Evening daily Times Regd.No. MANENG /2013/51092 Volume 7, Issue 201, Friday, February 21, 2020 Maliyapham Palcha kumsing 3418 Rs. 2/- MACR appreciates government but not happy over Nazamia Education delay in approving Draft State Child Policy, 2017 Group announces IT News civil unrest situation, bandh treatment of children living with specific local issues Hon’ble legislators of scholarship for higher Imphal, Feb 21 and blockades, strikes, with HIV/AIDS , issues of having distinct geo- Legislative agitations, apart from a school drop outs, mismatch in specific characters and Assembly, to debate and Manipur Alliance for Child perennial armed conflict the enrolment ratio of unique political discuss on the issue of State studies Rights earnestly appreciates situation, affecting right to students ( almost 70% in environment. Child Policy to make it IT News Universities under this the recent decision of the education and right to life of private schools and 30% in For example the National approve at the earliest. Imphal, Feb 21 Education Group across . state government for setting children at the most, MACR Govt. schools), unseen child ICPS guidelines for setting Lack of a Manipur oriented And the scholarship test up of two Fast Tract Courts strongly felt that a conflict labors population, up of VLCPCs is based on State Plan of Action for The Nazamia Education Group would be conducted twice for trial of POCSO Cases. sensitive and Comprehensive unreported incidents of child Panchayat raj system of prevention, rescue, will be conducting a according to the choices of However, the State is yet to State Child Policy could be the marriages cases etc.. India, and it does not re habilitation of Child scholarship test for the north streams of students.. approve a very crucial Policy best solution to resolve the Although the State is explicitly mention about the trafficking remains as a big east students excluding She further said that the document, i.e. the Draft State existing gaps and challenges implementing bundles of role and responsibilities of intervention gap in students of Tripura and Nazamia Group would provide Child Policy, 2017 for dealing and address the child rights Child welfare Schemes, major Village Authority and the combating the serious Arunachal Pradesh on 19th fees and hostel fees in the form all the child rights issue in a issues significantly. challenges faced in the field, Autonomous District menace. April of this year for those of scholarship for those 500 holistic manner, which Population of Children of are the immense Councils ( local authorities) Further, Anganwadi Centres students who wants for selected students in getting remains stuck for the last three Manipur comprises a 38 incompatibility of National operational in the hill areas under ICDS do not supply graduate and post-graduate in admission. years. percent of the total population Flagship Schemes and of Manipur. Similar problem locally suitable nutritional the College and Universities She continued that next 1500 The draft policy was of the State, our children are is programmes which lacks is happened in the case of foods to the Children, as a of India. and 3000 selected sutdents in submitted to State still facing crucial issues, to confl ict sensibility, formation of School result children of the state Speaking about the process of the scholarship would be Government. by the Manipur mention a few; uncontrollable adaptability in socio- Management Committee specially in hills, by and large the scholarship , the CEO of given laptops and capitals and Commission for Protection of child trafficking, escalating cultural, administrative (SMC) setup under Rights unwilling to take the supplied Nazamia Education Group its branch office for Manipur Child Rights (MCPCR) in the child sexual assault cases, setups specially in tribal of Children to Free and ready to east food at Diana Kongkham said that is at Singjamei Chingamakha year 2017 after a rigorous deteriorating child substance areas across different Compulsory Education Act. Anganwadi centres. These those top 500 selected Meisnam Leikaiand she added rectification process, abuse phenomenon, issues of geographical terrains. Our Therefore, MACR draws the foods should be suitable students in the scholarship that a student is being charged involving key line lack of rehabilitation, child rights issues are immediate attention of the with local or tribal’s’ food would be getting opportunity Rs.500 for the registration as departments, academicians, shortcomings on care and caused by and manifested State Government and all the habit and culture. to get admission for free in the well as form price . media, intellectuals, judiciaries and inputs from NCPCR. The Policy mandated to embark upon for Prices of Chinese goods shot up due to slump in supplies synergizing all line departments , conversance of By Raju Vernekar is also The prices of TV, washing personally in September last ships entering JNPT are being revenue earning for most various child related Mumbai, Feb 21 anticipated. India receives 3% machines and AC are also year. It usually takes 20 to 25 screened by the port health freight and cargo carriers”. programmes and schemes, to of the total exports by Chinese likely to be shot up due to days for the shipment to officer (PHO). A thermal The World Health ensure an enabling child Due to slump in stocks, companies. Apart from spare