Cosmonauts Rakhesh Sarma and Ravish Malhotra are paying a day’s visit to Shillong on June 7. They will be accompanied by their wives and children.

Their engagements in the city include a civic reception to be accorded at the State Central Library auditorium at 4.00 P.M. on the day. The reception will be organized jointly by the Municipality and the District Council.

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They will call on the Governor and Chief Minister. The Governor will host at home in their honour at Raj Bhawan at 5.00 P.M. The State Govt will throw a dinner party at the Hotel Ashok-Pinewood.

The cosmonauts will leave for Bagdogra on the following day to attend an Air Force function.

The Vice Chancellor of the North-Eastern Hill University Dr B D Sharma is expected to take up a new assignment shortly. According to sources, Dr. Sharma is likely to be appointed Commissioner of the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Commission under the Home Ministry. It is not known who is going to replace Dr. Sharma.

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The prima facie irregularities in the Jowai Division of the PHe Department were first confirmed to the Govt by departmental inquiry team as early as in January.

Sources said that the Deputy Chief Public Health Engineer, Mr S Chakraborty along with Mr V M Chacko, Executive Engineer (Monitor Cell) made a brisk scanning of the cash book at Jowai on January 27 last. It had then transpired that during the period of three months -November, December and January – staggering amount of nearly Rs. Three crore was disbursed to the suppliers against purchase of materials chargeable to stock. In November the amount paid was Rs. 83,96,648.50. In December it stood at Rs. 2,06,74,529 and for January it was Rs. 2,98,304. The two-member probe team had submitted its report to the PHE Secretary Mr D Das on January 31. The report had recommended that the “enormity and dimension” of the irregularities demanded setting up of an Enquiry Commission, sources added. But the Govt. took nearly four months to implement the recommendation.

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Sources said that the file remained buried in the Secretariat for over two months. In April when the matter was raked up, it was decided to constitute an enquiry committee. But completion of the formalities took another precious month.

Observers apprehend that the loss of five months might prove vital since it gave ample scope to all concerned to manipulate the books of accounts.

Police raided a liquor den in Bara Bazar and recovered 13 cans containing 25 litres each of country liquor. Three persons have been arrested.

 The Police also raided the Red light area and picked up 16 women. The clients and accomplices jumped through the windows and made their escape good.

 Police said that the nocturnal activities in the notorious Anup Chand Lane area had come to an end following last week’s raid. Police acted when informations reached that “matinee shows” were being held instead. The area had turned into a hide-out for all criminals and hoodlums. Many a time terrorists from the neighbouring States were found taking shelter in the area.

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The Vice Chancellor of the North-East Hill University Dr B D Sharma is expected to take up a new assignment shortly. According to sources, Dr. Sharma is likely to be appointed Commissioner of the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Commission under the Home Ministry.

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It is not known who is going to replace Dr Sharma.

All the doctors of the Khasi Jaintia Presbyterian Hospital are being relieved of their duties from June 2.

Stating this a spokesman of the Synod has said that all the nine doctors, including the Medical Superintendent, had submitted resignation and since they had refused to change their stand, the Synod had no choice but to accept their resignation.

The spokesman said that it was “not correct” to stat ethat a clergyman had been put in charge of the Hospital. In actual fact, Rev C Jyrwa was appointed as administrative officer as a stop-gap arrangement. Meanwhile, Dr (Ms) R. Ropmay has been appointed as officiating Medical Superintendent of the Hospital.

The State Govt has appealed to the Centre to transfer to the civil administration all untulised plots and land leased for commercial purposes within Shillong Cantonment and other Defence Holdings.

In an official Note on the necessity to transfer some plots of cantonment land in Shillong for civilian use, the State Govt has pointed out that the Defence authorities have been willy nilly dragging its feet on some of the long pending demands of the State Govt in this regard.

The Note said: “The Shillong Cantonment is in an enviable position because, with the heavy pressure on land in the city, it has a large area lying unused. Some of the plots of land have been kept vacant for a number of years and are not likely to be needed for defence purposes in future.”

The State Govt has demanded release of the following plots plot of land opposite Anjalee Cinema, plot of land Anjalee Cinema, Garrison ground, abandoned firing range at Kench’s Trace, Cantonment land north of Umshyrpi river, right of way for civilian through the Cantonment to the villagers of Umlyngka, Nongkseh and Lummawbah.

A two-member delegation of the Zomi National Congress, a non-descript regional party of Manipur is reported to have recently visited New Delhi to demand a separate Union Territory for the hill people of that State residing in the three districts bordering Burma. A memorandum in this behalf was also submitted to the Prime Minister last January, but we have no illusion about New Delhi’s reaction to it. It should bear mention in this connection that hill people constitute a substantial portion of Manipur and hence the hill people thereof have an effective representation in the State Assembly as also an equally effective share in its government. The meandering course of Manipur’s history, in particular of recent years of its nascent Statehood, bears ample testimony to this unmistakable political feature.

If there still is even a though of bifurcating this small, heterogeneous border unit, it must have sprung from considerations other than the general good of the people at large, taking the composite population in view as a whole or even its component elements in all their ethnic and linguistic diversity. The three border districts, more over, because of their proximity to an unsettled and perturbed international border, need all the more on this score a closer integration with the parent State and the country rather than separation from the former. The Zomi leadership should rather find a more worthwhile cause to represent for their people by taking up the case of containing the “endemic famine” in the area which is the other demand the delegation has put forward to New Delhi’s consideration.

The Supreme Court stayed last week two Gauhati High Court order releasing on bail three accused allegedly involved in a bomb explosion at Gauhati Railway Station last July. The vacation Judge ordered interim stay of the April 12 and May 11, 1984 order of the High Court and directed that the accused remain in custody until final orders of the Court. The cases went up to the Supreme Court on appeal by the Assam Government, but what must have lent additional weight to the appeal and the Supreme Court’s favourable response to it is that as many s eleven innocent lives were lost in this particular tragedy which, therefore, need a deeper judicial probe if it can also help finding a general guide-line in such cases.

Considering the threat which such misconceived and misdirected urge of terrorist violence hold to the peace and tranquility of a whole community in a given area, it is important and urgent that such cases are given even more importance than are normally deserving in their disposal in law courts. Apart from interpretation of the letter of law, a general guide-line about such disposal in areas where these incident seem to have assumed an endemic character would seem called for during the final judicial proceedings in the instant cases. The large-scale release on bail of accused arrested is recalled in this context. Also relevant are the earlier comments in the Press on large number of such cases remaining unheard for years in Manipur in particular.

The District Magistrate, East Khasi Hills District Mr J Tayeng, has prohibited importing of fish from areas bordering Bangladesh, Nagaon, Kamrup and Cachar districts of Assam and their sale in East Khasi Hills District with immediate effect and until further orders.

The order, under Section 144 Cr P.C., was issued here on May 16 following reports that Nagon and Cachar districts of Assam had been declared as “epidemic affected districts” and that gastroenteritis had spread to other areas of Assam which adjoin East Khasi Hills District of Meghalaya.