April 30
Raj Bhawan to open for visitors from Oct
ITANAGAR, Apr 29: In line with Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi, Raj Bhawan here has decided to keep its Complex open for visitors, every Sunday under its “know your Raj Bhawan” initiative during flowering season from October 2015 to March 2016.PRO to Raj Bhawan
Militants procuring arms from Chinese border
New Delhi, Apr 29: There are reports that various insurgent groups operating in the
country's North Eastern region procure arms and sophisticated weapons from Sino-
Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju, however, said no direct Chinese involvement has been reported in insurgent activities in the region.
"The activities of such underground militant or insurgent groups are kept under close vigil. In order to counter unlawful activities of these groups, the Central Government is supplementing efforts of the state governments through various measures. These include deployment of additional central security forces for carrying out intensive counter insurgency operations and providing security for vulnerable installations and projects, effective guarding of international borders by the border etc," he replied to a written question. PTI
Chombey asks officers to become pro-
NAHARLAGUN, Apr 29: Sonam Chombey, who has taken over the charge of IPR and Printing
Departments from Dani Sulu recently, has called upon officers of the two departments
to become pro-
The new Secretary of the department maintained that IPR has a mandate to carry the
message of the initiatives of the government especially to the grass-
While hearing the views of the departmental officers, the Secretary assured them to extend all possible support for revamping their activities.
The Parliamentary Secretary Bamang Felix expressed the hope that the department would be able to boost their activities with the joining of Chombey as Secretary. DIPR
Encroachment in Itafort area alleged
ITANAGAR, Apr 29: Arunachal Pradesh Youth Voluntary Activities (APYVA) has lodged a complaint with Chief Secretary against Talo Potom, CEO cum Additional District Magistrate alleging him of abusing power and encroachment of Itafort Monument protected area at Itanagar.
In its complaint letter to CS, the APYVA demanded immediate cancellation of land
allotment order issued in favour of Potom within the vicinity of protected monument
area vide land allotment order No. LRB-
Referring to a Govt notification, the organization further said that the CEO-
Students seeks road
ITANAGAR, Apr 29: The All Kurung Kumey District Students' Union (AKKDSU) and All East Kameng District Students Union (AEKDSU) have jointly written to Chief Engineer Western Zone, PWD seeking early construction of road between Chayangtajo and Nyapin via Phassang.
“This stretch of inter-
Students cry for stipend
ITANAGAR, Apr 29: All Arunachal Students’ Union of Karnataka (AASUK) has strongly appealed to the Govt. of Arunachal for releasing students’ stipend immediately.
According to an AASUK release, more than 50 percent of the students studying in Karnataka are not getting their stipend regularly.
Claiming that the rate of stipend being paid to the students of Arunachal Pradesh is very low as compared to other Northeastern states, AASUK appealed to the State Government, particularly Education Minister and Director of Higher and Technical Education to look into the grievances of the students on priority.
“Most of the students pursuing education in Karnataka are from poor economic background and they are mainly dependent on their stipend to meet some basic needs and the travelling expenses, said the students union.
Centre offers officers to North-
NEW DELHI, Apr 29 : The Centre has offered to send its officers on deputation to north eastern states to help them overcome manpower shortage and execution of policy decisions.
"I understand that you have acute shortage of officers at middle level due to low intake of officers in civil services from 1992 to 2006. The state governments may like to utilize the experience of the Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officers at appropriate level on deputation basis," Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) Secretary Sanjay Kothari said in a letter to chief secretaries of Tripura, Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.
