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Rescue operation continues for trapped miners

Coal India limited began pumping out water from the old shaft in the Ksan mine where the tragedy occurs. At present laying and fitting of pipes is going on and pumping will start from tomorrow. The CIL survey team also conducted a survey and took the measurement of the water level and reported that the water level does not recede .Coal India Limited also pump the water from 6.00 pm in the evening till today 1.00 pm and 20 hrs pumping the discharge is approximately 2268000 liters. The fire service started pumping at 11.00 am today, while the KSB a German company preparation to install the pump is going on and side by side laying of pipe is carried out. The KSB is expected that their pump will function from tomorrow. Drs. Dewashish Kumar, senior scientist from CSIR–NGRI, Hyderabad today carried on electric tomography survey to see on rock strata and also the loose formation in the service.

The Plenys-Chennai technology comprising Dr. Vineet Kumar and his team at present using the ROV also surveyed the nearby shaft .The Indian Navy divers at present are trying to recover the ROV which got stuck since last night.

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NESO observed ‘Black Day’

The North East Students’ Organization (NESO) observed ‘Black Day’  across the Northeastern region protesting against Madhabbari police firing  incident in Tripura where the police open fired on the protestors opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 on 8^th January using rubber bullets and used tear gas. After the firing incident, prohibitory order under Section 144 of the CrPC had been imposed for an indefinite period at Tripura’s Madhabbari and adjacent areas.

NESO adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya slammed the Tripura Government and Chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb and stated that Deb is “incapable” of understanding the pain of indigenous people.

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It is indeed a formidable task to encapsulate the life of such an illuminating personality in a few pages, who was not only an emblem of compassion and honesty, but also a saint in politics and a committed soldier of social service.

Rajendra Prasad was born at a small village Ziradei under the then Bengal Presidency (after the bifurcation of Bengal it came under Saran District of Bihar). The young Rajendra was first initiated into learning Persian, as was the tradition, by a scholarly Maulvi and later he also learnt Hindi and Arithmetic.

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A cursory review of MSMEs in the Northeastern States

ASSAM: MSMEs is one of the vibrant sectors in Assam leading with more than 60 percent shares compared to other states while rest of the states together comes around 40 percent. More than 50 per cent of fixed investment, 65 per cent of output and 55 per cent of employment of entire Northeastern region is shared by Assam.

On the basis of the projected figure by the Ministry of MSMEs Government of India, number of MSMEs units in Assam are more than 2,40,000  having investment of Rs. 1500 crore with turnover production around 7000 crore and employing over 6 lacs.

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A coin as we say has two sides, and there is a proverb on it as “two sides of same coin”. But Sankar Kumar Bose, a renowned numismatic of India puts it differently with connotation that coin has many sides - a powerful and solid sources of materials that speaks and tells us volume of information, which otherwise is not possible to get them by any other means.

Bose was born and brought up in Dhubri town and served in the State Bank of India in various capacities across Assam, and after retirement, he settled down in Calcutta with his most cherished love and hobby of studying deep on coinage.

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Kangla, the ancient palatial site of the Kingdom of Manipur, is the symbol of the historical currents of Manipur, majestically, manifesting the process of civilization of the people of Manipur. The very root of her culture and religious beliefs are closely embedded with the growth of Kangla. A revisit into the glorious days and not-so-glorious days of Kangla reveals why it continues to be the very essence of Manipuriness.

Manipur has a proud and long history, dating back to ancient times with Kangla as her capital, in the heart of Imphal, standing as the most sacred place. The recorded history of Manipur began with Kangla. The place emerged as the seat of Power, Justice and Ideals. The importance of Kangla as the political, cultural and ritualistic place is still in the minds of the people.

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Meghalaya a backwater in the North Eastern India, carved out of Assam, has in the last forty years or so, since its inception, has passed through the ups and down of Governance and political changes- the tug of war between the national and regional parties in gaining control of governance. Along these years, many insurgent groups have cropped up and were up in the arms, at the point of the gun demanding autonomy and even to the extent to secede from the Union. Many lives have been lost during the activities of the insurgent groups, however this year, there has emerged a ray of hope, that many of these groups have been liquidated and have come forward to surrender with their arms and ammunitions, many of these groups had sought refuge in neighboring Bangladesh but now most of these insurgent groups are on the run. This year therefore saw that general peace is returning to Meghalaya.

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While decided to implement National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus letter and spirit including the school times, Tripura government malls an idea to close down about a hundred schools from next academic session. The proposal was mooted after the government received the feedback that in some interior locations, schools have been running with equal number of students and teachers but having a huge infrastructure, maximum parts of those were left unused over the years. Tripura built more than 5000 school buildings and number of schools has become double in last 10 years that increased the demand for teachers and other staffs. Over the year, Education Department of Tripura has appeared to be the biggest sector of government employment in past decade. Though there was specific eligibility criteria laid down for recruitment of teachers in the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, Tripura government did not follow it till 2012. There was a horizontal expansion of education in Tripura not by improving quality but in terms of infrastructure, buildings, recruitment of teaching staffs and recapitulating the strategy to narrow down, drop outs at school level.