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Vol XXVII No. 10
DIMAPUR, monday, december 12, 2016 Pages 12 ` 4.00
Kangana reacts on charging 15 cr per film
Costa fires Chelsea past Baggies
Gentiloni appointed Italy’s PM
Infotainment, page 10
sports, Page 11
international, Page 9
Pres launches ‘100 mn for 100 mn’ campaign
NEW DELHI, DEC 11 (IANS): Joined by a host of Nobel laureates and world leaders at Rashtrapati Bhavan here, President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday launched “100 Million for 100 Million” campaign that strives to change the future of millions of children worldwide. Conceptualised by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, the campaign was flagged off by Mukherjee in the presence of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, Nobel laureates Tawakkol Karman and Leymah Gbowee, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and First Lady of Panama Lorena Castillo. “Despite the progress the world has made in science and technology, economic development and in other fields of human endeavour, there are still over a 100 million children who are out of school and are denied a childhood and facing exploitation in various ways,” President
Gov greets President on his 81st birthday D I M A P U R , D ec 1 1 (NPN): Nagaland Governor P.B. Acharya Sunday on behalf of the people of Nagaland and his wife greeted President Pranab Mukherjee on his 81st birthday. In his message, Acharya said that it was due to concern and reiteration of Pranab towards the Northeast, despite small population has made immense contribution to the nation and inspired the people to work hard. On this auspicious occasion, Governor said that the people of Nagaland vividly remember Pranab last visit to the state in 2013 and was eagerly waiting for his second visit. Governor further wished him long and healthy life so that he would continue to lead the nation to reach the great heights in the comity of the nations.
Corrigendum
DIMAPUR, DEC 11 (NPN): Apropos news item, “State govt ignores foothill road demand”, the statement should read as “the foot hills road trace cutting or formation cutting is nearing completion except the remaining portions of 3km at Nagninimora sector and another 5km at Niuland sector”. “To complete the remaining 8km of formation, NFHRCC is demanding Rs. 11.5 crores from the state government” and not as published.
Pranab Mukherjee flagging-off the campaign on Sunday.
Pranab Mukherjee said in his address. “Mankind must realise without any further delay that there can be no progress unless our children are safe and secure, unless they are provided freedom and the opportunity to become the agents of change,” he said. Lauding the campaign, Mukherjee hoped it will have a path-breaking impact on millions of children across the globe. “This global endeavour of mobilising 100 million youth and children is the beginning of change that was long overdue. It
DIMAPUR, DEC 11 (NPN): After it claimed to have highlighted mismanagament and lack of transparency in the department of Irrigation and Flood Control (I&FC) on the implementation of Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP), National Concerns Initiatives (NCI) on Sunday claimed to have dectected several non-existence minor irrigation (MI) projects in Wokha district. According to NCI convener Atiba Ao and Yanbemo Lotha (Lotha community representative of NCI) said an amount of Rs. 82, 02, 27, 200 was spent by the department, as per the data accessed by NCI in respect of 153 MI projects under AIBP in Wokha. The department had also remarked the MI projects as completed in the data that was submitted to the Ministry of Water Resources, NCI said.
for the crimes committed by them. On the recent spurt of violence, sources said the Centre is closely monitoring the situation and directed the forces to intensify operations to deal with the situation. Sources said that according to inputs available, most of the operations were carried out by members of the Khaplang faction of the NSCN and members of the ULFA (Independent) only helped them. “The ULFA (I) is now not in a position to launch major offensive on its own and that is why, it has been taking help of other outfits, particularly the NSCN (K). The leaders of the ULFA(I) are desperate to make the presence of the outfit felt,” sources added. Sources said the Songbijit faction of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) had sent feelers to Centre on several occasions expressing desire for talks. However, the government turned down their proposals and made it clear that the members of the outfit would have to face the consequences for killing innocent people.
