NORTH-EASTERN STATES

Tripura Government has announced a particular scheme, ‘Mukhyamantri Chaa Srami Kalyan Prakalpa’ for tea workers.

Tripura Government has announced a particular scheme, ‘Mukhyamantri Chaa Srami Kalyan Prakalpa’ for tea workers.

A unique scheme, allotting Rs. Eighty-five crores for its implementation, as a step towards bringing the 7000 tea garden workers of Tripura under the Social Security net.

This scheme would ensure housing, rations, and support to the garden workers by integrating the facilities entitled to them by the state and central governments.

Women are over 75 percent of the 7000 tea garden employees, who produce nearly 90 lakh kilos of tea across 54 tea estates and 21 tea processing companies.

The North, Sepahijala, Unakoti, and West Tripura districts produce the majority of the tea.

The year 2022 Women Empowerment Campaign was launched by Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah.

Chief Minister launched the Shramik Kalyan Prakalp scheme for the ladies of Tripura on the occasion of International Women’s Day & has also laid the foundation stone for the National Forensic Sciences University in Agartala, capital of Tripura.

North India’s first Nuclear Plant is coming up in Haryana in the town of Gorakhpur, which is about 150 km north of the national capital of New Delhi.

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said that during Prime Minister Narendra Modis regime, one of the major achievements would be the installation of Nuclear/ Atomic Energy Plants in other parts of the country, which were earlier confined mostly to the South Indian States like Nadu and Andhra Pradesh or in the west in Maharashtra.

The Minister said that the Department of Atomic Energy, GoI has also been given permission for forming joint ventures with PSUs for Resources to opening up of atomic energy plants, which is an upcoming and promising sector, having potential to fulfill Indias all energy needs in times to come.

Chief minister Conrad KSangma said every year, 50,000 youths were expected to join the workforce inMeghalaya, posing a challenge to the government.

We expect that 50,000 youths will join the workforce every year, which means that we need to create 50,000 new jobs every year. It is a huge challenge for the government. Realising this challenge and the Growth in youth Population, the has embarked on various ways of creating livelihood opportunities in different sectors, Sangma said, after laying the foundation for the construction of a Dairy complex at Mukhla village inWest Jaintia Hillsdistrict.

Security experts believe a resurgence in militant attacks, which have rocked India’s northeast in recent months, have come about as militants work to regroup in China’s borderlands with Myanmar, and expect more to follow even as to Manipur and peace talks in Nagaland are held. Naga splinter groups impatient with stalled talks as well as rebel Manipuri groups who have a stake in disrupting upcoming elections to the state assembly, are believed to be regrouping in the borderlands of China’s Yunnan province and Myanmar, taking advantage of the turmoil in the latter by using it as a transit corridor.

Groups such as the United Liberation Front of Assam (I), People’s Liberation Army of Manipur and splinter factions of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (K) who are against peace talks, are believed to be regrouping in the borderland.

Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Industries Narayan Rane said that budgetary allocations for the North East region under his department have been increased by Rs 8,000 crore for the current fiscal year. In the 2021-22 Financial Year, total budgetary allocation for the North East was Rs 68,000 crore. In the current fiscal year, the budget has been increased to Rs 76,000 crore. Several states like Assam and have performed very well in the last couple of years and I feel Tripura will also do good in the days to come, the Union Minister told a press conference followed by regional conference on Sustainable Development goals for MSMEs in North East.

In the 2021-22 Financial Year, total budgetary allocation for the North East was Rs 68,000 crore. In the current fiscal year, the budget has been increased to Rs 76,000 crore. Several states like Assam and Sikkim have performed very well in the last couple of years and I feel Tripura will also do good in the days to come, the Union Minister told a press conference followed by regional conference on Sustainable Development Goals for MSMEs in North East.

The special session is tentatively scheduled for December 20 and the Governor of Assam and Nagaland Jagdish Mukhi will formally summon it, Minister for Planning & Coordination, Land Revenue and Parliamentary Affairs, Neiba Kronu told. The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, gives the Army powers of arrest and detention in ‘disturbed areas’. He said that the decision was taken during a meeting of the Core Committee on Naga Political Issue of the held here during the day.

TenManipurifilms would be screened in the coming International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa, and countrys biggest film event from November 21 to 28.
Out of the ten, five are feature films and five are non-feature films, a statement issued by theManipurState Film Development Society (MFSDS) on Wednesday said, adding that the films would be screened under the Special Golden Jubilee Cinema package.

Meanwhile, MFSDS has selected and sponsored three film personalities of the state for attending the festival as Manipur delegates.

The three are film critics are Ashangbam Netrajit, film journalist of Poknapham , a Manipuri vernacular daily, Boney Thongamcha and former Film Forum Manipur (FFM) chairman and actorS Mangoljao Singh.

Mairang civil sub-division will now be called as Eastern West Khasi Hills district.

It will be inaugurated on November 10, 2021.

This move will help in ensuring that administration will remain closer to the people. It will also ensure that implementation of several schemes is more effective.

Khasi Hills is a low mountain formation, located in the Shillong Plateau of Meghalaya. These hills are part of the Garo-Khasi-Jaintia range. They connect with the Purvanchal Range as well as larger Patkai Range towards further east. Khasi Hills are located in the Meghalaya subtropical forests ecoregion. Before 1970, Khasi Hills and entire Meghalaya state was part of Assam, administratively.