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MANIPUR/NE NEWS
IMPHAL, MONDAY 10 NOVEMBER, 2014
Legal Service day cum one day
Legal Awareness Programmes held
KISG and KSO demand clarification
from PHED EE Kangpokpi
IMPHAL, Nov 9
The Kuki Inpi, Saikul Gamkai
(KISG) and Kuki Students’
Organisation (KSO), Saikul
block on Saturday, during a
press meet, has demanded
clarification from Ningombam
Gambhir Singh, Executive
Engineer, PHED Kangpokpi
over a notice issued by him, at
the earliest.
According to KISG president Thangkam Lupheng, the
executive engineer of PHED,
Kangpokpi, Gambhir Singh,
issued an order, published in
local newspapers, stating that
CHANDEL/JIRI, Nov 9
Chandel observed Legal
Services Day with an awareness programme at Japhou
Bazar Indoor stadium today.
Chief Judicial Magistrate/
Civil Judge Divn W Tonen
Meitei who is also a secretary
of the District Legal Services
Authority presided over the
function. Chandel District Bar
Association president Rt
Rebirthson, advocate, Maha
Area Chiefs’ Association
president Sng Lumdil and
NSUC president Sr Joningam
were the guests of honour of
the function.
Speaking at the occasion,
CJM W Tonen said any
woman, either ST/SC, rape
victim or any victim and families whose annual income is
upto Rs 1 lakh can secure the
benefit of free legal aid
through Manipur Legal Services Authority Act 1987 as
well as Para Legal Volunteers
(PLV).
Manipur Legal Services
Authority Act 1987 came into
practice from November 9,
1995 after it was amended in
1994.
The Magistrate further
highlighted the principles of
National Lok Adalat and its
procedure during his speech.
Chandel District Bar Association
president
RT
Rebirthson later spoke on the
topic ‘Life and Liberty Under
the Constitution of India and
its Value.’
The observation, organized
jointly by District Legal Services Authority Chandel, Para
Legal Volunteers and Chandel
District Bar Association, was
attended by about 150 people
including student leaders,
chiefs and Chandel police personnel.
Meanwhile, District Legal
Service Authority, Imphal
East, Jiribam sub-division
also organised 'Observance of
National Legal Services Day
cum one day Legal Awareness Programme on Lok
Adalat, Right to Information
Act and Arrest and Detention'
today at the auditorium of
Jiribam Government Higher
Secondary School.
The programme was
graced by S Maniton Singh,
general secretary, Senior Citizens Society, Jiribam and
Lamkholal Kipgen, Civil
Judge, Jr division, Jiribam as
chief guest and president respectively.
Advocate I Inaobi Devi
delivered the welcome cum
keynote address of today's
function.
Resource persons advocate KB Roy, advocate L
Romen Singh and advocate S
Gopendra Singh spoke on the
topic "Right to Information",
"Lok Adalat" and "Arrest and
Detention" respectively.
Invitee H Rajenkumar
Singh, lecturer, Jiribam Government Higher Secondary
School, elaborated on the
objectives behind the observation.
The programme was also
attended by members of various
civil
society
organisations, meira paibis
and police personnel.
DIMAPUR, Nov 9 : Naga
Peoples’ Movement for
Human Rights (NPMHR)
secretary general Neingulo
Krome
recounted
his
experience at the inaugural
session of the International
Conference on Gender,
Empowerment and Conflict in
South Asia on “Women in
Peace : Men’s Voice” on
November 6, at Kolkota,
organized by Calcutta Research
Group & Peace Research
Institute, Oslo. The human
rights activist also lauded Irom
Sharmila at the event.
The NPMHR leader said
that thirteen years ago, on
August 14, 2001, when the
Government of India made a
“U-turn” on the question of
ceasefire coverage area “without
territorial
limits”,
thousands of Naga women
formed a human-chain on the
National Highway, dressed in
their traditional attires, simply
in a manner of saying that
“peace should be everywhere
and not confined to territorial
limits”.
The Assam Rifles personnel rose to the occasion
likewise and dressed in
civvies, wrapped with Naga
shawls and jackets too came
to the highway and started
disturbing and disrupting the
human-chain, Krome said.
He also stated that some of
the community leaders informed him about this
disturbing development and
asked him what to do as they
feared the worst may happen.
“I said I am coming, just
keep things under control,
even though it was just to
show solidarity and to see
things with my own eyes and
to be with them and share my
physical presence as an encouragement even if it may
mean nothing," Krome said.
"So I along with a friend
and a journalist rushed up
from Kohima to request the
army not to disturb the peaceful
conduct
of
the
human-chain,” Krome further
added.
On reaching the spot at
Tadubi, he saw a tall man
(who I later came to know
was Captain KK Sharma,
Commander of the 3rd Assam Rifles outpost at Tadubi)
in the middle of the road surrounded by community
leaders who were pleading
with him.
On the side of the road
and above the road, Krome
said he saw few Assam Rifles personnel in civvies
hiding their guns under the
shawls and jackets with the
gun barrels sticking out.
