IMPHAL, Dec 19 – Considering the acute shortage of rice, Manipur outfit Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF) has banned export of rice produced in the State. The ban was to be effective from December 12.
The RPF, in a statement, warned that any one found exporting rice would be punished.
According to 2007-08 estimates, the total quantity of rice required for Manipur in a year was eight lakh metric tonnes whereas the total rice production in the State was only four lakh metric tonnes. But the actual quantity imported to make up the shortage was only 0.95 metric tonnes.
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Arunachal seeks more fund from Finance Commission
ITANAGAR, Dec 19 – Arunachal Pradesh Finance Minister Kalikho Pul has asked the 13th Finance Commission (TFC) to recommend an award of Rs 3,173.76 crore to meet its non-plan revenue deficit.
The 11-member TFC on Wednesday began a high level meeting with the State Government led by Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu.
Pul, in a memorandum to the TFC, said that the State had a huge resource gap in the area of non-plan activity due to which the State had not been able to transfer its liabilities from plan to non-plan side.
“We have also severe shortage of funds to maintain the assets resulting in deterioration of those critical infrastructures. Arunachal has been unable to meet even 10 to 20 per cent State matching shares against the Central sponsored development schemes,” it said.
The Minister said in the 12th Finance Commission award the State received only Rs 1,357.88 crore as revenue deficit grant as compared to Rs 5,536.50 crore for Nagaland, Rs 4,391.88 crore for Manipur and Rs 2,977.79 crore for Mizoram, which has even less population than Arunachal.
Pul said that the State Government had initiated bold measures of transferring the liabilities from plan to non-plan side and during the last financial year it had transferred the maintenance expenditure and committed salary expenditure amounting to Rs 150 crore along with over 13,000 posts from plan to non-plan side.
TFC acting chairman Atul Sarma said the demands made by the State would be seriously considered. – PTI
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Militants’ plan to trigger blasts on eve of Christmas unearthed
High alert in Tura town
By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: A blanket security cover has been put in place in the entire Tura town after security forces reportedly stumbled upon a devious plan of Garo militant groups to bomb crowded places in the run-up to Christmas and New Year celebrations.
Heavy security presence has been enforced in sensitive areas of Tura after militant groups People's Liberation Front of Meghalaya (PLF-M) and Liberation of Achik Elite Force (LAEF) reportedly planned to create mayhem in the heart of Tura to avenge the death of their ‘commander-in-chief’ Kimbre Sangma and push through their agenda of a Greater Garoland state by targetting both security forces and innocent civilians.
While district police officials have denied having any such report, sources from within the intelligence agencies revealed a sinister plan by the militant groups to create a sea of destruction in the town.
According to sources, LAEF and PLF-M had a joint meeting with militants from All Tripura Tigers' Force (ATTF) and decided to trigger an explosion either inside the Tura Super market or at one of the crowded locations of the town.
The outfits have tentatively fixed December 23 and 24 for the destruction during which time the markets would be teeming with visitors.
Police came across the plan of the two outfits after they arrested a PLF-M sympathiser from Dadenggre-Tikrikilla area who spilled the beans about the plan during interrogation. The accused had reportedly participated in the meeting which took place somewhere in East Garo Hills two weeks ago.
Soon after, barricades were thrown up at entrance of the Deputy Commissioner's office and at the two main hotels and the Super Market and frisking of vehicles and passengers began at all entrances into the town.
It is also reported that four militants from a particular group presently in ceasefire with the State and Central governments had attended the meeting and efforts are now on by the government agencies to take the foursome under custody.
West Garo Hills Deputy Commissioner, F R Kharkongor, and Superintendent of Police, J F K Marak, however, termed media reports as highly "overpitched". "There is no issue whatsoever. The heightened security has been in place in view of the recent blasts in Guwahati and the attacks in Mumbai. This operation has been put in place because of the large number of visitors to popular sites during the festive season," both the top officials informed.
The LAEF had brazenly unleashed a reign of terror during July 2007 when their cadres lobbed a powerful hand grenade inside Tura Super market resulting in the death of two innocent civilians and injury to scores of others.
The top leader of the LAEF who gave the green signal for the operation, Peter Marak, was ultimately tracked down and killed by Garo Hills police inside the deep jungles of Songsak two months later.
Despite recent success by security forces in nabbing or killing top cadres of the LAEF, the outfit remains a threat to the security scenario of the region having tied up with militants from the powerful Naga outfit, the NSCN.
