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WWW.EASTERNMIRRORNAGALAND.COM EASTERN MIRROR Mamata calls for collective UK public votes Bowie as the Frustrated De Bruyne raring to leadership, opposition unity to greatest entertainer of the 20th go for Man City oust BJP regime | P8 century | P10 | P11 NATION ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS VOL. XVIII NO. 18 | PAGES 12 ` 5/- RNI NO. NAGENG/2002/07906 DIMAPUR, SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 2019 INR 612 crore project to boost ‘Accord’ with Naga armed groups soon — Ravi Nagaland’s jhum cultivation Hyderabad, Jan. 19 (PTI): A proposed accord with the Naga armed groups is expected to be concluded soon, Deputy Na- tional Security Adviser RN Ravi said Saturday. Eastern Mirror Desk "Instead of the manifold CSS cus project and to provide the "It's nearing conclusion with all. In fact, there is nobody left Dimapur, Jan. 19: Chief Min- programmes, coming together state's share of convergence out. Everyone is part of it. There are eight armed groups which ister Neiphiu Rio on Satur- is important under the guid- fund. are now talking to government of India. NSCN (I-M) plus seven day launched the INR 612.42 ance of IFAD as there has been The State Project Director others, they are all part of it. There is no one left out," Ravi, who crore-worth Fostering Climate various programmes carried of Focus Nagaland, Angelina has been involved in the process, told reporters here. Resilient Upland Agriculture by the state which have failed", Tajen highlighted that the ob- The efforts to conclude the accord are expected to fructify Systems (Focus) project in Di- Rio said. jectives of the project was to "soon", he said. Ravi was speaking on the sidelines of a national mapur. The project is a six years’ "The farmers need guid- increase agricultural income conference on 'Self Reliance in Defence Manufacturing', organ- (2018 to 2023) investment, by ance and for them to be suc- of 1, 37,000 households and ised by the Forum for Integrated National Security. the International Fund for Ag- cessful, the implementing increase their resilience to cli- ricultural Development (Ifad). agency should work together mate change; gender main- The official launch of the for them to trust and make a streaming in the project and Ifad's Focus comes after the an- holistic approach,” he shared strengthen capacities of govt. nouncement that was made in while imploring Ifad to make and local stakeholders for cli- 2017 during a two-day confer- the project a success story and mate smart agriculture and Pro-ILP committee threatens ence on 'sustainable manage- produce substantially for the inter-sectoral coordination. ment of jhum (in the Northeast people through the farmers. The geographic target are with another strike in Nagaland Indian region)' in Dimapur, The chief minister sug- 650 villages in Mon, Longleng, and the signing of an agree- gested for a policy on price Zunheboto, Wokha, Kiphire, Dimapur, Jan. 19 (EMN): Al- Failure to do so would force ment on Jan. 25 2018. protection while stating it was Phek, Mokokchung and Kohi- leging that the Nagaland gov- the JCPI to enforce the strike, Rio, the chief patron of Fo- always the middlemen who ma. The project is represented ernment-commissioned ‘com- it warned. “As a matured body cus, remarked that the launch benefits; and also not to con- by the district level committee mittee on BEFR/ILP/inclusion representing the present and of the project in Nagaland was fuse the farmers with manifold with deputy commissioner as of Dimapur under ILP’ was the future of our Naga peo- at the right time as 'it was our programmes. EM Images the chairman and district level reneging on its commitment, ple, the JCPI has been very dream that somebody come "I believe in my farmers, Neiphiu Rio speaks at the launch of the Focus project, on Saturday in Dimapur. implementation committee the Joint Committee on Preven- cooperative and patient with and rescue us from our prob- let us commit ourselves for with district agriculture officer tion of Illegal Immigrants (JCPI) the committee. But given the lems.’ our farmers and build trust state, especially on improving of more than 70% of the state’s as the chairman. has threatened with another dilly-dallying of the committee The chief minister, in his with them so that people iden- jhum—the occupation of 70% total, may not have appreciated Agriculture Production strike “of any sort deemed fit and the fiasco related to the address, admitted that he faces tify Nagaland for our produc- of the rural population. the modern technology intro- Commissioner (APC) and Sec- to protect the state from illegal government’s utter failure to awkward questions on state's tion and not for the myth of "It is hoped that farm- duced by the scientist, he said. retary and mission