JAC threatens mass cease work stir over charter of demands

IMPHAL, July 5: The JAC of All Manipur Trade Unions`™ Council (AMTUC) and All Manipur Govt Employees`™ Organisation (AMGEO) has decided to launch mass cease work strike from July 20

IMPHAL, July 5: The JAC of All Manipur Trade Unions`™ Council (AMTUC) and All Manipur Govt Employees`™ Organisation (AMGEO) has decided to launch mass cease work strike from July 20 except in police department in case the government fails to come up with positive response to the charter of demands submitted to the government.

Speaking to media persons, secretary general of JAC of AMTUC & AMGEO said that formal and informal rounds of thorough discussion had been held with the Chief Secretary, Commissioner (Finance), Special Secretary (DP) but there has been no positive response to the long cherished demands of government employees, workers, pensioners and family pensioners.

Reiterating that the JAC had also submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 17, 2014 in this regard, he made it clear that the JAC will go on with the mass cease work strike from July 20 if the government fails to fulfil the demands within July 18.

The charter of demands include regularisation of work charged employees; conversation of muster roll and casual workers to work charged employees and provide all retirement benefits as per existing rules as agreed; regularisation of contractual employees existing in various departments namely GAD, MIS, Economics & Statistics, NRHM, MACS, RNTCP, Forest, Social Welfare etc to their respective posts so that the fund from the plan head is not affected and per capital income of the state is maintained.

It also demanded that secretariat duty allowance and overtime allowance in respect of secretariat employees and other department employees respectively should be paid at 10 percent of corresponding Basic Pay as agreed upon.

The general secretary of JAC of AMTUC & AMGEO added that the said resolution was taken during a gathering at Kuki Inn on July 3.

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Dynamic Manipur’s Inspiration Workshop on Media- career outlook and society … – KanglaOnline


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Dynamic Manipur’s Inspiration Workshop on Media- career outlook and society
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While delivering his speech as resource person on the topic ‘Role of Media in Nation Building and Career Avenues in Media’ during the Inspiration Episode-8 (IE-8) organized under the tutelage of Dynamic Manipur on the theme ‘Media – Career outlook and …


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Dynamic Manipur's Inspiration Workshop on Media- career outlook and society
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While delivering his speech as resource person on the topic 'Role of Media in Nation Building and Career Avenues in Media' during the Inspiration Episode-8 (IE-8) organized under the tutelage of Dynamic Manipur on the theme 'Media – Career outlook and …

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Rava Presents Ethical Fashion Event 2nd Edition 2015 “Walk Till You Die”

Rava Presents Ethical Fashion Event 2nd Edition 2015 “Walk Till You Die” – Random Pictures by Deepak Shijagurumayum  

Rava Presents Ethical Fashion Event 2nd Edition 2015 “Walk Till You Die” – Random Pictures by Deepak Shijagurumayum

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Current road condition of Imphal-Jiribam highway in this rainy season of 2015

Current road condition of Imphal-Jiribam highway in this rainy season of 2015 (Photos are taken near Maku village)
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Current road condition of Imphal-Jiribam highway in this rainy season of 2015 (Photos are taken near Maku village)

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Dynamic Manipur’s Inspiration Workshop on Media- career outlook and society building held

Mediapersons are social engineers – Dr. Ibomcha   IMPHAL, July 5: Media persons are social engineers as teachers are human engineers. In the present social fabric, media can play a

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IMPHAL, July 5: Media persons are social engineers as teachers are human engineers. In the present social fabric, media can play a pivotal role in building a good society. Media has a magical influence in good governance, improving healthcare delivery system, streamlining public distribution system and empowering the masses in this knowledge-based society. A good nation without a good media system is a distant dream, said Dr. Aribam Ibomcha Sharma, News Editor and Regional News Unit Head, All India Radio, Imphal.

While delivering his speech as resource person on the topic ‘Role of Media in Nation Building and Career Avenues in Media’ during the Inspiration Episode-8 (IE-8) organized under the tutelage of Dynamic Manipur  on the theme ‘Media – Career  outlook and Society building‘ held at MIMS, Manipur University today, AIR News Editor Dr A Ibomcha Sharma said that media persons, being the professionals of an important pillar of democracy, are now needed as journalists, public relations executives, spin doctors, information managers, content creators and also in academic avenues in different capacities.