The CSS is one of the earliest organised services in the country and is an important constituent of the central government machinery. PTI
No initiative for anti-
NEW DELHI, Apr 29: Government has not taken any initiative for framing an anti-
"The Central government has not initiated any discussion with the political parties,
religious leaders on the matter of framing an anti-
Rijiju said some states like Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha have enacted laws providing for the prohibition of the conversion from one religious faith to any other religious faith by the use of force or inducement or by fraudulent means etc. PTI
News Impact
Banks to clear Govt cheques soon
Staff Reporter
ITANAGAR, Apr 29: The govt. cheques will start getting cleared after 1st May onwards. According to sources, those cheques whose validity expires on 30th April will be extended till 7th of May to avoid any trouble especially, the small time contractors. Earlier on 22nd April, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had written to State Bank of India to stop all the payments issued by the government of Arunachal Pradesh with immediate effect due to overdraft.
“There is nothing to panic as every year during April month such problem arises. This year we are facing more trouble because guidelines for releasing fund under various centrally sponsored schemes(CSS) is being changed by union government and therefore it is delaying the whole process. But once CSS money starts coming, things will get better,” shared a senior government official. He further warned that till the month of August state will continue to witness financial woes due to change in funding pattern.
“A Niti Aayog sub-
“Everybody is aware that Arunachal always had issues while managing finance. This is not a new problem. But problem is getting more acute due to delay in release of fund from centre. And sadly our state is totally dependent on centre even for a single pie. One of the important BJP leader and union MoS Home Kiren Rijiju is maintaining stoic silence over this issue because he also knows the truth that fund problem is happening because of changes made in guidelines for CSS. It is unfair to blame state govt. alone,” added the senior govt. official. “Some says we have not submitted utilization certificates(UC), which is absolutely wrong. In fact Arunachal government always gives top priority for submission of UC. We know that for us central fund is the lifeline and therefore how can we afford to cut our own lifeline? There may be some delay but we always try to submit UC on time,” he went on to add.
APMCC convention say yes to reservation for women, opposes Land Bill
ITANAGAR, Apr 29: The state level women convention organized by Arunachal Mahila Congress Committee (APMCC) at IG Park here has resolved to fight for the Women Reservation Bill ensuring 33 percent reservation for women in Assembly and Parliament. APMCC will also request the State Govt. to enhance the women reservation in local bodies from 33 percent to 50 percent in the coming days.
It has also adopted resolution to oppose the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and
Resettlement (Amendment) Bill-
The meeting which was attended by rank and file of Mahila Congress from New Delhi and thousands of party workers and cadres from nook and corner of the state demanded the BJP Govt. at the Centre to accept the Land Acquisition Bill of 2013 which was unanimously accepted by all parties in the Parliament.
To ensure women security, the party appealed to the State Government to establish Women Police Stations in all districts and set up Nirbhaya Centres for women safety and justice.
The convention resolved to encourage inter-
The convention also opposed the ban imposed by BJP on sale and consumption of beef and condemned the ‘deliberate attempt’ of the party to call the Northeastern people as immigrants in their printed manifesto for Delhi elections.
Security meeting at Namsai on UG activities and border security deployment
ITANAGAR, Apr 29: Arunachal Pradesh Eastern Zonal Security Coordination meeting was held in Namsai on April 29.
The meeting was attended by the Superintendent of Police of seven districts of Eastern Range of Arunachal Pradesh and also by the officers of Army, Assam Rifles, IRBN, SIB and CRPF deployed for CI operations in the region.
The participants of the meeting deliberated on various UG activities, adequate deployment
of security forces along the Arunachal-
Apur Bitin, Deputy Inspector General of Police (Eastern Range) in his address stressed
for building public confidence. He also urged for sensitization of police and other
security force officers and personnel on protection of human rights in terms of National
Human Rights Commission guidelines and Supreme Court directives. He also emphasised
to ensure security of general public from all kinds of anti-
R.K. Sharma, Deputy Commissioner Namsai urged for close co-
BJP launches relief drive for earthquake victims
ITANAGAR, Apr 29: The State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mahila Morcha today launched relief drive to help the victims of devastating
Earthquakes in Nepal and in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
Party president Tai Tagak launched the relief drive at party head office here in presence of party leaders, workers and state and frontal wing office bearers. He hailed the initiative of the Mahila Morcha to alleviate the sufferings of the affected people. He called upon the people of the state, party leaders and workers to come forward and contribute to the relief fund generously.
