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DIMAPUR • Vol. XII • Issue 71 • 12 PAGes • 5
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There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas — Miyamoto Musashi Parrikar takes over as Goa CM for fourth time
DIG CISF V Khamo makes Nagaland proud
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Chelsea beat 10-man United to reach FA Cup semis
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Manipur Gov invites BJP to form govt encourage healthy eating NPP, NPF to back BJP-led govt in Manipur habits, nBse asks schools
IMPHAl, MARCH 14 (IANS): Manipur Governor Najma Heptulla on Tuesday said that the BJP has the requisite numbers to form a government in the state. “It is more than 30 in the House of 60 members,” she said during a brief press conference at Raj Bhavan on Tuesday. Heptulla said she has invited the Bharatiya Janata Party to form the government on Wednesday. “BJP led group has been invited tomorrow (Wednesday) to form the government. In Manipur we need development, jobs for the youth,” she said. “Political stability and development of the state are the main concerns. Nobody has accused me of being biased. I know the rules and I go by the book. My 17 years of experience has stood by me in good stead,” she said. The Raj Bhavan has invited Nongthombam Biren to form the government. The oath taking ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, and not at 10.30 a.m. as stated earlier, Raj Bhavan sources said. S. Bira, a senior Congress MLA, was sworn in as the protem Speaker. Heptulla said, “The new Chief Minister will be asked to prove his majority
reflections
By Sandemo Ngullie
IMPHAl/KoHIMA, MARCH 14 (IANS): The party chiefs of the National People’s Party (NPP) and the Naga People’s Front (NPF) on Tuesday said they will support a non-Congress government in Manipur led by the BJP. NPP supremo Conrad K. Sangma said a non-Congress government would soon be formed in Manipur and his party would support the BJP-led alliance government. Nagaland Chief Minister Shurhozelie Liezietsu said his Naga People’s Front (NPF) party will be supporting the BJPled coalition government in his neighbouring state of Manipur. “We are waiting only for the invitation from the Governor (Najma Heptulla) to invite us to form the new government,” Sangma told IANS. He said the Naga People’s Front has also handed a letter of support to Heptulla confirming its support to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance government in Manipur. The NPF, which won four seats in the
by March 22 or 23.” BJP president Amit Shah, other national leaders, Assam Chief Minister S. Sonowal, Assam Finance Minister Hemanta Biswa Sarma and others are expected to be present at the swearing in ceremony. Reacting to the political developments, Congress sources said the party is
just-concluded assembly elections, has also paraded its newly-elected legislators before the Governor, Sangma said. Both NPP and NPF have won four seats each in the Manipur assembly elections. “All the legislators (non-Congress) are intact,” added Sangma, the lone NPP Lok Sabha member. Shurhozelie, who is also the NPF supremo said, said that it “did not put preconditions” before joining the BJP-led coalition arrangement in Manipur. The NPF and NPP are major coalition partners of the North East Democratic Alliance formed in May last year in Assam’s main city of Guwahati with the declared aim of ridding the region of the Congress party and to bring all-round development to the northeastern part of the country under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The NPF has been in alliance with the BJP and other non-Congress political parties in Nagaland since 2003 under the banner and nomenclature of Democratic Alliance of Nagaland.
keeping its options open. In the just-concluded elections the Congress party secured 28 seats whereas the BJP could bag 21 seats. But the NPF and NPP with four MLAs each supported it. Besides one MLA each of the AITC, LJP and an independent also supported the BJP. Congress has been in power for three consecu-
tive terms. Sources said that after the Supreme Court ruling on the Goa political developments it is very unlikely that the Congress in Manipur will go to court. Congress leader Okram Ibobi Singh, who resigned as Chief Minister on Monday, also staked his claim to form the government.
Warns on dangers of fast food consumption KoHIMA, MARCH 14 (DIPR): The Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) has notified all schools on the dangers of consumption of fast food and advised them to sensitise and orient students about healthy eating habits, as part of compulsory co-curricular activities and also under Health and Physical Education Subject. The NBSE said that consumption of foods high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS), popularly known as junk food, is associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, chronic inflammation and hyperinsulinemia with a risk of cardiovascular diseases in later life. It also informed that the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) constituted a working group which submitted its report on addressing consumption of foods High in Fat, Salt and Sugar (HFSS) and promotion of healthy snacks in schools of India. The NBSE advised schools in Nagaland to implement the report’s recommendations. Specifically, it asked schools to take measures to ensure that the canteens do not cater any HFSS food such as chips, fried foods, soft drinks etc and also control the sale of HFSS foods within a radius
of 200 meters from the school compound. Schools should have a School Canteen Management Committee comprising of 7-10 members, including the teachers, parents, students and School Canteen operators responsible for providing safe food to the school children, it advised. The major functions of the School Canteen Management Committee are as follows: • To conduct timely checking of the quality of raw materials and ingredients and decide the lunch items to be prepared in the school canteen/kitchen. • To see that the food in schools are up to standard and meet the guidelines as outlined by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). • To avail the expertise of external resources such as nutritionists, health specialist etc. and to develop awareness materials on information regarding hygiene, physical fitness and nutrition. • To display the contact numbers of Doctors/Medical Officers who can be contacted in case of an emergency on notice boards, labs, canteen, etc. and other important places. The NBSE meanwhile asked schools to organize awareness programs like celebration of Nutrition Week (September 1 to 7) etc for nutritious food and avoidance of HFSS
‘emotional integration of all nagas should continue’
NNPGs Working Group & ENPO call for ‘honourable & acceptable political solution for the people of Nagaland’
foods. It also suggested the following additional activities for promoting healthier eating habits: •Education on quality nutrition and integration of physical activities during the school hours. •Teaching students about the importance of a healthy active lifestyle and following healthy eating habits. •Creating a set of activities such as debate on food safety, competitions for senior students on topics related to hygiene and sanitation, advantages of healthy lifestyle options etc. •Making children aware about obesity, HFSS foods and importance of physical activity. Further, schools have been asked to undertake Community Outreach Programme to disseminate the messages related to health to the community members and to get their support by organizing interactions between school students and neighbourhood communities. The report also proposed regular monitoring of the Height, weight and Body Mass Index (BMI) for all students and based on their trajectory provision of individualized counselling. Other measures recommended included inspection of lunch boxes to minimize the consumption of unhealthy foods; and promotion of nutrition and health awareness through Co-Scholastic/Co-Curricular activities classes.
