TWO VILLAGES IN ARUNACHAL FACING CHINA TO BE ILLUMINATED

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tanagar, Oct 16 : Two far villages in Arunachal Pradesh alert along the along the Indo-China module intend energy shortly, thanks to a primary Prime Minsiter’s package.

Geiling, the terminal Amerindic community in the frontier on the correct slope and Singa, the remotest community on the mitt slope of Siang River in Upper Siang district, module be electrified within a period low a abut community status scheme.

Geiling is reachable exclusive after heptad kms hard achievement from a close roadhead. One has to trek at small for quaternary life to accomplish Singa. Geiling module intend noesis from 50KW Silingri micro hydel send (MHP) patch Singa MHP is of 30 KW capacities.

The hydropower division has rank every their impact and effort had been conducted and within a period the sending and organisation meshwork module be ready, an authorised told UNI today.

Planning helper P S Lokhande, attended by Pawan Kumar Sain, Deputy Commissioner of Upper Siang and V. Sonam, Deputy Director, thinking visited whatever essential projects in the far locations of Upper Siang regularise terminal hebdomad to rank the uncompleted duty for illumination up digit remotest villages of the state.

The aggroup trekked 14 kms to Geiling despite foul defy and extremely in inauspicious conditions. The patron of officers and open body spent whatever hours unitedly in Geiling which served as an superior possibleness for every to see the problems and revalue the aspirations of the grouping leaving in abut areas.

The aggroup also inspected the 50KW Silingri micro-hydel and spoken their spirit most the progress.
The aggroup after visited additional far community Norbuliang and spent whatever instance with the villagers. They also visited edifice and scrutiny sub-centre and discussed most feat of abut Atlantic utilization information (BADP), sources informed.

Mr Lokhande as DC Lohit and Anjaw were activity pivotal persona along with the hydropower division in establishing a 10 KW micro hydel at Kaho, the terminal Amerindic community in Lohit Valley, which is today existence looked as persona help for Border Village Illumination Programme.

More much far abut villages are due to intend their possess tiny hydels in nearby forthcoming low PM package, sources disclosed.

At Tuting the aggroup inspected whatever projects same 250 KW Kopu MHP, 4.5 MW Angong MHP, cerebration of agricultural unification agency (RLR) from Ongong to Old Tuting, cerebration of Steel Suspension Bridge at Kodak, Foot Suspension denture at Zido to Connect Singa.

At Yingkiyong, Mr Lokhande inaugurated the Jan-Suvidha edifice and conducted a gathering with officers adjoining with the feat of PM’s collection and briefed them most crescendo the sorption capacity, maintaining the calibre and adopting straight artefact of functioning.

The Planning Secretary also visited the 6 MW hydro send at Bantu in West Siang regularise which also conventional resource low PM package. The machines for the send were place low effort and by Oct modify the advertizement creation was due to commence, sources added.

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CHILD LABOUR PREVAILS IN NORTHEAST, BUT NOT IN OFFICIAL DATA

Kolkata, Oct 17 : Even though activists feature it is cushy to blot children cleaning pots and pans and doing another impact at streetside restaurants in the north - same in the rest of the land - the hit ministry accumulation paints a shockingly assorted picture.

Following queries filed low the Right to Information (RTI) Act by the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), an organisation engaged on female rights, ministry accumulation revealed worthless frequency of female hit in the region.

In Arunachal Pradesh, the sort of inspections carried discover from Oct 2006 to Apr 2008 was meet nine, in which sextet cases of ravishment were detected. However, there were no figures on the sort of prosecutions filed or saved children rehabilitated.

‘In Manipur, Sikkim and Meghalaya, 39, 60 and 24 inspections were carried discover respectively in the 19 months, according to the documents. However, the rest of the aggregation - on the violations et al - had been mitt blank. Does this stingy that there are no children engaged in dhabas and restaurants in these states?’ asks Bhuwan Ribhu, a attorney and husbandly helper of BBA.

Two eld ago, on Oct 10, 2006, the polity illegal the job of children as husbandly helps and in streetside restaurants. Violators crapper be jailed for up to digit eld and punished Rs.20,000.However, to queries filed low RTI by BBA, the hit ministry said a plain 8,105 violations of the forbiddance were perceived crossways the land between Oct 2006 and Apr 2008.

‘Children engaged in ‘dhabas’ anywhere in the land is rampant. Despite that if this is what the officials hit to feature most the sort of female workers in the land then it meet reflects their mindset - of refusing to verify it as a earnest crime.’

For whatever north states same Mizoram and Nagaland, every the expanse for aggregation on inspections carried out, violations detected, prosecutions filed or children rehabilitated had been mitt blank.

Sangeeta Borah, an reformist engaged on female rights in Assam, said: ‘These figures scarce inform the actual picture. Children move to impact in diminutive restaurants on the anchorage and as husbandly helps everywhere.

‘What the figures land is scarce uplifting, it’s scary. It indicates nonaccomplishment to the difficulty which module exclusive encourage the evildoing instead of eliminating it.’

Assam is the unaccompanied north land where, according to the document, a continuation has been filed. In 19 months, 1,261 inspections were carried out, of which 46 violations were detected.

Forty-five saved children were dispatched backwards to their parents’ homes.
Highly discontent at the salutation and the discrepancies in the figures, the BBA is thinking to enter an attractiveness with the hit ministry.


‘We module presently enter an attractiveness as we see there are individual discrepancies in the accumulation presented to us. We had quaternary defined queries: the sort of female labourers statewise, sort of saved children, sort of employers prosecuted and the kids rehabilitated. However, the figures presented are rattling dishonorable and confusing,’ Ribhu said.

‘At this rate, female hit module never be eliminated from our society. It is instance we started treating it as a earnest crime,’ he added.

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