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NORTH EAST NEWS BULLETIN                                                                    DATE:31.01.2012

HEADLINES

1. Union Health Minister launches free institutionalized delivery scheme in Assam
2. Meghalaya government is working on strategy to deal with Garo militants says Chief Secretary
3. Nagaland Chief Minister says ‘Look East Policy’ should not fly over Northeast
4. Loaded trucks to ply on Shillong by-pass from mid-February says Meghalaya PWD Minister
5. Manipur Election Authority announces ex gratia payment for poll officials killed in militant attack
6. Arunachal Pradesh’s Buddhist learning center becomes a full-fledged central institute

NEWS IN ORDER

HEALTH:

Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad yesterday launched the Janani Sishu Suraksha Karyakram in Assam that will ensure free institutionalized delivery for all pregnant women in government hospitals. Launching the scheme, Mr Azad, said this initiative will enable pregnant women in rural areas to reach hospitals on time and have a hassle-free delivery, whether Caesarean section or normal. The scheme, under the National Rural Health Mission, entitles all pregnant women delivering in public health institutions to absolutely free and no expense delivery, including Caesarean section. Stressing that the scheme will help the rural health scenario Mr Azad said, the NRHM is part of the UPA government’s focus on rural areas. The Union Minister said the UPA government has set three goals for rural areas on priority basis – road connectivity, schools and health-care. Along with the JSSK, mobile health units at sub-divisional level in 23 districts of the state were also launched by the Union minister.

GNLA:

Meghalaya Chief Secretary W M S Pariat yesterday said the government is working on a strategy to deal with the GNLA and it will also be taking a re-look at the deployment of security forces in Garo Hills. The government’s move came in the wake of GNLA’s demand to withdraw security forces from Garo Hills from carrying out anti-insurgency operations against them. Stating that the government was not thinking of deploying the Army in Garo Hills at the moment, Mr. Pariat said, it would be dealt with the existing forces. Special Weapons And Tactics team of the state police and the Combat Battalion for Resolute  Action (CoBRA) of the CrPF are on operation to secure release of two power department engineers abducted by the GNLA last week.

DEVELOPMENT:

Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio yesterday said the country’s ‘Look East’ policy to bridge the Northeast region with Southeast Asian nations would not succeed if the region and the sentiments of its people were overlooked.   Speaking at an international conference on Myanmar, Mr Rio said the region on both sides of the border was volatile and infested with insurgencies that have the potential to impact the rest of the countries in the Southeast Asia.   The chief minister called upon the governments of the two countries to collectively address the issues affecting peace in the region. Stating that if the Northeast is to be used as be used as a corridor for international trade and cooperation, Mr Rio said it is imperative to bring about political stability into the region. The chief minister said political stability cannot be achieved if policies like the ”Look East” simply fly over the region without any beneficial impact on the local population. Mr Rio also urged the External Affairs ministry and the Ministry of Trade and Commerce of both the countries to operationalise the third border trade point at Avangkhu which falls in Nagaland and Pansat-Somra in Myanmar.

BYPASS:

Meghalaya government has announced that loaded trucks will be re-routed through the newly constructed Shillong By-Pass road by mid February. State PWD Minister H D R Lyngdoh said that the by-pass is ready and it is hoped that all loaded trucks will be able to ply through it by mid-February. The minister made the announcement a site-inspection. Constructed at a cost of 220 crore rupees, the  47 km long Shillong by-pass originates from NH-40 at Lad Umroi in Ri Bhoi district and ends at NH-44 at Mawryngkneng in East Khasi Hills district. According to the minister, the bye-pass will also shorten the distance between the two ends by about 10 km.

EX-GRATIA:

The Manipur Election authority has decided to give an ex gratia payment of 10 lakhs rupees each to all the four officials, who were killed in attack by suspected NSCN(IM) militants at Chandel district on January 28 state assembly election.   Four poll officials were killed in the attack at the polling station at Chandel. The deceased poll official was identified as Presiding Officer, Khumukcham Ibotombi of Kakching village, and the three polling personnel were identified as Kshetrimayum Premjit, Adim Rongmei and S Rakesh. A CRPF jawan and a woman also died in that attack.

BUDDHISIM :

The Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies-the fourth Buddhist centre of learning in India at Dahang in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh – is a full-fledged central institute now according to its founder Rev Tsona Gontse Rinpoche. The Buddhist centre of learning, conceived by Rev Renpoche in 2000, had received the nod of the Union Cabinet on May 26, 2010 with a project cost amounting to 9 crore rupees and recurring annual cost of 12.86 lakh rupees. Rev Rinpoche said that the institute began with only a Central Government grant of mere 97 lakh rupees and has grown to be a good institute to fill the vacuum in imparting education on Buddhism.

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