Day: November 28, 2012

MNS: 28 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector under aegis of HQ IGAR(S) established an Assam Rifles Pavilion in the ongoing Sangai Festival.Assam Rifles pavilion has been established to showcase the history and contribution of Assam Rifles in Manipur. In the pavilion guidelines are given for how to join Assam Rifles/Army and Pamphlets were also distributed giving out details of how to join Assam Rifles/ Army to the visitors. The Assam Rifles pavilion has been a huge crowd puller and has especially attracted the younger generation. Daily approximately 500 people are visiting the Assam Rifles Pavilion and this shows that the people of Manipur want peace and tranquility in this state. The number of people visiting the Assam Rifles Pavilion and their efforts to know about Assam Rifles is the befitting example of close interaction with the Youth and Security Forces. Each and everybody who visited the Pavilion appreciated the works done by Assam Rifles in Manipur.

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MNS: 28 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector under aegis of HQ IGAR(S) established an Assam Rifles Pavilion in the ongoing Sangai Festival.Assam Rifles pavilion has been established to showcase the history and contribution of Assam Rifles in Manipur. In the pavilion guidelines are given for how to join Assam Rifles/Army and Pamphlets were also distributed giving out details of how to join Assam Rifles/ Army to the visitors. The Assam Rifles pavilion has been a huge crowd puller and has especially attracted the younger generation. Daily approximately 500 people are visiting the Assam Rifles Pavilion and this shows that the people of Manipur want peace and tranquility in this state. The number of people visiting the Assam Rifles Pavilion and their efforts to know about Assam Rifles is the befitting example of close interaction with the Youth and Security Forces. Each and everybody who visited the Pavilion appreciated the works done by Assam Rifles in Manipur.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/ar-participates-in-sangai-festival-2/

MNS: Assam Rifles has vehemently denied the opinion expressed in some newspapers that the blast which occured in Khurai Chairen Thongkhong along Imphal Ukhrul road, resulting in injury to one civilian was because of the bomb being accidently dropped from the Assam Rifles vehicles. Reacting vehemently to the opinions expressed, the PRO HQ IGAR (South) said that such an opinion is totally absurd and possibly the result of a perverse imagination motivated by anti national elements. T
he blast was triggered by either a grenade or explosive placed by the terrorists on crowded stretch of road where civilians were present when the Assam Rifles convoy was passing by.
Recent acts have mostly targeted innocent civilians without any humanitarian consideration for local populace. Assam Rifles have always remained the ‘FRIENDS OF MANIPUR’ people and condemn all such incidents of violence perpetrated by anti national elements.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/ar-condemns-bomb-blast/

MNS: Assam Rifles has vehemently denied the opinion expressed in some newspapers that the blast which occured in Khurai Chairen Thongkhong along Imphal Ukhrul road, resulting in injury to one civilian was because of the bomb being accidently dropped from the Assam Rifles vehicles. Reacting vehemently to the opinions expressed, the PRO HQ IGAR (South) said that such an opinion is totally absurd and possibly the result of a perverse imagination motivated by anti national elements. T
he blast was triggered by either a grenade or explosive placed by the terrorists on crowded stretch of road where civilians were present when the Assam Rifles convoy was passing by.
Recent acts have mostly targeted innocent civilians without any humanitarian consideration for local populace. Assam Rifles have always remained the ‘FRIENDS OF MANIPUR’ people and condemn all such incidents of violence perpetrated by anti national elements.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/ar-condemns-bomb-blast/

IMPHAL, Nov 28 NNN: The Manipur State Panchayat Parishad (MSPP) has strongly objected to the move of the state government to omit the pradhans and members of Zilla Parishad from operating the joint-account of MGNREGS, terming it as centralization of power in the hands of the state government and undermining the importance of representatives of the people at grass root level.
According to an order on November 5 by Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, the pradhans and members of Zilla Parishad are no longer required in the operation of joint-account of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
This is in stark contrast to the NREGS operational guidelines by the central government which makes the Pradhan and the Secretary of the Gram Panchayat to be joint operators of the NREGS account.
In a press meet this afternoon at Manipur Panchayat Bhawan, Porompat, Thokchom Bhubol Singh, Secretary of Manipur State Panchayat Parishad (MSPP) said that the new order will not be able to avail 100 days of works to the people as the power of the Panchayat Parishad has been diluted.
The pradhans and members of Zilla Parishad being the direct representatives of the people in the grass-root level, they alone can guarantee success and implementation of the scheme, he said.
In this regard, a memorandum has already been submitted to chief minister O Ibobi Singh, said Bhubol Singh adding that they would oppose the government’s move until it relents to their demand and urged the government to maintain the status quo.

