DIMAPUR, April 13 – Inspired by the successful implementation of ‘Communitisation of public institution/service’ at the grassroots level in Nagaland, a High Powered Committee (HPC) of Mizoram has undertaken a tour of the State with the purpose of studying and witnessing its actual operating mechanism and district level planning.
Nagaland has received recognition and award at the national and international level for the successful implementation of ‘Communitisation of public institution/service’ at the grassroots level in the State.
The HPC, constituted by the Government of Mizoram, is contemplating to evolve a suitable and a viable system of participative decentralised planning to suit the local conditions. Keeping this in view, an interaction with the Communitised departments of Nagaland was held at the Chief Secretary’s conference hall, in Kohima. Officers from the Departments of Health and Family Welfare, PHE, Power, Education and Rural Development gave power point presentations on their projects, status of implementation and the responses and challenges of communitisation in the State.
V Sakhrie, Commissioner and Secretary, Rural Development, during an interactive session, shared that “not everything about Communitisation is a success, there are loopholes but we are trying to fill in the gaps and address the challenges in the best possible way”.
The visiting Mizo team headed by it vice chairman, Joseph Lalhlimpuia, MLA Lalchhuanawma Hrahsel, chief planning officer, HPC-L, Dr Lalrinchhanna, senior research officer, HPC-L and L Colney, former Chief Secretary of Nagaland also visited Rusoma village and had an interaction with the different committees on the implementation of the Communitisation process in their village.
Joseph Lalhlimpuia, expressed his appreciation and congratulated the State for successfully implementing the concept of Communitisation.
Fencing-affected border residents of Mizoram go on strike
Aizawl/Agartala, April 9 (IANS) People affected by the fencing on the India-Bangladesh frontier Tuesday called an indefinite shutdown in the border areas of Mizoram while their counterparts in Tripura threatened to launch a similar stir to demand their immediate rehabilitation.
“The strike was inevitable as both central and state governments have turned a deaf ear to the repeated pleas of the affected families for their due compensation and rehabilitation,” a statement released in Aizawl by the Indo-Bangla Border Fencing Affected Families Resettlement Demand Committee.
A senior Mizoram home ministry official told reporters that the committee has called an indefinite strike in Mizoram’s three southern districts of Lawngtla, Lungle and Saiha.
According to the official, the shutdown severely affected normal life in the three border districts. Most shops and businesses establishments, government and semi-government offices and educational institutions remained closed, while traffic was thin.
The central home ministry is erecting a barbed wire fence along its 4,095-km long border with Bangladesh running through five states - West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram - to curb infiltration, smuggling, trans-border movement of militants and other anti-national activities.
Around 2,900 km of fencing has so far been completed and work on the remaining portion is on.
Many government institutions, religious places, irrigation projects, government schools and many markets along the border with Tripura and Mizoram have fallen within the stipulated 150-metre belt from the zero line of the border.
An estimated 8,730 families in Tripura and over 1,500 families in Mizoram, whose homes and farmlands have fallen outside the barbed wire fence being erected along the border with Bangladesh, have been demanding the government rehabilitate them.
“We would soon launch a relay hunger strike if the government does not take any steps to rehabilitate the fencing-affected bordering villagers,” said Samar Das, a leader of the affected people in Tripura.
Tripura’s Finance and Revenue minister Badal Chowdhury told IANS that the government could not rehabilitate those affected families due to scarcity of funds.”
“The Tripura government had sent a Rs.93-crore proposal to the centre long back to rehabilitate the affected families, but the union government is yet to sanction any funds for this purpose,” he said.
“While the central government has sanctioned homes for a few hundred families under the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY), the state government has spent Rs.10 crore to rehabilitate and construct homes of 4,000 affected families,” the minister added.
“The strike was inevitable as both central and state governments have turned a deaf ear to the repeated pleas of the affected families for their due compensation and rehabilitation,” a statement released in Aizawl by the Indo-Bangla Border Fencing Affected Families Resettlement Demand Committee.
