CM denies interference by Judiciary

Chief Mini ster Okram Ibobi has cate gorically stated that there is no case of the Judiciary interfering into the functions and works of either the Legislature or the Executive Source The Sangai Express

Chief Mini ster Okram Ibobi has cate gorically stated that there is no case of the Judiciary interfering into the functions and works of either the Legislature or the Executive Source The Sangai Express

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Candle light vigil in memory of Salouni

Around 1000 people which included students, leaders of civil societies, women organizations, religious leaders and businessmen gathered at Traffic point, Senapati Bazaar an staged a candle light vigil to show their solidarity to the bereaved families o…

Around 1000 people which included students, leaders of civil societies, women organizations, religious leaders and businessmen gathered at Traffic point, Senapati Bazaar an staged a candle light vigil to show their solidarity to the bereaved families of Late K Source Hueiyen News Service

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Soso Lorho petitions against Baite, ECI, CEO, MPCC

Soso Lorho, who contested the recent Lok Sabha polls from Outer Manipur Constituency on Naga People’s Front NPF ticket, has filed a petition against MP Outer Thangso Baite, ECI, CEO Manipur and MPCC in the High Court of Manipur Source The Sang…

Soso Lorho, who contested the recent Lok Sabha polls from Outer Manipur Constituency on Naga People’s Front NPF ticket, has filed a petition against MP Outer Thangso Baite, ECI, CEO Manipur and MPCC in the High Court of Manipur Source The Sangai Express Newmai News Network

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Fallout of militancy Williamnagar residents find renting houses difficult in Tura

Militancy has become synonymous with the Garo Hills region with East Garo Hills EGH quickly being known as the hub of militant activity Source Hueiyen News Service Newmai News Network

Militancy has become synonymous with the Garo Hills region with East Garo Hills EGH quickly being known as the hub of militant activity Source Hueiyen News Service Newmai News Network

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KSO calls for unity against racial attack

Kuki Students Organisation KSO General Headquarters has strongly condemned the murder of Shaloni Akha at Kotla Mubarakpur in Delhi in the wee hours of July 21 Source Hueiyen News Service NNN

Kuki Students Organisation KSO General Headquarters has strongly condemned the murder of Shaloni Akha at Kotla Mubarakpur in Delhi in the wee hours of July 21 Source Hueiyen News Service NNN

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SIT to probe Manipur youth’s death Govt

Government today said a Special Investigation Team has been constituted to inves tigate the death of Manipuri youth Akha Salouni in Delhi Source The Sangai Express Press Trust of India

Government today said a Special Investigation Team has been constituted to inves tigate the death of Manipuri youth Akha Salouni in Delhi Source The Sangai Express Press Trust of India

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NPO expresses concern

Naga People’s Organization NPO today stated that despite repeated assurance in different occasion by Chief Minister and others to install the much awaited additional 5MVA power transformer at Karong power station, nothing has been done so far Sourc…

Naga People’s Organization NPO today stated that despite repeated assurance in different occasion by Chief Minister and others to install the much awaited additional 5MVA power transformer at Karong power station, nothing has been done so far Source The Sangai Express

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MHA studying Bezbaruah report

The Home Ministry is studying the report of MP Bezbaruah committee, set up to look into concerns of people from the Northeast living in different parts of the country, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said today Source The Sangai Express Pr…

The Home Ministry is studying the report of MP Bezbaruah committee, set up to look into concerns of people from the Northeast living in different parts of the country, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said today Source The Sangai Express Press Trust of India

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Protest meet calls for reviewing Mapithel dam construction

As part of the Global Days of Action for Development Justice to demand a just sustainable development in a post 2015, Mapithel Dam Affected Villagers Organization in collaboration with Citizens Concern for Dams and Development and Centre for Research a…

As part of the Global Days of Action for Development Justice to demand a just sustainable development in a post 2015, Mapithel Dam Affected Villagers Organization in collaboration with Citizens Concern for Dams and Development and Centre for Research and Advocacy, Manipur organised a protest meet against continuing injustice by the ongoing construction of Mapithel dam at Riha Village in Ukhrul District today Source Hueiyen News Service

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SIT to probe Manipur youth’s death: Government – indiatvnews.com

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Cauldron of Pretensions, Confusions and Opportunisms for, By the North East and Of the North East

By Amar Yumnam This is the moment necessitating extreme introspection, sublime efforts for contextual understanding, and freeing from the routine approaches for appreciating the social issues and addressing the transformation

By Amar Yumnam

This is the moment necessitating extreme introspection, sublime efforts for contextual understanding, and freeing from the routine approaches for appreciating the social issues and addressing the transformation problems by the people of the North East for the land and people of the North East India by the people from anywhere. The North East is now in a renewed focus, and the new government at the Centre shows signs of endeavouring to appreciate the region with the specific characteristics of each unit within national and international frameworks of existence. This being so, we cannot afford to allow this new effort to get derailed by a few opportunists from within and without the region. The two decades of the so-called Look East Policy without any body and soul put into the policy have already caused social havoc, unhealthy economic tussles and dangerous political turmoil; these should not be allowed to get accentuated further.