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IMPHAL, Nov 28 NNN: The Manipur State Panchayat Parishad (MSPP) has strongly objected to the move of the state government to omit the pradhans and members of Zilla Parishad from operating the joint-account of MGNREGS, terming it as centralization of power in the hands of the state government and undermining the importance of representatives of the people at grass root level.
According to an order on November 5 by Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, the pradhans and members of Zilla Parishad are no longer required in the operation of joint-account of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
This is in stark contrast to the NREGS operational guidelines by the central government which makes the Pradhan and the Secretary of the Gram Panchayat to be joint operators of the NREGS account.
In a press meet this afternoon at Manipur Panchayat Bhawan, Porompat, Thokchom Bhubol Singh, Secretary of Manipur State Panchayat Parishad (MSPP) said that the new order will not be able to avail 100 days of works to the people as the power of the Panchayat Parishad has been diluted.
The pradhans and members of Zilla Parishad being the direct representatives of the people in the grass-root level, they alone can guarantee success and implementation of the scheme, he said.
In this regard, a memorandum has already been submitted to chief minister O Ibobi Singh, said Bhubol Singh adding that they would oppose the government’s move until it relents to their demand and urged the government to maintain the status quo.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/panchayat-members-on-mgnregs/

IMPHAL, Nov 28 UNA : A special vigil has been made on carrying huge amount of money from Imphal to Moreh by passengers and travel agencies following arrest of two persons who were allegedly engaged in the sending of extorted money from Imphal to Moreh,.
An official source Wednesday said that two activists of different underground outfits who were engaged in sending and delivering huge amount of money in cash to leaders of the underground outfits were arrested by state police commandos recently from Imphal area.
One of the two was a rifleman of the Manipur Rifles and arrested by police commandos on the alleged charge of being an activist of PREPAK while he was about to sent an amount of Rs five lakh to a commander of the outfit under whom he was working and staying in Myanmar.
The source said that Nameirakpam Hemen Meitei (45) of Bashikhong Mamang Leikai was arrested by a team of police commandos attached with Imphal West district from Thangal Bazar on November 24 last and handed over to the City police with Rs five lakh seized from his possession.
Hemen is a personnel of E-coy of 8th Manipur Rifles under rifleman number 1194268 and currently posting at Leikhun of Chandel district. During spot verification, Hemen reportedly admitted that he works under one Babu of PREPAK outfit currently staying in Myanmar and he was sending the amount to someone at Moreh for onward handing over to Babu.
He further disclosed that the amount he was possession was extorted from different government department like sericulture, CAW, MANIDCO, businessmen and government employees as party fund. After producing him in the court of Imphal West district magistrate, he has been remanded to judicial custody.
Another person allegedly engaged in delivering money to RPF/PLA leaders in Moreh town has also been picked by the police commandos from his own house at Imphal’s Thonju part-II on November 25 last by a team of Imphal West commandos.
He was identified as Thongam Debendra Singh alias Tayaima (53) of Thongju part-II from his residence on November 25. He was alleged of being engaged in collecting and sending money extorted by PLA activists from various government departments, individuals and government employees.
He used to send the money to one Self Styled Major Bikon working in the finance section of the outfit. He had recently sent Rs 2,85,000 and Rs 2,50,000 to Bikon after one PLA cadre identified as Naton handed over to him. Before this he had visited Moreh and handed over Rs 9 lakh to Bikon, police alleged.
However, RPF denied that Debendra is an activist of the outfit in a statement dispatched to media houses in Imphal yesterday which stated, Debendra had no link with the outfit in any way.
Police has intensified its vigil on the sending of money in cash.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/cash-movement-from-imphal-to-moreh/