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All political party meeting

IMPHAL June 18: A meeting of all the recognized national and state political parties in Imphal East district will be convened on June 21 at the DEO/DC office chamber at… Read more »

IMPHAL June 18: A meeting of all the recognized national and state political parties in Imphal East district will be convened on June 21 at the DEO/DC office chamber at 2 pm.

The meeting is convened in connection with the rationalization of polling station in Imphal East District and all the presidents and secretaries of political parties are requested to attend, après release by GB Sharma, election officer, Imphal East said.

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Contraband drugs held by 31 AR troops

MOREH, June 19: The 31 Assam Rifles under the aegis of headquarters 26 sector Assam Rifles recovered 500000 nos of assorted medicine from two drug peddlers named Amarjit Singh a… Read more »

MOREH, June 19: The 31 Assam Rifles under the aegis of headquarters 26 sector Assam Rifles recovered 500000 nos of assorted medicine from two drug peddlers named Amarjit Singh a resident of Heirok, Thoubal district and Boboy Singh of Wangjing also of Thoubal district while they were attempting to peddle the consignment from Dimapur to Moreh on June 18.

The recovered drugs has been calculated to be worth around Rs 1.5 crore as confirmed from the Narcotics Control Bureau. The apprehendees and recovered item have been handed over to Narcotic Control Bureau, Imphal for further investigation.

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MMTA felicitates AP mountaineer who scaled Mt. Everest twice

IMPHAL, June 20: The Manipur Mountaineering and Tracking Association, MMTA has felicitated Arunchalese mountaineer Anshu Jamsenpa, who summit Mt Everest twice during a span of 10 days very recently. MMTA… Read more »

IMPHAL, June 20: The Manipur Mountaineering and Tracking Association, MMTA has felicitated Arunchalese mountaineer Anshu Jamsenpa, who summit Mt Everest twice during a span of 10 days very recently.

MMTA organised a felicitation function at its office premise today for the three membered Team Arunchal Mount Everest Expedition – 2011 which successfuly scaled the world’s highest peak on May 12 and May 21 this year.

Two other members of the Team Arunachal Mt. Everest Expedition-2011 were Miss Tine Mena of Arunchal Pradesh and Dr K Romeo Meetei of Kakwa Bazar, Imphal, Manipur.

Twice summiteer of the world’s highest peak, Anshu Jamsenpa aged 32 years is a mother of two children and she is presently settled at Bomdila, West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh.

Having completed Adventure Course from MMTA Manipur with grading ‘A’ in 2009, Anshu Jamsenpa did her basic Mountaineering Course from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM), Uttarkashi in 2009. She also completed Advance Course from Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling in 2010 and also Guest Instructor Course from the same institute.

She was also summiteer of North East Pre Everest Expedition at Nepal Peak under MMTA, Manipur in 2010.

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Writ petition tendered on Bar association employee assault case

IMPHAL June 22: Following up on an alleged assault and undue detainment of an employee of the Manipur High Court Bar Association by Manipur police commandos on the night of… Read more »

IMPHAL June 22: Following up on an alleged assault and undue detainment of an employee of the Manipur High Court Bar Association by Manipur police commandos on the night of June 9 at Wangkhei Durga Puja Lampak, the association having condemned the incident has been demanding justice ever since.

Briefing reporters at the association’s office at the Gauhati High Court complex today, president of MHCBA senior advocate N Kumarjeet said that a meeting of the members of the association was held on June 17 last and a sub committee was formed to take up substantive legal action in the regard.

Following the resolve, a writ petition was tendered to the GHC on June 20 which was subsequently moved today.

Advocate L Somorendro assisted in forwarding the case at court today, the petition urged the court that the police action is against the rule of law and further to issue a show cause notice in the regard and to register an FIR against the accused police personnel.

The respondents of the show cause notice are commissioner (Home), DGP of Manipur, SP Imphal East and OC of Porompat police station. The Gauhati High Court in the issued show cause notice to the respondents has mentioned why the case should not be investigated and further to be made returnable to the court by July 14.

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Women vendors fight it out for space

IMPHAL, June 23: Failure of the Imphal Municipal Council authorities to properly demarcate the allotted space for the license vendors at the temporary market shed of Khwairamband keithel, has led to an awkward altercation amongst the women vendors this morning with reports of some vendors fainting during the altercation.