However, most of the projects were “totally nonvisible”, said the convener. Similarly, during spot verification conducted by the department representatives on December 5, 2016, it was also found that most of the projects were “fraud”, the convener alleged. According to NCI convener, the department representatives were also left “red-faced” on witnessing non-implementation of the projects. Not only this, the village councils have also revealed on the non-existence of MI projects. NCI also alleged that the department in the RTI had failed to furnish the details of the projects undertaken during the financial year 2000-2007 (6 years), 2009-2010, 2010-2013 (3 years), Actual Payment Receipts (APR) and sanctioned order from the Government of India. T h e r e f o r e, N C I warned the department
that the Lotha youths, farmers and village councils would be taking stern action against all unattended fraud MI projects in the district. It asked the public of Wokha to analyse carefully and wisely the year, the file number and matchless amount as the name of the projects appears alike. Further, on the department’s claim that ongoing projects on 159 batch (2014-15) in the district would benefit 339 farmers, it asked “whether the farmers really benefited before the completion of the projects as mentioned in the list or simply entered for the sake of office data record (sincere conduct of public service) like the on-going AIBP corruption issue?” NCI, an NGO which was working for the welfare of the farmers in the state, also vowed to continue to highlight the irregularities to enlighten the public of their rights.
DIMAPUR, DEC 11 (NPN): Drawing attention to reports in the local dailies on the busting of alleged PDS rice scam in Dimapur involving names of two prominent stockists, secretary Food & Civil Supplies (F&CS) department Ramongo Lotha IAS, clarified that the allegations have not been brought to the notice of the government and which has to be based on some finding prima facie illegality. He said if found true, then there was no reason why government would not take action against such stockists but at the same time, people cannot be allowed to take the law into their own hands. Ramongo explained that government appoint stockists for procurement of foodgrains from FCI “in view of timely availability of funds as well as limitations of godown space.” In this regard, the secretary said the department was expected to lift the food grains within the stipulated time given by the FCI, failing which the allocation lapses. For this reason, he said stockists were appointed to implement National Food Security Act (NFSA). Coming in defence of state stockists, Ramongo
Helpline number ‘14444’ for digital payments support NEW DELHI, DEC 11 (PTI): After a TV channel and a website to promote digital payments, a nationwide toll-free helpline number ‘14444’ will be launched soon to educate people and provide support related to cashless mode of transactions. The service is expected to be operational within a week. “Government had sought Nasscom’s help in providing support on a mass scale to people. We had requested a single nationwide helpline should be set up which now assigned by the DoT which is 14444. We are putting call centre support at the back-end. It is fairly advance stage of operation,” IT body Nasscom president R Chandrashekar told PTI. “It is to help people at the first level to zero in on the option most suitable for them that depends on person whether he has feature phone or not, Aadhaar number or not, bank account so many combination need to be seen,” Chandrashekhar added.
said they have actually been assisting the department in keeping custody of the food grains which is regularly inspected by department officials. On December 9 (the day the raid was conducted), he said godown of the stockists was raided by a group of people and subsequently sealed by the police. The food grains stored in Dimapur godown were meant to be despatched to other districts/FPS which have no storage facilities and fed through Dimapur except Mokokchung, Mon and Tuensang which have the FCI Food Storage Depots (FSD). On the repackaging of food grains into plastic bags, Lotha clarified that the stockists had sought permission from F&CS to repackage the food grains, on the ground that gunny bags received from FCI used to be torn while “loading/unloading during transit resulting in spillage/wastage.” He said the matter was also flagged to the Centre during the meeting of the secretaries from NE states at Guwahati on October 3-4, 2016. In response, he said the union Food secretary informed that there were no provisions for making good
the losses, and so the department granted permission to carry out the repackaging in order to avoid wastage and to ensure that the PHH receive their allotted entitlements. He also said numerous complaints were received from consumers, as also published in the local media, that the full entitlements were not issued. While assuring that the department was committed to ensure transparency, Lotha said “it is expected that the complainants bring it to the notice of the department instead of taking law into their own hands and creating confusion and suspicion in the minds of the public.” Staff Reporter adds: Following the busting of the alleged PDS rice scam by a joint team of ACAUT and Concerned Citizens of Nagaland (CCN) on Friday, including filing of FIR by ACAUT at sub-urban police station, it was reported that a counter-FIR was lodged at the police station. When contacted, police sources said some unidentified person lodged a ‘criminal trespass’ case on the issue, but not directed against any particular organization.
