MCPCR demands arrest of Sordar

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THE MEGHALAYA GUARDIAN
SHILLONG ! THURSDAY ! DECEMBER 18, 2014
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GHADC gets extension again
held only in the existing seats since increasing of the seats in the council would require amendment of the Sixth
Schedule, which is still pending before the Centre.
DCA minister HDR Lyngdoh however said the department will be able to complete all the election process within
the one month time.
The government decided to go for extension of the GHADC after discussion with district administration and department of education and other civil society, the Chief Minister said, adding the board examination is also due next
year.
“Keeping in mind all these factors, we decided to go for the extension within which the election process is expected to be complete,” he said.
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Northeast girl molested, assaulted in Gurgaon shop
face and started hitting me with the hanger,” the victim alleged.
She also said the shop owner then called the security guard to chase us out of the shop, which “he disagreed as
we all were females”.
“Then she called masterji (tailor). When the masterji arrived she pulled me by my hair while the masterji held my
breast and tried to push me away,” she said.
According to her, she had cut injury on the thigh and hurt in the head.
“She pulled out a bunch of my hair. She even tried to kill me with a broken glass. Even at the police station,” she
said.
An FIR has been registered under sections 323/506/354A of Indian Penal Code in Gurgaon Sadar police station
on January 16.
No arrest has been made so far.
Chief Minister, Dr. Mukul Sangma receiving a donation towards the CM’s Relief
Fund from KJP Assembly at his office chamber on Wednesday. (MIPR)
Drunken’ cops assault teenage girl, boys
“One of them punched me as I tried to save my brother by hugging him,” she said saying she still had a swollen lip.
Besides her brother (16), his friend was also allegedly beaten up causing injuries and their mobile phones were
snatched by the duo, she alleged.
“As they pointed the gun towards us, I asked them to shoot me before harming mu son or daughter,” said the
mother of the girl.
An eyewitness, who is a neighbour of the girl, said, “My son and I went to see what was happening... Then they
(cops) pointed the gun at my son and asked him to raise his hands and threatened to kill us.”
“They even went from house to house and threatened people with their guns saying to ‘cooperate’ or be shot. We
were clueless as to what cooperation they wanted from us,” said another neighbour and eye witness.
The local residents held a meeting last night and decided to jointly fight the case of police ‘highhandedness’.
“We were all really scared as they kept cocking their guns at everyone,” said another resident.
The two policemen, however, cooled down after intervention of additional superintendent of police Bruno A Sangma.
However, the police refused to register an FIR in the case and instead lodged a counter FIR against the complainants though content of the FIR was yet to be known.
Meanwhile, the West Garo Hills SP, Mukesh Singh, said the two policemen were on ‘special duty’ and deployed in
the area.
“They were there to look out for suspicious movements of militants and spotted some boys in camouflage and
tried to question them when the altercation took place. One of them sustained damage to his fingers,” claimed
Singh.
Police warn traders against aiding HNLC
“utmost confidentiality” on the part of police.
New crime
Kharkhrang, meanwhile, informed that a new type of crime has been detected in other states where callers would
ask for details of insurance policies, lapsed policy and other financial details from customers.
He, however, said such incident has not been reported to state police so far but the public should not give their
financial details to anyone over phone or mobile and rather contact the insurance company/bank before making
such move.
Appointment of non-bonded doctors
doctors as medical and health officers,” Chief Minister Mukul Sangma told reporters after a cabinet meeting held
here.
These doctors passed out from medical colleges within the country as well as outside and conform to the requirement of the Medical Council of India (MCI), the chief minister said.
“The state at present is in great need of medical professionals particularly doctors both MBBS and specialists,” he
said.
“It has been the policy of the government to get as many seats as possible to have bonded doctors or students to
pursue medical courses in quota alloted to the state,” Sangma said while lamenting “lack of effort” in filling the void
of doctors.
Expressing his happiness that a lot of parents nowadays can afford to send their wards for medical studies while
not choosing the quota, he said, “We are also fortunate to have these students who would like to serve the state and
cabinet has approved the proposal.”
The students pursuing their MBBS studies under the quota are required to sign a bond to come back and serve the
state.
However, many of the bonded doctors defaulted on the agreement and chose jobs outside in lieu of a penalty
while some of them are yet to pay up.
