Local body condoles death of Qualapatty fire victims
SHILLONG: The United Hynniewtrep Movement (UHM) Executive Council in a press statement expressed its deepest condolences in the recent fire incident which burnt the Church of God, Qualapatty to ashes. It also sends its condolences to the bereaved families of T Basaiawmoit and Reliable Laloo and prays for the departed souls to have eternal peace. UHM also condemned the Fire Service Department for arriving late to the spot. It urged Home Minister James Sangma to look into it. The movement also demanded from the government to help both the families in this difficult time.
Training prog for women farmers in EKH village
SHILLONG: The office of the BDO, Mawryngkneng C&RD Block and North East Network, Shillong organised an intensive training programme for women farmers at Pomlahier village on Tuesday in an effort to inculcate ecological farming practice among them. The programme, which was the first of its kind in the block, exposed farmers to farming methods, including production of manure with locally available materials, to ensure ecological farming which is viable and in conformity with the local environment. The sessions, which included practical lessons on vermin-composting, collection of indigenous seeds and cultivation, was addressed by farmer Samir Bordoloi from Guwahati. The day-long session ended with exhortation by the BDO, R Wahlang, who regretted that farmers have abandoned indigenous and sustainable cultivation in pursuit of instant profit. He also called upon the farmers to resort to ecological farming for the sake of posterity and for well-being of the villagers especially the children.
Cooperative week in EGH
WILLIAMNAGAR: Together with the rest of the country, the East Garo Hills also celebrated the 66th National Cooperative Week India with this year’s theme “Role of Cooperatives in New India” and “New initiatives of the government through cooperatives” with a programme organised by the office of the Assistant Registrar of Cooperative Societies in collaboration with the Meghalaya Cooperative Apex Bank at DRDA Hall in Williamnagar where the Zonal Deputy Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Garo Hills Region, AGA Sangma was the chief guest.
NEHU clarifications are white lies: NEHUTA
SHILLONG: The North Eastern Hill University Teachers’ Association (NEHUTA) has claimed that the clarification by NEHU with regard to its Vice Chancellor (VC) flouting rules are only ‘half truths’ and ‘white lies’.
In a release issued here, the association said that the VC placed the annual account and report of the university in Parliament without convening the university court and its approval thereby violating NEHU norms. The VC convened the court after four years of his tenure, NEHUTA added. NEHUTA as an elected body of the teachers is entitled to raise such statutory violation by the VC, for which he is abusing his power to term the association’s attempt to raise statutory violation as bringing down the image of the university, the release said. It further said that Statute 44(3) does not prohibit the association from raising issues of statutory violation. NEHUTA has said that NEHU’s false claims of saving money by instituting an arbitrary practice of quoting 10 per cent below of the total value of a work by a tenderee is a pusillanimous act of justifying a foul practice. It also alleged that there is an attempt to cover up corrupt practices by passing the blame on the previous VC. NEHUTA further reiterated its demand that a high powered committee of MHRD must look into the statutory violations by NEHU.