Ordinance banning affiliation approved by state Cabinet
By : A Staff Reporter 9/20/2007 2:06:40 AM
IMPHAL, Sept 19: A day after the Nagaland legislative Assembly passed a resolution to open the doors for affiliation of outside schools to the Nagaland Board of School Education, the Manipur Cabinet has finally approved an ordinance to ban schools located in the state from affiliating themselves to any state school board other than the Board of Secondary Education, Manipur.
With the Governor also issuing an order today proroguing the second session of the 9th Manipur legislative Assembly held from July 31, the ordinance is expected to be promulgated within the next one or two days.
Sources said the chief minister, O Ibobi Singh, deferring his Delhi trip, convened an emergency cabinet meeting this morning at 11 am at his bungalow to discuss the ramifications of the resolution passed by the Nagaland Assembly yesterday approving regulations authorising extension of ‘facilities of the [Nagaland] Board to institutions located outside Nagaland’.
The Cabinet meet later approved in its final form the ordinance which would prohibit the affiliation of schools of the state to the boards of other states without specific permission from the concerned authorities of the Manipur government.
Apart from this prohibition, the ordinance reportedly contains some penalty clauses, under which the schools affiliating themselves with other states’ school boards would be derecognised, and their students would lose the privilege to be entitled to seats in state government subsidised higher and specialised education as well as jobs, as per highly reliable sources.
The Cabinet meet also reportedly approved raising the 7th IRB as a commando battalion, according to the sources.
In a subsequent meeting of senior ministers, it was also agreed that the state government should submit representations to the Prime minister and the Union human resource development minister opposing the resolution adopted by the Nagaland Assembly yesterday, and to seek their intervention.
In this connection, chief minister Ibobi, accompanied by education minister L Jayenta, and other ministers will be leaving Imphal for New Delhi tomorrow morning.
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Twin bandhs disrupt normal life
By : A Staff Reporter 9/20/2007 2:05:29 AM
IMPHAL, Sept 19: Normal life, particularly in the Sadar Hills area, was affected owing to twin bandhs called by different organisations in opposition to the holding of panchayat elections in areas covered by the Sadar Hills Autonomous District Council, along with other issues.
Suspected bandh supporters torched the home of a pradhan candidate at Charhajar in the morning, apart from torching at least two vehicles on NH-39 within Kangpokpi subdivision. In the evening also, suspected bandh supporters torched at least four shops belonging to a particular community at Charhajar.
Security forces on the other hand rounded up at least 13 bandh supporters in Imphal and the Kangpokpi area, though they were later released.
The Sadar Hills District Demand Committee, SHDDC had imposed 48-hours Sadar Hills bandh as a part of boycott of the panchayat elections and the state government’s failure to declare Sadar Hill as full-fledged revenue district of the state
The Kuki Students Organisation had separately called a 24-hour state wide bandh against the holding of the panchayat elections in scheduled areas and the government move to set up the National Institute of Technology at Lamphel Langol area.
Apart from torching the house of pradhan candidate Kedernath Nepali at Charhajar, bandh supporters torched a jeep at Motbung at around 10.30 am. The Assam Rifles rounded up two youths allegedly involved in the violent activities, but released them later owing to public pressure.
A late report said at least four shops were set ablaze by unidentified persons suspected to be supporters of the Sadar Hills District Demand Committee this evening at around 7 pm at Charhajar bazar of Kanglatongbi under Sapermeina police station. The suspected SHDDC supporters torched the shops after finding them open despite the 48-hour bandh called by the committee in protest against the conducting of panchayat elections in the Sadar hills area, reports said.
The suspected bandh supporters, who were around 20 in number, forced the shopowners outside before torching the shops, the reports said. Fire tenders from Sekmai and Kangpokpi, which rushed to the area after receiving a report of the incident were temporarily prevented from reaching the spot by bandh supporters. They managed to get through with police help.but by the time they reached the spot, the four shops had mostly been gutted.
In the meantime, considering the growing tension between two communities following attacks on the properties of Nepali residents, security reinforcements from Sekmai, Sapermeina and Kangpokpi have been rushed to the area to prevent any further incident, the official sources said.
Earlier, at many places like Langol in Imphal, Unapat in Chandel district, Kasom Tampak in Bishenpur bordering with Churachandpur district, Charhajar and Motbung area along the NH-39 in Senapati bandh supporters took to the street and disturbed normal traffic.
The Lamphel police also rounded up eleven youths who had set fire to debris on the road at Langol area. However, womenfolk of the Langol area converged in front of the Lamphel police station to demand their immediate and unconditional release.