He alerted the people that such natural disaster may occur anytime as the state and the region sit on seismic zone five with high probability of major earthquake.
The state president questioned the state government regarding its preparedness on disaster management and existence of functional seismic surveillance centre in the state for earthquake monitoring.
Party vice president Techi Necha, State Mahila Morcha president Padmeswari Jamoh also spoke on the occasion.
Jamoh called upon the District Mahila Morcha units to launch the drive in their respective districts and appealed to the party cadres and leaders to extend full cooperation and contributes for the cause.
National cooperative Excellence Award for Rupa LAMPS
ITANAGAR, Apr 29: Rupa Large Sized Multi-
LAMPS’ Managing Director SS Srivastava and Chairman RD Wangja received the award from Union Minister of State for Agriculture MK Kundariya at a function organized in New Delhi on April 29.
Secretary (Agriculture) Shiraj Hussain and Managing Director NCDC Vashudha Mishra were also present on the occasion.
The society has members in 14 villages. Apart from other activities, like PDS, hardware and agriculture inputs shops, they have established a fruit processing unit in Rupa. The unit, first of its kind in the state, aims to address the problem of loss of excessive quantities of tomato in the region and help the farmer community derive higher benefits from agriculture.
DC calls for disaster preparedness before onset of monsoon
KHONSA, Apr 29: The greatest threat the people of the Tirap district have been facing is landslides and floods during the monsoon, said Tirap Deputy Commissioner and urged the officers to remain prepared to tackle any eventuality. He was addressing the coordination meeting of Tirap district disaster management authority here today. The members of DDMA and HoDs actively participated in it.
While recalling the devastating earthquake in Nepal recently, the Deputy Commissioner told the gathering that the entire Northeast was situated in the highly seismic zone for which the people would have to be prepared adding that earthquake, landslide, flood etc comes unannounced and that only preparedness was what the people could resort to.
The fire accidents and cases of electrocution due to short-
Regarding the earthquake, the DC appraised the house that more sub-
Earlier, District Disaster Management Officer P. Duggong threw light on the purpose and importance of the meeting and said that more emphasis would be laid on preparedness before the onset of monsoon. He sought the willing cooperation from all quarters. The heads of the department also shared their views and expressed their full cooperation to the DC and the DDMA. DIPRO
SMPB chairman visits Taxus baccata plantation
ITANAGAR, Apr 29: State Medicinal Plants Board (SMPB) chairman Tatar Kipa along with
D. Yonggam, Scientist-
M/s Pronaali agro-
The plant is used as a treatment for breast and ovarian cancer.
Kipa also visited the modern drying unit in the state and interacted with the unit
in-
During his visit, Kipa assured to extend all possible help and agreed to assist and encourage such large scale plantation which will not only bring revenue to the state but also generate employment for the local youths.
He also assured the villagers to have a discussion with the state government to take
new initiative in conserving this species by in-
ANYA calls for adequate measures to check crime
ITANAGAR, Apr 29: The All Nyishi Youth Association (ANYA) has appealed to the authorities concerned to take adequate measures to check day to day crime committed by the illegal immigrants in particular. The recent rape of a woman in Jairampur by migrant worker is worrying and culprit should be strongly punished, the ANYA stated in a release.
“Until group ILP issuing systems is not regulated with proper measures the state
is going to witness the crimes of all types ranging from rapes, murder, thefts etc.
in the days to come. The over-
Further they have also appealed authorities to book the culprits involved in the murder of a class one student Tatung Tana, at ESS sector school at the earliest to curtail such acts of crime in the twin capital cities. “Political parties and other elites should not encourage the rampant birth of unions and organization in the state based on communal disharmony and other selfish agendas as witnessed these days,” ANYA added.