“The government is still running after some bonded doctors who have failed to refund the money spent by the
government on their studies,” Sangma said.
4 hurt as Sumo collides with truck
from Nongpoh. Driver of the Tata Sumo, Vicky Kylla, and one Johny Lyngdoh have been shifted to Civil Hospital
Shillong due to their critical condition.
Two other injured — Kitbok Kharbhih and Roby Tynsong — were taken to Bethany Hospital, Nongpoh.
Anup Lahoty tennis in Guwahati from Jan 3
MCPCR demands
arrest of Sordar
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SHILLONG, DEC 17: The Meghalaya
Commission for Protection of Child Rights
(MCPCR) has demanded immediate arrest of the Sordar of Mawkhli village for
his alleged violation of human rights of four innocent
children.
“We demand immediate arrest against the village head of Mawkhli
as well as police should ensure that he is
punished for violating the human rights
of the four innocent children,” MCPCR
chairperson Meena Kharkongor said here.
She questioned, “On what authority the
Sordar has taken away the rights of the
four children by depriving them of their
school report cards. This is a clear case
of violation against their human rights.”
“The police authority is expected to act
accordingly on the FIR that was lodged
against him (Sordar) and take necessary
action which will act as a deterent for oth-
ers who even think of such acts.”
The Sordar of Mawkhli identified as Blestar Wahspeh has illegally interfered into
a government school’s protocol by withholding back the annual report cards of
the four children.
Ironically, the reason behind
the action was on the pretext
that they were “ostracized”
along with their parents by the Dorbar
Shnong.
Based on the FIR, the police had also
seized the report cards and handed over
to the children, who were humiliated by
the Sordar in front of the whole school.
A case under 107 IPC has been registered against the village head and investigation into the case is on, police said.
The police however are yet to take any
action against the Sordar.
Kharkongor informed that the MCPCR
would soon meet the children and their
family to inquire into the matter.
Ostracisation
‘Springshed management’ to
rejuvenate dried up springs
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SHILLONG, DEC 17: The State Water
Resource Department in collaboration
with the Meghalaya Water Resource Development Agency organised a workshop
on ‘Designing Springshed Management
for Meghalaya’ here on Tuesday.
The workshop was held with the intention to discuss and elaborate on how to
sustain and rejuvenate the dried up
springs as well as the drying springs in
the state.
For a majority of the rural population,
springs are the fundamental source of
drinking water, sanitation and irrigation.
However, with changing climatic conditions and rainfall pattern, a large number
of villages, hamlets and settlements are
facing acute water shortage because either perennial springs have dried up or
have become seasonal.
Speaking on the occasion, Principal
Secretary, Agriculture P Kharkongor applauded the organisers for conceiving the
idea of having the workshop on Springshed Management stating “it is the right
time to make people aware because they
are the natural custodians of this valuable
resource”.
Kharkongor also made the suggestion
of making use of the 156 identified micro
watersheds under the 10th and 11th Five
year Plan of the Agriculture Department.
“The micro watersheds already have
registered watershed committees and
these can be used wherever applicable
and suitable during the survey for the
Spring shed Development and the Agriculture Department will be happy to collaborate,” he said.
In his introductory speech, L Shabong
from the Soil and Water Conservation,
said that he hoped that this workshop will
open up the eyes of the concerned department like the State Water Resource
Department and the State Soil and Water
Conservation to come up with an intervention in order to safeguard all the
springs in the each district of the state,
which are the traditional source for drinking water.
He also hoped that a system will be put
in place through this workshop whereby
every spring is mapped geographically in
terms of its quantity and quality and with
a click of the button anyone can know the
exact discharge of spring water anywhere
in the state.
The guest speakers at the technical sessions were Anuradha Bhatia, CGWB Shillong Office, Dr. Himanshu Kulkarni,
ACWADAM, Pune, Dr. Anil Gautam, People’s Science INstitute (PSI), Dehradun,
Ghanashyam Kharel, GIZ, Sikkim, Pem
Norbu, Rural Management & Development Department, Government of Sikkim.
GUWAHATI, DEC 17: The
17 th Anup Lahoty-India
Club Open Tennis Championship – 2015, organised by India Club, Guwahati, will be held under the
auspices of All Assam Tennis Association (AATA).
