 5 by Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, the pradhans and members of Zilla Parishad are no longer required in the operation of joint-account of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
This is in stark contrast to the NREGS operational guidelines by the central government which makes the Pradhan and the Secretary of the Gram Panchayat to be joint operators of the NREGS account.
In a press meet this afternoon at Manipur Panchayat Bhawan, Porompat, Thokchom Bhubol Singh, Secretary of Manipur State Panchayat Parishad (MSPP) said that the new order will not be able to avail 100 days of works to the people as the power of the Panchayat Parishad has been diluted.
The pradhans and members of Zilla Parishad being the direct representatives of the people in the grass-root level, they alone can guarantee success and implementation of the scheme, he said.
In this regard, a memorandum has already been submitted to chief minister O Ibobi Singh, said Bhubol Singh adding that they would oppose the government’s move until it relents to their demand and urged the government to maintain the status quo.

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IMPHAL, Nov 28 NNN: The Manipur State Panchayat Parishad (MSPP) has strongly objected to the move of the state government to omit the pradhans and members of Zilla Parishad from operating the joint-account of MGNREGS, terming it as centralization of power in the hands of the state government and undermining the importance of representatives of the people at grass root level.
According to an order on November 5 by Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, the pradhans and members of Zilla Parishad are no longer required in the operation of joint-account of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
This is in stark contrast to the NREGS operational guidelines by the central government which makes the Pradhan and the Secretary of the Gram Panchayat to be joint operators of the NREGS account.
In a press meet this afternoon at Manipur Panchayat Bhawan, Porompat, Thokchom Bhubol Singh, Secretary of Manipur State Panchayat Parishad (MSPP) said that the new order will not be able to avail 100 days of works to the people as the power of the Panchayat Parishad has been diluted.
The pradhans and members of Zilla Parishad being the direct representatives of the people in the grass-root level, they alone can guarantee success and implementation of the scheme, he said.
In this regard, a memorandum has already been submitted to chief minister O Ibobi Singh, said Bhubol Singh adding that they would oppose the government’s move until it relents to their demand and urged the government to maintain the status quo.

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IMPHAL, Nov 28 UNA : A special vigil has been made on carrying huge amount of money from Imphal to Moreh by passengers and travel agencies following arrest of two persons who were allegedly engaged in the sending of extorted money from Imphal to Moreh,.
An official source Wednesday said that two activists of different underground outfits who were engaged in sending and delivering huge amount of money in cash to leaders of the underground outfits were arrested by state police commandos recently from Imphal area.
One of the two was a rifleman of the Manipur Rifles and arrested by police commandos on the alleged charge of being an activist of PREPAK while he was about to sent an amount of Rs five lakh to a commander of the outfit under whom he was working and staying in Myanmar.
The source said that Nameirakpam Hemen Meitei (45) of Bashikhong Mamang Leikai was arrested by a team of police commandos attached with Imphal West district from Thangal Bazar on November 24 last and handed over to the City police with Rs five lakh seized from his possession.
Hemen is a personnel of E-coy of 8th Manipur Rifles under rifleman number 1194268 and currently posting at Leikhun of Chandel district. During spot verification, Hemen reportedly admitted that he works under one Babu of PREPAK outfit currently staying in Myanmar and he was sending the amount to someone at Moreh for onward handing over to Babu.
He further disclosed that the amount he was possession was extorted from different government department like sericulture, CAW, MANIDCO, businessmen and government employees as party fund. After producing him in the court of Imphal West district magistrate, he has been remanded to judicial custody.
Another person allegedly engaged in delivering money to RPF/PLA leaders in Moreh town has also been picked by the police commandos from his own house at Imphal’s Thonju part-II on November 25 last by a team of Imphal West commandos.
He was identified as Thongam Debendra Singh alias Tayaima (53) of Thongju part-II from his residence on November 25. He was alleged of being engaged in collecting and sending money extorted by PLA activists from various government departments, individuals and government employees.
He used to send the money to one Self Styled Major Bikon working in the finance section of the outfit. He had recently sent Rs 2,85,000 and Rs 2,50,000 to Bikon after one PLA cadre identified as Naton handed over to him. Before this he had visited Moreh and handed over Rs 9 lakh to Bikon, police alleged.
However, RPF denied that Debendra is an activist of the outfit in a statement dispatched to media houses in Imphal yesterday which stated, Debendra had no link with the outfit in any way.
Police has intensified its vigil on the sending of money in cash.

