Mizoram mulls common uniform for govt schools

 Aizawl, Mar 29 : The state Human Resources Development Board in Mizoram has proposed a common uniform for all government schools in the north-eastern state. In a recent meeting presided over by state Education Minister Lalchandama Ralte, the board suggested introduction of similar school uniforms for all state-run schools, its vice-chairman L. Thangmawia said on Sunday.

The HRD board would formally submit its proposal to the state education department this week, he said.

The main reason for introducing common school uniforms was to bring 'equality' in the dresses of the rich and economically weak students in both urban and rural areas, Thangmawia, who is also an MLA , said. A common school uniform is not a new thing and has already been introduced in some states, and in all English medium schools under the Presbyterian Church of Mizoram, the MLA said.

 "The common uniforms, if introduced, will help students to join other state-run institutions without purchasing new sets when their parents are transferred from one place to another," Thangmawia told PTI.

He, however, said that the colour of the school uniforms might differ from the lower level to the higher level. "The school uniforms used in primary schools may not be similar to the one used in middle, high and higher secondary levels," he said.

Thangmawia further said that the HRD board meeting had agreed to make an appeal to all schools, both government and private, to sing a patriotic and devotional song 'Aw nang, kan Lal kan Pathian' in school assemblies whenever standard operating procedure permits holding of assemblies in the educational institutions. 'Aw nang, kan Lal kan Pathian is a famous Mizo devotional and patriotic song composed by renowned Mizo writer and composer Rokunga.

No school in the state especially within three Autonomous District Councils in the southern part of the state would be forced to sing the song even if the state government accepted the move, he said.


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Security tightened along Assam-Mizoram border

SILCHAR/AIZAWL, Sept 28 : The Assam government has tightened vigil along the Assam-Mizoram border in Cachar district and deployed additional security forces after heightening of tension following destruction of a border pillar by unidentified miscreants, officials said here Saturday.

"Some miscreants of Mizoram last week have destroyed a border pillar near Dhalai in southern Assam," Cachar Deputy Commissioner Harendra Deva Mahanta told reporters.

"Efforts are on to hold talks with deputy commissioner of Kolasib district in Mizoram to resolve the trouble," Mahanta said.

A team of Assam government officials led by additional Deputy Commissioner Barenya Das visited the border area earlier this week. The state government has been apprised of the current situation.

Assam forest department ranger Ratnadip Dey filed an FIR with the police Thursday alleging that unidentified miscreants from Mizoram had destroyed a border pillar.

Several local organisations and NGOs of Cachar district have been organising protest rallies for the past few days to condemn the incident and demanded steps to immediately resolve the dispute between the two states.

On the other hand, several organisations of Mizoram, including Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP), have alleged that the Assam government recently unilaterally set up a border pillar in the Mizoram territory "to grab" the state's land.

The ZNP and several other organisations too organised rallies along the Assam-Mizoram border to protest the Assam government move.

The Mizoram government earlier this year had formed a committee to resolve its boundary disputes with Assam.

"The five-member committee led by legal expert and former minister C. Chawngkunga will study the inter-state border disputes and supposed to make recommendations to the state government within three months," an official from Mizoram's land revenue and settlement department told reporters.

Mizoram, a mountainous state, has a 123 km border with Assam, 66 km with Tripura and 96 km with Manipur, with which it has no dispute.

It also has an international border of 404 km with Myanmar and 318 km with Bangladesh.

The Meghalaya-Assam, Arunachal Pradesh-Assam and Mizoram-Assam boundary disputes occasionally create trouble between villagers, security forces and officials in these states.
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Karnataka blitz Mizoram

Bangalore:Sept 27 :

Mudappa strikes seven to help hosts post 21-0 win over minnows
 Karnataka enjoyed a stroll in the crisp afternoon sunshine at the KSHA stadium, hammering a clueless Mizoram 21-0 in their second pool encounter of National hockey championship here on Wednesday.

Although not playing in top gear and missing a dozen opportunities, the hosts were just too good for Mizoram, burying the minnows under a mountain of goals and using the match as a fine warm-up game for the remaining two pool encounters where victory should be nothing more than a formality.