“The demand will be on the rise and it has to, in line with the changing paradigm of telecommunication, trade, tourism and other transformations in many fields of social life. However, the demand at the global job market of media is par excellent product and grooming such professionals is not an easy thing”, he said.

Since Media plays the role of a watchdog in society who always manages to highlight the errors of Politicians, Judiciary and executives through constructive criticism, Media itself is supposed to render its service to the society sincerely to avoid trust deficit. Otherwise the sanctity of the media professionals would be maligned.

While quoting former Indian president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s line “When you salute your profession, you need not salute anybody; when you pollute your profession, you need to salute everybody”, he said that every professional, may be doctors, engineers, journalists or IAS officers, need to serve the people with sincerity and dedication to win public respect. When they pollute their professions with personal profit oriented motive, they will not get public respect.

Impact TV Chief Editor Yumnam Rupachandra spoke on how a responsible media can help bring about major change in society and how you can become a responsible journalist.

He said that media influences people to help the people to bring about a better society. It plays a vital role in strengthening democracy, keeping the people well informed. Being a journalist is one of the noble professions as journalists serve people from top to bottom. When there is no elected opposition in a government, media effectively takes the role of opposition to criticize and brakes the wrong policies of the government.

Senior journalist. Editor-in-Chief of Impact TV Yumnam Rupachandra is a former correspondent of The Statesman and Seven Sisters Post. He is a fellow National Press Foundation (DC Washington, Alumni IVLP (US State Dept) and SRDM awardee World Bank.

Khelen Thokchom, Special Correspondent of Telegraph, national daily said that mainstream Indian media is losing its objectivity due to extensive commercialization of the news business. Editors have little role in deciding editorial contents in contradictory to what the editors are supposed to do with young CEOs dictating terms on what the readers want.  It is because of this that instead of carrying a picture or story of a poor and pathetic farmer on the verge of suicide, editors are opting for pictures of celebrities like Aishwarya Rai or hospitalization of another well known actor.

Concerned about the increasing trend of ‘paid news’ in the state, the senior journalist said that such trend will lead to trust deficit on the part of the journalists and malign the profession.  When journalists are under the hands of a few powerful, how can they bring about a dynamic change in society by revealing the malpractices of the people in power. People generally believe what the journalists expressed through their pen. When the mouth of the journalists is shut up with money, they cannot highlight the news what the people need most.

The event was organized by Dynamic Manipur with LRS INDIA, S. S. Electronics, Manipur Creations, Babina Diagnostics, The Classic Hotel, Imphal, Globizs Web Solutions, Shija Hospitals & Research Institute, HVS Constructions Materials Pvt. Ltd. as Sponsoring Partners while Green Biotech, CC Tea – The Sui Generis, MIMS, Manipur University, Korea Manipuri Association (KMA), Manipuri Association of Canada (MAC), North American Manipur Association (NAMA), Likla – Thangjam Agro Industries Pvt. Ltd., Imphal, WiseWorld Immigration & Education Consultants, Toronto, Canada as endorsing Partners.

As advertising, Printing and Technology Partners, WOL Media, Siroi Offset Printers, Thoubal, Globizs Web Solutions, Media Partners, E-pao, Impact TV, Manipur Times, The Peoples’ Chronicle supported the event.

Video recordings of IE-8 will be later shared at Youtube.

Sincerely,

Dr. N. Jiten Singh

Chief Coordinator, Dynamic Manipur

https://www.facebook.com/DynamicManipur

Email: dynamic.manipur@gmail.com

 

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Manipur tribals urge PM to save their village – Deccan Herald

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An Open Letter to AMMIK : Kapilarambam.blogspot

Very respected Apunba Manipur Matam Ishei Kanglup, in the name of holy traditions of the land, I’m sending you my deepest regards. I hope you are doing well and I

Very respected Apunba Manipur Matam Ishei Kanglup, in the name of holy traditions of the land, I’m sending you my deepest regards. I hope you are doing well and I believe I’m not disturbing you in your daily raga recital. The last time I heard about you was when you insisted the government to declare Sana Leibak Manipur as the state anthem just after the demise of the legendary Bachaspatimayum Jayentakumar Sharma who penned the song. Unfortunately the authority is indifferent as always but lesser than that of the people, who are assured that this song would evoke the false pride in you. That’s another story.tapta

