Nagaland‘s Konyak tribe has sought access to investigation reports by the ‘s SIT and theArmy‘s court of inquiry on the December 4 massacre of 13 tribesmen from Oting village in a botched counter-insurgency operation.
The union said if authorities fail to meet their demands, Konyaks will boycott all national events within its customary jurisdiction.
The Konyaks are the majority group of Mon. It said the tribe’s “non-cooperation” against the military will continue until Justice is done.
On a tour of the northeastern region, Union Home ministerAmit Shah said Congress coined the look east policy but failed to deliver, while in contrast, the BJP government implemented its Act East policy, paving the way for peace and development in the once-disturbed region.
After laying the foundation of nine schemes worth Rs 1060 crore and inaugurating 12 projects worth Rs 300 crore, Shah said: This is the difference between Congress and BJP. In the last eight years, the Modi government has spent Rs 3.45 lakh crore for northeastern India, which is equal to what had been spent for the region in the 25 years before it.
Shah said Manipur has marched forward without any bandhs and blockades and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) has been lifted in six districts of the state.
The first tea museum in thenortheastregion will come up in the “Tea City of India“,Dibrugarh, and will be officially opened to public in early 2023, saidRituparna Baruah,Assamtourism development corporation limited (AITDC) chairman.
The proposal for constructing a tea museum in Dibrugarh was approved by the state tourism department in 2016 and work on the ambitious project began in early 2017. For the second phase of the project an amount of Rs 40 crore has been approved by the NEC on a priority basis, Baruah said.
In the second phase, an auditorium, model tea garden and tea factory will be constructed inside the museum complex, which is spread over 2.66 acres of land, Baruah said.
Nine years of seva, sushasan and garib kalyan under theNarendra Modigovernment at the Centre was dedicated to bring about inclusive, progressive, and in the northeast, includingMeghalaya, governorPhagu Chauhanhas opined.
The three words seva, sushasan and Garib Kalyan define the journey of the nine years of the Narendra Modi government, said the governor in the course of his address at a vartalap or interactive media workshop organised by the Press Information Bureau here on Friday to mark the completion of nine years of Modis government.
Maintaining that the northeast has witnessed an unprecedented pace of progress from infrastructural development to enhanced connectivity, he lauded the Meghalaya government for taking forward the PMs vision of a developed nation in all spheres.
The Union Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) in collaboration with NESAC has developed a project monitoring mobile application. The official said that till December 7, 145 projects costing around Rs 3,393 crore have been sanctioned in various sectors under the North East Special Development Scheme (NESIDS). The North East Cane and Bamboo Development Council (NECBDC) has sanctioned 14 projects worth Rs 90.86 crore in the Bamboo Sector during 2015-16 to 2021-22.
The NECBDC projects include, setting up of Cane and Bamboo Technology Park at Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh; promotion of bamboo handicrafts, jewellery and utility products in Poma village, Papum Pare District, Arunachal Pradesh; setting up of bamboo crushing units in NER for production of bamboo powder in Assam; establishment of integrated agarbatti cluster with Zero Wastages Concept in Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya and Mizoram; and bamboo resource creation through plantation in Assam, Manipur and Meghalaya. The NESAC was established in 2000 as a joint initiative of the Department of Space and the Shillong based North Eastern Council (NEC).
Nagaland has created a 3 new districts, Niuland, Tseminyu and Chumukedima.
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Tseminyu, Niuland, and Chumoukedima are the three new districts proclaimed by the Nagaland government.
This comes less than a year after the state’s 12th district, Noklak, was established. Nagaland will now have 15 districts after the addition of the three new districts.
Niuland and Chumukedima have been formed out of Dimapur district, while the Tseminyu sub-division in Kohima district has been promoted to a district.
Despite requests for new districts from at least 11 tribes, the Cabinet could only consider three of them because some districts are Home to only one tribe and cannot be separated.
The festival has become an annual affair since its first festival in 2015 with the peak Migration period of Amur falcon and best season for undertaking outdoor activities with an objective to address alternative and sustainable livelihood opportunities for the community though eco-tourism.
The Amur falcon (Falco amurensis) is the world’s longest travelling small raptors of the falcon family. Amur falcons migrate to their wintering grounds in South Africa, usually arriving in large numbers during October in Nagaland and Manipur besides other places in NE undertaking a yearly journey of about 20,000 km. They leave the region in November after having enough food for their non-stop flight to Africa where they spend their winters. The radio-tagging programme of Amur falcons started in Manipur in 2018 as part of an initiative to conserve wildlife and also to study the route of these long-distance migratory birds and the environmental patterns along the route as India is a signatory to an international agreement on conservation of migratory birds of prey.
Indian government and Asian (ADB) signed a loan agreement of $61 million in order to improve liveability, promote new developments and harness technology.
The loan agreement will help in accommodating the expanding Population in Agartala city.
It will also build capacity of state agencies for improved service delivery.
Loan agreement between India and ADB was signed for Agartala City After Urban Development Project. This project is aligned with the vision of Centres Smart City Mission for upgrade urban Infrastructure Services. It will improve liveability in Agartala by providing better road connectivity, flood resilient measures as well as by making tourist places more attractive. ADB seeks to catalyse synergies with components of smart city which are being implemented in Agartala by means of this project. Components of the scheme include:
1. Shifting of electrical lines,
2. Improving road geometry,
3. Incorporating elderly, children, Women, & differently abled responsive features
4. Urban design interventions.
He also flagged off vehicles carrying quality seeds for distribution to villagers of different districts of the state affected by destruction of poppy plantations due to the governments War on Drugs campaign.
The seeds are being provided to villagers under the Alternative Seed Distribution Scheme of Manipur and Soil conservation (HSC) department.