Medio MK Mudappa led the goal fest with seven strikes, striker Mohan Muthanna hammered in five, India forward SK Uthappa slotted in three, Somanna KM a brace while PL Thimmanna, MB Aiyappa and Nikin Thimmaiah joined the party with a goal each. While the first goal was an own goal conceded by Mizoram custodian K Laldintluanga.

Mizoram, who surprisingly made four forays into the Karnataka circle in the embarrassingly lop-sided contest, had their fate sealed as early as in the third minute when Laldintluanga conceded an own goal. Attempting to clear a cross from Aiyappa, he made a mess of the regulation clearance only to see the ball deflect off his pads into the goal as Karnataka opened their account.

Within a minute it became 2-0 when Uthappa prodded home from a goal-mouth melee after which it was just one-way traffic. Karnataka kept attacking at will while Mizoram, who showed some defensive grit early on when they kept the misfiring hosts at bay, just kept going through the motions in desperate search of some breathing space.

Although Karnataka overshot their pre-match target of 15 goals, concerns do exist for the last year’s losing finalists. Captain and India drag-flicker VR Raghunath once again endured a miserable day, missing all of his nine attempts. The player-of-the-tournament for joint champions Indian Oil Corporation in the just concluded Muruguppa Cup in Chennai, Raghunath kept firing the ball either high or wide and his goal-bound shots were tackled well by Laldintluanga.

A key cog in their plan to go all the way this time, Karnataka would seriously hope their star penalty-corner specialists finds his range in the remaining two pool matches before the bigger battles start at the turn of the week.

Results: Pool A: Haryana: 2 (Bharat Chikara 17th, Sardar Singh 28th) bt Maharashtra: 2 (Narad Bahadur 25th, Irshad Mirza 48th); Hockey Bhopal: 6 (Irfan 7th, Faisal Hassan 32nd, 42nd, Affan Yousuf 46th, 56th, Imran Yousuf 61st) bt Puducherry: 2 (Kartikeyan 5th, Harikrishnan 69th).

Pool B: Karnataka: 21 (K Laldintluanga 3rd OG, SK Uthappa 4th, 51st, 53rd, Mohan Muthana 21st, 28th, 54th, 61st, 64th, MK Mudappa 25th, 30th, 39th, 49th, 56th, 59th, 63rd, Somana KM 33rd, 66th, PL Thimmanna 39th, MB Aiyappa 60th, Nikin Thimmaiah 65th) bt Mizoram: 0; Delhi: 5 (Avtar Singh Mann 4th, Pawan Singh Chouhan 31st, 49th, Abhishek 33rd, Mohit 43rd) bt Himachal Pradesh: 3 (Rajesh Kumar 25th, Sarbjit Singh 55th, Balram Kumar 65th).

Pool C: Services: 18 (Sanwar Ali 4th, 8th, 39th, Arumugam 7th, Muthana Pradhan 14th, 16th, 63rd, Lovepreet Singh 25th, 30th, 40th, SV Sunil 26th, 42nd, Barhat Singh 31st, 35th, 59th, Sairajlira 45th,
52nd, 62nd) bt Jammu & Kashmir: 0.
Pool D: Sashastra Seema Bal:  14 (Kishore Lakra 4th, 20th, 15th, 27th, Ajit Singh 14th, 51st, Joychandra Singh 23rd, Pradeep Kumar Singh 35th, 53rd, 69th, Surchandra Singh 39th, L Suresh Singh 41st, Noacha Singh 42nd, Romi Kumar Singh 44th) bt Goa: 0; Jharkhand: 2 (Anil Xaxa 29th, Birendra Lakra 43rd) bt Chandigarh: 1 (Harmenpreet Singh 22nd).