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IMPHAL, Nov 28 NNN : The Democratic Students’ Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) on Wednesday said the students’ body has discovered incorrect questions in the Mathematics subject of Teacher’s Eligibility Test (TET) exam 2012 conducted by Board of Secondary Education, Manipur (BOSEM) yesterday.
Two questions carrying one mark each from Mathematics subject of paper-I for TET exam were found incorrect, DESAM assistant general secretary, P Premchandra told a press conference at the alliance’s office here and demanded the state Government that the two marks of the two wrong questions be given as grace marks to the candidates.
He also urged the Government to set up an expert committee at the earliest to investigate into the matter and bar all the question setters involved in the slackness from further setting of questions for any competitive exam in future.
Question numbers 67 and 74 of the question booklet series code-A of Mathematics were not matching with any of the option answers, Premchandra said. However, different question booklet series codes were provided to the candidates but the serial number of the questions were listed in different ways.
More information on finding out of more wrong questions are receiving and the alliance will look into them, the DESAM assistant general secretary further said.
Tuesday’s TET exam was conducted in two papers—paper-I for recruiting Lower Primary teachers and paper-II for Upper Primary teachers, both carry 150 marks each. The two papers include Mathematics, General English, Environmental Studies, Language, Child Development and Pedagogy.
Altogether 59,911 candidates appeared at the TET exam held in Imphal spread across 204 exam centres.

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IMPHAL, Nov 28 NNN : The newly revived All Tribal Students’ Union, Manipur (ATSUM) has apprised the government of Manipur to address issues pertaining to tribal people of Manipur and the hill districts.
The apex tribal students’ body of Manipur in its lengthy memorandum submitted to the chief minister of Manipur yesterday has demanded Manipur State Commission for the Scheduled Tribes. ATSUM also demanded for the setting up of B.Ed centres in the hill districts. It also demanded that adequate teaching and non-teaching staff in the education institutions in the hill districts with better infrastructure.
Signed by its president Maun Tombing and its general secretary Vareiyo Shatsang, ATSUM in its memorandum said, “It has been our long standing aspiration to find a State Commission of
the Scheduled Tribes in Manipur under the Article 338A of the Indian Constitution which would usher in all round Development and progress in respect of thee Tribal people in this eastern most part of the Indian Union. The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes which came in to force on 19th February, 2004 has failed to provide adequate service to the state of Manipur a it is based on the distant centre in Shillong”.
According to the ATSUM memorandum, the state of Karnataka in 2002 had established the State Commission for SC/ST under the name and style ‘The Karnataka State Commission for Scheduled Tribes Act, 2002’. It said the tribal population is the second largest in the state of Manipur but the pace of development is rather too slow till today comparing to that of the non-tribal populace. There has been the Manipur state Commission for OBC which meant to safeguard the rights of the other backward classes, the ATSUM representation added.
In the light of the above facts and circumstances, it is our earnest plea that the Manipur State Commission for the ST be set up in the earnest date, the tribal students’ body stated.
ATSUM then demanded for the setting up of B.Ed centres in hill districts of Manipur.
“Even the HSLC examination centres are very often treated as temporary arrangement subject to omission and commission. It is demanded that B.Ed centres be set up in all the five hill districts where TET can be conducted,” the tribal students’ body demanded.
The memorandum of ATSUM also mentioned that the crisis in the newly set up Indra Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU) Regional Compus in Manipur is put to a situation of breaking down totally because all the required infrastructures and issues have not been properly attended to by the authorities concerned. “There is no end to the students’ agitations against many lapses in the University. Xerox copy of the MoU signed between students and the vice chancellor is enclosed herewith for kind perusal. It is our earnest plea for your urgent intervention before things turn from bad to worse,” ATSUM note cautions.
One point of the ATSUM memorandum said, “We demand adequate number of both teaching and non-teaching staff in the educational institutions in the hill areas of Manipur state. We also demand that proper infrastructures for the educational institutions in the five hill districts be provided promptly as to facilitate smooth functioning.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/address-tribal-issues-atsum/