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Inspiring story from North East India: IAS officer making 100KM road

November 4, 2012 By 1 Comment

Armstrong Pame is first IAS ( Indian Administrative Officer) from his Zeme tribe of Tamenglong district in Manipur where he serves as sub-divisional magistrate. He is making a 100KM road now christened Tamenglong-Haflong Road from his home district to Assam which will connect three states, Manipur, Nagaland and Assam. He is constructing the road without any government help.

As per news, government had sanctioned Rs. 101 crore way back in 1982 for the construction of the same road. No news about the money so far, but the road was not constructed and people from villages in Tousem used to walk 60KM for 25KGs of ration which took them about four days. And the ration of 25KGs lasted for about 10 days.
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North East People harassed in Delhi during Chinese President’s India visit

March 29, 2012 By 2 Comments

With heightened security arrangement in New Delhi for BRIC ( Brazil, Russia India and China) summit being held in New Delhi, people from North East India are getting harassed by Delhi Police because of their facial similarity with Tibetans.

Delhi Police is trying to prevent Tibetans from protesting in front of visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao. So, most probably, in order to please visiting Chinese President, citizens from North East India are getting harassed.
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What should be in union Budget for North East India

March 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Indian Union budget would be presented in this week. We had recently asked what Union Government should provide in the budget for North East India, we got response for from many people who majorly opined Infrastructure development to be top priority.

While, not many participated in the Twitter interaction, but the few who replied put forward well thought out responses. Few of the suggestions are as follows :-

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Tibet and North East India: Political pawn between India and China

March 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

On 10th March 1959, Tibetan revolted against Chinese rule in Lhasa. After that, on 12 March 1959, Tibetans marched in Lhasa ( Capital of Tibet) declaring independence of Tibet from Chinese rule. Since then, many Tibetans observe 10th March as Tibetan Uprising Day. Predictably, China could contain the uprising by 1962, but Dalai Lama could flee to India and was hosted by Indian government since then.

This also marked a sharp changes in relation between Tibet and India, specially in Tawang which is inside Indian territory as per McMohan line, border between India and China. Buddhists Monastery in Tawang used to pay tribute to Lhasa before 1959 and it showed black flag to Indian Political officer’s visit to Tawang in 1953.
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Anandaram Dhekial Phookan College releases books on human rights and gender issues in New Delhi

November 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Anandaram Dhekial Phookan College releases books on human rights and gender issues in New Delhi
November 27, 2011 Anandaram Dhekial Phookan College, Nagaon, Assam has organized a book release program in association with The Tribal Reporter(www.thetribalreporter.com)

Kuldeep Nayar Delivering keynote address on Human Rights


Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi today. The books are on the issues of human rights and condition of women titled “Insurgency, Counter Insurgency and the issues of Human Rights” and “Women Issues and Perspectives”, edited by Arindam Borkataki and Neeta Sharma respectively and published by Dr.S.U.Ahmed on behalf of the college.
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Benefits of Government Jobs in India

November 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

job searchYoung Indians are seeking Government jobs more frequently now than a few decades ago. The main reason seems to be that most of the applicants are from poorer economical backgrounds and are seeking stability and security, rather than risky, high financial gains. It is a well known fact that no matter what the economical climate, government jobs are the safest and the threat of losing one’s employment is minimal and will not be through economical crisis if this should happen. As the country is developing, so is the salary structure scale being reviewed for Indian Government Job Search. The amount of Indian Government Jobs is also continually increasing due to many factors such as foreign investment, increased infrastructures and public health requirements.
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Manipur Blockade : Few observation

June 15, 2010 By 1 Comment

For the first time in independent India, a blockade as well as a crisis in North East India ( Manipur) were highlighted in Indian national media and ‘uncomfortable’ questions like ‘would such blockade would have been allowed to go on for 65 days’, ‘are people of North East India are second class citizen’ etc. were asked in national TV talks shows!

There has also been attempt by many people in North East ( specially many Meitei netizens) who tried to create a trending in social media Twitter.com to make people outside North East India aware of this blockade which has caused immense sufferings to common people in Imphal, capital city of Manipur.

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