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The RPF, in a statement, warned that any one found exporting rice would be punished.
According to 2007-08 estimates, the total quantity of rice required for Manipur in a year was eight lakh metric tonnes whereas the total rice production in the State was only four lakh metric tonnes. But the actual quantity imported to make up the shortage was only 0.95 metric tonnes.
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Arunachal seeks more fund from Finance Commission
ITANAGAR, Dec 19 – Arunachal Pradesh Finance Minister Kalikho Pul has asked the 13th Finance Commission (TFC) to recommend an award of Rs 3,173.76 crore to meet its non-plan revenue deficit.
The 11-member TFC on Wednesday began a high level meeting with the State Government led by Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu.
Pul, in a memorandum to the TFC, said that the State had a huge resource gap in the area of non-plan activity due to which the State had not been able to transfer its liabilities from plan to non-plan side.
“We have also severe shortage of funds to maintain the assets resulting in deterioration of those critical infrastructures. Arunachal has been unable to meet even 10 to 20 per cent State matching shares against the Central sponsored development schemes,” it said.
The Minister said in the 12th Finance Commission award the State received only Rs 1,357.88 crore as revenue deficit grant as compared to Rs 5,536.50 crore for Nagaland, Rs 4,391.88 crore for Manipur and Rs 2,977.79 crore for Mizoram, which has even less population than Arunachal.
Pul said that the State Government had initiated bold measures of transferring the liabilities from plan to non-plan side and during the last financial year it had transferred the maintenance expenditure and committed salary expenditure amounting to Rs 150 crore along with over 13,000 posts from plan to non-plan side.
TFC acting chairman Atul Sarma said the demands made by the State would be seriously considered. – PTI
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Militants’ plan to trigger blasts on eve of Christmas unearthed
High alert in Tura town
By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: A blanket security cover has been put in place in the entire Tura town after security forces reportedly stumbled upon a devious plan of Garo militant groups to bomb crowded places in the run-up to Christmas and New Year celebrations.
Heavy security presence has been enforced in sensitive areas of Tura after militant groups People's Liberation Front of Meghalaya (PLF-M) and Liberation of Achik Elite Force (LAEF) reportedly planned to create mayhem in the heart of Tura to avenge the death of their ‘commander-in-chief’ Kimbre Sangma and push through their agenda of a Greater Garoland state by targetting both security forces and innocent civilians.
While district police officials have denied having any such report, sources from within the intelligence agencies revealed a sinister plan by the militant groups to create a sea of destruction in the town.
According to sources, LAEF and PLF-M had a joint meeting with militants from All Tripura Tigers' Force (ATTF) and decided to trigger an explosion either inside the Tura Super market or at one of the crowded locations of the town.
The outfits have tentatively fixed December 23 and 24 for the destruction during which time the markets would be teeming with visitors.
Police came across the plan of the two outfits after they arrested a PLF-M sympathiser from Dadenggre-Tikrikilla area who spilled the beans about the plan during interrogation. The accused had reportedly participated in the meeting which took place somewhere in East Garo Hills two weeks ago.
Soon after, barricades were thrown up at entrance of the Deputy Commissioner's office and at the two main hotels and the Super Market and frisking of vehicles and passengers began at all entrances into the town.
It is also reported that four militants from a particular group presently in ceasefire with the State and Central governments had attended the meeting and efforts are now on by the government agencies to take the foursome under custody.
West Garo Hills Deputy Commissioner, F R Kharkongor, and Superintendent of Police, J F K Marak, however, termed media reports as highly "overpitched". "There is no issue whatsoever. The heightened security has been in place in view of the recent blasts in Guwahati and the attacks in Mumbai. This operation has been put in place because of the large number of visitors to popular sites during the festive season," both the top officials informed.
The LAEF had brazenly unleashed a reign of terror during July 2007 when their cadres lobbed a powerful hand grenade inside Tura Super market resulting in the death of two innocent civilians and injury to scores of others.
The top leader of the LAEF who gave the green signal for the operation, Peter Marak, was ultimately tracked down and killed by Garo Hills police inside the deep jungles of Songsak two months later.
Despite recent success by security forces in nabbing or killing top cadres of the LAEF, the outfit remains a threat to the security scenario of the region having tied up with militants from the powerful Naga outfit, the NSCN.
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