CSS Hindi teachers to begin 3rd phase agitation DIMAPUR, MARCH 14 (MExN): The Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) Hindi teachers in the state are set to begin their third phase of agitation on March 15. This was informed in a press note from the CSS Hindi Teachers and the All Nagaland Hindi Teachers Union (ANHTU). The statement lamented that despite the 2nd phase of agitation, there has been no positive response from the state government. All CSS Hindi teachers have been asked to wear black badges and reach the Directorate of School Education in Kohima at 9:00am on March 15. The ANHTU meanwhile reminded all teachers that “no one should violate in the agitation, because it is purely non-violent agitation.”
DIMAPUR, MARCH 14 (MExN): The Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) Working Group and the Eastern Naga People’s Organisation (ENPO) along with its federating tribe units issued a joint statement, follow- Delegates who attended the meeting between the Naga National Political Groups Working Group, the EastMorung Express News ing a meeting today, calling for ern Naga People’s Organisation and its federating units on March 14. But dad, it’s so windy outside. the “emotional integration” of all assumptions.” Dimapur | March 14 political right of homeland Nagas,” ceptable political solution for the I can’t go to school wearing Nagas to continue and “enable “Basing on the principle of it added. people of Nagaland.” an unbranded inner wear. future Naga generations to prog- Naga unity first and political soluIt further noted that the “GovIt appealed to the “Naga A woman succumbed to injury in hospital following a road colliress and achieve the vision of our tion second, which was and con- ernment of India has made its tribes transcending artificial sion at NH 29, Dimapur on March 14. The car the woman was reforefathers.” tinues to be the quest of ENPO position very clear on the po- boundaries” that “if the geo-po- portedly driving collided with an oncoming truck near the TL AnThe statement informed that since its formation, the East- litical hurdles and challenges litical conditions do not integrate gami Park, Traffic police said. As per the Traffic police, the car was the meeting was held “in order to ern Naga people’s Organisation on Naga integration at the mo- us physically at the present time, headed towards Dimapur. The woman, a lecturer of Kohima Scientrench the political right of the (ENPO) appreciated the forma- ment.” This, the statement ob- our unique customs, traditions, ence College, died a few hours later in hospital. A co-passenger, people of Nagaland amid confu- tion of the Working Group (WG) served, “also implies that there history and culture must be pro- said to be a student, survived the crash with injury to the hand, DIMAPUR, MARCH 14 sion arising out of gross political by NNPGs to defend the inherent has to be an honourable and ac- tected as they are inseparable.” Traffic police added. (MExN): The All State Services Associations held a coordination meeting on March14, wherein it informed that unless the State Government fulfils the demand for implementation Language is a major de- 5-6 months, covering an enof the 7th ROP, the associa- Morung Express Feature Vizoli Khamo (30) and terrent for young people like tire millets cycle, from sowtions would be compelled Chizami (Phek) | March 14 Kewekhrozo (Peter) ThoLele to become confident ing to reaping—their whole pi (28)—took a nearly to go for a pen/tool-down about their knowledge sys- community took part in the strike in the entire State with A 14-minutes documen- 3000km journey (by car, tems. Multimedia, she says, making and production of the exception of hospitals, tary film, ‘Millets—Securing train and plane) from their gave her thoughts body, and the film; Peter edited the educational institutions Lives’ (2015), from Chiza- home in Chizami to Zashe began to document var- film. It was first screened at and emergency duties. A mi village, Nagaland, has heerabad to receive their ious processes of her com- the Chizami village compress note from the Con- bagged the first prize at the award on February 13. The munity that had been previ- munity hall, followed federation of All Nagaland first ever National Commu- film was selected as the ously made no records of. by the Indigenous Terra State Services Employees’ nityMediaFestivalorganised best among 22 entries to Madre 2015 at Mawphlang, Association (CANSSEA) by the Community Media the Jai Chandiram MemoTransformation Meghalaya. The award in informed that the proposed Trust of Deccan Develop- rial First National CommuVizoli and Lele made 2017 came with a trophy, agitation would begin on ment Society (DDS), Telan- nity Media Film Festival. their first independent certificates and cash prize. “We were very nervous,” March 20, if the govern- gana, in February this year. ment fails to address their A community’s telling of the said Tshenyilou, who goes film—‘Timeless Beauty’— It is essential, notes Lele, demands by March 18. in 2015 on a handheld cam- for communities and our growing, picking, harvesting by the moniker Lele. This and promoting millets, the applied