AMUCO, UCM join hands in paying tributes to June 18 martyrs as all roads lead to Kekrupat Collective voice raised to protect unity and integrity
IMPHAL, Jun 18 : All roads led to Kekrupat as thousands of people from different parts of the State made their way to the sacred site to pay their homage and respect to the 18 souls who laid down their lives to protect the territorial integrity of the day.....
Poison in your food ? Urea, DAP in rice ?
IMPHAL, Jun 18 : Super fine rice shipped in by Food Corporation of India and supplied to the public at subsidised rate by Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (CAF&PD) Department is found mixed with certain substances which look like Urea or DAP.....
Dimapur bandh ends
DIMAPUR, Jun 18 : The otherwise noisy and chaotic commercial hub of Nagaland looked deserted today as all the roaring business establish-ments came to a grinding halt following the dawn to dusk bandh imposed by Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation (.....
UNC rolls up sleeves for intense stir
IMPHAL, June 18: United Naga Council (UNC) has pledged to intensify its stand with a series of agitation soon against the alleged communal policies of Manipur Government and communal forces in Manipur valley. However, the UNC did not spell out the nature .....
Mercury soars
IMPHAL, Jun 18: According to data collected from weather stations installed in different parts of the State, maximum average temperature at Imphal recorded 34 degree Celsius at Imphal valley during the past 5 days. Moreh recorded maximum temperature of.....
Jiri sizzles at 38 degree Celsius
JIRIBAM, Jun 18: with the heat wave sweeping across Jiribam sub-division for the last few days showing no signs of abetting the normally vacant Jiribam community health centre has been transformed into a crammed health facility. The sub-divisional head.....
House okays five demands
IMPHAL, Jun 18: The fifth session of the ongoing 10th Manipur Legislative Assembly today passed five demands which included Rs 64,81,07,000 for Land Revenue, stamp & Registration, and District Administration; Power - Rs 666,83,96,000; Youth Affairs and Sp.....
Question Hour At The Assembly Edn Minister concedes SSA school buildings lapses
IMPHAL, Jun 18: Education Minister M Okendro has conceded that school buildings constructed under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) were not at all satisfactory while some guardians still continue to be members of School Management Development Committees (SMDC).....
CM dismisses Oppn allegation
IMPHAL, Jun 18: Dismissing allegation of misuse of fund sanctioned for National School Safety Programme by Relief and Disaster Management Department, Chief Minister O Ibobi asserted there is no question of misuse of fund nor any meaning in ordering any en.....
Nitish faces trust vote today
PATNA, Jun 18: After the Janata Dal-United parted ways with ally the Bharatiya Janata Party, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will seek a trust vote on Wednesday at a special session of Bihar assembly to prove his majority, which he is expected to muster witho.....
AR fetes
IMPHAL, Jun 18: IG AR (South) Maj Gen Rajiv Chopra today felicitated students of Assam Rifles Senior Secondary School who scored highest marks in the CBSE Exams of class X and XII at 9 Sector Hqs, Keithelmanbi. Maj Gen Rajiv Chopra and his better half.....
Drivers helped
IMPHAL, Jun 18: Surface Transport, Eco and Environment Society, Nagaland and the All Manipur Road Transport and Motor Workers’ Union have donated edible items to drivers, transporters and passengers stranded at Khuzuma, Nagaland on account of the 48 hou.....
SSA imbroglio
IMPHAL, Jun 18: The All Manipur School Management and Development Committee Association has alleged that unwanted political interference in collusion with ‘unfit’ bureaucrats has derailed SSA programme/RTE Act in the State. “Political interferenc.....
KNF (N) rejects
IMPHAL, Jun 18: Rejecting police claim that Letginhao Haokip alias Abin alias Hegin alias Haopu, arrested recently, belongs to KNF (N) organisation as unfounded and misleading, the armed organisation branded the individual as an imposter. A KNF (N) sta.....
Stir called off
IMPHAL, Jun 18: Work Charge and Muster Roll employees of Minor Irrigation Department who have been agitating since June 10 demanding payment of their pending salaries have agreed to call off their agitation temporarily after they came to an understanding .....
The great June 18 and the great 18 souls
Law enforcers or concerned authorities cannot book anyone as an accused for any kind of unlawful act, most particularly, a criminal one until an FIR (First Investigation Report) is lodged by the police or law enforcing agency. The June 18 incident of 2001.....
Open letter to all the Hon’ble Members of the Hill Area Committee
Article 371(C) of the Indian Constitution enshrined to constitute Hill Areas Committee within the Manipur Legislative Assembly without which there can be no Manipur Legislative Assembly and that in exercise of the power conferred by Article 371(C), the t.....
From communal land ownership to private landlordism
In India and elsewhere, land as been the bone of contention particularly for groups and communities who are classified as tribes (as in the case of India) and indigenous, natives across the globe. The problem of land alienation has been one of the most se.....
Messing with Ramlal Paul HSS Modern day Tughlaqs
Quixotic and Tughlaqnesque. This should about sum up the decision of the Government to turn Ramlal Paul Higher Secondary School to an all girls institution to accommodate the students who could not secure admission at TG Higher Secondary School. Comes clo.....
