Day: February 2, 2013

The Red Shield Division and its Units have been continually striving to prepare youth for various competitive examinations at both the State and National level, so as to shape careers of the youth coming from remote corners of Tamenglong and Senapati districts, who are otherwise disadvantaged due to lack of awareness, requisite teaching facilities and infrastructure.
Of late, Red Shield Division, is preparing and motivating female candidates of the region to undertake competitive examinations for Military Nursing Service (MNS). Nearly 100 candidates from the remote areas of Manipur, have registered for taking up the objective type written test for MNS, that will be conducted on 03 Feb 2013 at Army Base Hospital, Guwahati. It has indeed been heartening to note that 95 candidates out of the total number of 306 candidates from North East India, appearing for the MNS competitive examinations at Guwahati, have been trained by the units of Red Shield Division deployed in Senapati and Tamenglong districts. Candidates who successfully clear the written examinations will be called for Military Nursing Service interview, which will be held in New Delhi, as per merit, in the month of Apr/May 2013. After the interview the recommended candidates will have to appear for medical examination before a Special Medical Board.
Successful candidates will undergo courses of training in BSc Nursing and GNM (General Nursing & Midwifery) for duration of four years and three and half years respectively at various Army Institutions situated at Delhi, Pune, Kolkata, Lucknow and Bengaluru. On successful completion of training, they will be inducted as Officers in Military Nursing Service (MNS).
Major General KK Sinha, GOC, Red Shield Division, has expressed his best wishes to the candidates for the examinations.

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IMPHAL, Feb 2 MNS NNN: Imphal chapter of the Institute of Co-operative Management (ICM) and Manipur State Co-operative Union (MSCU) jointly observed the ‘International Year of Co-operative Day 2012’ under the theme ‘Co-operative Enterprises Build a Better World’ on Saturday.
A rally was organized as part of the observation to spread awareness to the masses about usefulness of the co-operatives. Hundreds of IMC and MSCU members joined the rally which flagged off from the ICM complex, Lamphelpat by Uripok constituency MLA L Nandakumar.
It culminated at the same complex after covering a large part of Lamphel area.
They held placards which read like “Join Co-operative for Better Living” and Empowerment of Women through Co-operatives.”
Later, briefing reporters, National Co-operative Union of India (NCUI) chairperson Jina Potsangbam said the rally was organized to sensitize the people about co-operatives and their expediency that helps in building up a better society and a better nation.
She said, “Co-operatives provide jobs to unemployed youths and now there are 4, 500 co-operatives in the country having as much as 5 lakh members.”
L Tompishak Singh, president, MSCU said that Manipur had the least amount of co-operatives and hence jobless people were on the rise, admitting that co-operatives could solve unemployment problem.
He added that only Rs 2.2 crore for the state co-operative in the state budget was not enough.

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IMPHAL, Feb 2 MNS NNN:As held in others, world wetland observation organized by Peoples awareness for national advancement was held at Lamphelpat today.
Gracing the occasion as chief guest, N. Biren, MLA said we should think for the future generation.
If Lamphelpat is made as water body as usual, the flood problem in Imphal city will be decreased.
The flood in and around of Lamphelpat is caused due to the ecological imbalance.
Instead of developing Lamphelpat, the construction now taken up has become a hurdle in saving the lake. We have to do sincerely, he also further said.
Environmentalists spoke on the issue of wetland. Loktak Development Authority (LDA) has on Saturday proposed that maintaining of rivers, which are main sources of water for Loktak Lake, is necessary in order to save the largest freshwater lake in North East India.
Addressing the World Wetland Day 2013 observation function held at Khordak Junior High School complex in Bishnupur district, LDA Project Coordinator Ng Sanajaoba underscored the need for proper maintaining of rivers in the state which are main sources of water for Loktak Lake.
The observation was jointly organized by LDA, Sangai Protection Forum, Keibul Lamjao,, Environmental Social Information, Keibul Lamjao, Unique Wild Life Protection Committee, Sekmaijin and Centre for Conservation of Nature and Cultivation of Science, Ningthoukhong.
This year’s edition of the International Wetland Day was observed under the theme “Wetland Take Care of Water.”
Giving the keynote address, Sanajaoba said, “Maintenance of water sources of Loktak Lake was utmost necessary on top of the range of steps being taken up by different NGOs in Manipur for the upbringing of the lake, but that in line with that the LDA has started taking up steps under a new plan called River Basin Management.”
He said that initially a few environmentalists and individuals worked hard to save the lake with their own efforts, but that now more or less the people had willingly joined to save it.
He also alerted that parts of the lake like Pumlen, Khoidum, Ikop and Kharung were getting worse day by day and these watercourses of the lake might vanish soon.
February 2 is observed as International Wetland Day across the globe every year since the resolution taken at the International Wetlands Convention held at Ramsar in Iran in 1972.
Loktak has also been officially included in International Wetland Ramsar Site.Thanga constituency MLA T Mangibabu, LDA Project Director Th Ibobi, Moirang Khunou Zillad Parishad member N Indira Devi, Thanga Zilla Parishad member N Dinesh, Uchiwa Zilla Parishad member O Borni Devi among others also attended the function.
The day was also observed in different parts of the state.

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