ITANAGAR, Apr 29: Arun Kiwi Wine -
Presiding over the meeting, APHPM & PB Kipa Niya exhorted the officers concerned to exploit other fruits for making such wine. Production of wine with unsalable fruits in the market will definitely help the farmers to earn more, he opined. He also suggested for setting up of winery in Arunachal with easily available raw materials which will help the government in earning more revenue.
Earlier, APHPM&PB MD Tage Tatung informed that on a pilot project 2500 kg of kiwi fruits from Arunachal Pradesh was sent to Rhythm Winery of Hill Crest Foods & Beverages Pvt. Ltd. Pune, Maharashtra in January, 2014, out of which 2500 litres of kiwi wine were produced with excellent quality and branded as "Arun Kiwi,”.
He further informed that Arun Kiwi wine has huge demand in Maharashtra and it has already been launched in Mumbai on 12 September 2014.
DC urges bankers to facilitate smooth flow of credit to entrepreneurs
ZIRO, Apr 29: Lower Subansiri Deputy Commissioner Kanki Darang has urged the bankers to facilitate the smooth flow of credit with simplified procedures to the local entrepreneurs. Addressing a meeting on Micro Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) at Abotani Hall, Hapoli today, the DC also advised the upcoming entrepreneurs to be persistent in their approach to the bankers.
While citing womenfolk as front runners in the MSME sector, the DC further urged upon the bankers to facilitate and encourage the women in particular.
In his keynote address, Regional Director S S Barik dealt in detail about the importance and role of MSME sector in the country in the wake of ‘Make in India’ campaign. He also spoke on the importance of SHG for easier access to bank finance and urged upon the entrepreneurs to take loans only from institutional sources. The bankers should be more sensitive to the needs of the entrepreneurs and extend necessary credit linkage so as to give boost to the MSME sector in the state, he felt.
In the interactive session held later, the issues relating to banking services were raised and clarified by the banking institutes. Also the bank authorities handed over a few sanction letters to the borrowers.
Besides Gyati Mali, JDI, AGM(SIDBI), Chairman Arunachal Pradesh Rural Bank, managers of SBI, Canara Bank, Central Bank and other banks, around 300 participants including entrepreneurs, members of NGOs, SHG and college students attended the meeting. DIPRO
Correspondent
DAPORIJO, Apr 29: Arunachal Vikash Parishad (AVP), Upper Subansiri unit has organized
a week-
Lessons were held on different issues and subjects, like social problems, role of youth in the society, unity in diversity during the programme besides yoga session for spiritual development.
Retired APO Tasa Muri, who attended the programme, spoke on value of time and time management, importance of education and Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
M.K Sikom, who attended the valedictory function, encouraged the youths to come forward and work for the betterment of the society.
Altogether 92 youths, including 56 girls attended the programme.
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Give more power to investigation agencies
Congress led UPA government was voted out due to the corruption issues. Scam after
scam rocked previous UPA government. Situation was so bad that people of India completely
lost trust in governance. Narendra Modi led BJP came to power at centre with the
promise of cleaning the corrupt system. PM Modi had promised to bring in strong law
to root out the corruption. Union cabinet today took an important decision in this
regard. Cabinet gave its nod to amendments to the Prevention of Corruption Act to
fill in perceived gaps in the domestic anti-
The proposed amendments are mainly aimed at laying down more stringent measures to tackle corruption. The bill provides for more stringent punishment for the offences of bribery, both for the bribe giver and the bribe taker. Modi is finally showing some signs of battling corruption with honesty. This decision to bring in amendments in the PCA act will give momentum in the fight against corrupt system. But PM Modi also needs to strengthen the investigation agencies. Central Vigilance Commission and Central Bureau of Investigation should be given more power. Infact these two organizations should be made independent like that of election commission. They have been given autonomy just for namesake and are virtually controlled by the ruling govt. Unless investigation agencies are strengthened, the fight against corruption will remain unsuccessful.
