State govt plans to tone up security measures to reduce violence, 1640 posts for police dept sanctioned by Governor
By : A Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Nov 25: The Manipur government is all set to implement the draft action plan for reduction of violence in Manipur, although the Union ministry of home affairs is yet to response to the plea of the state government to fully fund the implementation of the draft action plan.
The Governor has also accorded sanction to the creation of 1640 different categories of posts in the Manipur police department for the same on November 6 last, an official source said.
The action plan to reduce violence in the state focused on the strengthening the police force by increasing manpower as “sine qua non” for effective measures for controlling violence in Manipur.
The state government, mention may be made, considering the heavy financial involvement in implementation of the draft project, requested the Union ministry of home affairs, MHA for full funding.
However in response to the state’s request, the MHA asked the Manipur government to re-prioritize the requirements under the modernization of police force scheme funded by the ministry and project the items in the action plan in phase-I of the annual plan so that these can be taken up immediately from the funds available.
The implementation of the draft action plan for reduction of violence in Manipur projected an expenditure of Rs. 24,88,59,252. It also projected an annual recurring expenditure of Rs. 14,61,47,656 on salary as the draft plan involved creation of 1640 posts of different categories in the state home department.
The posts that are to be created include 404 posts for CID (SB). The posts for this unit of the state police department are one post of superintendent of police, SP at the pay scale Rs. 12,000-16,500, one additional SP (Rs. 10,000-15,200), three each of deputy superintendent of police (Rs. 8,000-13,500) and inspectors Rs.5,5000-9,000 of police, nine sub-inspector of police (Rs. 5,000-9,000), 30 head constables (Rs.3,200-4,900), 352 male constable (Rs.3,050-4,590), four sweepers (Rs. 2,750-4,400) and one steno at the pay scale of Rs. 3,050-Rs.4,590.
1197 posts are for the various district police units. Out of these posts eight are of the rank of inspector, 70 of sub-inspector, 88 assistant sub-inspector (Rs. 4,000-6000), 85 head constable, 859 police constables and 87 driver constables.
Thirty-two out of 59 police stations covering areas from where a high degree of violence have been reported in the state are to be strengthened by increasing manpower to effectively deal with the violence.
Seventeen posts are for strengthening the special investigation team for investigation of militants related cases. The posts are one SP, four each of DSP and inspector of police and eight sub-inspectors.
Out of the total 1640 are also included 22 posts for the state forensic science laboratory. The posts agreed for creation in this unit of the state police department are one director in the pay scale of Rs. 14,300-18,300, five science officers (Rs.8,000-9,000), seven scientific assistant and one store superintendent (Rs.5,000 to 8,000).
The unit will also have two mobile units. For this two each of scientific officer (Rs.8,000-13,500), scientific assistant (Rs.5,000-8,000), attendant (Rs.2,550-3,200) and drivers (Rs.3, 050-4,590).
The Governor sanctioned the creation of the posts subject to the state home department’s assurance to take necessary precautions/steps to include non-plan expenditure on this account in the projections for revenue expenditure before the 13th finance commission during 20-1-2015, the source disclosed.
Over the last around three decades, the police stations have become lopsided as there has been no significant growth of strength in the civil police even as the strength of armed police has gone up due to the raising of more battalions of Manipur Rifles and IRB.
The state has 9 district police units, six units of Manipur Rifles and 6 units of IR battalions. Apart from these, there are eight units under the police department, namely CID, police wireless, police training school, Narcotics and border affairs (NAB), central motor transport works (CMTW), forensic science laboratory (FSL), state finger print bureau and home guards.
The need for revision in strength of police stations was realized by the government as far back as 1999 as the current strength is utterly inadequate in the view of the complex policing needs which has developed over the decades compelled by the problem of insurgency.
Because of financial difficulties of the state, however, even as the state police department submitted detailed proposals for re-organization, the state government could not convert them into action since long back, the source maintained.
The Manipur government prepared the action plan to reduce violence in the state as per the advice of the Union ministry of home affairs. After several modifications, the state Cabinet sent the draft action plan for consideration and approval with request to fully fund on July 30 this year.
The Manipur government, finding that strengthening by increasing manpower as “sine qua non” for effective measures for controlling violence in Manipur had decided to increase manpower of 32 selected police stations. The selected 32 police stations covered areas from where a high degree of violence was reported, the source disclosed.
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NGOs functioning in Manipur to be vetted by planning dept
By : A Staff Reporter 11/26/2007 1:12:39 AM
IMPHAL, Nov 25: Verification of programmes and work by non-governmental organizations, NGOs and voluntary organisations with funds from the state and Central government and its agencies in the state will be conducted by the state planning department through an independent agency or institution, an official source has said.
All the concerned departments and district deputy commissioners have been asked to collect all the details of the progress of the programmes and works implemented by the NGOs under them and to submit them to the planning department by November 30 at the latest, the official source said Sunday.