The altercation emerged between the women vendors of shed No. 7 and 8, this early morning however immediate re-enforcement from the nearby Imphal city police controlled the situation.

Meanwhile, many licence vendors of the temporary shed charged that the altercation broke due to the intrusion into the temporary market sheds by street vendors and as such the vendors demanded the concerned authorities to check the unauthorized intrusion so as to avoid such ugly fracas in the future.

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The Loktak:The tragedy and the way forward

By Amar Yumnam The author is celebrating his 25 wedding anniversary today and we wish him many happy returns of the day To an academic, a semInar is a success… Read more »

By Amar Yumnam
The author is celebrating his 25 wedding anniversary today and we wish him many happy returns of the day

To an academic, a semInar is a success if it scores at least on forcing us to ponder on the issues of the seminar not only during the seminar but even after the seminar as well. This is one ground on which I would award a high grade to the recent seminar on the Loktak organised jointly by the Loktak Development Authority and the Loktak Brigade. There are other additional reasons on which the seminar should be valued to which I would turn.

The Tragedy: The Loktak Hydro Electric Project based on the Ithai Barrage is no doubt one of the biggest development wrongs in India and the biggest tragedy for Manipur. The poor foundation of the rationale of the project is getting unfolded increasingly. Almost all the developmental tensions and moves and counter moves at least in and around the adjoining areas of the lake relate to the fall-outs of this ill-conceived project. Today the efforts to address these negative fall-outs have to be necessarily a State-wide one so that any sustainable solution can be achieved.

While searching for solution to the negative impacts of the Loktak Hydro Electric Project, it is no longer feasible to bomb and blast the Ithai Barrage. We have to look for solutions in interventions in areas and aspects other than the project itself. It is in relation to this issue that the recent seminar has turned attention to in a positive way.

Public Good and Development: Intervening into the First Nature in order to create a Second Nature according to our needs always produces shocks, positive and negative. But in the case of the Loktak Hydro Electric Project the negative ones have dominated over the positives, and the impacts linger.

Here it must be mentioned that lakes usually are public goods entry to which is free, unrestricted and non-excludable. Being so, there is usually the problem of over exploitation and free-riders; most of the people living on the lakes tend to extract maximum in the shortest possible time without contributing to their development. But the fall-out of the Ithai Barrage and the years of non-regulation after the commissioning of the hydro project have only aggravated this problem of free-rider associated with the Loktak being a public good. But this is not a sustainable situation for the people as well as the lake. Some regulation and some pricing have to be put in place so that the free-riding is avoided. The present tensions surrounding various policy interventions relating to the Loktak basically relate to this.

The articulations in the seminar by the representatives of the people in and around the lake make subtly clear the desires of the local population. They have enjoyed the benefits of the public good over a period of time, and naturally they would like to revert to the period before the commissioning of the hydro project or at least the absence of the recent legislation by the government and the various interventions through the Loktak Development Authority.

The conflict today is between protecting the interests of the people in and around the lake and the need for regulation to address the various ecological issues. While the important interests of the people are basically local, the ecological issues are necessarily State-wide and global. The challenge before us is striking a balance between these two interests, and thus take the well- being of the people forward.

The Loktak Development Authority has done a good job in straightway organising the Seminar in situ and taking their views to the public. Now there are certain things to be done on the side of the Loktak Development Authority itself.

First, it should not project itself as an implementing agency of programmes envisaged by the government only. We should remember that it is not a department of the government. It should be able to project itself as an agency fully involved in articulating and protecting the interests of the people as well, particularly of those living in and around the lake.

Secondly, the agency itself is in urgent need of empowering further. The dimensions of issues to be attended to by it are so huge that the present nomenclature does no longer do justice to the responsibilities. It should now be renamed as something like the Lake Regulatory Authority with additional powers for intervention in forests, fisheries and of course water.

Third, in order to do justice to the second, the agency should now be broadened with active in-house presence of social scientists and environmentalists. The agency can and should no longer function as stooges of any external authority; it should possess in-house capability to at least address major issues in so far as first round implications are concerned.

Fourth, now that the concerns and resistance of the people in and around the lake a resilient the agency should now be applying its mind on addressing the issues. There is a big collective action issue involved here, and the objective should be to channel this collective action energy towards the goals that serve the interests of the local population while not compromising on the ecological aspects.