probable shortage of spares. arrive at Jawaharlal Nehru scanner has been installed Organisation (WHO) has not friendly environment to following stoppage of parts of electric items, China “There has been an acute Port Trust (JNPT) after being and screening reports are yet found any case of the promote and protect child shipments from China, supplies over 90 per cent of shortage of spare parts for loaded on a ship in China. being sent to the union disease being communicated rights effectively in Manipur. because of the outbreak of the decorative light strings, lamps, many electric equipment as The stock I have will last for government. Some cargo through a non-living object The Chief Minister N. Biren novel Coronavirus (COVID- and other such electric items China has shut down factories a few more weeks,” His work vessels, especially such as containers or electric Singh , gave his assurance to 19), the prices of fancy electric and since the production has and other units in more than involves visiting China’s containers, originating from or other items that are being adopt the state child policy lights have shot up to five per stopped, the hoarding of such a 1,000 km radius of Wuhan Yiuw market, known as the China and crossing Malaysia, impor ted from the soon in the state on the 29 th cent and if the situation products is on the rise. province. This has led to a world’s largest small Singapore and Colombo have neighbouring country. Even September 2017, in a similar continues, the hike of 15 to 20 The Bhagirath Palace blockade of import of such commodity wholesale market, rescheduled their calls to doctors here too have hint. Honorable Governor per cent in Chinese goods is Electronics Market, located at goods,” Bhagirath Palace every three months. He sells JNPT,” a JNPT spokesperson expressed similar opinion. But Smt. Najma Heptula also expected shortly. Chandni Chowk in , Electric Market Association his wares on the said. the trade between India and expressed her confidence that Fast-moving Chinese considered as Asia’s largest President said Bharat Ahuja website wholesaledock.com . An expert working for a China remains shut. the state government would products like mobile covers, electric goods wholesale said. The arrival of seven ships shipping company, said that As the industry is expecting earnestly consider accessories, phones, market, is largely dependent Sameer Lalani, of Mira Road, from China between February measures are being taken on the epidemic to be resolved by implementation of the Policy, th electronic items, clothes, etc on China for the supply of near Mumbai, engaged in a and March at JNPT cargo ships going to Chinese March end, it is expected trade on the 30 September, 2018. have already seen a price hike spare parts. All fancy electric wholesale business of (Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Navi ports with the crew not will resume by April. However In connection with the of almost 10 to 15 per cent in lights are mostly manufactured Chinese plastic and home Mumbai) has been cancelled. allowed to venture out. “We there may be a huge inflow of requirment for a State Child the last couple of weeks. The in China and the prices of utility products said that “last “We have been following the too have a ship going to goods from Chinese industries Policy, a statement by MARC hike of 5 to 7 per cent in multi such items have shot up to five stock I received was in the directions of the Ministry of China, but our crew has to when the market reopens, said that Since the state is media items and toys and a per cent in the last three second week of January. I had Shipping. International crew follow a strict protocol. The which may cause a temporary highly inflicted with constant steep hike in electronic goods months. placed the order in “Yiuw” members on-board cargo epidemic has also impacted increase in freight rates. Manipur’s ex-journalist chief minister pursues Imphal Free Press for defamation

Courtest : Kunal Majumder forward, Paejol Chaoba, a separatist groups and the CPJ by phone in February. CPJ analyzed the reported results spent 20 days in jail on told CPJ. “But I haven’t. I will and Aliya Iftikhar senior editor with the government, journalists were requested comment on the of a nationwide survey sedition charges, which were continue to fight this case, as CPJ Asia Program told CPJ by phone. pressured and attacked ; in charges against Wangkhem conducted by India Today TV, ultimately quashed, according well as do my job.” His two colleagues were 2013, stopped and Echanthoibi from Biren a New Delhi-based private to news reports and human Phanjoubam, the former IFP On the morning of February required to surrender at a lower publication for four days to Singh’s media advisor and news channel, to identify rights groups . Two years later, editor, told CPJ that the 1, instead of working on her court and get bail, he said, protest pressure from militant secretary, but did not receive India’s “best performing” he joined electoral politics , defamation case sent a usual assignments for along with Pradeep groups. a response before publication. chief minister. and was eventually elected to message to the the rest of the the Imphal Free Press , Phanjoubam, a former IFP Journalists told CPJ that the One editor of a newspaper in “I couldn’t believe the [chief do the top job in the state. media that there would be journalist Babie