Manipur News

IMPHAL, December 6: About 400 members of the Co-coordinating Body of Trade Union, Manipur are making hectic preparation to be a part of the All India Trade Union Congress Delhi mass rally to storm the Parliament during the winter session of on December 12, 2013, said L Sotinkumar, delegate leader of the union.

Addressing media persons at Irabot Bhawan this afternoon Sotinkumar said that the 400 representatives will comprise of members of trade unions, farmer organizations, civil society bodies, including agricultural workers and working women under the aegis of the union. They will leave Imphal in separate batches on December 7, 8 and 9 of 200, 150 and 70 delegates respectively. He appealed against imposition of bandhs on those days.

Sotinkumar said that around four lakh representatives from trade unions across the country will gather for taking part in the mass rally. He added that the mass rally is being held to highlight the demands for raising of wage of the working class to Rs 10, 000 per month; fixing of salaries for casual, contract and master-roll employees at par with the salary of government employees and to shorten the days of enrollment or registration in trade unions to 45 days.

Sotin further said another 100 Manipuris from and around Delhi will be joining the state’s delegation.

AITUC consisted of CBTUM, AITUC, BMS, CITU, HMS INTUC, UTUC, AICCTU, AIUTUC, NPF, SEWA and Independent Workers and Employees Federation. The Prime Minister and Union Labour Minister already agreed that its 12-point charter of demands are genuine for the labour class of country but has so far failed to implement them.

During the stay in Delhi, the delegates from Manipur will stage a sit-in protest on December 11 at Janter Manter to highlight the state-specified problem. The General Secretary of All India Kishan Shabha Atul Kumar and CPI Lok Sabha Member Promod Panda has already taken the permission from the Central Government for the protest and meeting with the Prime Minister. On December 12, there will be a huge demonstration at the front of Parliament in the evening and the working women from Manipur will observe 74th Nupi Lal observation at Ram Lila Maidan ground Delhi..

Sotinkumar also announced that on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Chinga Meefam (convention during Janata Irabot period and regarded as the first ever class struggle against the kings rule), the coming year 2014 will be observed as Labour Year.

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IMPHAL, December 6:  Prof S Sekharjit, Director of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences today inaugurated the two-day training programme on the assessment of immune deterioration of the HIV positive persons at the Jubilee hall.

Welcoming the participants from many states of eastern India he said the laboratory technicians are the backbone of NACO. He hoped that they would gain knowledge from the training and help ensure 100 per cent correct laboratory results. “Human errors in such testings created problems. With the fast developing technologies he feels that the machines will be improved to marginalize human errors,” he stated.

The training programme is organised by NACO and BD Biosciences. RIMS has been using FACS count machine since 2002. The objective of the training is to provide good laboratory practice for the laboratory technicians from Manipur and other states of eastern India.

Prof Brajachand of Microbiology department, RIMS said that there are 35.3 million HIV positive people in the world. India has 2.4 million of which 43,882 persons are in Manipur. Till September this year Ukhrul registered the highest number of HIV positive people; the official percentage is 2.5. He underlined the importance of quality control in laboratory testings.

Prof Sulochana, head of department of Microbiology reminded the people that AIDS is still incurable. The only way left to the people is to prevent it through awareness.

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IMPHAL, December 6: Parliamentary Secretary of Tourism, M Prithiviraj today distributed awards to the winners of the photo and essay competitions conducted by the department in connection with the Manipur Sangai Festival, 2013, in his office chamber.

The competition was categorised under three themes which included “Nature Including Landscape of Manipur”, “Significant Tourist Spots/Destinations of Manipur” and “People Including Festivals”.

In the first category RK Bullu Singh of Poknapham bagged the first prize with a cash incentive of Rs 25,000 and a citation. L Santoshkumar Singh of Wangkhei bagged the second prize and Rs 10,000 and a citation while M Subash Singh of Langjing Achouba and A Jayananda Singh Wangkhei Khunou, jointly bagged the third prize and walked away with Rs 25,000 and citation each.

The cash amount was similar for the remaining two categories.

In the second category, significant tourist spots/destination of Manipur, L Vusan Singh of Wankhei Yonglan Leirak bagged the first prize, while M Bishwajit Singh of Moirang Bazaar and M Ranjit Singh of Keishampat Top Leirak, bagged the second the third places respectively.

N Basant Singh of Samaram Bamol Leikai, bagged the first prize in the category “People Including Festivals” and Binod Angom of Soibam Leikai Wangkhei Khunou bagged the second prize while Ronel Seram and Bachaspatimyayum Bisheswar Sharma of Aribam Leikai jointly got the third prize.

Meanwhile, H Dileshwar Singh, lecturer of Advance Intermediate College, Moirang walked away with the first prize in the essay competition on the theme “Tourism can be game changer in the economy of Manipur”. He received a cash prize of Rs 6,000 and citation.

The second prize was bagged by W Hennary Chanu, a class VIII of KM Blooming Higher Secondary School, Khangabok, having Rs 4,000 in cash and a citation.

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