Jaya’s demise: Shock death toll 470, says AIADMK NEW DELHI, DEC 11 (AGENCIES): AIADMK on Sunday said that a total of 470 people had died after the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa. The party said these people were unable to bear the death of Amma. AIADMK had on Saturday announced that Rs 3 lakh will be given in aid to the families of all deceased. On Saturday, they had released a list of 203 deceased persons, saying they died of “shock” over the demise of party supremo J Jayalalithaa on December 5,
taking the number of toll in this regard to 280. The deceased persons were from different parts of the state, including Chennai, Vellore, Tiruvallore, Tiruvannamalai, Cuddalore, Krishnagiri, Erode and Tirupur districts. The party condoled their death and announced a welfare fund of Rs 3 lakh each to families of the deceased. Earlier, the party had said that 77 persons had died of shock and grief following Jayalalithaa’s death and announced a similar sum as relief to the dead persons’ families.
One held with fake Rs. 2000 notes in Dimapur
Accused Satyajit Saikia Staff Reporter
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GUWAHATI, DEC 11 (AGENCIES): Concerned over the recent spurt of violence in the North Eastern region, the Centre has directed the security forces to intensify operations against the militants involved in such attacks. The Centre has also reiterated its stand that anyone indulging in violence would be dealt with strongly. “Gone are the days when the militants indulged in large scale violence and whenever operations were intensified against them, they opted for talks and the government accepted their proposals. Now the government has adopted a tough stand on the issue and there will be no talks with any outfit that indulges in killing of innocents. Only strong operations will be launched against such outfits,” highly placed sources in the Government of India told The Assam Tribune. Sources clarified that if any militant is willing to surrender and come back to the mainstream, he or she is welcome to do so. But such persons would not be pardoned and they would have to face the laws of the land
NCI detects anomalies in Wka MI projects
This is it!
“The FM is driving ideas into the PM’s mind. So you can bet more policies will be out soon”.
is only appropriate that the campaign begins from India which has the largest population of youth in world,” added Mukherjee. The campaign aims to bring together 100 million young people and educate them about their rights and the rights of thousands of other children, similar to them. The campaign also brought curtains to the two-day ‘Laureates and Leaders for Children Summit’ that brought together the collective leadership of around 25 Nobel laureates and leaders for creating a child-friendly world.
Ops against anti-talk F&CS deptt. clarifies on alleged scam outfits to be intensified
DIMAPUR, DEC 11 (NPN): Despite efforts to keep check on corruption and circulation of counterfeit notes by way of demonetizing the Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes and introducing the new Rs. 500 and Rs. 2000 notes, the entire process has not yielded results as new fake notes have already invaded the markets across the country.
The new fake currency notes have also penetrated into Dimapur, which was confirmed after Dimapur Police on Saturday arrested one person in possession of seven fake Rs. 2000 notes from Hong Kong Market area. Police said the accused, Satyajit Saikia from Tuliajan Assam, who reportedly came to Dimapur for shopping, was arrested while trying to use the fake currency notes at a shop in Hong Kong Market. Police has taken the accused into custody and efforts were on to establish the origin of the fake notes. Meanwhile, the Central government on Friday told Parliament that it has decided to print currency notes made of plastic to curb counterfeiting. In a written reply to a question filed in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Finance AR Meghwal said the central government has already initiated the process to
Rectangle with `2000 in raised print on right A colour-shifting security thread with the inscription Bharat (in Hindi), RBI and 2000. The colour changes from green to blue when note is tilted
HOW TO KNOW A FAKE NOTE Seven angular bleed lins in raised print
Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi with ‘RBI’ written on his spectacle which can be read using a magnifying glass
See through register which will show up number 2000 when note is held against light
Letent image of number 2000 can be seen when note is held at 45 degree angle
procure the materials necessary for printing such notes. Meghwal later said that it is easier to keep track of counterfeited currency made of plastic. Successive governments have discussed and tested the use of such notes, which are made of plastic based on a polymer
Wa t e r m a r k s o f Mahatma Gandhi and electrotype of numeral 2000
Numerals growing from small to big on top left and bottom right
substrate. In February 2014, the Congress-led UPA government told Parliament that one billion Rs 10 notes had been introduced in five cities – Bhubhaneshwar, Jaipur, Kochi, Mysore and Shimla – as part of a field trial. Plastic notes have an expected life span of five years. K Y M C