Manipur News

IMPHAL, July 26: The All Manipur College Teachers`™ Association (AMCTA) has expressed their condolence on the death of Sapam Robinhood who died in the hands of the police during the struggle for implementation of ILPS in the state and also condemned the barbaric action of the police as well during an emergency meeting held on July 26.

According to a release of AMCTA, the association demanded punishment to be given to the police personnel involved in the incident and inclusion of all the points rtecommended by JCILPS in the proposed new Bill.

AMCTA also demanded reopening of all schools and colleges in all greater Imphal areas at the earliest and fulfillment of the demands made by the association regarding the fresh notification of Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) and to terminate appointments of irregular Principals, it said.

The unit colleges of the association under the government will also join in the Nation Wide Cease Work Strike called by All India Federation of University and College Teachers`™ Organisation (AIFUCTO) from August 7. A team led by President of AMCTA, M. Lokendro Singh will also take part in the hunger strike of Office Bearers to be carried out at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi from August 7 onwards, it said.

The demands of the AIFUCTO are immediate constitution of VII Pay Review Committee, AHRD approval of UGC decisions on 3rd Amendments of UGC Regulations-2010 and Ph.D Regulations 2009, Minister-HRD appointment to AIFUCTO-FEDCUTA to discuss the long standing professional demands, Scrapping of API, Roll backed choice based Credit system and CU Bill 2013, extend dates for RC and OC upto December 2015, UGC Pay Scales for all Categories of Teachers, Stop commercialisation of higher education, reject Pension Scheme-2004 and Consult Teachers`™ organisations on Education policies, it said.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/07/amcta-to-join-nationwide-cease-work-strike/

IMPHAL, July 26: A national seminar on `Perspective and Realization on the Issues of Smaller States in India`™ will be held in New Delhi on August 11, which will be attended by more than 1000 participants including all the stake holders of the smaller states demanding groups, heavy weight politicians, noted activists, scholars, eminent writers and academicians of the country.

The seminar is to be jointly organised by All Bodo Students`™ Union (ABSU); Peoples`™ Joint Action Committee for Boroland Movement (PJACBM); Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC); National Federation for New States (NFNS); Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh (BGP); Vidarbha Rajya Agdhi (VIRRA); Indigenous People`™s Front Tripura (IPTF) and Dimasa People`™s Council (DPC).

A joint press release of the organizations stated that the seminar is to be organised in order to collectively consult on perspectives, challenges and realization on smaller states issue of India by proving a common platform to widely exchange ideas, views, opinions, suggestions, recommendations and to cooperate in finding effective and meaningful pathways and strategies for contributions towards finding solutions over the national issue.

The successive Government of India, particularly the NDA Government considering the peoples`™ genuine aspirations and legitimacy took bold historic political decisions and created three new states namely Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Chattisgarh in the year 2000 which have sent a positive signal to other smaller states demanding groups across the country, it said.

The NDA Government which envisioned first that with the creations of smaller states in the country the faster growth and development in all fronts could be achieved is back to power with the promises of faster growth and development, protection of identity and culture, proportionate distribution and utilization of resources, removal of regional disparity, social justice and equal dignity, redesigning the country with creating rationally smaller states etc.

So as a major stake holders of the smaller state demanding groups do strongly feel that it is the right time to renew the legitimate demands and carry out peaceful democratic exercises to remind the present NDA Govt to take favourable and time bound appropriate steps to fulfil our longstanding continued demands of smaller states, said the press release.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/07/smaller-states-demanding-groups-to-hold-national-seminar/