Pool F: Uttar Pradesh: 9 (Jayakaran 11th, Chauhan Singh 15th, Mohd Air Khan 23rd, 67th, Chauhan Singh 28th, Tushar Khandkar 51st, Kamalesh Rai 52nd, Imran Khan 54th, 63rd) bt Assam: 1 (Pasumatary Pankaj 70th); Railways: 21 (Sanjay Bir Singh 4th, 34th, 44th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 59th, Innocent Kullu 15th, 30th, 40th, B Horo 19th, Lipto Singh 36th, 57th, Sunil Kumar 39th, 61st, 66th, Malak Singh 55th, Vivek Dhar 60th, Chen 17th, 29th) bt Tripura: 0.

Pool H: Manipur: 16 (Jayant Kumar 1st, 2nd, 45th, 60th, Romen Singh 7th, 68th, Hera Singh 10th, Chittranjan Singh 20th, 61st, 69th, Ganbama 25th, 33rd, Amarjit Singh 37th, Kiran Kumar Singh 44th, Abung Singh 54th, Dayanananda Singh 58th) bt Andaman & Nicobar: 0; Bihar: 1 (Mohammed Riazuddin 27th) drew Combined University: 1 (Gurpreet Singh 67th).
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3 youths acquitted of abducting Mizo girl

Three youths facing trial for allegedly abducting a 19-year-old Mizo girl with the intention to rape her were acquitted by a Delhi court due to her failure to identify them as accused.

Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna let off Delhi residents Pranav Chandi Ramani, Aayush Chhabra and Rahil Kamal arrested on June 23 this year, saying they are entitled to the "benefit of doubt" as the girl did not level any allegation against any one of them.

"The prosecutrix herself had not levelled any allegation against any of the accused and even failed to identify them in the court saying they were not the same three boys from whom she had taken lift in their car.

"The statement under section 313 CrPC of the accused was also dispensed with as the girl did not level any allegation against any one of them. Hence, the accused are entitled to the benefit of doubt and acquittal," the court observed, while ordering their release from jail.

The police had arrested the trio, two students and the third a private firm's executive, after the girl on June 20 had lodged a complaint with the police alleging that the three had misbehaved with her while she took a lift in their car from outside a club at Vasant Kunj in South West Delhi.

The police had said the three were arrested on the basis of the CCTV footage from the club.

"I have perused the statements recorded by the police and the magistrate. The names of the boys are not mentioned in her statement," it said.

"She had rather deposed that she had taken a lift from the said three boys and that those three boys were not the accused persons.

"So, it would not be sufficient to convict them as the prosecutrix had not deposed against any of the accused that she was abducted by them or that she was subjected to sexual harassment by these accused in the moving car," the court said.
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Chopper service in Mizoram at loss

Aizawl, Sep 24 : Mizoram helicopter service has become very popular but the service is running at a loss commercially.

Pawan Hans is giving the chopper service here since August 14 .

The availability of tickets in the sectors of Kolasib and Hnahthial has become a problem as the chopper is increasingly popular in these far-flung areas of Mizoram.

The Pawan Hans operated Mizoram helicopter service runs smoothly since its launch.

There has been just one cancellation of service.

Among the district headquarters, Mamit is the only one where there is no chopper service as there is no helipad in the district.

DoNER is funding for the construction of helipads in various parts of Mizoram.

Thenzawl, Saitual, Champhai and Mamit will soon enjoy the chopper service from November as the constructions of helipads are underway.

As mentioned earlier, the helicopter service is available in nine different places of Mizoram from its main centre Aizawl.

Wet leasing of the helicopter for one year is Rs.1308 lakhs, of which 25% (Rs.327 lakhs) will be given by Mizoram government, and the rest 75% (Rs.981 lakhs) is to be given by the Ministry of Home Affairs, government of India.

The helicopter service, although it has the capacity of 11 passengers, allows to carry only 6 passengers at a time, since Mizoram is located at a very high altitude from the sea level.

One ticket costs Rs.50 per minute.

As of now, 9 routes have been arranged for the service, with Aizawl Thuampui Helipad being the "Main Operational Hub', from where it will render service to Saiha (50 minutes), Lawngtlai (50), Champhai (25), Khawzawl (20), Lunglei (30), Kamlanagar (45), Hnahthial (30), Serchhip (17) and Kolasib (15) .
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