I have just read a cartoon in the Manipuri edition of The Sangai Express. I was shocked by the shallowness, absence of ethics and poverty of knowledge of the cartoonist. One may know how to draw cartoons, but that does not necessarily qualify one to be a cartoonist in a newspaper; sarcasms have a place but should not be a reflection of personal unfulfilled wishes. I happen to experience the poverty of quality of this cartoonist on a day just back home after attending a workshop on the economic corridor linking Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar with a feeling of enhanced responsibility for the people from this region; the cartoon has been so depressingly and degradingly captioned. While the theme of the workshop on the economic corridor was good, we have reasons to be extremely cautious of the ways things have happened in India so far. In the workshop there were ample display of narcissism of routine and conventional understanding of the issues of the region by people from within as well as from outside the region. The people from outside the region have been trying to look at the region from the framework they are familiar with and not from a framework alive to the realities of the region. In other words, the individuals from outside the region have been trying to impose themselves and carve a place for themselves in the renewed focus on North East India. The Indian pretensions come in full display here. While behaving like experts, the Indian style has been purely on mechanical understanding of the issues and regions, the developed and civilised way being practised in the US, Europe, and Japan, and recently in Thailand and China is founded on intense efforts to move beyond routinized understanding through contextualised efforts. What is even more painful is that quite many bureaucrats and technocrats, who have crossed their prime, are also trying hard to place themselves in the centre of articulation of issues and framing policy interventions for the region; the relevance of these people today are at best close to zero as they were never exposed to contextualised understanding of the milieu of issues and interventions.

This is exactly where the people in the region have an important onus on themselves today. We have to be doubly careful such that these two kinds of people do not snatch the agenda of the North East and establish themselves as pivots of policy making for the region of the region. We cannot allow “the German-Jewish intellectual Walter Benjamin’s famous vision of history as a vast heap of wreckage of incidents and events that keeps piling higher and higher into infinity, with progress signifying merely more wreckage waiting to happen” to prevail anymore in the region. What we want in the region is a kind of development fully alive to the social, cultural, demographic, political, economic and environmental realities of the region. One of the top 100 global thinkers of the world, Robert D. Kaplan has written of his feelings in his just published book Asia’s Cauldron: South China Sea and The End of a Stable Pacific thus: “A boom town of oil and gas revenue erupts out of the compressed greenery; coloured glass and roaring steel curves define buildings that are like rocket launch pads located near lakes the hue of algae and mud. I sip a pink cocktail beside a brightly lit rooftop swimming pool at night – glowing balloons float at the surface – and look out at the cityscape. The comic book futurism of Batman and Gotham City comes to mind. Palm trees crowd in on overpasses. Despite the unceasing stacks of high-rises, there is a naked, waiting-to-be-filled-in quality to the landscape of spiky blue-green mountains and coiling rivers: where a hundred years ago tin and rubber were beginning to be extracted in large amounts. This was a time when the capital of Kuala Lumpur was little more than the “muddy confluence” for which it is named. An archipelago of trading posts and river outlets, Malaysia and the Malay world are supposed to conjure up the short stories of W. Somerset Maugham. They don’t anymore. Maugham’s vast sprawl of uninterrupted, sweaty jungle, with its intimate and heartrending family dramas played out in colonial plantations, is long gone. And there is an oppressive fecundity in everything I see.” This definitely is not the kind of development which we should be visualising for the North East in the decades following today.