Mention may be made that out of 28 NGOs in the north east blacklisted by the Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART), an autonomous body under the ministry of rural development, 11 NGOs are based in Manipur.
In the last part of August this year, the CAPART blacklisted 769 NGOs all over the country, including 28 in the north-east. The highest number of blacklisted NGOs in the north eastern region are from Manipur numbering 11 followed by 10 in Nagaland.
One NGO each in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and Meghalaya have also been blacklisted. CAPART has recovered Rs. 27.11 lakh from the 30 blacklisted NGOs.
Most of the cases are very old and the postal addresses of the NGOs and their office-bearers have changed. Hence, CAPART is finding it difficult to trace these organizations, according to the source from the Union rural development ministry.
The director of the state planning department has also informed all the NGOs and voluntary organizations who are getting funds from the Union and state government, other government agencies, state organizations/departments to submit the list of work programmes which have been implemented by the NGOs concerned during 2005-06, 2006-07 to the concerned line department and deputy commissioner with a copy to the planning department by November 30.
The notification further said action would be taken to curtail release of funds for those NGOs who failed to submit the details of the works which they had taken up and are in the process of taking up. The director, K Mangi has warned this in a notification issued on November 22 last, the source said.
The source further said that the works of the NGOs will be verified by independent agencies/institutions and based on the findings of the study appropriate action would be taken up.
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Apprenticeship as Education - The Imphal Free Press Editorial
There is a well known unwritten rule about rules. It simply says, know the rules well enough to creatively break it. It sound rather absurd, but one supposes its logic is derived from the fact that while rules are absolutely necessary in bringing about a semblance of order in every walk of life, no rule can cover everything about any walk of life either – hence the need to go beyond the rules without debunking the rules altogether at some point or the other. This rather oxymoronic notion seems now ready to be called into play in the ongoing debate on quality education in Manipur. The question is, must education be all about formal education only. The obvious answer is “no” but said in many different ways. This acknowledgement for instance is why schools and colleges emphasize on the need for extra curricular activities. But what about in the extreme cases of alternative education advanced as a total or near total substitute for formal education? The question comes to mind as the world observed November 24 as the International Day against child abuse. It is not a surprise at all that so many think employing children in various physically trying professions must constitute child abuse. The most cited examples are children employed in motor vehicle workshops and other skilled jobs. Should not there be exceptions? For one thing, in many of these jobs, it is not only a question of employing children as in exploiting cheap, unquestioning, labour, but also a lot about apprenticeship where these children are taught skills on the job so that they are prepared for make a profession out of the training to keep the family hearth burning in adulthood.
The need, as one sees it, is not to generalize all kinds of child labour as abuse. If they are employed for unproductive, non-educative menial jobs such as dishwashers in restaurants or floor scrubbers, and for the profit and benefit of their employers alone, then obviously it would amount to abuse. But not every child job profile is or can be of the nature. The motor vehicle workshop case is a fit example. It is because of this tradition of apprenticeship education that Manipur today can proudly boast of a rich human resource of skilled labour in areas such a motor, electrical mechanics, blacksmith, goldsmith etc. Many of these skilled hands have had no formal education, yet they have a self made job although they would be automatically disqualified to white collared categories of jobs. This is not to say formal education can be done away with for anybody. It should not be too. But what is called upon is for education curriculums and schedules to be restructured so that formal education reaches out to those in these non-formal educations (apprenticeship) and not the apprentices having to bend over backwards reaching out to formal education. They must be made to learn the letters alongside their apprenticeship so that they will have a broader scope to enhance their skills through not just practical experiences, of which they would have acquired in plenty, but also from the inexhaustible knowledge banks accumulated through the ages in books.
To each according to his potential, must be the motto. It is not essential for everybody to be masters, or Ph.D degree holders. These should be for those inclined to and have the aptitude for academics and researches. Not every job must be white-collared ones either, but unfortunately this seems to be the popular notion in the present times. Because this is so, so many of the traditional professions, of which there are many in the state, are systematically withering away. Everybody today wants a government job and the rest has become senseless. Compare this to some of the famous and prospering traditional professions such as in Europe. One can at once think of the tradition of Scotch Whiskey making. Some families have been in the profession (business) for over four centuries. Under the circumstance, the perfection they have reached is also not altogether unimaginable. Sports professionals too leave formal studies early and consider their professional trainings as much education as what they would have done picking up a Ph.D degree. Nobody can say for instance that Pete Sampras did injustice to himself for opting to leave school young to concentrate on a career in Tennis. The same can be said of so many other extremely successful professionals. Formal education is important no doubt, but let it not exclude all other non-formal skill learning process as exercises in illiteracy.
http://ifp.co.in/EditorialFull.asp?EditorialID=176
By : A Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Nov 25: The Manipur government is all set to implement the draft action plan for reduction of violence in Manipur, although the Union ministry of home affairs is yet to response to the plea of the state government to fully fund the implementation of the draft action plan.