A senior Mizoram home ministry official told reporters that the committee has called an indefinite strike in Mizoram’s three southern districts of Lawngtla, Lungle and Saiha.
According to the official, the shutdown severely affected normal life in the three border districts. Most shops and businesses establishments, government and semi-government offices and educational institutions remained closed, while traffic was thin.
The central home ministry is erecting a barbed wire fence along its 4,095-km long border with Bangladesh running through five states - West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram - to curb infiltration, smuggling, trans-border movement of militants and other anti-national activities.
Around 2,900 km of fencing has so far been completed and work on the remaining portion is on.
Many government institutions, religious places, irrigation projects, government schools and many markets along the border with Tripura and Mizoram have fallen within the stipulated 150-metre belt from the zero line of the border.
An estimated 8,730 families in Tripura and over 1,500 families in Mizoram, whose homes and farmlands have fallen outside the barbed wire fence being erected along the border with Bangladesh, have been demanding the government rehabilitate them.
“We would soon launch a relay hunger strike if the government does not take any steps to rehabilitate the fencing-affected bordering villagers,” said Samar Das, a leader of the affected people in Tripura.
Tripura’s Finance and Revenue minister Badal Chowdhury told IANS that the government could not rehabilitate those affected families due to scarcity of funds.”
“The Tripura government had sent a Rs.93-crore proposal to the centre long back to rehabilitate the affected families, but the union government is yet to sanction any funds for this purpose,” he said.
“While the central government has sanctioned homes for a few hundred families under the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY), the state government has spent Rs.10 crore to rehabilitate and construct homes of 4,000 affected families,” the minister added.
Pneumonia tops list deadly diseases in Mizoram
Aizaw: Pneumonia was the biggest killer disease in Mizoram last year claiming 143 lives compared to malaria which claimed 119 lives.
According to state health and family welfare records, 491 people in Mizoram fell prey to diseases- 245 due to communicable diseases and 246 due to non-communicable diseases-during the previous year.
Pneumonia topped the communicable diseases list killing 143 people of 4437 people contracting the disease, the source said.
The department also recorded that 68 persons died of accidents, most of them vehicular.
While as many as 21670 people were infected with acute diarrhoea, only 15 of them died. No case of polio was detected, 158 people caught tetanus of which one person died.
Four persons died of typhoid and enteric fever, four people (all women) died of hepatitis B. Among the 159 people infected by hepatitis CDE, three women died.
The department also recorded that 27 persons, including 12 women died of AIDS whereas tuberculosis claimed 11 lives.
Hypertension claimed the lives of 17 persons in 2009 Heart trouble also killed 7 people.
Hypertension-related problems claimed 42 persons, the health officials said.
While 25 people died of diabetes, bronchitis and asthma killed 12 and 15 respectively, the death toll for emphysemas was recorded to be 5.
Cancer, the disease Mizoram has topped the world in, claimed 51 lives during 2009, the health officials added.
According to state health and family welfare records, 491 people in Mizoram fell prey to diseases- 245 due to communicable diseases and 246 due to non-communicable diseases-during the previous year.
Pneumonia topped the communicable diseases list killing 143 people of 4437 people contracting the disease, the source said.
The department also recorded that 68 persons died of accidents, most of them vehicular.
While as many as 21670 people were infected with acute diarrhoea, only 15 of them died. No case of polio was detected, 158 people caught tetanus of which one person died.
Four persons died of typhoid and enteric fever, four people (all women) died of hepatitis B. Among the 159 people infected by hepatitis CDE, three women died.
The department also recorded that 27 persons, including 12 women died of AIDS whereas tuberculosis claimed 11 lives.
Hypertension claimed the lives of 17 persons in 2009 Heart trouble also killed 7 people.
Hypertension-related problems claimed 42 persons, the health officials said.
While 25 people died of diabetes, bronchitis and asthma killed 12 and 15 respectively, the death toll for emphysemas was recorded to be 5.
Cancer, the disease Mizoram has topped the world in, claimed 51 lives during 2009, the health officials added.
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