There are some things which should be core of our understanding of the region. Right from Bangladesh to China through the North East was a continuum geographically, socially, culturally, and economically though these were disrupted by the partition, independence and mergers after the Second World War. Any talk of linkages and collaboration among these should be seen as rather re-establishing the continuum rather than establishing contacts in an otherwise absolutely strange entities. Here the borders are not the militaristic understanding as boundaries. Borders here are geographical, cultural, demographical and economic continuums. The landscape, the seascape and the mountain scape in these areas should be appropriately appreciated and evolve policies accordingly in a holistic way and not in stand-alone approaches any more. Viva la difference and let this be the fountain and beauty of the new development connections

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On A Slippery Slope

By B.G. Verghese The Government seems to be on a slippery slope while the Congress appears to be slipping into a mood of frustrated irresponsibility. The Prime Minister has had

By B.G. Verghese

The Government seems to be on a slippery slope while the Congress appears to be slipping into a mood of frustrated irresponsibility. The Prime Minister has had a routinely successful tour abroad, visiting Brazil for a useful BRICS meeting. But he left without naming a Number 2 (Why?) which appears to have robbed the Government of initiative. It was unable to make an appropriate response to the violence in Gaza that has taken over300 lives which Israel claims is in response to kidnappings and rocket attacks by Hamas.

To argue that we have considerable stakes both in Israel and the Arab world and should therefore say nothing that will irritate either is to beg the question. For spokespersons to argue that there was silence when Hamas fired rockets into Israel cannot justify silence when Israel brutally bombs and invades Gaza. Neither act of violence is justified. Sitting on the fence on the basis of an uncritical friendship suggests a bankruptcy of policy. We do expect the world to react when external violence and terror strikes India. If so, can we remain silent when other innocents bleed?

People and nations respect responsible and principled reactions by friendly powers. This also gives us leverage to intervene where possible through quiet diplomacy. The fact is, however, that we have denied ourselves any meaningful role in West Asia.

And now a Malaysian airliner has been shot down over Ukraine, killing 295 persons. Should we not take a view on the Russian-Ukranian standoff that seems to have brought on this latest horror and counsel our friends.

The hysteria over the Vaidik caper in Lahore has not yet subsided and has distracted attention from a more insidious threat. This is the RSS-Parivar push to commit the Government to saffron policies. The PM has been silent or will be assumed to be acquiescent despite his comforting words to all minorities and political opponents on assuming office.

The “loan” of RSS stalwarts to the BJP Government and attacks on Christians are symptomatic of a different voice. And now the menace in Ashok Singhal’s rant against Muslims to DNA last week: “Muslims will be treated as common citizens — nothing more, nothing less. And, they must learn to respect Hindu sentiments. If they keep opposing Hindus, how long can they survive?” He also said that Muslims should withdraw claims in regard to the Ayodhya, Kashi and Mathura temple sites and also accept a uniform civil code. These are unilateral threats and diktats, pushing the Hindutva agenda like a uniform civil code without only movement towards implementing this most important legislation.

As worrying is the appointment of Prof. Y Sudarshan Rao as Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research. Leading scholars describe him as an obscure historian from Andhra without any acclaimed book or peer reviewed article to his credit. His principal work and interest appears to be trying to date the Ramayana and Mahabhrata and fit them into historical time so as convert what most consider legends, put together at different times by different authors in varying versions, into lived history. Once done, this would reinforce the case for the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. This clearly is a political project and not innocent historical research.

Prof Rao’s view is that ancient Indian history has been viewed through foreign and Marxist lenses and has been greatly influenced by Western historiography. What he seeks is “to evolve a methodology to study our remote past with an Indian perspective”. Critics fear Prof Rao is merging history with mythology.

Let every kind of research go on, but it would be a disaster to return to any project to saffronise education in the manner witnessed in the last NDA regime and in the books produced by the Parivar for their Shishu Mandirs. Those have glorified Hindu Rashtra, and treated minorities as second class citizens and dalits with contempt. These are mirror images of distorted Pakistan’s poisonous, divisive and fictional textbooks. Some young, educated Muslim Indians are being ideologically called to radicalism; but others despair at aspects of the Muslim condition in India.

We need to be wary of antagonising any section of the population through chauvinistic nationalism in a highly plural society. Hindutvadis are a minority in Hindu society whose genius has been tolerance and accommodation. India will never go their bigoted way.

The BJP has also got it wrong in rejecting for the second time a nominee for elevation as an apex court judge recommended by the Supreme Court collegium. The Court has stood firm and the Government should properly yield ground. Any effort to pack the courts will be firmly resisted. The Government has done well to sanction 250 more high court judges to expedite cases and cut down arrears. But these justices must be chosen with care and not packed with loyalists.