Blood donated as tribute to June 18, 2001 martyrs
IMPHAL, Jun 18: In all 42 individuals from different walks of life donated blood as Voluntary Help Unit Committee (VHUC), RIMS Hospital commemorated the '13th blood donation camp - A Tribute to the Martyrs of 18th June 2001' at RIMS Hospital today. The.....
Manipur Masala
By : Sanatombi Angomcha
On Nurturing Education Dreams of a Few Deprived Students
Abe (name changed) is a brilliant student, who is currently pursuing her 12th class in science stream in one of the higher secondary schools in Imphal West. She belongs to a needy family. Her mother is a mentally unstable person because of an accident she met four–five years ago and her father is a rickshaw driver who supports his family through blood and sweat. For a struggling family who can barely afford two meals a day, proper education of their children is a Herculean task. That was exactly the case with Abe. Out of sheer poverty, she was almost on the verge of giving up her education. Perhaps it was just the right time when we were informed about her condition. We did not waste further time to reach out to Abe. Though we had to face many hardships to implement our ideas, with the much needed help of our friends from Manipur, we could finally render some help to Abe. We are sponsoring her educational requirements till she completes her 12th class and will also try to help her in whatsoever way we can in the coming future. In the meantime, we will also devise and deploy many plans on how to reach out to many Abes in the coming years.
Another bright and promising student is Bungbung (name changed). He recently passed his Xth Class with flying colours. His family condition is not that worse like Abe’s but because of some health problems of his father, his educational requirements are hardly met. We are also lending our hands to Bungbung.
We must remember that there are many Abes and Bungbungs in our society. There are many NGOs and organisations that are working for the benefit of such students but it is also equally true that most of the time, an Abe or Bungbung is always left out. Governmental or Non-Governmental, corruption pries in most of the organizations in Manipur. However, as mute spectators we are contributing our share in the construction and conservation of a corrupted society. To save ourselves from getting recruited in that league, we came up with a workable idea.
I suppose most of the readers must be curious about this ‘we’. For your kind information, we are not a functioning NGO; for that matter, we are not associated with any organisation. Let me affirm that, we do not have big fat bank accounts and most of us do not even belong to top-notch families. Well, let me finally introduce ourselves. We are just a group of like-minded friends/buddies who belong to the matriculation batch of 1999, but are now staying in different cities and countries. Let me also admit, we are heavy Facebookers. We keep in touch with one another mostly on Facebook as it is the most in demand medium (not an excuse). A few weeks ago, an idea cracked among us. The idea sounded so intriguing to each one of us so we could not resist it. Besides our busy professional schedules and personal chores, we shaped our idea of sponsoring at least a few needy students in our society for their educational requirements and finalised it a.s.a.p.
Now we have started converting the thoughts into action. Please, do no classify us as the good Samaritans, because we are not. We do not want to be appreciated for what we have done because we consider it as our obligation. We are fun-loving people who just want to share our smile with those who have lesser reasons of smiling in their lives. We don’t want to talk big on any kind of issue, we can’t even promise to chip in with solid strategies to fight the ongoing social brouhaha. However, we are in the pre-nursery stage of reconstructing a liveable society – a friendly society where smiles will be epidemic and people are not prone to flirt with melancholy. We have heard many people talking about change (most of the time stressing more on IDEOLOGICAL change), we have also come across a few people who set themselves as examples of change – I do personally know a few of them – my regards go to those individuals. As of now, we do not belong to any of these categories because for the former we are still not eligible to join their league as they are the intellectual lots whose knowledge bank makes us feel so petty (but ONLY IF they believe in some action and do implement their ideas). And for the latter we cannot be as humble and adorable like them but we would sure love to fuel our inspiration from them.
As I already revealed, we found it and we find it our obligation to reach out to many students like Abe or Bungbung who are vulnerable and prone to compromise with their dreams. We do not anticipate anything in return but that smile on her/his face and of course a worry-free education that s/he pursues. We want to ensure that we are with them to add some wings to their dreams so that they become someone responsible and independent someday and make us proud. There are infact many students in our society who need us. We are extremely sorry with our own inability to reach out to those many students this time but yes, we promise that we will try our best to reach out to as many students in the coming years.
I welcome all those who want to extend their help to the poor and needy children in our society but kindly do not make us or anyone the medium to reach out to those children. Please extend your personal help in whatever manner you can and if you wonder where you would find those children, you just have to be a little concerned and watch out here and there for them. You never know there might be many at your very Leikai?
Last but not the least, to all my buddies from 1999 batch who have extended their support for this cause, thank you tons and tons. May God bless us to initiate or be a part of many such causes in the future. Hats off to you all!
PS: If anyone from our batch is reading this column, you are not yet missed out. You can join us anytime on manipurclassxbatch99@groups.facebook.com or personally contact me for any information. We do have a gamut of spicy topics to talk on (almost every day).
L A
God Bless U n yr 99 batch,of sharing a forceful emotional drives for the sake of deprived volcanic students.
Sandhya
M proud of u ma dear fren. .long live MCXB99
Nanao Gal!!
Really Proud Of U and to Our Group.... Hip Hip Hurray!! MCXB99''......
Nirjen
Kudos to my Manipur Class X Batch'99 friends. Congrats Sanatombi and the Team.
satish
Yeah!!! Long live MCXB99..more are yet to come