There are certain other considerations where the application of the individual as well as collective mind of the local population is paramount. To begin with, we must accept the fact that the practices before the contemplation and adoption of recent interventions were not satisfying the sustainability principles both for the ecology and the people. It is true, whenever certain changes are introduced in any prevailing atmosphere and accompanying set of practices, the interests of some people would invariably be affected adversely. Having said this, I must add that it by no means imply tolerance of decline in well-being of any set of population; no this simply is not acceptable. The issue is adopting certain kinds of policies and programmes whereby the well-being of the adversely affected set of population is ensured at least at the level before the current interventions were put in place. This is where the Loktak Development Authority should be working closely with the local population, and evolve a dynamic package of schemes attuned to the emerging needs of the population.

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MOBC items distributed

IMPHAL June 26: Several benefit items were distributed this evening to the MOBC beneficiaries of Konthoujam Kendra in a simple function held at the residence of Dr. S. Ranjan, former… Read more »

IMPHAL June 26: Several benefit items were distributed this evening to the MOBC beneficiaries of Konthoujam Kendra in a simple function held at the residence of Dr. S. Ranjan, former INC candidate Konthoujam constituency. The MOBC benefit items were distributed for the year 2010-2011 term. The distributed items include Embroidery, Fishery, Housing, Irrigation Pump set, Poultry, Rickshaws and Vegetable farming items.

Speaking at the function Dr. Ranjan said that the distribution of these items had to be deferred owing to some technical inconveniences.

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Not related with RPF/PLA

IMPHAL, June 30: The proscribed RPF/PLA, in a press statement, has stated that Nikolai who was killed by Manipur Police commandos on June 29 at Naoremthong Khullem Leikai is not… Read more »

IMPHAL, June 30: The proscribed RPF/PLA, in a press statement, has stated that Nikolai who was killed by Manipur Police commandos on June 29 at Naoremthong Khullem Leikai is not related with the outfit.

He was expelled from the outfit vide resolution number 107 (b) (i) of the EC.

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`Copies of DPR on Loktak project not available with electricity department`

IMPHAL, July 1: In what could be termed as an odd discovery, not a single copy of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the Loktak Hydro Electric Project’s was available… Read more »

IMPHAL, July 1: In what could be termed as an odd discovery, not a single copy of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the Loktak Hydro Electric Project’s was available with the Electricity department of Manipur.

The discovery was made by an RTI appellant, one Kambam Seityajit, 36, s/o Kambam Ibohal Singh of Khurai Chingangbam Leikai, while seeking information under the Right to Information (RTI), Act, 2005 on Loktak Project.

In the extract copy of the response made available to the media, the appellant had sought information if any agreement existed between the electricity department and the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited (NHPC) while the Loktak project was transferred to the NHPC limited.

In response to the question the chief engineer, (power) electricity department stated that no official records are available in this office about the transfer of the project to NHPC and any agreement thereof. He further speculated that all formalities could have been done before the establishment of the electricity department, in the year 1971.

The appellant claimed the response as misleading and false. On contrary to the response of the chief engineer, he stated that the NHPC was formed in the year 1975 much later than the electricity department, Government of Manipur which was seperated from the Public Work Department, Government in the year 1971 and held that it will not be possible for the NHPC to execute Loktak Hydro Electric Project without any agreement with the state.

Besides that the appellant further claimed that as per his findings the Loktak Hdyro Electric Project’s DPR was prepared in the year 1965 when the Electricity department was associated with the PWD and many copies of such DPR are available in different courts for adjudication of various disputes in the state of Manipur.

On the pretext of the non availability of the DPR the chief engineer further mentioned that it could not provide information for rehabilitation of individuals who had been affected by the said project.

The appellant further stated that the official data available on June 19, 2011 shows that the demand met for power in the state was 58 MW at 0800 hours and the total requirement was shown to be as 65 MW as requested by the electricity department to the Power System Operation Corporation Limited, Shillong. And power supply position at 2000 hours demand met is shown as 49 MW against 90 MW, which is quite contradictory as that of the respondent’s figure of 110 MW at peak hours during summer, according to the extract copy of the response made available to the media.

In terms of state wise power supply position in Million Unit (MU) the requirement of Manipur is shown to be 1.330 MU against the consumption of 1.096 MU which is quite low as compared to that of Meghalaya state consumption of 4.153, MU against their requirement of 5.626 MU which is about the same size and population as Manipur, the appellant further mentioned.

