Sunday, January 18, 2009

Set aims to become leaders: Jamir tells students

Dimapur: "Students of Nagaland should set their aims to become the leaders of India, not only of Nagaland" Maharashtra governor, Dr. S.C. Jamir urged students from Nagaland who paid him a visit at Raj Bhavan Mumbai January 3.

Dr. Jamir appealed the visiting students to follow working ethics of students of Mumbai, who he described never take rest in their studies to achieve their aims.
"Students of Nagaland should shred their lathery and laziness, short sightedness, and should adopt modern and scientific techniques in their studies," Janjati Vikas Samiti Nagaland secretary, Dr. Wilubo Chewang quoted Dr. Jamir as saying in a statement.

He expressed hope that unending desire, to do better and better, would help the students from Nagaland to be leaders of India.

Enunciating that "Naganess" of Nagas was reflected in Naga culture and Naga religion, Maharashtra governor said Nagas were endowed with rich inheritance and cultural tradition. With regard to this, he maintained that students should strive hard to uphold tradition and inheritance.

The team visited Nehru Planetarium in Mumbai, Raja Chhatrapati Shivaji School, Hotel Taj, Gateway of India, and paid homage to martyrs and innocent victims of terrorist attack in Mumbai.
In Goa the team visited Goa assembly and met the opposition leader. In Pune they visited Gyanprabhodini school as well as Rani Laxmibai Girls Sainik school.

The team performed cultural show in Pune displaying Naga dance and tradition. The tour was organized by Janjati Vikas Samiti Nagaland with the help of well wishers of students from these places. The team was led by Zeliangrong Heraka School, Tening headmistress, Aning Zeliang while Rongsenkala Ao sang a Hindi song.

The tour was organized to exchange the ideas, share the feelings, know the habits of studies, and understand the ambitions of fellow students in Maharashtra and Goa, the release added.


Relax poultry ban: DMC

Following the resumption of sale of chicken and poultry products in the markets of Assam which was earlier banned after avian flu outbreak, the DMC said that it has no objection with regard to the sale of poultry products within its jurisdiction. It however added that the sale should be allowed under strict supervision of a constituted committee headed by veterinary doctors.
DMC member co-in charge of the DMC Rate Control Branch, S. Vihuto Yepthomi in a statement said the relaxation of the ban on poultry would be proper as the people of Dimapur were going to Lahorijan in Assam, where the avian flu outbreak was first reported, to buy chicken and its products.

Referring to media reports that the Assam government had issued a letter to all the District Veterinary Officers of Assam asking them to consider lifting of the ban in Assam after taking various precautionary measures, the DMC also appealed that the Nagaland government to set some guidelines and consider lifting of the ban.

DMC said that the Dimapur citizens buying poultry from Lahorijan which is easily accessible was affecting the local market and added that it was also facing pressure from the public.
Consequent upon an order from the deputy commissioner, Dimapur, the DMC has earlier informed the local farmers to sale their poultry products in local markets under the strict supervision of a constituted committee headed by veterinary doctors.

Greater Nagaland dispute a “hanging fire”, says book

Even as the decade old Naga peace talks negotiations have made little headway, the vexed greater Nagaland dispute remains a "hanging fire", says a new book penned by a journalist, who had served in Dimapur and Kohima.

"The Nagas would not give up and Meities would find it difficult to stomach," says the book 'The Talking Guns: Northeast India' penned by journalist Nirendra Dev and published by Manas Publications (New Delhi). In this context, the author says in 2001, the erstwhile Vajpayee government's "ill-advised" move to extend Naga ceasefire to all Naga inhabitant areas without assessing Manipuri mindset had put the hills into fire.

The book offers a critical and richly detailed analysis of 60 years of northeast India's politics and administrative strategies since independence and their going wrong from time to time.

Using a variety of stylistic genres, commentaries, first hand experience anecdotes and rare media reports from the local tabloids published in the region, the author scans the entire period through the regimes of Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and aftermath.

The book is an important addition to the literature on northeast both for its acuteness and originality of its analysis. This should interest ordinary readers and also military and intelligence officers, politicians and administrators alike.

Analysing that at a time when hot pursuits against LTTE and other militants are being advocated in South Asia, especially in the context of Mumbai terror attack of 26/11, the book argues that such an orientation can "only harden the people's attitude" and keep aggravating the problems. "The fight between security forces and even the other side, the militants, had always left the common people in a miserable state," says the book.

The journo, born and brought up in insurgency-hit sensitive region says the local people are left "in a serious psychic tug-of-war", and the central leadership still insist on acting tough, instead of being concerned hat such an orientation can only harden people's attitude.

Source: http://www.nagalandpost.com

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