Churachandpur bamboo seminar begins

Ccpur, Sep 21 : The two-day seminar on “Commercial cultivation of bamboo” under the National Bamboo Mission organised by the forest development agency, Churachandpur started today from 9.30 am at the KKL complex.

The programme was inaugurated by Rupachandra, additional DC Churachandpur as chief guest and two resource persons, namely KS Tawmbing, MSF, DFC and PV Guite, MFS, ACF who imparted knowledge on management of bamboo as well as potentials and prospects of bamboo.
A large number of farmers from various places also attended the seminar. PV Guite while giving a lecture on bamboo plantation and its importance for places where we live, said that bamboo can be utilized for house construction and many other purposes and by taking ideas from people who have the know how it can be very helpful to raise the level of our living standard.

Management of the bamboos at various stages of its growth is very important, he said adding we are endowed with so many useful natural gifts and if we know how to utilise them we would be the luckiest.

KS Tawmbing highlighted the seven types of bamboo and their various stages of growth in which they need care and support.
He said bamboo can be planted for its shoots only and for the bamboo trunk itself.

They mature at three to four years and by then they have to be cut down. He also said during winter their roots should be exposed to the air and then cover it again so that they will produce more roots. The seminar will continue till tomorrow.

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Influx tops newly-elected KSU agenda

Shillong, Sep 21 : The issue of influx tops the priority list of the newly elected body of the Khasi Students’ Union (KSU). The elections of the executive body of the KSU was held in Shillong today. Samuel Jyrwa and Hamlet Dohling respectively retained the posts of president and general secretary . There are a couple of new faces in the executive body.

Speaking to newspersons today, Samuel Jyrwa said, “Our pursuance of influx will be further pronounced”, adding, “strong emphasis will be on the implementation of the multi-identity card system that has been approved by the State Cabinet”. On influx, Jyrwa said, “We will vigorously follow up this agenda because these illegal immigrants are not only a threat to the identity of the State but to the security of the people at large”.
“We will leave no stone unturned and along with the other student bodies in the region. We will take the issue with the right earnest,” stated the re-elected KSU president. Listing the opposition to the proposed uranium mining in West Khasi Hills as another focal point of the newly-elected executive body, Jyrwa said, “Our resolution is clear that under no circumstances, will we allow uranium mining in the State”.

The attributes related to their opposition to uranium mining is due to possible inflow of outsiders, environment degradation and health hazards. Other issues topping the agenda is on the education policy. Thrust will be based on a follow-up action to ensure the all-round well-being of the student community.

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Economic blockade was unfortunate: Arunachal Govt

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tanagar, Sep 21 : Economic blockade by Assam Sankhyalaghu Yuva Chatra Parishad(ASYCP) at Banderdewa on Thursday was unfortunate, said Arunachal Pradesh Government spokesman Tako Dabi.

Addressing a meeting here last evening, Dabi said the NH 52 blockade at Banderdewa was likely to effect ‘operation clean drive’ by various students’ unions in Itanagar and Naharlogun.
Operation clean drive was a routine duty of the administration to check inner line permits (ILP) which is mandatory for every Indian citizen to enter Arunachal Pradesh as per the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation 1873, he said.

Thousands of people under the banner of ASYCP blocked the national highway for about five hours in the morning on Thursday as a result of which traffic movement came to a grinding halt.

They were alleged of unnecessary harassment and injustice against a particular community and genuine ILP holders during the operation clean drive. Crowd also pelted stones and damaged vehicles when police resorted to lathi-charge over the agitating people to disperse them.

Later agitator’s withdrew blockade after Papum Pare Deputy commissioner Bidol Tayeng and Superintendent of police (SP) Hibu Tamang and SP Syed Ataur Karim of North Lakhimpur, Assam rushed to the spot and assured the agitators to look into their grievances.

Clarifying Government’s stand over ILP checking conducted by students’ union, Dabi, said no union was authorised to do that on behalf of the Papumpare district administration.

If anyone has been victimised complain should be lodged with the police and law will take its own course, he added. Denying allegations that the drive was against the Muslim community and that they faced atrocities before being driven out, the government spokesman clarified that only 103 people were detected during the operation clean drive including 77 Hindus, 23 Muslims and 3 Christians without ILPs and deported them on September 12.

The Government spokesman appealed to all the sections of people to exercise restraint and lend their full cooperation to maintain peace and communal harmony among different communities.

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