“I quickly took out my
camera and took a few photo
shots for evidence as I proceeded towards the man in the
middle of the road who I was
told was the person in command. Alas! Instead of me
going over to meet him, he
had already come over to me
and was clawing at my hands
trying to snatch my camera
away from my hand resulting
in the breaking of my camera
lens cover as his finger nails
tore into the skins of my
hand.”
According to Neingulo
Krome, when he resisted and
fought back, the security officer drew out his pistol from
the holster to shoot him.
“But before he could point
his gun at me, about half a
dozen women leaders had already surrounded him and
grabbed him from all corners
pinning his arms and the pistol to his body.
"I took that opportunity to
quickly run back and jumped
into my car even as one of the
Assam Rifles personnel in
civvies took out his AK 47
and fired a shot in the air
which brought dozens of
fully uniformed and armed
personnel of Assam Rifles out
of nowhere, marching towards me quickly as I started
the car and raced off even as
the Assam Rifles personnel
started firing after my running car.
"I escaped but three people
got injured in the firing from
the bullets which missed me.
If it were not for those cou-
rageous women making peace
I would not be here today. In
such a situation where
women are making peace and
saving lives, how should the
voice of a man who owes his
life to women in peace sound
like ? And I want to say that
I have maximized this occasion to share this story for
the record and to say “thank
you” to those women whose
identity I do not know till
date but will remember them
for all times to come,” the
NPMHR leader narrated.
Krome said the episode
which he just shared is about
one man whose life was
saved by a conglomeration of
women.
Referring
to
Irom
Sharmila, the NPMHR leader
asked, “How about one
woman who is sacrificing her
everything protesting the
death of 10 people who were
killed under the provisions of
the Armed Forces (Special
Powers) Act, and demanding
the removal of this Act, and
who has probably saved more
lives than anyone of us will
ever know?
“I say this because even if
the Act has not been repealed,
her protest is certainly serving as a deterrent at least to
those sensible commanders
and soldiers who are not
equally insensitive like the
others who are operating under the purview of the Act,”
Krome added.
“The least the rest of us,
men specially, can do in such
a situation is to salute the
courage of this woman and
confess that none of us can
do what she is doing although it would have been
such an encouragement if
people could join her in
batches and undertake fasting
with her in solidarity even if
they do not necessarily fast
unto death,” Neingulo Krome
said.
“So also, whenever there
is any stand-off between
armed groups, be it village
feuds, factional fights, or
Government forces with political armed resistance
should conduct a spot inspection for the 82 villages
personally," KISG added.
KSO Saikul block president, Lun Mate who was also
present at the press briefing
here in Imphal termed the
statement made by the EE an
'irresponsible' one which
could spark problems between the villagers and the
officials of the department.
PHED Kangpokpi Executive Engineer and the staff
would be held responsible for
any problems thus arising out
of this notification, added Lun
Mate.
12th JIMPAL foundation day observed
Jiri News Network (JNN)
IMPHAL, Nov 9 : Jiri Ima
Meira Paibi Apunba Lup
(JIMPAL) president H Hema
flagged off the 12th foundation
day ceremony of JIMPAL at its
office today.
Ema Momon, president of
All Manipur Tami Chingmi
International conference on gender, empowerment,
conflict in South Asia inaugurated
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82 villages under Saikul subdivision are “unfounded
villages” under the PHED.
The 82 villages mentioned
by the PHED, Kangpokpi EE
as “Unfounded Villages”
have been enjoying every
Government
beneficiary
schemes including the latest
MGNREGS
stated
Thangkam Lupheng.
The student's organisation
has therefore demanded immediate clarifications from N
Gambhir Singh as to why he
defined Saikul Block as “Unfounded Villages”.
"Within one week he
groups, it is always the
women who come in between
to defuse tensions and prevent escalations of violence,”
he stated.
According to him, men’s
intervention often only adds
fuel to the fire. The methods
of peace-making may differ
from place to place or the circumstances surrounding the
events. But some of the glaring examples can be seen
through the naked protest at
the Kangla Fort.
“So also during the ‘Shiroi
siege’ when there was standoff between the security
forces and some members of
the Naga army which lasted
for about a month when water and power supplies to the
Naga army camp were cut off,
and the Naga army camp
rounded with electrified
barbed wires with impending
gun-battle looming large, the
women folks stood their
ground in between the two
forces and compelled them to
ultimately withdraw,” he further narrated.
Similarly, there are so
many instances where women
in hundreds had to physically
chase away gun-wielding
armed groups in several parts
of Nagaland over the years.
“Therefore, I entirely agree
with Prof Gogoi when he said
that women become active
agents of change by negotiating peace and also by fighting
violently for peace, which I
saw in the abstract of the
brochure of this conference,”
Krome said.
“Therefore, men ought to
be grateful that women in
peace are everywhere in keeping with the saying that since
God could not be everywhere
all the time He created mothers or read it as women as
may be in this case,” the
NPMHR leader said.
On the other hand, there is
an old Naga saying; if there
were no peacemakers there
will be no war.
“Will that also mean if
there were no women, men
will also stop fighting?,” he
asked.
