{"id":316600,"date":"2017-10-04T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/4106-cabinet-nod-to-create-more-than-1000-acre-land-bank"},"modified":"2017-10-04T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T18:30:00","slug":"cabinet-nod-to-create-more-than-1000-acre-land-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/10\/04\/cabinet-nod-to-create-more-than-1000-acre-land-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet nod to create more than 1000 acre land bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">\n<p>By A Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL | Oct 4<\/p>\n<p>The state Cabinet today resolved to create a land bank of the state by acquiring huge track of land over 1000 acres to be used for any future projects. Chief minister chaired the meeting at his secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing media persons at his official quarter at Sanjenthong late in the evening, works minister Th. Bishwajit Singh, said the objective of creating a land bank is to avoid usual difficulties encountered by the state to acquire land any ambitious project in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet resolved to acquire a total of 1048 acre at N. Khallong village under Imphal East district and 530 acres at Phungrei village under Saikul sub-division, he informed.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting also approved acquisition of land for the construction of a new State Guest House and residential complex of ministers and officials at Chingmeirong east and 10-Meitei Keirang in Imphal East district.<\/p>\n<p>The minister further revealed that the Cabinet also approved payment of compensation to 409 victims whose properties were damaged in a mob violence which occurred at Khurai Heikru Makhong in Imphal East district on December 18, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>It has been informed that a committee comprising of Imphal East DC, SP, director fire service and executive engineer of PWD would be constituted to conduct enquiry into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>As per the recommendation of the committee the compensation will be paid and the Cabinet meeting agreed to earmark a total of Rs. 1,98,27,246 for the same.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet also decided to launch a sub-mission under the name and style of mission for economic empowerment of traditional artisans\/craftsmen (MEETAC) to support traditional artisans\/craftsmen of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed sub-mission will aim at developing the traditional crafts\/arts sector of Manipur as per global standards to make it an important spoke in the wheel of economic activities.<\/p>\n<p>It will be implemented under the state mission on employment, housing and drinking water for households by 2022 constituted by a Cabinet decision on May 3, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Textiles (handicrafts\/handlooms), pottery, cane and bamboo crafts, jewellery (gold and non-gold), reed craft, stone carving, wood carving, dolls and toys, block printing, terracotta, hand embroidery (Zari etc) and tribal arts\/crafts etc. are the some of the listed items which are to be covered under the sub-mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet also gave its nod to the proposal for identification of 393.64 acres of land in revenue village 91-A Lamphelpat for development of water body by the department of water resources, Manipur.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet also gave its nod to direct purchase of 5 acres of land for establishment of a police station at Behiang.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet decided to adopt a general guideline for direct purchase of land through Direct Purchase Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The guideline has been framed to do away with unreasonable variation and abnormally high cost in the rate of land for acquisition\/purchase in different districts.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet approved 24 days as General Holidays and 17 days as Public Holidays for the year 2018. It also endorsed framing of Manipur Waqf Regulation, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet gave its nod to the re-designation of some posts of MHS Grade-II (Allopathy) as MHS Grade-II (AYUSH).<\/p>\n<p>It also approved renaming of the post of Additional Public Prosecutor-cum-Additional Government Advocate (High Court), Manipur as Additional Government Advocate (High Court), Manipur with restrospective effect from 25-10-2016.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet decided to appoint necessary staff for proper implementation of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) in the state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/4106-cabinet-nod-to-create-more-than-1000-acre-land-bank\">http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/4106-cabinet-nod-to-create-more-than-1000-acre-land-bank<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By A Staff Reporter<br \/>\nIMPHAL | Oct 4<br \/>\nThe state Cabinet today resolved to create a land bank of the state by acquiring huge track of land over 1000 acres to be used for any future projects. Chief minister chaired the meeting at his secretariat.<br \/>\nBriefin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15434,4],"tags":[2733,15447],"class_list":["post-316600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ifp","category-news","tag-ifp","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316601,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316600\/revisions\/316601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}