Land of Jewels (Sana Leibak)

147 delegates from Manipur taking part: New Delhi, Apr 23: In all 147 delegates including 46 women from Manipur are taking part in the three-day National Convention of Chairpersons of District and Intermediate Panchayats, which was inaugurated by Mani Shankar Aiyar, Union Minister of Panchayati Raj last morning at Burari Ground, Outer Ring Road here. Manipur delegation consists of 137 Pradhans of Gram Panchayat, three Adhyakshas of Zila Parishad namely S Subhaschandra of Imphal West Zila Parishad, Basanti of Imphal East Zila Parishad and Abdul Latif of Thoubal Zila Parishad and seven officials led by Y Neta Singh, Director of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Government of Manipur. Y Neta Singh flagged off the Manipur delegation on April 18 at Panchayat Bhawan, Imphal for the National Convention. The Manipur delegation arrived here on April 21 . Around 8000 delegates from 26 States and five UTs are participating in this National Convention. This includes around 1500 women. The dele...

SHDC opposes enforcement of PR Act: Imphal, Apr 22: The Sadar Hills District Committee claimed to have submitted a memorandum to the CM on its objection regarding enactment of Panchayati Raj Act in Sadar Hills which the body construed as the state Govt relying on 'divide and rule' policy. Reminding that SHDC had already expressed opposition to implementation of Panchayati Raj in the sub-division, the body asserted that it would not allow further division of Sadar hills on communal line. Instead of exclusion of villages/areas located within Sadar Hills from the purview of Zila Parishad/Panchayati Raj which is in total disregard to the sentiment of Sadar Hills people the State Govt is once again trying to nominate members of Pradhan and Gram Panchayat for the vacant wards/constituencies which is totally illegal and against the recently held election results, an SHDC statement maintained. The SHDC also recounted that till 1983 entire villages/areas in the three sub-divisions of Sa...