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With best intentions
Dear Editor,
Through your esteemed daily, it is to inform all concerned that the undersigned have
published a book titled “Identity-
So, for necessary additions and deletions in the next edition, it is appealed to
all the clans and sub-
The above stated articles may be submitted to the author to enable the author for necessary corrections of the inadvertent mistakes and to publish the second edition of the book.
Yours,
Moi Bagra
Author
Negligence in the Railway station
Dear Editor,
As a citizen having quiet some travelling experience with the Indian Railways, I would like to share an incident which left me breathless for a few moments.
On 20th April,2015 me and my family drove to the Naharlagun railway station to see
off our uncle. The Naharlagun – Guwahati intercity train was on time. Precisely
at 9:30pm an announcement was made regarding the departure of the train in few minutes,
passengers were requested to board inside, at 9:35 pm it gave off its run off horn
signalling its start up. Our uncle stepped inside his coach and we waved him good-
Back at home, I realized it was just mere negligence of the safety measures by the lady , she should have stepped out the train when the announcement was made or she couldn’t make it , then there was no need of panic since she could have gotten off at the next station . Moreover she was dressed in her local attire which made it dangerously difficult for her to move.
I would like to draw the kind attention of the concern authorities to help since it is new experience for the people here , by putting up picturesque posters about the DO’S and DON’T of railway safety and most importantly a clear announcement must be carried out 5 minutes prior to the departure along with ringing of the bell by the station master and waving of the green flag and a loud horn given off before moving on, a lot of such dreadful accidents could be avoided by making people aware about the deadly consequence .
I just want to highlight the people the fact that it seems fun and exciting seeing movie stars doing it on big screen but it is not so, we are given a beautiful life to live until fated, don’t throw it away , because of your carelessness.
Yours,
Bhagyashree Padickal
Naharlagun
Buildings, not earthquake kills
Dear Editor,
Shaking of the ground in itself hardly kill lives. But the human erected bricks and
concrete structures itself turns into killer weapons. Endeavour of mankind would
be flawed, as we experience most often, to put up more industries to design so-
During 1952 Assam Earthquake which was very high on Richter scale and had numerous aftershocks, causality of human lives in Arunachal Pradesh was very minimal because the people that time had been using traditional housing technology which is proven to be a highly effective earthquake design. We heard stories from our grandparents who practically endured the quake successfully.
God forbid it should never happen but in case of any such eventuality today, building collapse and human causality will be unimaginably high. The earthquake today is also a human accentuated event in planet Earth. Earthquake being a part of greater natural processes can hardly be predicted to the level of perfection but we have safer approaches to minimise the losses in case of any eventuality.
Yours,
Tagam Mibang
The missing computer institute
Dear Editor,
I had joined one computer institute on 27/05/2014 named Agni Institute of Information
and Technology (AIIT) , located aside G-
There were 3 faculties, one receptionist female and two male tutors. I had almost completed my course for 6 months of basic computer applications, when I had to go Guwahati for my Admission in University. I told the computer institute that I will not be able to attend my classes in future although if I am needed to appear any exams for my certification I will be there as I had almost completed my course.
The receptionist told me that my certificate would be given in one month and that I should pay the fees as well as courier charges.
I paid all the fees but not the courier charges, as I was planning to pay it when I receive the certificate.
One month later when we came back, there was no one.
The shutter was closed and since then it is closed. Hopping that one day the institute will open and I’ll get my certificate, my people frequently visits the building.
Am I the only victim of this institute or are there many more?
I am tired of searching for them and amazed how our own people can be indulged in fraud. Two of the employees were tribal. I even tried to look up on their website www.agniinfomedia.com (mentioned in cash memo) but there is no such domain.
If anyone knows them please do help me.
Yours,
Dukhum Manju
Meghalaya
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