to two experiences Tshenyilo-u Chirhah, Vizoli Khamo and Peter Thopi receiving the first Jai Chandiram Memorial First era provided by NEN Na- youth to become acquainted film has been produced and she faced within a span of a National Community Media in Zahherabad, Telangana on February 13, 2017. (Photo courtesy NEN) galand. The film naturally with social media. Their films made by three young people month—first the flight from being translated by NEN’s communities in Participa- ‘handycam’ and operat- undercut capitalism—it are all available to watch Guwahati to Hyderabad Neitshope-u Thopi. Lele tory Video, organized one ed an Apple computer for compared natural sham- globally on YouTube. She has from the community. and then the award itself. hardly speaks any English such training along with the the first time. They spent a poos from forest based begun to share community This is a matter of great DIMAPUR, MARCH 14 The award, given by or Nagamese; she interacts NEN Nagaland, and North week recording each oth- products in her community knowledge and wisdom on pride for a community that (MExN): The Postal EmPawan Manvi, Founder fluently in her mother lan- East Slow Food & Agrobio- er first, and then learnt to with market based imported various platforms that have has been working hard ployee’s Union, Nagaland Division has informed that with its young and old, Principal of Ramoji Acad- guage Khezha, in which all diversity Society (NESFAS). weave a storyboard, shoot- products. It became a super opened up for her. Lele now hit at a community screen- works at NEN Nagaland, InsightShare’s work seeks to ing and editing. along with the rest of the women and men, alike to emy of Film and Television her films have been shot. Shy and reluctant, Lele engage and mobilize com“We shot our first film ing. 2015 rolled quickly. while continuing to weave country, the division will be bring back a shared crop- (RAFT), left her speechparticipating in the one day ping culture that has been less. Lele had dropped out shares her story, wary of munities for social trans- at Nokyan village in Tu- Kewekhrozo (Peter) Thopi and farm with her family, of school after class 10—a mistakes she may make. formation. NEN Nagaland ensang,” says Lele, as she and Tshetsholo Naro, who apart from making films. nationwide strike on March weakened over the years. “My life has been transprize for making a film on After class 10, she was sent asked women like Lele who swings her legs sitting on a were already teaching Eco One of the film makers, 16 called by the All India Central Government Em- 24-year-old Tshenyilo-u her community did not for a Diploma in Comput- had dropped out of school chair. The other two partici- Club classes at the NEN Re- formed. I am learning of ployees’ Union. The protest Chirhah, spoke to The Mo- feature as a future prospect. er Science to Kohima but but had much potential to pants from Noklak helped source Centre in Chizami, our community systems Born on August 13, that interested her naught. avail of the opportunity. in translations. “Their sys- taught the two women to but also of how much of this is in support of a 21 point rung Express, at the North In September 2014, tem of agriculture is almost edit on Adobe Primer. They work is done by women. I charter of demands, which East Network’s (NEN) Re- 1993, Lele is the fourth of her She wanted to come back includes revision of mini- source Centre at Chizami, parents’ five children. Pre- home, which she did, to Lele and Vizoli Khamo like ours but they don’t made eight 5-10 minutes want to buy my own cammum pay & fitment factor, on her journey to securing dominantly, she studied at weave with her expert travelled for two days to use bunds, and they have films in 2015, in Chizami, era some day and continue the Chizami Baptist Church weaver mother. Lele was Noklak, accompanied a different storage meth- about kitchen gardens, to document all such stono reduction in the rate of this award. run Eastern Mission High also acquainted with farm- by a NEN Nagaland staff od post harvest,” observes jhum cultivation, terrace ries through longer films,” allowances as per the 7 CPC School in Chizami village. ing activities in which she member, to participate in Lele while explaining how fields, etc. ‘Millets—Secur- hopes Lele, whose life itself recommendation, etc. All ‘We were very nervous’ has become a transformathe training given by Chris much she began to enjoy ing Lives’ was one of them. It was their first time on “Class 9 and 10 was the best helped her family. public transactions in post Lele, Peter and Vizoli tive message for the youth In 2014, InsightShare, Lunch. At the workshop, using the camera on suboffices across Nagaland will a plane. The three young part of my life,” she recalls, film makers—Chirhah, her conversation with us UK, an NGO that trains the two women held a Sony jects she understood well. shot the film together for of her communities. remain closed on this day.
car-truck collision, woman dies
State service associations warn of strike
3 filmmakers from Chizami win community media award
Postal strike on March 16
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