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Local polls end up in infernal feud; houses torched at Sadar Hills
By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Sep 19 : The demand to upgrade Sadar Hills to a full fledged revenue district and its resultant extension of opposing the holding of the Panchayat election at Sadar Hills resulted in an infernal development, with suspected Sadar Hills District Demand Committee members torching houses at Charhajare today evening.
The torched houses belong to a community which supported the move of the Government to hold the Panchayat election at Sadar Hills, pending its upgradation to a revenue district. The SHDDC had opposed the Panchayat election on the ground that hill districts should come under the Autonomous District Council and not under the Panchayati Raj.
When contacted by The Sangai Express late in the evening today, Army spokesman Colonel Rajesh Mishra said that on immediate receipt of the infor- mation one column of the 14 Assam Rifles, one column from the AR post at Motbung and another column from Kangpokpi had rushed to the area to defuse the situation.
Our reporters who went there to get a first hand account of the incident, said that at least five pan dukans (Pan shop) located along the highway were found burnt while another 6/7 were found dismantled with the mob turning them upside down. Fearing reprisals, all the local residents of Char-hajare have fled their homesteads.
At the time of filing this report till late into the evening, the CO of 14 Assam Rifles, Colonel Pratik Seth was present monitoring the situation. A vehicle of the State Fire Service Department which had rushed there was also present till the time of filing this report. A Fire Service team from Kangpokpi also rushed to the site to meet any eventualities. The SP of Senapati police as well as the DIG Range III also rushed to the spot and they have decided to stay the night at the place of the incident. Additional security personnel have been rushed to the spot. Three Sugar Cane crushers were also consigned to the flames in the melee.
Even before the attack was launched security was provided to the residence of Kedarnath Sharma a Pradhan candidate since morning today. Sharma’s saw mill was burnt earlier. Security was provided after miscreants set on fire his saw mill as well as his Maruti van yesterday on the alleged ground that he had refused to withdraw his candidature.
As the attackers launched their offensive, policemen on duty fired several rounds in the air to disperse them. Other than this in Sadar Hills area, supporters of Sadar Hills District Demand Committee burnt at a Jeep at Charhajare and miscreants ransacked three polling stations thus preventing voters from exercising their franchise. The bandh supporters set aflame the Jeep bearing registration number MN1A-5978 at around 11 am at Charhajare along National Highway 39. The Jeep has been gutted in the fire completely.
All the three polling stations for the Zilla Parishad and Gram Panchayat elections in Charhajare were also ransacked by the bandh supporters who destroyed the ballot boxes and the furniture, thus preventing the electorate from casting their votes.
The polling stations set up at CL Memorial Hindi School and Motbung Goulun School in Upper Charhajare were ransacked by an angry mob compelling the police to open fire several rounds. The polling station at Shiloi UJB School also met with similar fate.
Unidentified miscreants also tried to set on fire the house belonging to Pradhan candidate of Charhajare Kedarnath Sharma at around 11 am today. A Maruti Van and a saw mill belonging to Kedarnath had already been targeted by the miscreants three days earlier.
Till the time of filing this report there is no report of any arrest , though security has been beefed up.
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Cops crackdown cuts short protest against NIT site
IMPHAL, Sep 19 : The morning to dusk bandh called by the KSO in collaboration with the JAC for Protection of Residential Area, Langol and the JAC for Preservation of Lamphelpat as Wetland in Langol area was cut short in view of the Panchayat elections held today.
Imposed since 11 am, the bandh was lifted at 1 pm. It is reported that 11 bandh supporters were pulled up by security forces for creating disturbances to the public.
During the bandh hours, all shops and markets in Langol area remained closed except pharmacies. All passenger vehicles were blocked. The bandh supporters also piled up boulders, timbers and burnt tyres in different parts of the roads in Langol area.
Following a ruckus created by some bandh supporters under the JACs, 11 persons were pulled up by IRB and MR personnel stationed there and handed over to Lamphel police station. However, shortly after a large number of women stormed the Lamphel PS demanding immediate release of the arrested persons.
As demanded by the womenfolk, the 11 detained persons were released a little later without any condition. After 1 pm, the bandh was lifted and all the shops were allowed to open. Meanwhile, a joint statement issued by the JAC for Protection of 91 Meitei Langol Patta land./Residential Area and the JAC for Preservation of Lamphelpat as Wetland asserted that today's bandh should be an eye opener for the State Government "not to trample on the rights of the people for too long".
Decrying the alleged indifferent attitude of the Government to any people's issue until and unless people take recourse to bandhs, strikes and violent agitation, the two JACs warned that more drastic steps will be taken up and the movement will be taken to the people unless the Government change its alleged destructive policies.
While urging the Govt to shift the NIT to somewhere else, the two JACs, taking serious note of the attitude of the Govt, callED upon the people and civil societies to give support.
