Convention On Millennium Development Goals In Manipur

Convention On Millennium Development Goals In Manipur

Community Network on Empowerment (CONE), Human Rights Alert (HRA), Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), Manipur Alliance for Child Rights (MACR), Sustainable Livelihood Forum Manpur (SLFM) and United Voluntary Youth Council (UVYC) jointly organized a People's Convention on Millennium Development Goals in Manipur on 18 October 2012 at Lamyanba Snglen, Imphal, where civil society groups from all the nine district of Manipur participated.

Inaugurating the convention Mr. L. ibomcha, Chairman, Public Accounts Committee called for the need to reestablish the Manipur Human Rights Commission and to ensure that Right to Information functions effectively as transparency is the hallmark of good governance.

Delivering the welcome and keynote address Babloo Loitongbam, Executive Director, HRA, explained how the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is the outcome of the Millennium Submit where 189 head of the states gathered at the UN in New York in 2000. MDGs are promised to be achieved by 2015. With just three years left, the convention seeks to access if live in Manipur is anywhere close to achieving these goals. Using power point presentations each of the 8 MDGs were explained.

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

2. Achieve universal primary education

3. Promote gender equality and empower women

4. Reduce child mortality

5. Improve maternal health

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

7. Ensure environmental sustainability

8. Develop a global partnership for development

Prof. Amar Yumnam, Dean of Social Sciences, Manipur University speaking as the guest of honour highlighted how the values of freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature and responsibility informs the MDGs. He also pointed out that world is already preparing the agenda of the post 2015 development goals and morn that fact that the policy makers in Manipur is barely aware of MGDs not to talk of working for its realization. He emphasis how the issues of Legitimate Politics, Security, Justice, Employment and Communities capacity to generate revenue are going to be key concepts in shaping up the post-2015 development agenda of the world.

Four expert panelist from various networks presented their experiences in the field on the situation of the MDGs. Meihousbam Rakesh, Director, HRLN (Manipur) graphically presented how the benefits from various welfare schemes are corned by vested interest and explained how the funds are utilized in creating private assets instead of benefiting the public.

Mr. Pradeep Keisham, convenor, MACR listed out the various legislations and schemes mean for children since 2000 and high-lighted how the benefits of such laws hardly reached the children. He recommended the need for changing the social structures and system along with the legal frame work for children to actually realize their rights, the need for promptly establishing the Manipur State Child Rights Commission is also outlined.

Mr. R.K. Nolinikanta, president of CoNE pointed out even though Manipur constitutes only 0.2% of India's populations it bears the burden of supporting 8% of people living with HIV in the country. Through an action research conducted specially for this convention he pointed out challenges faced by the people living with HIV to access proper treatment.

Convention On Millennium Development Goals In Manipur

Ms. Mesiah Devi, State coordinator of SLFM presented the difficulties of the people both in the hills and valley of Manipur to access the PDS items on the basis of their public hearing conducted recently and also presented the recommendation issued by the Commission of Right to Food to the Government of Manipur after the public hearing. She also pointed mourned the fact that the recommendations remained unimplemented till date.

Activist form Tamenglong district, Ukhrul district, transgender community and other interest groups also presented their concerns with the non-realization of the MDG.

The convention concluded with a commitment from the Centre for Manipur Studies, Manipur University to come out with an annual Manipur Development Report by closely working with the frontline activist struggle for overcome the developmental challenge in Manipur.
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Detoxification camp held

IMPHAL, Oct 17: Nehru Yuva Kendra, Ukhrul has kick started a 15-day free detoxifi-cation camp at Shield De-addic- tion Cum Rehabilitation Centre, Hungpung from today. The camp is being organised in association with AMADA, IMA, CBDAP, CONE and DOULOS.
Ukhrul SDO Leiyonphy, AMADA president M Pad-mini Leima and Khaivatang village secretary Wungnao were the chief guest, guest of honour and president of the opening function respectively.
Speaking at the occasion, Leiyonphy expressed concern that drug abuse has reached a critical stage in the State.
Many youths who otherwise must be the future pillars of the society are currently indulging in intoxication and drug abuse. In this regard, she stressed on the need to bring a society which is free from drug abuse.
For the said purpose, Lei-yonphy added, rehab inmates and addicted persons must in-culcate strong will power to give up the bad habit.
Padmini Leima exhorted the gathering for a collective effort to root out intoxication and drug abuse.
Later, AMADA distributed medicines to the participants of the camp.
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NAB seizes SP capsules from Imphal Airport 