You have made a bolder step this time. But why would you act like the army and issue diktats? As far as we know, you are a group of contemporary singers just as your name suggests; and neither would anyone believe you are a fascist organisation. Didn’t you feel getting out of tune when you write out that Tapta cannot sing anymore simply because he is not a member of your organisation? Probably you don’t. That’s why you have not only boycotted him but gone ahead and made your terrifying royal promise of banning the film as well of which he is a playback singer. Perhaps the film, Keishal, under the banner of Plus Media Production, might never see the light of the day. This is considering that you can summon artistes for negotiation in rebel camps or pay the police to do what they do best: threaten the people. However, there are so many things at stake here. Truth be told, your name must remain as it was: like a band of Nazi-inspired musicians but in a non-existential zone or wherever far from a sane society. Today, you might not mind it, you have never. You would not care that you have become the laughing stock in the whole town these days. A real musician would have produced a fine work from such humiliation but we know you are callous. Your fascist ideology—if there is any other such thing beside sheer stupidity behind your organisational workings—is only as good as your crappy tabla-harmonium music. If there is one thing that is so typical in the world of artistes, it is their love for freedom and liberty. But clearly you have become blind and you cannot see beyond your overbearing octave. For that matter, Tapta is more popular than all of you combined, yes, he also performs better than the combination of all your rule-obsessed, cheesy singing mates. Doesn’t this give you some clue why people are calling you all sorts of names because you are blindly trampling on the people’s choice of music and professional affiliation? Tapta is creative, independent and politically engaged—all of which you are not. We can see these issues would be too much because for you, art should be only for art’s sake. You have nothing to do with the diktats from both the state and non-state actors, which have shoved us into a corner of collective listlessness. Of course, nothing can be more important than obtaining a visharad degree from your alma mater located in faraway Agra and Gwalior and others; and yes, flaunting your power in this land of no master.   tapta-ammik

Again, Tapta is more popular than your organisation. This fact might be a source of great disturbance to your inflated ego. Why don’t you go and sing on the radio if it is not the music season in the town? There are lots of issues at hand that the people should care about. For instance, in one eastern corner of the land, in Chadong, hundreds of families have been displaced from their homes. The government’s myopic plan of building a dam has backfired though the authority is nonchalant as ever. The rhythmic patterns of violence and underdevelopment have already imprisoned us in a time warp of nothingness. In this kind of situation, your diktats and boycotts have become an unnecessary pain in the ass.

We are grateful to you for keeping up the Manipuri language. Albeit, everybody knows your disciplined approach to learning and practising music is doing much harm than helping it. Have you watched the film Western Sankirtan? You should ask your big brother, the Film Forum Manipur, if you have not. To explain briefly, the theme of the film is about going back to our roots, but while ignoring or too stupid to know that Sankirtan can never be a marker of our identity. It is no less different from your borrowed ragas and khayaals. And oh, your mates are tired of your adopted microtones and semitones: now they are aping the shittiest music from all over the world. I presume you like Ranbir Thouna. I like him too but I cannot tell how AR Rahman sounds so much like him. I’m kidding, I don’t like him but the mention about AR Rahman is true. (Footnote: Last year, the Forum banned six actors for not taking part in an Inner Line Permit protest. So apparently, the authoritarian madness run in the blood!)

In the last few days, metal-inspired Eastern Dark has also come out with their stories of intimidation. Incidentally like Tapta, this band is known for its socially relevant music just in case you had missed it in your self-righteous ride to conquer the music world in the stupidest ways. Pop stars from the olden days including Sanaton and Naba Volcano were the closest you can get but they are gone a long time ago.  eastern-dark

If copycats, alien music styles and unquestioning loyalty are the foundation of your world, you might as well boycott yourself and excuse us for some time. We know what our choice of music is and you cannot dictate what it should be. Please admit you are a fascist organisation and you are all powerful. We might be able to boost your ego and help do away with your talentless struggle, or, probably show you how it takes fans and supporters—and not primitive aggression and high-handedness —to raise an art form.

Finally, you are only strong as a group and, for your kind consideration, there is an adage: those people who cannot work outside a group or on their own, they are a nobody when they are alone. For all the talents you don’t have, it seems you are making up with your illegal dictatorial rules. Please do go to Agra and improve your skills. You might become a better singer some day. Who knows?!

Yours sincerely,
An anonymous music listener
Date: 3 July 2015
Place: Laphumakhong near Moreh

PS: Do send postcards from Agra. Don’t show off that your leader is an old-timer in the field. The general is just a piece of rotten ass with all the annoying, talent less foot soldiers.

Source : kapilarambam.blogspot

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