Development / Mizoram

IMPHAL, August 2: Altogether 96 students from Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh, who were studying at College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Iroishemba, abruptly fled the college early this morning without informing the authorities and tried to leave the state, but were stopped by the police. The fleeing students were forcibly taken back to the college later this afternoon but not before a tussle with the police that left several students injured. The 96 students, including a number of girls, left their hostels with their luggage early this morning without...

IMPHAL, July 18 Manipur Chief Minister W Nipamacha Singh today said his government has ordered another survey of the proposed Tipaimukh dam to determine its height. A final decision would be taken only after studying the final survey report, he told the Assembly. Earlier, raising the issue, former Chief Minister Rishang Keishing of the Congress said he wanted to know the government's stand on the power project. The government had earlier opposed the dam on the ground that it would submerge large areas of the state. The Chief Minister said Northeastern Electric Power Corporation has been...

GUWAHATI, August 18: The Rs 2,899-crore Tipaimukh dam project of the Brahmaputra Board involving three Northeast states -Manipur, Mizoram and Assam -still awaits inter-state clearance from the concerned state governments for its execution which is being pursued by the Brahmaputra Board and the ministry of water resources. The techno-economic angle of the detailed project report submitted by Brahmaputra Board was approved by the technical advisory committee of the concerned ministry in August, 1995. The cost of Rs 2,899 crore (at the 1995 price level) which would now be over Rs 3,000 crore...

GUWAHATI, August 4: The North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NEDFi) has sanctioned projects amounting to Rs 554 lakh in Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and Assam. An official release said the statewise allocation was: Mizoram Rs 156.30 lakh, Manipur Rs 156 lakh; Tripura Rs 105 lakh and Assam Rs 137 lakh. NEDFi has sanctioned Rs 144 lakh as term loan to Greenwood Hospital Pvt Ltd for setting up a 59-bed hospital in Bawngkawn, Aizawl. It is an existing hospital with 30 beds on rented premises and is the only private healthcare unit providing tertiary healthcare facility in Mizoram...

AIZAWL, July 22: The Union ministry of commerce has sanctioned Rs 2 cr towards constructing a complete building on the Mizoram-Myanmar border to help encourage future trans-border trade, the state minister for trade and commerce Aichhinga told the House on July 21. He said the state government was also making arrangements to develop a township near the Indo-Myanmar border to encourage trade. He said the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) was also developing infrastructural facilities to help the traders. Regarding border trade with Bangladesh, Aichhinga said a trade delegation from Dhaka would...

AIZAWL, July 22: Over 32,000 families in Mizoram were identified as living below poverty line, the state food and civil supplies minister Aichhinga said on Wednesday. Altogether 2,455 families of the 32,555 families were living in the state capital alone, he told the House in a written reply. The families living below poverty line would be given ration through the public distribution system (PDS) at half the retail price, he said.

AIZAWL, July 22: The Centre has okayed the setting up of four hydel projects in Mizoram, the state deputy chief minister Lalhmingthanga said on Wednesday. Replying to a question in the House, Lalhmingthanga, who also holds the power portfolio, said the cost of one of these projects, the 75-MW Bairabi hydel project, was being assessed. The estimated costs of other three projects are Rs 448.9 cr for the 60 MW Tuirial hydro-electric project, Rs 85.81 cr for the 12 MW Serlui 'B' hydel project and Rs 462.09 cr for the Tuivai hydel project (210 MW), he said. The minister said a Mumbai-based company...

AIZAWL, July 18: The Mizoram Government has submitted 15 projects under the non-lapsable pool fund (NPF) to the Planning Commission for accelerating the development process in the State, official sources said. The projects submitted under the NPF, commonly called 'Peace Bonus,' would receive on approval additional funds which would supplement the draft sectorial allocation of Rs 360 crore State Annual Plan outlay, the chief secretary HV Lalringa said. 'The proposed projects, submitted to the visiting Commission members here, are aimed at achieving self-sufficiency in food production and income...

Aizawl, July 16: The Mizoram government will give compensation to eight families in Saiha and Lawngtlai districts whose crops have been destroyed by elephants, the state's environment and forests minister Rualchhina informed the Assembly on Friday. In reply to a question by Independent H Rammawi, the minister said that some elephants destroyed paddy and standing crops in the southern parts of the state. Rammawi said "rogue elephants" from the Ngengpui wildlife sanctuary poised a danger to the lives of the local populace besides destroying their crops.