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Imphal, Oct 11:
The Narcotic and Affairs of Border Police, Imphal seized around sixty thousand Spasmo Proxyvon (SP) capsules from Imphal Airport which were illegally being brought from Delhi in an Air India flight yesterday.
According to police reports, acting on specific information, Inspector RK Bikramjit, OC of Narcotic and Affairs of Border Police, Imphal under the supervision of Md Isaac Shah, SP of NAB along with a team rushed to Tulihal Airport, Imphal yesterday at around 11:50 am.
While the team was on their duty, they saw a Muslim youth moving around suspiciously. The youth had boarded an Air India flight from Delhi.
The police team immediately surrounded him and checked his luggage where around 60,000 pieces of SP capsules were found.
The youth who has been identified as MK HR Raj (21), s/o MK Islouddin of Lilong Haoreibi Sambrumakhong Mamei Leikai, Thoubal has been detained by the NAB along with the seized drugs.
On further interrogation, the arrestee disclosed that the seized capsules were brought from different pharmacies in Delhi and were destined to spread in different markets of Manipur ahead of the forthcoming festivals like Diwali, Durga Pooja, Ningol Chakkouba to earn huge profit.
The estimated cost of the seizure is said to be around Rs 3.5 lakhs.
Expressing concern over such kind of drug trafficking, Inspector RK Bikramjit Singh, Officer-in-Charge of NAB P.S has appealed to the general public not to indulge in such illegal drug trafficking and further requested to co-operate with the police and to inform of any such instance of selling/buying so as to curb the menace of drug abuse in the state.
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Negligence led to death of girl on ART

A minor girl who was on ART died on 2nd Oct 2012, the day she was admitted to RIMS, due to the negligence and denial of second line ART by health care providers, said RK Nolinikanta,Convener Organizing Committee International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Observation, 2012.
Speaking to media persons at a press meet held at Manipur Press Club, RK Nolinikanta said the girl, aged about 17 had been struggling to get second line ART for the last 11 months from State AIDS Clinical Expert Panel (SACEP) but was denied the treatment which led to her death.
The girl was on first line ART since 2001 and from 2004 she got access to first line ART from JNIMS centre. But she started facing health problems since Feb 2011 since her CD4 count decreased to107 cells/cu.mm from 393 cells/cu.mm. Further she was referred to SACEP, a forum which was instituted to provide first line alternative and second line ART at RIMS, for second line treatment on February last year.
Unfortunately, she was compelled to continue the same drug while waiting for SACEP meeting. But even after attending the said meeting for three consecutive times, she was not advised for the Viral Load Test which was important at that very stage. And for the Viral Load Test, the facility was not available at the hospital, so her sample was collected for sending it to Kolkata for the test.
A batch of 10 samples was to be sent to Kolkata but due to negligence of the authorities they failed to send the sample of the said girl, Noliniknata stated.
Nolinikanta further said equipment for viral load test are available at Babina Diagnostic Center so they sent a proposal to MACS to recommend the centre to conduct the test but it was of no use.
He further said SACEP in Manipur comprised of eight clinical experts mostly from RIMS including Deputy Director (care, transport and treatment) MACS and is headed by HOD, Medicine, RIMS.
But there has been lot of complaints and issues against the panel during the last few years, she said. Many people living with HIV and who needed second line ART have come across a number of cases in which treatment is delayed due to SACEP.
President MNP+ L Deepak said the incident is not first of its kind. He had come across cases of People Living with HIV who died waiting for SACEP’s decision for further treatment.
Grandfather of the teenager, Huidrom Nabakishor said doctors of RIMS claimed that her granddaughter died of heart attack. But he disagreed with it and said the death was due to negligence of SACEP. He stated that nobody could escape death but what hurts him the most is the way she died, from denial of second line ART.
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SP tablets siezed

IMPHAL, October 3: A combined team of Narcotic Cell and Special Investigation Unit today seized two cartons of Spasmo-Proxyvon capsules from an inter-state bus from a North AOC bus parking at around 4 pm this evening.
Both the driver of the bus and the owner of the consignment have also been arrested.
The driver has been identified as Laishram Robindro, 42 son of (L) Chandramani of Nambol Awang Jiri and the owner as Md Rahaman, 32 son of Md Tomba of Lilong Thong Ahanbi Dam Makhong.
The seized capsules along with the owner of the consignment were paraded before media person at the spot.
Speaking to the media persons, SI Narocotic cell Imphal Babuyaima said that under the instruction of narcotic cell OC Ranjit, a combine team of NC and SIU was placed at the surrounding area after getting a specific information about the consignment coming from a Guwahati bound bus.
The team found the two cartoon box containing 48 boxes of SP capsules each in the 2 cartoon box from the bus and the total number of SP capsule is 13842 after that the driver was arrested at the spot and later on the owner was also arrested from a near-by area, he said.

4-Oct-2012 at 01:27 AM |