Apunba Nupi Lup, H Hema,
president of JIMPAL, A
Sitara Begum, president of
All Manipur Muslim Development Organisation and vice
president of AMKIL, S
Jayanti Devi, president of All
Assam Manipuri Women
Meira Paibi Co-ordinating
committee, Assam, Joy
Congregation
IMPHAL, Nov 9 : A joint
meeting of the Churches of
Tangkhul community located
at Imphal was held today at
Tangkhul Baptist Church.
The congregation was organised by eight Churches of
the Tangkhul community.
Former Rajya Sabha MP
Rishang
Keishing
and
Manipur Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker MK
Preshow Shimray were also
present at the gathering.
Two arrested for
'spying' for Pakistan
Ferozepur, Nov 9 : Police today arrested two Madhya
Pradesh residents for allegedly
spying for Pakistan in Cantonment area here.
Shiv Narayan and Arjun,
residents of Khukhrian village near Bhopal in Madhya
Pradesh, were nabbed from a
guest house, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Vibhor
Kumar, said.
He said that the accused
were in "regular touch with
their Pakistani friends on
Internet".
They landed in the police
net when the owner of the
guest house, where they were
staying for the last few days,
got suspicious over their antecedents and informed the
police, the officer said.
The DSP said that the arrested persons had called on
a Pakistani number at least
15-20 times.
Police also found that an
amount of Rs 12,000 was
transferred to them through
money gram from Pakistan.
— PTI
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Chingakham, former co-convenor JCILPS, Manipur, Kh
Ratan Singh, senior advisor
of AMSU, B Sharat Kumar
Sharma, JIMPAL advisor,
Bijoy Kakchingtabam, former
AMWJU president, Mutum
Hemanta Mangang, JDO
president and M Maipak,
AJUCA president took the
dais as chief guest, president,
and guests of honour of the
programme respectively.
JIMPAL general secretary
Bimola Devi spoke at the
foundation day observation
ceremony today.
Resource person Bijoy
Kakchingtabam,
former
AMWJU president spoke on
the role of meira paibis in the
State. He elaborated on the
basic reason behind the formation of meira paibis in the
State as well as the current
role played by them in the
society.
Chief guest Ema Momon,
president of AMTCANP,
during her speech appealed
for participation of the mass
in correcting most of the issues prevalent in the State.
The foundation day ceremony was attended by
different communities in the
State. Later a feast was hosted
for the gathering.
'From now on I will be known
as a Minister's mother'
Press Trust of India
KOLKATA, Nov 9: Elated
with the news of their son
sworn in as Minister of State in
the Union ministry, parents of
singer-turned politician Babul
Supriyo, today said they hoped
that he will keep winning the
hearts of the masses by working
for the development of the
people.
Babul Supriyo's mother
Sumitra Baral said that she is
happy that her son, a firsttime MP, was sworn in as
minister.
"Earlier I was known as
mother of a singer, then a
mother of a MP and now I
will be known as a mother of
a minister," she said. "I am
very happy and I hope that as
Babul had won lakhs of hearts
through his songs, he will
continue to win hearts of the
masses through his developmental work," she added.
Supriyo's father Sunil
Chandra Baral said that "during his election campaign for
nearly three months I have
seen how hard he worked to
reach out to the people."
"Day before yesterday
when my son was talking to
Prime Minister Narendra
Modiji over phone, I was
very happy," he added.
Supriyo, who was an MP
from Asansol constituency, is
one of the only two BJP MPs
elected from West Bengal
where the saffron party is
working hard to emerge as an
alternative to Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee-led TMC
and Left parties.
Major poppy destruction drive held
IMPHAL, Nov 9: Government agencies carried out a joint
operation on November 7 at Lamkang Khunao village, Khunjai
Ridge to destroy illicit poppy cultivation with 20 Assam Rifles of
26 Sector under the aegis of Hqs IGAR (S) providing incidental
security to the Government officials conducting the operation.
A joint team of NBC, NAB, Forest Department, Exercise
and Taxation Department and Manipur police destroyed an 88
acre of poppy cultivation with an estimated yield of 1760 kg
worth Rs 14.08 crore (approximately) in illicit market by
burning the whole field down.
Poppy are used for extracting morphine to make heroin
base which would be refined into brown sugar and heroin No
4.
The money generated through this cultivation are used for
funding and arming various Indian insurgent groups to destroy the tranquility of the region, a statement issued by IGAR
(S) PRO informed.
6th NE Rider's meet flagged off
IMPHAL, Nov 9: The Bike rally from Imphal to Moreh on the
second day of the 6th North East Rider's Meet was flagged off by
Colonel Anil M Verghese, Commandant 20 Assam Rifles of 26
sector under the aegis of Hqs IGAR (S) yesterday. Around 300
Royal Enfield motor cyclists participated in the rally.
The rally which is organised every year in different States
of the Nation is a perfect example of unity and integrity as
bikers from all over the country assemble together every year
at different places with an aim to spread the message of peace
and harmony.
Col Anil M Verghese while appreciating the drive, conveyed his best wishes to all the riders and further extended
every possible help on behalf of AR.