While noting the chief engineer’s response that there is no provision of uninterrupted power supply or VIP line in existing system the appellant further contradicted the claimed stating that uninterrupted power supply are being supplied to certain brick fields in the valley areas as well as certain top contractors, sub-contractors, highly influential individuals, bureaucrats etc and opined that he could furnish sufficient evidence to prove his assertion at any point of time.

The extract copy further showed that the electricity department was found to be having no technical audits and no branch office of the joint electricity regulatory commission for Manipur and Mizoram at Imphal.

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Form submission extended

IMPHAL, July 2: The office of the controller of Technical Education Manipur has informed that the last date of forms submission of forms of admission in one year diploma in… Read more »

IMPHAL, July 2: The office of the controller of Technical Education Manipur has informed that the last date of forms submission of forms of admission in one year diploma in Engineering, Pharmacy and Non-Engineering courses for the session, 2011 has been extended upto July 5.

It said that the selection test examination will be held on July 9, instead of July 3 and informed the candidates to collect their admit cards on July 7 and July 8.

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SSA Manipur

IMPHAL, July 4: All Manipur Hills District JAC on Implementation of SSA Manipur has informed that as enunciated in the RTE Act and SSA norms and guidelines in section 8… Read more »

IMPHAL, July 4: All Manipur Hills District JAC on Implementation of SSA Manipur has informed that as enunciated in the RTE Act and SSA norms and guidelines in section 8 and 9 of the Act, the responsibility and supervision of RTE has been fixed upon the education department all over the Indian states but not in Autonomous District Councils.

The concerned headmaster/headmistress/MDCs/EDS and SMDC members should not accept the formation of the school management committee vide government order no.30/19/09-SE dt. 14/6/2011 till the revocation of the said orders and SSA/RTE acts and norms are followed, said a release.

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State force to be equipped with sophisticated Rifles

IMPHAL, July 5: State security forces will be equipped with new sophisticated AK series rifles under the police modernization schemes of the state government in the nearest future. According to… Read more »

IMPHAL, July 5: State security forces will be equipped with new sophisticated AK series rifles under the police modernization schemes of the state government in the nearest future.

According to an official source, a strong team of MR, IRB and police led by Aaaiatant commandant of 7th MR O Chaoba Singh and Jemadar Th Indrakumar of 5th IRB along with 50 strong personnel from different MR and IRB battalions of the state will be leaving Imphal on July 8 for Kanpur, UP, by road to collect 1125 Nos. of AK series Rifles which were procured by the state government from Central Weapon Store-I, CRPF DIG office recently for utilization in the state by the state forces, the source added.

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Resignation refutes

IMPHAL, July 7: The Bharatiya Janata Party Manipur Pradesh in a statement issued by its general secretary, Th. Shyamo Singh, has refuted the report of the resignation of Henry Paote… Read more »

IMPHAL, July 7: The Bharatiya Janata Party Manipur Pradesh in a statement issued by its general secretary, Th. Shyamo Singh, has refuted the report of the resignation of Henry Paote from the party published in some local dailies stating it as false and baseless.

The statement contended that Henry Paote is not enrolled as a member of the party for this existing term of 2009-2010. He was a member of the party in the previous term but his membership has not been renewed for the current term. As per provision of the party constitution, membership of a person ceases to exist if his membership is not renewed before the expiring of the term, and further added that consequent upon the non-renewal of his membership of the party he is no longer a member of the party.

It said that the press statement published in various local dailies has misled the public.

While terming the statement as unfortunate for a veteran like Paote who was one time a member of the Manipur legislative Assembly to issue such a statement and asserted that the move is a well plan political motivation to downgrade the reputation of the party in the state.

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NPO condemns attack

IMPHAL, July 8: The Naga People’s Organization (NPO) has strongly condemned the attempt to assault the general secretary of COPTAM by some unidentified persons on June, 28 at North AOC,… Read more »

IMPHAL, July 8: The Naga People’s Organization (NPO) has strongly condemned the attempt to assault the general secretary of COPTAM by some unidentified persons on June, 28 at North AOC, Imphal.

In a statement the president, NPO, M. L Markson, stated that the act of causing harm to tribal leaders by any communal forces is uncalled for and unjustifiable. It is an attempt by some anti-tribal elements to sabotage the genuine efforts and demand of the tribal rights in Manipur, it charged.