Our laws must move with the times and there is a good case for permitting passive euthanasia if cleared by a medical board. But there seems to be some backsliding on this. The right to life is incomplete unless what is guaranteed is a right to life with dignity which is also a high constitutional value. Punishing a comatose individual reduced to a vegetable and his/her family is cruel. Murder must be precluded; but protection of life must rise above a life without hope or purpose.

At the same time there is cause to review the law on rape by juveniles. Cases of juvenile rape have been alarmingly on the rise. While the victim has suffered horrible violence, indignity and, sometimes, torture and ultimate death, victims have got off lightly, pleading age. The notion behind juvenile justice is immaturity of the violator and opportunity for reform. But Maneka Gandhi has powerfully pleaded that this be reconsidered and the age of immunity be reduced to 16. This is worthy of consideration in the “rarest of rare” cases.

Only fear of the law and its swift execution will ensure compliance. Today, few fear the law. Punishment is waived. Criminals of every kind are emboldened.

Nowhere is this more so than in the case of politicians whose brazen lawlessness is becoming an epidemic. Ashok Chavan, former Maharashtra chief minister, has been defending himself against a charge of paid news in the 2009 polls. Prime facie, the evidence was clear. But we live in an age when BMWs can magically become trucks when it comes to rash driving.

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In Mood of Development

Chief Minister O Ibobi’s inauguration spree of some of the important public infrastructures in two different districts on a single day neatly captures the development mood that his government has

Chief Minister O Ibobi’s inauguration spree of some of the important public infrastructures in two different districts on a single day neatly captures the development mood that his government has been drumming up in the State for quite some time. Taking out time from the hectic Assembly Session, the CM has made a statement by reaching out to the two districts of Churachandpur and Bishnupur on a single day, that his government is concern about development. It definitely takes us down the memory lane of another inauguration spree that took place in 2011. This was when the United Progressive Alliance was in its second term of power in Delhi. The then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi came to Imphal in December 2011 to inaugurate the City Convention Center, the State Assembly Complex and the Manipur Film Development Corporation auditorium, all hurriedly on a single day. And of course, the Inter State Bus Terminus near Khuman Lampak, was also inaugurated on the same day by the same visitors. A remote control device was used while inaugurating it, showcasing the State’s technological progress. Ever since, this ISBT has been in the public limelight, capturing front page spaces with photographs of its premises dotted with human excreta. The City Convention Center after almost three years of its inauguration bears no sign of completion even today, except for its well decorated façade standing tall and forlornly. MFDC auditorium which is just across the City Convention has a different picture. The auditorium is equipped with one of the best setups with digital surround sound, hi-tech projector and other modern gadgets. Truly, this is one of the public structures we are proud of. However, this costly infrastructure has been running with inadequate staff. There is need for inducting more workforces for the infrastructure to thrive. The same is true for the newborn Chandrakirti Auditorium at the Palace Compound. It is learned that paucity of fund has been one of the chief reasons for not recruiting adequate staffs. Registered that the financial climate may not be favorable on the Government’s part for recruiting staff, as evident with the current ban on recruitment; but our contestation is that the purpose for building such infrastructures is hardly served unless there are enough people to look after them. Agreed, the present government must be given credit for such infrastructural achievements of public worth. But what is appalling is leaving the structures alone to its own fate. Before embarking upon such costly projects, the government must also take into cognizance of the simple fact that an infrastructure needs maintenance for it to survive. The same logic applies to any infrastructure whether it is new or old. The CM while inaugurating the newly constructed block of the Churachandpur District hospital assured that his government would set up a Hills Medical College in the district. The announcement is certainly welcome. We have been maintaining in this column that health care facilities should be upgraded and expanded to each and every district of the State, rather than concentrating in the Imphal areas. What is unhinging is that without enough manpower, physical infrastructure alone cannot look after the patients. The Senapati District hospital even after inauguration of its new building is not fully functional because of lack of staff. If this kind of development represents the real mood of development, then it is a retarded development.

Leader Writer: Senate Kh.

 

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Delhi has become a graveyard for NE people, says MLA

IMPHAL, July 22: The killing of a Manipuri lad at south Delhi yesterday is not the first incident of harassment of people from the North East in Delhi. The national

IMPHAL, July 22: The killing of a Manipuri lad at south Delhi yesterday is not the first incident of harassment of people from the North East in Delhi. The national capital has become a graveyard for the North East India.

This was observed Langthabal MLA Karam Shyam Singh of Lok Jana Shakti Party taking advantage of the zero hour at the end of the first business of the House, today.

The government and the members of the House should not remain silent on the killing of Saloni of Senapati district, but move to Delhi tomorrow itself and stage dharnas, to register condemnation, he said.