The Sangai Express & The Impahl Free Press
By : A Staff Reporter 9/20/2007 2:06:40 AM
IMPHAL, Sept 19: A day after the Nagaland legislative Assembly passed a resolution to open the doors for affiliation of outside schools to the Nagaland Board of School Education, the Manipur Cabinet has finally approved an ordinance to ban schools located in the state from affiliating themselves to any state school board other than the Board of Secondary Education, Manipur.
With the Governor also issuing an order today proroguing the second session of the 9th Manipur legislative Assembly held from July 31, the ordinance is expected to be promulgated within the next one or two days.
Sources said the chief minister, O Ibobi Singh, deferring his Delhi trip, convened an emergency cabinet meeting this morning at 11 am at his bungalow to discuss the ramifications of the resolution passed by the Nagaland Assembly yesterday approving regulations authorising extension of ‘facilities of the [Nagaland] Board to institutions located outside Nagaland’.
The Cabinet meet later approved in its final form the ordinance which would prohibit the affiliation of schools of the state to the boards of other states without specific permission from the concerned authorities of the Manipur government.
Apart from this prohibition, the ordinance reportedly contains some penalty clauses, under which the schools affiliating themselves with other states’ school boards would be derecognised, and their students would lose the privilege to be entitled to seats in state government subsidised higher and specialised education as well as jobs, as per highly reliable sources.
The Cabinet meet also reportedly approved raising the 7th IRB as a commando battalion, according to the sources.
In a subsequent meeting of senior ministers, it was also agreed that the state government should submit representations to the Prime minister and the Union human resource development minister opposing the resolution adopted by the Nagaland Assembly yesterday, and to seek their intervention.
In this connection, chief minister Ibobi, accompanied by education minister L Jayenta, and other ministers will be leaving Imphal for New Delhi tomorrow morning.
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Twin bandhs disrupt normal life
By : A Staff Reporter 9/20/2007 2:05:29 AM
IMPHAL, Sept 19: Normal life, particularly in the Sadar Hills area, was affected owing to twin bandhs called by different organisations in opposition to the holding of panchayat elections in areas covered by the Sadar Hills Autonomous District Council, along with other issues.
Suspected bandh supporters torched the home of a pradhan candidate at Charhajar in the morning, apart from torching at least two vehicles on NH-39 within Kangpokpi subdivision. In the evening also, suspected bandh supporters torched at least four shops belonging to a particular community at Charhajar.
Security forces on the other hand rounded up at least 13 bandh supporters in Imphal and the Kangpokpi area, though they were later released.
The Sadar Hills District Demand Committee, SHDDC had imposed 48-hours Sadar Hills bandh as a part of boycott of the panchayat elections and the state government’s failure to declare Sadar Hill as full-fledged revenue district of the state
The Kuki Students Organisation had separately called a 24-hour state wide bandh against the holding of the panchayat elections in scheduled areas and the government move to set up the National Institute of Technology at Lamphel Langol area.
Apart from torching the house of pradhan candidate Kedernath Nepali at Charhajar, bandh supporters torched a jeep at Motbung at around 10.30 am. The Assam Rifles rounded up two youths allegedly involved in the violent activities, but released them later owing to public pressure.
A late report said at least four shops were set ablaze by unidentified persons suspected to be supporters of the Sadar Hills District Demand Committee this evening at around 7 pm at Charhajar bazar of Kanglatongbi under Sapermeina police station. The suspected SHDDC supporters torched the shops after finding them open despite the 48-hour bandh called by the committee in protest against the conducting of panchayat elections in the Sadar hills area, reports said.
The suspected bandh supporters, who were around 20 in number, forced the shopowners outside before torching the shops, the reports said. Fire tenders from Sekmai and Kangpokpi, which rushed to the area after receiving a report of the incident were temporarily prevented from reaching the spot by bandh supporters. They managed to get through with police help.but by the time they reached the spot, the four shops had mostly been gutted.
In the meantime, considering the growing tension between two communities following attacks on the properties of Nepali residents, security reinforcements from Sekmai, Sapermeina and Kangpokpi have been rushed to the area to prevent any further incident, the official sources said.
Earlier, at many places like Langol in Imphal, Unapat in Chandel district, Kasom Tampak in Bishenpur bordering with Churachandpur district, Charhajar and Motbung area along the NH-39 in Senapati bandh supporters took to the street and disturbed normal traffic.
The Lamphel police also rounded up eleven youths who had set fire to debris on the road at Langol area. However, womenfolk of the Langol area converged in front of the Lamphel police station to demand their immediate and unconditional release.
