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JIRIBAM, April 28: Four laborers of the Coastal Project Limited, a firm undertaking construction of tunnels for the railway project who were kidnapped earlier were released safely at a place near the Jiri bazaar at around 5 a.m. The construction work of the railway project was in full in swing day and night with the Railway Ministry giving work tenders to different companies to construct the railway line from Jiri to Tupul when around well armed 15 persons kidnapped them on April 23 at around 10.40 while they were working at Tunnel no. 2 at Thingtupung Area of railway line. Considering that they might have been taken to  various places of villages under Tousem police station, the Jiri police including commando conducted search operations.

A spokesperson of coastal project has further disclosed that the construction work might be withdrawn at any time as UGs demand for a huge amount of money and kidnapping cause inconveniences to the companies working at the railway line construction from Jiri to Tupul.

He continued that UGs could kidnap anyone associated with the project as security measures were not taken up at the work site and the camp area while expressing dissatisfaction over the security arrangement made by the State government.

Meanwhile, it is learnt that security measures have not been taken up at the area where the work is in full swing day and night due to inadequate manpower of security in the area which is highly sensitive and where various UGs are reportedly operating.

In the past few days, about 100 laborers have fled while earlier, about 1000 laborers worked day and night  There are now concerns that if laborers continue to flee, the project come come to a standstill.

The 3.2 k.m. long tunnel of  No-1 of Railway project whose dateline was postponed many times began on March 17, 2011 but 646 m is yet to be completed as of now.

Of 29 tunnels in total, a 9.9 k.m. long tunnel No. 28 will be the longest tunnel.

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LAMKA, April 28: Five persons of a marriage party were electric shocked yesterday at Mission Veng, Hiangtam lamka, CCpur.

All five who were rushed to the CCpur District Hospital were however revived by the doctors.

The five are identified as Chingbiak (16) daughter of Thanghau of Damkam Bazar, New Lamka, CCpur; Nemngaihkim (15), daughter of Thanghau of Damkam Bazar; Miss Mary (16), daughter of Paukhanlian of Zion Veng, New Lamka; Lianlaljohn (19), son of (L) Biaklal of SA Road; Nanau (20), son of (L) Ginhauthang of Mission Veng, Hiangtam Lamka.

The incident occurred yesterday around 4pm in the evening when a bus bearing regd no MN 01/0925 carrying people for a marriage struck a low wiring high tension wire at Mission Veng area of Hiangtam Lamka.

Meanwhile, the Executive Engineer of the Churachandpur Electric department who is presently at Imphal has assured to look into the matter, however the locals have loss confidence and have lamented that several previous complaints have always been neglected with excuses.

A local resident who identified himself as Muathang said that at the most, when the electricity comes on, the locality are hardly able to utilize the power due to the low voltage and as such people have to use kerosene and candles to keep their homes lighted up in Lamka particularly at Mission Veng.

Due to the low voltage of the power supply the people are unable to watch TV or use any other electric appliances, he expressed.

Many people at the incident site said that they were all the more angry due to the fact that the electric which come rarely had come on only to result in the accident.

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IMPHAL, April 28: A legal awareness program on violence against women was organized by the All India Women’s Conference, Manipur State Branch Imphal on April 24 at Laphupat Tera Community Hall at Imphal West – Manipur under the sponsorship of All India Women’s Conference, New Delhi.

Villagers including students, local women activists and youth leaders, aged persons participated in the one day awareness program.

The program was attended by former Minister, H Kangjamba Singh as the Chief guest, H. Subita Devi, Advocate as the Guest of honour and Kh Chandra Singh, Ex-Joint Director (Fishery), as President of the function respectively.

During the program, many resource persons delivered and presented papers on the Legal Protection Act.

K Binapani Devi   President, AIWC, Manipur  emphasized that education is the only means to empower women.

She further appealed to the man to treat woman as their mother and creator of human beings on earth.

“Such forms of violence, killing, rape are very shameful”.

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KANGPOKPI, April 28: Lunthang Haokip, MDC 10 Gamnom Sapormeina District Council Constituency along with his chief agent distributed 30 LED torch reading lamps at his S Vengnom residence today under the Integrated Rural Energy Programme 2013 in collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology,Govt of Manipur and Sadar Hills Autonomous District Council Kangpokpi.

While speaking on the sideline of the distribution function, Lunthang Haokip appealed to the Manipur State government to devolve complete power to ADCs at the earliest possibility for the smooth functioning of the administration and bring speedy development of the hill areas of the state at the grassroots level.

It may be mentioned that after the recent cabinet meeting held on April 20 at the CM`s Secretariat, the spokesperson of Manipur State Government Minister M Okendro Singh had informed that the state government is doing its best to transfer maximum powers to the ADC as pet the provision.

The ADC members had also resorted to different form of agitation under the banner of ADC Coordination Committee Manipur demanding devolution of powers to the six ADCs of Hill districts.

Lunthang Haokip and his chief agent also distributed Rs.1000 each to 20 patient benificiaries under 10 Gamnom Sapormeina DDC under Tribals Affairs and Hills Department.

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