Shirin drove editor also named in the security situation has Manipur, who asked not to be minister] would come after me As a former journalist, Biren consequences if they didn’t with the newspaper’s complaint. Hearings were improved since the ceasefire, named for fear of retribution, over such a silly matter,” Shirin Singh has strong fall in line. publisher Mayengbam ongoing in mid-February, and the pressures they used told CPJ that his newspaper told CPJ by phone. The 27- relationships throughout the Since the case began, IFP has Satyajit Singh to a court on Chaoba said. to face have eased. Recently, shied away from government year-old journalist, who had media community. While CPJ spent nearly 350,000 rupees the other side of town. On CPJ interviewed Biren Singh however, two Manipuri criticism to avoid controversy. been with IFP for less than a was in Manipur, Biren Singh (US$4,900) in legal fees and arrival, they were arrested, about the case on a trip to journalists have run into legal The local BJP government year at the time, said the case gave a speech at the All other costs, Paejol Chaoba then granted bail on a bond Imphal in September 2019. CPJ trouble in relation to political was “ultra-sensitive,” he said. came as a shock. “Initially I Manipur Working Journalists’ told CPJ. While a New Delhi- of 30,000 rupees (US$420) also spoke with nearly a dozen commentary published in a “ [Imphal] Free Press has was really nervous. I couldn’t Union honoring its based human rights lawyer each. Their crime was to senior journalists and editors, private capacity on social been very bold,” he told CPJ. concentrate on my work,” she foundation 46 years before. He initially offered to represent document the local chief but almost none of them were media. Kishore Chandra “We haven’t done that.” said. told CPJ about a health the newspaper pro-bono, minister’s ranking in a willing to speak on record. Wangkhem, a local TV Acting on directions from the In a meeting with CPJ in insurance scheme for IFP couldn’t afford the cost nationwide TV poll. Many shared privately that reporter, spent 134 days in secretary to the chief minister, September 2019, Chief journalists launched by his of flying him to Imphal for The IFP , as the privately- they were careful about prison on sedition charges the Manipur state department Minister Biren Singh accused government. hearings, he said. Because owned, English-language criticizing the government to after sharing his opinion of the of home affairs instructed the the newspaper of maligning Yet while the chief minister the case had a link to the daily refers to itself, operates avoid criminal charges. Their Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) public prosecutor to file the his reputation by deliberately agreed that freedom of chief minister, it was difficult in Imphal, the capital of concerns are shared beyond state government on social defamation case against the misinterpreting the survey expression was a for IFP to find Manipur, a small state on the state: CPJ has media, according IFP journalists on October 27, results. “Criticism is okay, but constitutional right that had to representation locally, India’s northeast border with documented how defamation to Outlook magazine, which 2018, according to an order decency should be there,” he be protected, he also told CPJ according to Chaoba. Myanmar. In 2018, the local cases filed against journalists documented his release in that CPJ has reviewed. The said in his office. “They’re there had to be a limit. “When “Instead of doing our work government filed a criminal and media outlets have been April 2019. In December, video order accused them of making a mockery, how can I we take advantage of Article as journalists, the last one defamation case against the used as a form of harassment blogger RK Echanthoibi was publishing with an “intent to allow that?” 19, some people forget and half years have been publication for reporting on and intimidation across India. arrested for criticizing the create enmity, hatred or ill will Biren Singh is the former editor morality,” he said. spent hiring lawyers, the popularity of the state’s Manipur has faced a separatist government and the chief between different classes” of a Manipuri-language daily CPJ pointed out that he had strategizing, raising money Chief Minister Nongthombam movement since its minister, according to news against the chief minister. called Naharolgi Thoudang . himself been punished for his to pay lawyers,” said Biren Singh, as CPJ integration into India, with the website Scroll.in . Defamation carries up to two In April 2000, he was reporting. “I went to jail, too,” Chaoba. “Fighting a legal has documented and local height of the armed conflict Echanthoibi was released on years imprisonment and himself arrested fo r he said. case against the might of the media reported at the time. lasting nearly a decade before bail but the defamation possible fines under publishing comments by a “Biren Singh seems to have state isn’t easy,” he said. The Manipur High Court a ceasefire in 2018. Caught investigation involving her the Indian Penal Code . local human rights activist that completely forgotten that he “But we are not going to recently moved that case between underground comments is ongoing, she told The IFP article in question criticized the government. He was once a journalist,” Shirin give up on our principles.”