“We should not beg to live, living is a right entitled to us by democracy,” he said.

The man killed in south Delhi yesterday has been identified as Salouni Paomei of Karong, Senapati district, deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam, who also holds the Home portfolio replied to the MLA’s statement adding that the reply was in the public interest, even though it is not mandatory to reply to issues raised during zero hour.

He said Salouni was returning with two other friends in an Auto three-wheeler to his room in Kotla Mubarakpur, when five persons coming in a car attacked them yelling “Maro Maro.”

He died in the assault, while, his two other companions managed to flee from the scene, Gaikhangam said.

Three of the five assailants have been arrested by the local police and registered a case under FIR no 610/2014 u/s 302/34 IPC, he said.

Gaikhangam also said that top officials of the Union Minister of State (Home) and the police are investigating the scene and as such there is no need as of the moment, for any minister of MLA from the State to rush to the place.

However, if the need for a visit rises, it will be done, he added.

Meanwhile, as Opposition leader Dr I Ibohalbi stood up to place his observation before the House, the Speaker held him back ruling that the zero hour has ended.

However, the MLA overruled the Speaker’s ruling and appealed for a minute as the issue was of public importance and an emergency.

After the Speaker granted him to speak, he urged that the Manipur government take the same steps as the Arunachal Pradesh government did while dealing with the death of one of its own student at the national capital recently.

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Read the newspapers, CM advises Md Abdul Nasir

IMPHAL, July 22: India is a democratic country and the press has its own freedom. Certain news reports are based on information received from sources. The media is unbiased and

IMPHAL, July 22: India is a democratic country and the press has its own freedom. Certain news reports are based on information received from sources. The media is unbiased and has no partiality. House member Agriculture minister should keep the habit of reading newspapers.

Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh stated during the Assembly sitting today.

Demands for Agriculture and Fishery departments, which are both under Md Abdul Nasir were tabled today under Demand No 17 and 37 respectively.

Raising a motion for disapproval of policy cut during the discussion on the demands, MLA Dr I Ibohalbi had asked why Asem Priyokumar Singh of Kumbi, who had already received a national level award as the best producer of rice, was placed at Serial No 3 in the list for the State Award. Was this the reason behind his not receiving the State award, he asked adding that there were reports on the issue in the local dailies.

In his reply, minister Md Abdul Nasir said it has been six-seven months since he had read the newspapers.

He continued, what could have been easily resolved through dialogue had often been splashed in the newspapers, degrading the image of the newspapers.

He told the House, now he directly approaches the court instead of approaching the newspapers.

Asserting that the media had printed many baseless reports about him in the past, Md Abdul Nasir said it has been long since, he had read a newspaper.

Hearing the minister’s reply, Chief Minister Okram Ibobi stood up from his seat and with a wry smile said, the minister would have known what was being reported if he had read the newspapers.

Even if there was anything condemnable or which need clarification, he would have got the opportunity.

Ibobi said even if a newspaper report had infringed on the member’s privilege, he is entitled to take the matter to the court.

The Chief Minister also added that his advice, not only as the leader of the House, but from the side of the government to the minister, would be to read the newspapers.

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ILP rally ends in chaos

IMPHAL, July 22: Students continue to step out of their classrooms on to the streets protesting the government’s silence on the demand for implementation of the Inner Line Permit in

IMPHAL, July 22: Students continue to step out of their classrooms on to the streets protesting the government’s silence on the demand for implementation of the Inner Line Permit in the State.

A large number of students from Churachand Higher Secondary School (CC) and the International Modernised Academy (IMA) came out and took out a mass rally which ended in a violent scuffle with the police.

A student received head injuries and was rushed to JNIMS.

Around noon today, a large group of students converged at Palace Compound and started to march along the New Checkon-Hatta Golapati road holding placards and shouting slogans, when they were intercepted by a heavy police presence at New Checkon.

The police in their bid to block the marching students resorted to lathi charging and firing tear gas shells which were replied back by the students throwing stones.

Later, speaking to the media, Wahengbam Anand general secretary, CC Higher Secondary School said that the police could have control the situation peacefully instead of using violent means.

“Until the demand is fulfilled, we will continue the agitation and closed down all schools from July 23 onwards,” he added.

Several students received minor injuries but one of the students Y Prabin, from Keishampat, class XI, Arts student was injured on his head and had to be taken to JNIMS, he said.

