TIMES OF MIZORAM

Pawl pathum hruaitute hi nimin khan MPC pisaah ṭhukhawmin, ZPM khaikhawm tur leh kutke atan member 15 awmna Steering Committee an din an din a; uaptu leh viltu atan Val Upa Council siam nghalin, pawl tin aṭangin member pahnih ṭheuh an ruat. Val Upa Council leh Steering Committee members-te hi September 5-ah a huhoin an ṭhukhawm dawn a, hruaitu an insiam ang.

Meeting chuan, remchang hmasaah movement hawnna leh hruaitute hlanna vantlang inkhawm huaihawt an tum a, a duh apiang tel turin an sáwm a ni.

Hnam dang nupui/pasal nei lo tura inzirtirna leh intiamkamna hun hi MZP chuan kum 2015 aṭangin September 2-ah an hmang ṭhin a, kuminah chuan Inrinni a nih avangin nimin khan an hmang a; Aizawla sikul eng emaw zatah hun an hmang a ni.

MZP chuan, kawppui atan mahni hnampui ngei neih chu ram leh hnam humhalhna kawng pawimawh tak a ni tih sawiin, "Mizote chu hnam tlem leh humhalh ngai kan nih avangin, ram leh hnam humhalh kawngah thîkthu kan tihchhiat telh telh a ngai. Hnam dang nupui/pasala neite chu Mizo hnam phatsantu leh ram leilung fate chanvo chuhpui theia hnam dang siamtute an ni," an ti a; Mizo zirlaite leh ṭhalaite chu an hnampui ngei nupui/pasal atana neih duhna thinlung pu tlat turin an chah a ni.

Sorkar laipuia Ministry of Minority Affairs chuan, minority pre-matric leh post-matric scholarship dil thar duhte tan September 30, 2017 thleng dilna hun a pawtsei. Mizoramin pre-matric scholarship a hmuh theih tur biktuk zat chu 12,300 a nih laiin, August 24, 2017 thleng khan diltu zirlai 1,564 chiah an la awm.

Mizoram Scholarship Board (MSB) secretary JH Zoremthanga chuan, pre-matric scholarship leh post-matric scholarship hi a thara dil tur leh hmu tawh dil nawn leh turte tana dil theih hun hnuhnung chu August 31, 2017 tih ni mah se, dil theih hun pawhsei a nih thu a sawi a; hun hawn belh chhungin scholarship dil ngei turin zirlai leh zirlai nu leh pate a chah. A dilna tur portal siam mek a nih avangin dil hun tur inhriattir leh tur a nih thu a sawi bawk.

Scholarship dilna hi internet online hmangin website www.scholarships.gov.in ah tih theih a ni a, mahnia tih theih a nih bakah, hmun hrang hranga Common Services Centre aṭangin tih theih a ni. Dilna form portal-ah a diltu bank account number leh International Finance Corporation (IFC Code) dah tel a ngai.

Thu dawn danin, Mizoramin minority pre-matric scholarship a thar (fresh)-a a hmuh theih zat bituk chu 12,300 a nih laiin, kumin August 24 thleng khan zirlai 1,564 chiahin dilna an thehlut. Nikum lamah scholarship diltute 

aṭangin Aadhaar number phût tel a ni a, Aadhaar card nei lo zirlai eng emaw zat an awm avangin zirlai, an nu leh pate leh zirtirtute'n an buaipui ṭha peih lo nia rin a ni.

AIZAWL, Sept 1: Over two decades after it was conceptualised, the first unit of a 60 MW power plant in Mizoram began generating electricity this week – making it the third power-surplus State in North East after Sikkim and Tripura. “The first unit (30 MW) of the 60 MW capacity Tuirial hydro-power plant started generation on trial basis from August 29,” North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) General Manager PK Bora said. “The second unit of the project would start generation from either Octoberend or the first week of November.” With a population of just 1.1 million, Mizoram’s current demand of electricity is only 110 MW to 115 MW during peak hours and is being met by the State’s few mini power projects and availability of its share of power from regional and Central sector projects. “After the full commissioning of Tuirial hydro-power project, Mizoram would be a power-surplus State,” an official of Mizoram’s Power department said, adding that the additional power is likely to be supplied to the regional or national grid. Farmers’ protests, agitations, topographical hindrance and administrative hurdles delayed the commissioning of the project, the biggest in Mizoram, which shares a border with Myanmar (510 km) and Bangladesh (318 km). Government-run NEEPCO, a “Mini Ratna” company under the Union Ministry of Power, commissioned the hydro-power plant utilising the water of Tuirial river in Kolasib district in northern Mizoram. 

“After the project was conceptualised in 1994, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared it on July 7, 1998,” Bora said. However, soon after project work started, farmers and locals launched a series of agitations against the submerging of their standing crops and farmland under the reservoir. Bora, who is the project head, said work came to a total halt on June 9, 2004, due to the agitation launched by the Tuirial Crop Compensation Claimant Association, claiming compensation for the standing crops in the riverine reserve forest. According to the company’s senior engineer, work resumed in 2011 after Union Power Ministry, NEEPCO and Mizoram Government jointly negotiated with the agitators. However, the delays and consequent price escalation pushed up the cost of the project, initially pegged at Rs 369 crore, to Rs 1,100 crore. Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla, while addressing an official meeting in Aizawl earlier this week, said that four more mini power plants are expected to be completed during 2018-19 financial year. – IANS

AIZAWL, Sept 1: Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla today said that any attempt to balkanise the State would be resisted to the end. Addressing the ruling Congress party workers at Congress Bhavan here, Lal Thanhawla said that any move to divide the State on ethnic lines would be opposed. He, however, said that the Mizo people should tread carefully while dealing with sensitive political issues. Reacting to the appeal made by the NGO Coordination Committee to all political parties not to field any candidate belonging to Chakma community, he said that such moves might not be in the interests of Mizoram. “Any Chakma, who is an Indian citizen can contest elections even as Independent,” he said, adding that it would not stop Chakma candidates from being elected. – PT