Development / Manipur

SHILLONG, Aug 23 ? Social activists in the North East are up in arms against the construction of mega dams in the region claiming it would bring ?untold suffering and land alienation among the indigenous poeple,? reports PTI. The Citizens Concern for Dams and Development (CCDD), a forum of people movements, NGOs, professional associations and leading citizens here said that the respective governments proposed to construct 168 large hydro-electric projects in the region and 28 of them were at the implementation stage and some others were also being developed.

Talking to media after its three...

Imphal, June 21: Setting up of an international standard bus station at Moreh is on card with Union Ministry of Surface Transport and Highways seeking a detailed project report (DPR) of the same from the State Government. Along with it, the Union Ministry has also asked the State Transport Department to submit a DPR on Imphal-Mandalay road connectivity in connection with its ambitious Trans-Asian Highways project, a reliable source disclosed. Although the proposal of the Union Ministry is welcome, it has put the State Transport Department in a fix over procuring 50 acres of land at Moreh for...

Imphal, June 17: Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh today admitted on the floor of the Assembly that his government’s attempts to lift prohibition from the state had come a cropper, despite enacting a legislation. He attributed this failure to strong objections from non-governmental organisations.

Rounding off the budget discussion in the Assembly, which was boycotted by the Opposition, Ibobi Singh conceded that his government’s efforts to scrap the Prohibition Act from the whole of Manipur were scuttled following stiff opposition from Meira Paibis and other youth organisations. The...

Imphal, June 14: Even though construction works of the KV 33 power station at Saikul have been completed, the station is yet to start functioning till today due to shortage of staff and reluctance of the employees to work in the area, said Power^ Minister Phungzathang; Tonsing while replying to a query from Saikul MLA C Doungel during the opening session of the State Assembly's Monsoon Session today. Power Minister Phungzathang Tonsing however added that the Govt is doing everything within its means to make the station functional within July by putting in the required staffs at the station. He...

IMPHAL,June 12 – Invoking provisions of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules 1955, the state authority has banned with immediate effect all packaged drinking water/mineral water that does not have the tags of Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) certificates. State Health Director Ch Chandramani issued an order in this regard on Monday notifying closure of all the mineral water bottling plants in the state which do not possess BIS certificates.

There are six packaged drinking water manufacturing units in the state.They are likely to face the music in the wake of the government order as it...

Imphal, June 11: Among several factors contributing to the gradual extinction of fresh water Loktak Lake defunct of Loktak Development Authority and administrative inconvenience between concerned ministries have been cited, according to official source. While fund constraints has been cited for the LDA failure lack of coordination between the LDA and Forest & Environment Ministries in respect of executing respective assignments at the largest fresh water lack in Eastern India is the main cause of gradual rot of Loktak Lake. Another important factor is engaging Engineering experts rather than...

IMPHAL, June 1 – With the stated objective of reaping the maximum benefits from the 12th Finance Commission, the State Government has approached the Commission to earmark a sum of Rs 14,000 crore for the State in the next five year Plan, which will come into effect from April next year and to set aside Rs 1000 crore to enable the State face its peculiar problems. The State Government submitted its presentation to the Commission team led by its Chairman C Ranga-ranjan, who arrived at the State on Sunday.

The Commission team left for Aizawl today after meeting representatives of the Government...

Imphal, May 31: Even though the "Total Literacy Campaign" launched by the National Literacy Mission under the Ministry of Human Resource Development has begun in full swing in all the State of the country, Manipur has not been able to make much headway with the campaign being properly implemented only in three/four dists of the State, said a source. It may be noted here that the total literacy campaign has been launched by the Central Govt with the primary aim of educating the illiterate persons of the country between the ages of 15 and 35. The main objective of the campaign is to obtain 75%...

Imphal, March 7: The 100-km long Jiribam-Tupul broadgauge railway line will be completed within five years. Disclosing this at a news conference here on Friday evening, Vipan Nanda, general manager, Northeast Frontier Railway, said the time schedule can be maintained only if militants do not disturb the ongoing work.

The estimated cost of the project at current price is Rs 7,300 crore.

Nanda said the Indian Railways project linking Jiribam and Tupul, has been sanctioned and all work to execute the project is in their final stages. Acquisition of land and distribution of compensation to...

Kohima, Feb. 2: The Nagaland government has proposed an 80-km diversion in the Dimapur-Imphal highway before making it a four-lane one.

Prime Minster Atal Bihari Vajpayee had announced a more than Rs 400-crore project to upgrade the National Highway 39, commonly known as Dimapur-Imphal highway here, during his visit to the state in October last year. The state government is understood to have proposed the diversion via Niuland to capital Kohima in fear of paying huge compensation to landowners if the present stretch was to be kept intact.

Nagaland resident commissioner Ponraj attended a...