NORTH-EASTERN STATES

The Ministry of Development of the North Eastern Region (MDoNER), as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, is celebrating a week-long campaign called Nari Shakti of the North East, to recognize the exceptional achievements of Women and girls in North East India ahead of International Womens Day 2022.

The campaign was launched by Minister of Development of the North Eastern Region, G. Kishan Reddy.

During this Nari Shakti Week, a range of Social Media activities have been planned.

MDoNER will host a virtual Town Hall meeting where Minister Shri G. Kishan Reddy will interact with MDoNERs Women Workforce, the North Eastern Council, and other government of India departments.

Other social media campaigns will also be organized which would focus on the Ministrys efforts to transform the lives of Nari Shakti in the North Eastern Region.

The erstwhile Non-Lapsable Central Pool of Resources-State (NLCPR-State) Scheme was restructured as North East Special Development Scheme (NESISD) w.e.f. 15.12.2017.NESIDS is a central sector scheme, aimed to support filling up gaps of infrastructurein the Region in identified sectors like water supply, power, connectivity, tourism and social infrastructure in the areas of primary and secondary sectors of Education and Health.

During January to November 2022, total 54 projects of cost Rs. 952.94 crore have been sanctioned under NESIDS including 11 projects costing Rs. 89.93 crore inEducation; 20 projects of cost Rs. 221.27crore inHealth; 2 projects of cost Rs. 41.03 crore inPower; 16 projects of cost Rs. 508.44 crore inRoads & Bridges; and 5 projects of cost Rs. 92.28 crore inDrinking Water Supplysectors. Of these, 3 projects of 85.36 crores are completed. Further, Under Bodo Territorial Council (BTC) SDP 3 projects costing Rs 250 crore have been sanctioned during January to November 2022.

Prime MinisterNarendra Modi inaugurated and laid foundation stones of 22 development projects worth Rs 4,815 crore in poll-boundManipur.

The northeast, which had been long neglected by the previous government, joined the development race after 2014, and Manipur will become the main source of Indias Growth, the PM said. Amid total shutdown and boycott call by the proscribed Coordination Committee (CorCom), a conglomerate of rebel outfits of the state,Modiarrived at Imphal airport around 11 am on his whirlwind visit to the state and addressed a mammoth public meeting at Hatta Kangjeibung in Imphal East.

C ministerN BirenSingh said Manipurs future lies in the tourism sector, and so his government has been putting in every effort to bring in positive changes in the state.

Pointing out that the state is a treasure trove of unique scenic beauty, climatic conditions, culture and tradition,Birensaid the has started developing many tourist spots across the state.

Union Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Tuesday said the northeastern states will turn into an oil palm hub of the country with the central government’s major intervention with an outlay of Rs 11,040 crore for the next five years. Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) G Kishan Reddy urged investors and industrialists to invest in the northeastern region which has immense potential for the agricultural sector, especially palm oil.

In August, the approved the National Mission on Edible Oils-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) with a financial outlay of Rs 11,040 crore to promote the domestic cultivation of oil palm in the next five years and reduce the country’s dependence on edible oil imports.

Assam and Mizoram inked an agreement to keep their Police and forest guards away from the troubled inter-state border as the first tangible step towards easing tension in the area and maintaining continuity of talks to end their decades-old territory dispute.
As decided by the Union Home ministry, neutral forces will remain in charge of the disputed zone straddling the three Barak Valley districts of Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi, and Mamit and Kolasib in Mizoram.

The dialogue followed several telephonic discussions between Mizoram CM Zoramthanga and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma, both of whom subsequently declared their commitment to finding a solution that has eluded successive governments since the first round of talks in 1993.

Mizoramchief minister Zoramthanga reiterated that unification of all the Mizo inhabited areas into a single administration has been the political objective of the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) for more than 60 years.
Speaking to media persons on the demand for a separate administration by the Kuki-Zo people in strife-torn Manipur, which included the possible formation of Greater Mizoram, Zoramthanga said when the Late Laldenga formed the MNF on October 22, 1962, unification of all Mizo inhabited contiguous areas into a single administration was one of its ambitions. The Kuki-Zo leaders, including 10 tribal legislators of Manipur, during their meeting in Aizawl on May 17 resolved that a separate administration is the only solution for bringing peace while the possibility of joining a Greater Mizoram also featured in their discussions.

Though contiguous areas in Myanmar and Bangladesh, inhabited by the Mizo ethnic community, remain iredenta after the MNF came overground after signing a peace accord with the Indian government in 1986, unification of Mizo inhabited areas within India under one administrative unit is possible under the Indian Constitution

Meghalayahas turned into a major transit point for drug trafficking because of its close proximity to the Golden Triangle, a fact that has put authorities on very high alert, the director general of state Police,LR Bishnoi, has said. He added that the state has approximately 2.5 lakh users of drugs and psychotropic substances, including injectable drugs.

In the course of his address at a function to observe International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking at theU Soso Tham Auditorium(State Central Library) here on Saturday, the DGP made a detailed presentation on the prominent drug trafficking routes in the state and the modus operandi of traffickers.

Indian Medical Association (IMA)Mizoramstate branch attributed the lowrecovery rateofCovid-19infected people in Mizoram to thestate government’s refusal to change the Covid-19 discharge protocol. Mizoram’s recovery rate was 78.21% as against 96.80% in India.

IMA’s Mizoram state branch president Dr Rosangluaia said that the IMA, Mizoram state branch had repeatedly asked the to change the discharge protocol, but the government has stuck to its guns.

Another doctor said that the state government dared not change the discharge protocol due to pressure from the local-level task force who are helping the government machinery in combating the pandemic in their own respective areas.

The irony in Mizoram is that the state government, without consulting medical experts, used to make decisions on the pressure from outside agency.