The Governor has also accorded sanction to the creation of 1640 different categories of posts in the Manipur police department for the same on November 6 last, an official source said.
The action plan to reduce violence in the state focused on the strengthening the police force by increasing manpower as “sine qua non” for effective measures for controlling violence in Manipur.
The state government, mention may be made, considering the heavy financial involvement in implementation of the draft project, requested the Union ministry of home affairs, MHA for full funding.
However in response to the state’s request, the MHA asked the Manipur government to re-prioritize the requirements under the modernization of police force scheme funded by the ministry and project the items in the action plan in phase-I of the annual plan so that these can be taken up immediately from the funds available.
The implementation of the draft action plan for reduction of violence in Manipur projected an expenditure of Rs. 24,88,59,252. It also projected an annual recurring expenditure of Rs. 14,61,47,656 on salary as the draft plan involved creation of 1640 posts of different categories in the state home department.
The posts that are to be created include 404 posts for CID (SB). The posts for this unit of the state police department are one post of superintendent of police, SP at the pay scale Rs. 12,000-16,500, one additional SP (Rs. 10,000-15,200), three each of deputy superintendent of police (Rs. 8,000-13,500) and inspectors Rs.5,5000-9,000 of police, nine sub-inspector of police (Rs. 5,000-9,000), 30 head constables (Rs.3,200-4,900), 352 male constable (Rs.3,050-4,590), four sweepers (Rs. 2,750-4,400) and one steno at the pay scale of Rs. 3,050-Rs.4,590.
1197 posts are for the various district police units. Out of these posts eight are of the rank of inspector, 70 of sub-inspector, 88 assistant sub-inspector (Rs. 4,000-6000), 85 head constable, 859 police constables and 87 driver constables.
Thirty-two out of 59 police stations covering areas from where a high degree of violence have been reported in the state are to be strengthened by increasing manpower to effectively deal with the violence.
Seventeen posts are for strengthening the special investigation team for investigation of militants related cases. The posts are one SP, four each of DSP and inspector of police and eight sub-inspectors.
Out of the total 1640 are also included 22 posts for the state forensic science laboratory. The posts agreed for creation in this unit of the state police department are one director in the pay scale of Rs. 14,300-18,300, five science officers (Rs.8,000-9,000), seven scientific assistant and one store superintendent (Rs.5,000 to 8,000).
The unit will also have two mobile units. For this two each of scientific officer (Rs.8,000-13,500), scientific assistant (Rs.5,000-8,000), attendant (Rs.2,550-3,200) and drivers (Rs.3, 050-4,590).
The Governor sanctioned the creation of the posts subject to the state home department’s assurance to take necessary precautions/steps to include non-plan expenditure on this account in the projections for revenue expenditure before the 13th finance commission during 20-1-2015, the source disclosed.
Over the last around three decades, the police stations have become lopsided as there has been no significant growth of strength in the civil police even as the strength of armed police has gone up due to the raising of more battalions of Manipur Rifles and IRB.
The state has 9 district police units, six units of Manipur Rifles and 6 units of IR battalions. Apart from these, there are eight units under the police department, namely CID, police wireless, police training school, Narcotics and border affairs (NAB), central motor transport works (CMTW), forensic science laboratory (FSL), state finger print bureau and home guards.
The need for revision in strength of police stations was realized by the government as far back as 1999 as the current strength is utterly inadequate in the view of the complex policing needs which has developed over the decades compelled by the problem of insurgency.
Because of financial difficulties of the state, however, even as the state police department submitted detailed proposals for re-organization, the state government could not convert them into action since long back, the source maintained.
The Manipur government prepared the action plan to reduce violence in the state as per the advice of the Union ministry of home affairs. After several modifications, the state Cabinet sent the draft action plan for consideration and approval with request to fully fund on July 30 this year.
The Manipur government, finding that strengthening by increasing manpower as “sine qua non” for effective measures for controlling violence in Manipur had decided to increase manpower of 32 selected police stations. The selected 32 police stations covered areas from where a high degree of violence was reported, the source disclosed.
http://ifp.co.in/FullStory.asp?NewsID=1256
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NGOs functioning in Manipur to be vetted by planning dept
By : A Staff Reporter 11/26/2007 1:12:39 AM
IMPHAL, Nov 25: Verification of programmes and work by non-governmental organizations, NGOs and voluntary organisations with funds from the state and Central government and its agencies in the state will be conducted by the state planning department through an independent agency or institution, an official source has said.
All the concerned departments and district deputy commissioners have been asked to collect all the details of the progress of the programmes and works implemented by the NGOs under them and to submit them to the planning department by November 30 at the latest, the official source said Sunday.