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Local polls end up in infernal feud; houses torched at Sadar Hills
By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Sep 19 : The demand to upgrade Sadar Hills to a full fledged revenue district and its resultant extension of opposing the holding of the Panchayat election at Sadar Hills resulted in an infernal development, with suspected Sadar Hills District Demand Committee members torching houses at Charhajare today evening.
The torched houses belong to a community which supported the move of the Government to hold the Panchayat election at Sadar Hills, pending its upgradation to a revenue district. The SHDDC had opposed the Panchayat election on the ground that hill districts should come under the Autonomous District Council and not under the Panchayati Raj.
When contacted by The Sangai Express late in the evening today, Army spokesman Colonel Rajesh Mishra said that on immediate receipt of the infor- mation one column of the 14 Assam Rifles, one column from the AR post at Motbung and another column from Kangpokpi had rushed to the area to defuse the situation.
Our reporters who went there to get a first hand account of the incident, said that at least five pan dukans (Pan shop) located along the highway were found burnt while another 6/7 were found dismantled with the mob turning them upside down. Fearing reprisals, all the local residents of Char-hajare have fled their homesteads.
At the time of filing this report till late into the evening, the CO of 14 Assam Rifles, Colonel Pratik Seth was present monitoring the situation. A vehicle of the State Fire Service Department which had rushed there was also present till the time of filing this report. A Fire Service team from Kangpokpi also rushed to the site to meet any eventualities. The SP of Senapati police as well as the DIG Range III also rushed to the spot and they have decided to stay the night at the place of the incident. Additional security personnel have been rushed to the spot. Three Sugar Cane crushers were also consigned to the flames in the melee.
Even before the attack was launched security was provided to the residence of Kedarnath Sharma a Pradhan candidate since morning today. Sharma’s saw mill was burnt earlier. Security was provided after miscreants set on fire his saw mill as well as his Maruti van yesterday on the alleged ground that he had refused to withdraw his candidature.
As the attackers launched their offensive, policemen on duty fired several rounds in the air to disperse them. Other than this in Sadar Hills area, supporters of Sadar Hills District Demand Committee burnt at a Jeep at Charhajare and miscreants ransacked three polling stations thus preventing voters from exercising their franchise. The bandh supporters set aflame the Jeep bearing registration number MN1A-5978 at around 11 am at Charhajare along National Highway 39. The Jeep has been gutted in the fire completely.
All the three polling stations for the Zilla Parishad and Gram Panchayat elections in Charhajare were also ransacked by the bandh supporters who destroyed the ballot boxes and the furniture, thus preventing the electorate from casting their votes.
The polling stations set up at CL Memorial Hindi School and Motbung Goulun School in Upper Charhajare were ransacked by an angry mob compelling the police to open fire several rounds. The polling station at Shiloi UJB School also met with similar fate.
Unidentified miscreants also tried to set on fire the house belonging to Pradhan candidate of Charhajare Kedarnath Sharma at around 11 am today. A Maruti Van and a saw mill belonging to Kedarnath had already been targeted by the miscreants three days earlier.
Till the time of filing this report there is no report of any arrest , though security has been beefed up.
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Cops crackdown cuts short protest against NIT site
IMPHAL, Sep 19 : The morning to dusk bandh called by the KSO in collaboration with the JAC for Protection of Residential Area, Langol and the JAC for Preservation of Lamphelpat as Wetland in Langol area was cut short in view of the Panchayat elections held today.
Imposed since 11 am, the bandh was lifted at 1 pm. It is reported that 11 bandh supporters were pulled up by security forces for creating disturbances to the public.
During the bandh hours, all shops and markets in Langol area remained closed except pharmacies. All passenger vehicles were blocked. The bandh supporters also piled up boulders, timbers and burnt tyres in different parts of the roads in Langol area.
Following a ruckus created by some bandh supporters under the JACs, 11 persons were pulled up by IRB and MR personnel stationed there and handed over to Lamphel police station. However, shortly after a large number of women stormed the Lamphel PS demanding immediate release of the arrested persons.
As demanded by the womenfolk, the 11 detained persons were released a little later without any condition. After 1 pm, the bandh was lifted and all the shops were allowed to open. Meanwhile, a joint statement issued by the JAC for Protection of 91 Meitei Langol Patta land./Residential Area and the JAC for Preservation of Lamphelpat as Wetland asserted that today's bandh should be an eye opener for the State Government "not to trample on the rights of the people for too long".
Decrying the alleged indifferent attitude of the Government to any people's issue until and unless people take recourse to bandhs, strikes and violent agitation, the two JACs warned that more drastic steps will be taken up and the movement will be taken to the people unless the Government change its alleged destructive policies.
While urging the Govt to shift the NIT to somewhere else, the two JACs, taking serious note of the attitude of the Govt, callED upon the people and civil societies to give support.
The Sangai Express & The Impahl Free Press
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