The police later pacified the students and escorted them to their respective schools, however, another brief tussle was witnessed at the CC Higher Secondary School, after the students started burning wood and pelting stones at the police.

The students were then, locked inside their school campus till about 3.30 pm, however, they continued to throw stones.

The principal unable to bear the violence, asked the police to allow the students to go home, which was turned down, which prompted the principal to contact the higher officials and the students were allowed to move out of their school.

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Budget session will bring nothing new: Chaoba

IMPHAL, July 22: The ongoing Budget session of the Manipur Legislative Assembly will bring nothing new as long as the Congress government keeps on begging from the Centre, claimed BJP

IMPHAL, July 22: The ongoing Budget session of the Manipur Legislative Assembly will bring nothing new as long as the Congress government keeps on begging from the Centre, claimed BJP State president, Th Chaoba before the media this afternoon at the party’s NityaipatChuthek office.

Chaoba said no attempt has been made by the State government in resource mobilisation since it came to power in the State.

Without resource mobilisation, the State will keep depending on funds from the Centre, he said.

Citing the example of Tripura, the State BJP president continued that Tripura has gone far ahead of Manipur in terms of resource mobilisation.

He said rubber plantation has been very successful in Tripura, and the State has mobilised lots of resources from it.

Chaoba also came down heavily on the assault and murder of Shaloni on July 21 at KotlaMubarakpur area of south Delhi.

He said that BJP Manipur Pradesh has sent strong concerns to the Union Home Minister and the Prime Minister, demanding befitting punishment of those involved in the killing.

The State BJP has also sought the intervention of both the Home Minister and the Prime Minister on the crime committed towards the Northeast people in Delhi.

Chaoba informed that construction work for the Sports University will start after August of this year. The NDA Government has already earmarked 100 Crores for the university. He said this in fulfilment of the electoral promise made by the Prime Minister during his election campaign in the recent LokSabha election.

Chaoba appealed to various intellectual and sports lover for their suggestion regarding the new sport University in the State. Inviting individuals concerned to attend the meeting on July 27 on Sunday at Imphal Hotel, Chaoba added that suggestions or concept notes can be mailed at: bjpmanipur80@yahoo.com, He said the meeting will discuss on the development of the sports university.

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Four members join discussion, as House passes six demands

IMPHAL, July 22: The Manipur Legislative Assembly today passed a total sum of Rs 1310,68,91,000 for various six demands of various government departments. Speaker Th Lokeshwar Singh took up discussion

IMPHAL, July 22: The Manipur Legislative Assembly today passed a total sum of Rs 1310,68,91,000 for various six demands of various government departments.

Speaker Th Lokeshwar Singh took up discussion and voting on demands for grants, 2014-15 as the third business of the House today.

Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh who is also the leader of the House and the Finance minister tabled the amount for six different demands to be discussed and passed by the House.

The demands which were tabled by the leader of the House are Demand No 9 for Rs 5,40,56,000 for Information and Publicity, Demand No 10 for Rs 1062,73,97,000 for Education, Demand No 17 for Rs 189,06,05,000 for Agriculture, Demand No 27 for Rs 15,85,07,000 for Election, Demand No 37 for Rs 32,70,55,000 for Fisheries and Demand No 42 for Rs 4,92,71,000 for State Academy of Training.

Discussions on the demands were participated by only four MLAs of the 60-member House, namely AITC MLAs Dr I Ibohalbi Singh, Th Shyamkumar, Kh Joykishan Singh and Th Biswajit Singh.

During discussion on the Demand no 10 for Education, the four raised motions for disapproval of policy cut on the account of failure to streamline the standard education system in the State, failure to regularise ad-hoc graduate teachers, who were discontinued from their services in 2007, failure to repair and construct class rooms in high schools and primary schools, failure of transfer and posting policy in the department, incomplete infrastructure under SSA/ RMSA and failure to implement SSA and PMSA schemes as per ministry of Human Resources guidelines.

During discussion on Demand no 17 for Agriculture, MLAs Dr I Ibohalbi Singh and Th Biswajit Singh raised motions for disapproval of policy cuts.

The two had raised their motions on account of failure to adopt State specific agricultural policy and imporper management of temporary marketing system for agricultural products.

Ibohalbi had further raised a motion for disapproval of policy cuts during the discussion of Demand no 37 for Fisheries on account of inability of the department to have a policy for production of self-sufficient fish in the State.

However, the cut motions were withdrawn after the concerned ministers aided by the leader of the House Chief Minister Okram Ibobi provided clarifications and assurances

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