director immigrants/immigration.” protect the interest of the Naga economy; and that Nagaland is disturbed area which is his- ers will have a paradigm shift "The Naga farmers were of Focus, T Imkonglemba Ao A statement from the JCPI people vis-à-vis the Citizenship a consumer and not a produc- tory," Rio said. Also, he assured from subsistence agriculture more worried about their sus- spoke on the 'scope of conver- on Saturday stated that the Amendment Bill, 2016, the JCPI ing-state. "All the vehicles that that the timely release of fund to market economy and they tainable level and must have gence with agri allied sectors'. committee led by IAS officer is left with no choice but to be enter Nagaland come loaded should not be a problem. will increase their purchasing inherited deep traditional Presenting on the fund flow Abhishek Singh had reneged prepared to take recourse to and leaves empty. Northeast Minister of Agriculture G power and doubling farmers' knowledge for the local indig- mechanism of state's contribu- its commitment to give its rec- democratic means of agitation is rich but we remain poor as Kaito Aye, in his keynote ad- income," Aye expressed. enous crops. It is therefore per- tion, he said the APC will dove- ommendations to the state to protect and safeguard our we fail to exploit the available dress, said since the forma- According to the minister, tinent to take this traditional tail the funds of CSS and its own government by Nov. 2018. It Naga rights.” resources", Rio said. tion of the state of Nagaland, since statehood successive ag- knowledge into consideration share towards those schemes demanded that the committee The JCPI stated that it was Rio was critical of the agriculture sector had no ex- riculture scientist have tried to while implementing the Focus for the project districts. The submit its report to the state “incumbent upon the apex various centrally sponsored ternally aided project and thus improve the agriculture econ- project," Aye opined. beneficiaries’ contribution will government/cabinet within tribal institutions to shoulder schemes in the state, which he Ifad-funded project will boost omy of the state. However, the He committed to support be in kind (labour provided by days, and a copy of the same be the responsibility of protecting said was confusing the farmers. the agriculture economy of the rural population which consist the implementation of Fo- the beneficiaries). given to the JCPI “for perusal.” the rights of the people.” Cong. created Nagaland state — Khekiye Sema 23 political parties unite for ‘oust Modi’ campaign Eastern Mirror Desk crowd of the mainland, He said that the first Kolkata, Jan. 19 (IANS): Twenty how we should move forward". Manu Singhvi. ing the saffron outfit in one-on- Dimapur, Jan. 19: Former we are nothing. We are too generation Naga leaders, three political parties, including Chief Minister Banerjee, who Banerjee repeated her known one fights. "In such an eventual- bureaucrat, and presently small a minority, so please who were Congress mem- the Congress and major regional was the last speaker, said every- stand that the strongest anti-BJP ity, the BJP will be finished," said a member of the Nagaland leave us alone to decide our bers, built infrastructure, parties like SP, BSP and DMK, one is a leader in the proposed al- force in a state should be allowed Sinha. Pradesh Congress Com- own fate’”, Sema quoted the hospitals, and schools came together on Saturday at a liance, and a "collective decision" to decide on the alliance. "Every- Indicating the process of con- mittee (NPCC), Khekiye K memorandum. down to the village level so mega rally under the auspices will be taken after the polls once one has to come together for the sultations and coming together Sema on Saturday said the “Remember it was the that all the Naga children of Trinamool Congress chief the BJP was defeated. sake of the nation. Whoever is would continue, Andhra Pradesh state of Nagaland was cre- Congress party that led to can be educated. Mamata Banerjee to throw the "This gathbandhan (alliance) powerful in a certain place should Chief Minister and Telugu Desam ated by the Congress party where we are today; the “If we want to maintain gauntlet at Prime Minister Naren- has been formed to save the be allowed and strongly sup- chief Chandrababu Naidu an- in 1963, which gave ‘Nagas foundation to create a sta- the dignity of what the Na- dra Modi for defeating him in people of the nation and give ported to fight there," she said. nounced that he would hold a an identity and dignity.’ ble India was built by the gas had been in the past, the coming general elections but them justice. You (BJP) have only Former Union Ministers similar opposition rally in Ama- Sema was speaking at Congress.

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