The tournament will be
held from January 3-7. The
tournament will be held for
Boy’s Singles Under – 12,
14 and 18 years, Girl’s Singles Under – 12,14,18
years, Men’s Singles, Senior Men’s Doubles (above
35 years), Gents Veteran’s
Doubles – Above 45 years
and Gents Veteran’s Doubles – Above 55 years and
Mixed Doubles - Above 35
years respectively. All the
winners in Boy’s and Girl’s
category will be awarded
Awareness meet
on SAGY at
model village
Bike-cum-photography tour to Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary
SHILLONG, DEC 17: District Rural Development
Agency (DRDA), North
Garo Hills, had organised
an awareness campaign
on Sansad Adarsh Gram
Yojna (SAGY) on December 16 at Achugre village
under Mendudam Gram
Sevak circle, which have
been selected as SAGY
Model village by Tura MP
PA Sangma.
Speaking on the occasion, Project Director,
DRDA, L Ch Marak, urged
the villagers to make use
the benefits being provided under the Centrallysponsored schemes.
SAGY is a rural development and cleanliness programme aiming at instilling
certain values in the villages and their people so that
they get transformed to
become models for others
in achieving full development road connectivity,
health and sanitation, education, etc. GNB
with cash scholarship. An
organizing committee has
been
formed
with
Prasanta Das as Chairman, Dipak Kumar Das as
Vice-Chairman, Anupam
Chowdhury as Organising
Secretary,
Kalyan
Kumar Das as Tournament
Director, Bedanta Buragohain as Chief Referee and
Rupam Gogoi as Referee
GUWAHATI, DEC 17: With an
objective to promote tourism potentialities of Assam and to develop tourist circuits, Eco tourism
Society of North East has decided to initiate a bike-cum-photography tour to Pabitora Wildlife
Sanctuary. This is for the third
time that such tour has been organised, said a press release.
The first year of similar initiative
was 2012 which witnessed 120
participants while the second initiative in 2013 witnessed 150
particiants. Bikers from Assam
and neighbouring states will join
hands together on December 21
to explore the tourism potentialities of Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary and its flora and fauna, stated a press release.
The tour will encourage local
tourism entrepreneurs as the
tour will give wide scope to the
locals to associate themselves
as tourist guides. The organisers
have given due emphasis on the
involvement of local tourism entrepreneurs during the tour. Starting from guiding to safaris to
boating, everything will be taken
care of by the locals from Pabi-
to run the tournament successfully.
Interested participants are
requested to send their entries on or before January
2 to the Organising Secretary, India Club, GN Bordoloi Road, Guwahati –
7 8 1 0 0 1 ( E m a i l
[email protected])/
(Ph- 0361- 2513586 /
9864509494).
tora.
Gauta Dutta, president of the
NGO, said, “Such initiatives will
not only motivate the locals
but will also increase their
standard of living by increasing their economic earnings. Such initiatives helps
in bridging the
gap between
the locals and
the tourists.” It
is to be mentioned here
that all the vehicles
are
checked thoroughly before
the tour and only vehicles having pollution certificate from government is allowed to participate.
The bike ride will start from the
city at 8:30 in the morning. The
starting point will be Regional
Science Centre, Khanapara.
Participants will reach Pabitora
via Hatisilla, Chandrapur and
3
Mayong and will get an opportunity to stop at exotic locations for
photography and sightseeing. Al-
ready thrice the members of the
NGO have done survey on the
route and have designed the itinerary for the tour. Bikers will
reach Hatisilla at 9:15 am. 30
minutes from Hatisilla, the next
attraction will be Chandrapur. Famous for sand collection and
fishing, bikers will be able to vis-
it the local markets and will be
able to take pictures of local
boats and fishermen. At 10:35
am bikers will
arrive in Mayong, the land of
black magic.