The NPO demanded the state government to book those responsible at the earliest without which safety of the tribal leaders will not be compromised.

In the meantime endorsing the movement of the COPTAM, the NPO expressed that such acts could be an attempt to derail the tribal movement against the state government’s policy to deny rights of the tribal in Manipur, added the statement.

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Bombayla qualify for London Olympic

IMPHAL, July 9: Ace archer L Bombayla Devi of Manipur has qualified for the ensuing summer Olympic Games to be held in London, 2012. She will be a member of… Read more »

IMPHAL, July 9: Ace archer L Bombayla Devi of Manipur has qualified for the ensuing summer Olympic Games to be held in London, 2012.

She will be a member of the Indian Recurve Team in Archery in the London Olympic games.

A release of the Manipur Olympic Association said Bombayla qualified for the Olympic based on the performance made by her in the ongoing World Archery championship held in Turin, Italy.

Bombayla hail from Khurai Top Khongnangmakhong and she is the daughter of L Manglem.

The Manipur Olympic Association has expressed its happiness over Bombayla’s qualification for the London Olympic Games.

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Scholarship

IMPHAL, July 10: The CCians Forum, is coming up with a scholarship programme beginning from this academic session 2011-2012. A statement of the forum informed that the programme is open… Read more »

IMPHAL, July 10: The CCians Forum, is coming up with a scholarship programme beginning from this academic session 2011-2012.

A statement of the forum informed that the programme is open only for the students enrolled in class IX and at CC Higher Secondary School, Imphal.

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Acknowledgement

IMPHAl, July 17: The Naga People’s Organization (NPO) has shares its sincere happiness to Dr. Wati Aier, principal, Oriental Theological Seminary (OTS), Dimapur on being awarded the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Human Right Award in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia recently. A statement of the organization has also expressed its extreme gratitude to the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) for awarding Dr.Wati Aier, and further stated such remarkable achievements of Dr.Aier manifest the sacrifices and efforts rendered for the cause of the Nagas.

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Solar lamp alloted

IMPHAL, July 20: The friends of hill people’, 11 Assam Rifles of Red Shield Division distributed solar lanterns to the village authorities of Aziuram village in Tamenglong. According to a… Read more »

IMPHAL, July 20: The friends of hill people’, 11 Assam Rifles of Red Shield Division distributed solar lanterns to the village authorities of Aziuram village in Tamenglong.

According to a statement of the PIB Defense wing, the problem of electricity faced by villagers of Aziuram village was addressed with a solar lantern being given to the chairman for the village authority office. Not only this, the battalion also organized a free medical camp on July 18, on the villagers demand for free medical check up, at Monjiron Khunao village, a remote village of Tamenglong district lacking the basic medical facilities. A total of 70 villagers were examined in the camp. Malaria tests, free medicine distribution and lectures on basic health education including precautions against malaria were other activities carried out in the medical camp for benefit of the villagers, it said.

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Tree plantation

IMPHAL, July 22: A Tree plantation drive was carried out by 15 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector under the aegis of HQ IGAR(South) at Phundrei, Thoubal on 22 Jul 2011. … Read more »

IMPHAL, July 22: A Tree plantation drive was carried out by 15 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector under the aegis of HQ IGAR(South) at Phundrei, Thoubal on 22 Jul 2011. A total of 500 saplings including 150 Gulmohar, 100 Jack Fruits, 100 Karpoor and 150 Neem were planted. Commandant 15 Assam Rifles alongwith Pradhans/Headman of neighboring villages like Langathel and Phundrei and approx 200 School children from the area undertook the plantation. Representatives of the State Nursery department were also present on the occasion. The local people, especially the School children were impressed upon the significance of Green environment in today’s modern world. The local populace have expressed gratitude at this yet another noble step taken by Assam Rifles.

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Super 6 hockey

IMPHAL, July 23: SSA, Charangpat thrashed UYAC, Uchekon 8-3 in today’s encounter at the Super Six hockey tournament at Hockey Stadium, Khuman Lampak. For the winners, H Romi bagged a tally of four goals while T Robin scored a brace, the first coming in the opening minute of play. Teammates H Mani, A Romen and B Dinamani contributed one goal each. For the losing team, Umakanta and Tiken shared the three goals.

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