No starvation deaths in Mizoram: Disaster Mgmt Secy

Aizawl, May 23 : There has been no starvation death in Mizoram even though the state is reeling under the grip of famine caused by ‘Mautam’ or gregarious bamboo flowering since last year, state Disaster Management Secretary K Riachho said here on Thursday.

Refuting some newspaper reports which said that 29 people died due to starvation in South Mizoram’s Saiha district, Riachho said that there has been no starvation-related death in the state.

“There is no starvation death, and there will be no starvation death,” he said adding the social structure and traditional values of the Mizos will never allow anyone to die even on the face of famine.

He opined that the reports of starvation deaths must be misunderstanding on the part of the national media.

A number of children died due to meningitis during the last part of 2007 and first part of this year in and around Zangling village in Saiha district, he said, adding some section of the media might have wrong impression on the deaths.

State Health Department officials also said that 38 children who died recently in Saiha district were not due to starvation but meningitis.

Agencies

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Congress misused power at CADC: MNF

Aizawl, May 23 : The Mizoram National Front today accused the three-month-old ruling Congress at the Chakma Autonomous District Council (CADC) in south Mizoram of misusing power and violating rules and regulations of the council.

The Congress-led CADC has allegedly dissolved a number of village councils and defied a Gauhati High Court’s stay order to the dissolution order, a statement of Kamalanagar’s MNF stated.

A contempt of court case is in the offing, it added. The MNF also alleged that the council has also terminated 25 muster roll workers and appointed 30 new employees on the basis of ‘favouritism’ and ‘nepotism’.

“These newly appointed workers are engaged in the private houses and gardens of the Congress MDCs,” a party statement said. Another 80 pro-Congress workers have been appointed as middle and primary schools without advertisements and interviews, it stated.

They also alleged that the CADC appointed advisors to CEM, president, district school education board chairman and town committee with high salaries and facilities, which even surpassed the expenditure on the advisors to the chief minister.

The CADC executive committee had also allegedly transfered teachers en mass resulting in mismanagement of official procedure thus causing problem to the students. The statement pointed out that the delegates of the MNF party from the Chakma district have met the state governor and submitted a memorandum demanding immediate suspension of the present executive committee of the CADC.

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