Mayong is situated at 40 km
from Guwahati
and was once
considered the
cradle of black
magic in the
country. Mayong
is today a place
of tourist attraction because of
its history. During the medieval
period in ancient
India, Mayong
was the Indian
capital of black magic and witchcraft. At 11:30 am the participants
will reach Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary. After arriving in Pabitora,
bikers will experience sightseeing from Kamarpur forest camp
and will also be able to interact
with the forest guards. Pobitora
or Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary is
a wildlife reserve in Morigaon district of Assam. The sanctuary is
located about 30 km east of Guwahati. It is about 48 km by road
from Guwahati and has a dense
population of the Great Indian
one-horned rhinoceros. Besides
rhinoceros, other animals are
leopard, wild boar, barking deer,
wild buffalo etc.
Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary is
also home to more than 2000
migratory birds and various reptiles. It is also an important bird
area. At 1:00 pm the bikers will
reach their next attraction, the
Gauranga Temple. Nearby the
temple there is a beautiful open
space where the bikers will be
able to have their food. But they
will have to carry food and water. After spending some quality
time in the peaceful atmosphere,
the bikers will move on towards
the hanging bridge. From the
bridge, bikers will be able to experience views of elephant bath.
At 3:50 pm the return journey will
start. On the way bikers will stop
at Burha Mayong to explore the
rock inscriptions. By 4:45 pm the
participants will reach Guwahati.
SHILLONG, DEC 17:
Hidangmayum Rahul
Sharma of AIR Imphal has
been declared winner of
AIR ‘NE Body Can Sing’
contest and given Rs 1
lakh cash prize.
Chandrani Sarma of AIR
Agartala was declared
second followed by
Visedelhou of AIR Kohima
and Lalfamkima of AIR
Aizawl.
The AIR’s maiden music
reality show in North-east
came to an end this
evening with grand finale
at U Soso Tham auditorium here.
The prerequisite for the
winner was that he or she
should not be an approved
Radio artiste and should
be between the age group
of 16 to 40 years.
In his welcome speech
C.Lalrosanga, ADG, AIR
North Eastern Region said
that the purpose of this
reality show was to bring
forth hidden talent of NE to
limelight.
Dr.K.K.Paul, Governor of
Meghalaya and Mizoram
was chief guest on this
occasion.In his address he
said Music is soul of Northeast.
AIR has reached farflung areas of the country,
it carved a niche in Northeast, he said.
The panel of judges include F Lal Thanmawiia
from Aizawl, Aribam Uttam
Sharma and renowned
singer Lou Majau.
The second prize was of
Rs 50,000, third Rs 25,000
and fourth Rs 20,000.
The first three prizes
were sponsored by SBI
while fourth was given by
IRCTC.
Co staff visit
old-age home
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SHILLONG, DEC 17: Employees of Chillibreeze, an
IT-Design company which
is located at Software
Technology Parks of India,
visited the old-age people
at the Sisters of Charity Mercy Home at Demthring
here on Monday.
The company donated
certain necessity items like
sweaters, toiletries — bath
products and eatables.
The employees of the
company spent time with
the old age people and
also with the superior incharge to understand the
needs and requirements of
the elderly old people.
Army recruitment
rally in Jan
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SHILLONG, DEC 17: The
Indian Army is conducting
a recruitment rally for male
candidates for the various
posts at the Assam Regimental Centre ground,
Happy Valley, here for all
the 11 districts of Meghalaya and three districts of
Assam — Sonitpur, Morigaon and Nagaon — from
January 4 to 12 next year.
For Soldier General Duty,
Tradesmen,
Indian
Gorkhas, the recruitment
is scheduled for January 4
for Morigaon district of Assam, January 5 for Sonitpur, January 6 for Nagaon,
January 7 for Ri-Bhoi,
Jaintia Hills and East Jaintia Hills districts of Meghalaya and January 8 for
East Khasi Hills, West
Khasi Hills, South West
Khasi Hills, East Garo
Hills, West Garo Hills,
South Garo Hills, South
West Garo Hills and North
Garo Hills.For Soldier
Technical and Soldier
Clerk, Store Keeper Technical, Inventory Management and Soldier Nursing
Assistant, the recruitment
will be held on January 9
for all districts of Assam
and January 10 for all districts of Meghalaya and
Arunachal Pradesh.Sons
of Servicemen, Ex-servicemen, Widows, War
Widow,
Outstanding
Sportsmen (State/ National, Gold/Silver Medal Winners) and Ex-servicemen
for re-enrolment into DSC
candidates from the whole
of Meghalaya will participate on January 10.

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