Mention may be made that out of 28 NGOs in the north east blacklisted by the Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART), an autonomous body under the ministry of rural development, 11 NGOs are based in Manipur.
In the last part of August this year, the CAPART blacklisted 769 NGOs all over the country, including 28 in the north-east. The highest number of blacklisted NGOs in the north eastern region are from Manipur numbering 11 followed by 10 in Nagaland.
One NGO each in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and Meghalaya have also been blacklisted. CAPART has recovered Rs. 27.11 lakh from the 30 blacklisted NGOs.
Most of the cases are very old and the postal addresses of the NGOs and their office-bearers have changed. Hence, CAPART is finding it difficult to trace these organizations, according to the source from the Union rural development ministry.
The director of the state planning department has also informed all the NGOs and voluntary organizations who are getting funds from the Union and state government, other government agencies, state organizations/departments to submit the list of work programmes which have been implemented by the NGOs concerned during 2005-06, 2006-07 to the concerned line department and deputy commissioner with a copy to the planning department by November 30.
The notification further said action would be taken to curtail release of funds for those NGOs who failed to submit the details of the works which they had taken up and are in the process of taking up. The director, K Mangi has warned this in a notification issued on November 22 last, the source said.
The source further said that the works of the NGOs will be verified by independent agencies/institutions and based on the findings of the study appropriate action would be taken up.
http://ifp.co.in/FullStory.asp?NewsID=1254
======================================
Apprenticeship as Education - The Imphal Free Press Editorial
There is a well known unwritten rule about rules. It simply says, know the rules well enough to creatively break it. It sound rather absurd, but one supposes its logic is derived from the fact that while rules are absolutely necessary in bringing about a semblance of order in every walk of life, no rule can cover everything about any walk of life either – hence the need to go beyond the rules without debunking the rules altogether at some point or the other. This rather oxymoronic notion seems now ready to be called into play in the ongoing debate on quality education in Manipur. The question is, must education be all about formal education only. The obvious answer is “no” but said in many different ways. This acknowledgement for instance is why schools and colleges emphasize on the need for extra curricular activities. But what about in the extreme cases of alternative education advanced as a total or near total substitute for formal education? The question comes to mind as the world observed November 24 as the International Day against child abuse. It is not a surprise at all that so many think employing children in various physically trying professions must constitute child abuse. The most cited examples are children employed in motor vehicle workshops and other skilled jobs. Should not there be exceptions? For one thing, in many of these jobs, it is not only a question of employing children as in exploiting cheap, unquestioning, labour, but also a lot about apprenticeship where these children are taught skills on the job so that they are prepared for make a profession out of the training to keep the family hearth burning in adulthood.
The need, as one sees it, is not to generalize all kinds of child labour as abuse. If they are employed for unproductive, non-educative menial jobs such as dishwashers in restaurants or floor scrubbers, and for the profit and benefit of their employers alone, then obviously it would amount to abuse. But not every child job profile is or can be of the nature. The motor vehicle workshop case is a fit example. It is because of this tradition of apprenticeship education that Manipur today can proudly boast of a rich human resource of skilled labour in areas such a motor, electrical mechanics, blacksmith, goldsmith etc. Many of these skilled hands have had no formal education, yet they have a self made job although they would be automatically disqualified to white collared categories of jobs. This is not to say formal education can be done away with for anybody. It should not be too. But what is called upon is for education curriculums and schedules to be restructured so that formal education reaches out to those in these non-formal educations (apprenticeship) and not the apprentices having to bend over backwards reaching out to formal education. They must be made to learn the letters alongside their apprenticeship so that they will have a broader scope to enhance their skills through not just practical experiences, of which they would have acquired in plenty, but also from the inexhaustible knowledge banks accumulated through the ages in books.
To each according to his potential, must be the motto. It is not essential for everybody to be masters, or Ph.D degree holders. These should be for those inclined to and have the aptitude for academics and researches. Not every job must be white-collared ones either, but unfortunately this seems to be the popular notion in the present times. Because this is so, so many of the traditional professions, of which there are many in the state, are systematically withering away. Everybody today wants a government job and the rest has become senseless. Compare this to some of the famous and prospering traditional professions such as in Europe. One can at once think of the tradition of Scotch Whiskey making. Some families have been in the profession (business) for over four centuries. Under the circumstance, the perfection they have reached is also not altogether unimaginable. Sports professionals too leave formal studies early and consider their professional trainings as much education as what they would have done picking up a Ph.D degree. Nobody can say for instance that Pete Sampras did injustice to himself for opting to leave school young to concentrate on a career in Tennis. The same can be said of so many other extremely successful professionals. Formal education is important no doubt, but let it not exclude all other non-formal skill learning process as exercises in illiteracy.
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