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Imphal Times Supplementary issue Page No. 3
Manipur Celebrates 74th Independence Day PM Modi highlights importance
Every Human Lives is Precious : CM of Aatmanirbhar Bharat in 74th

IT News The Chief Minister handed Independence Day speech
Imphal, August 16: over the Chief Minister’s
Trophy for Community
As in other parts of the country, Service Awards to SP, IT News decided to become Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP)
the State also celebrated the Bishnupur Smt. Priyadarshini New Delhi, Aug 16: ‘Aatmanirbhar’ amid the project and announced that
74 th Independence Day Laishram, Inspector Shri coronavirus pandemic. over Rs 110 lakh crore would
yesterday. The State level Oinam Ajit Singh, and Women Prime Minister Narendra “Becoming ‘Aatmanirbhar be invested in the NIP. For
celebration was held at the Constable Smt. Okram Bijeta Modi unfurled the tricolour (self-reliant)’ is mandatory. I this, the Prime Minister said
1 st Battalion Manipur Rifles Devi. The Awards for Chief at the Red fort to mark India’s am confident that India will that more than 7,000 projects
Parade Ground, Imphal with Minister’s Trophy for Anti- 74th Independence Day . realise this dream. I am have been identifiedacross
Chief Minister Shri N. Biren Drug Campaign was also Addressing the Nation from confident of the abilities, various sectors.National
Singh as the Chief Guest. handed over to SP, Thoubal the ramparts of the Red Fort confidence and potential of Infrastructure Pipeline
Chief Minister hoisted the Dr. Sarangthem Ibomcha, ASI yesterday, the Prime Minister my fellow Indians. Once we Project will play a crucial role
National flag amid playing of Shri Anoubam Krishna Sharma talked about various issues decide to do something, we in pulling the country out of
National Anthem. and Head Constable Shri ranging from management of do not rest until we achieve impact of Covid 19. NIP is a
Addressing the gathering, N. Moiranthem Rinash Meitei. the Covid-19 pandemic, that goal,” he said. project that will revolutionise
Biren Singh said that the most Paona Brajabashi Award for measures to boost domestic Speaking from the ramparts India’s infra creation efforts.
precious thing is human life Best NCC Boy Cadet was manufacturing as part of the of the Red Fort , the Prime Many new jobs will be
and every human is valuable given to Shri N. Bunty Angom Aatmanirbhar Bharat Minister announced a major created , our farmers ,
to the government. The and Rani Gaidinliu Award for Abhiyan, steps to revive the push to infrastructure youngsters , entrepreneurs
government is making all its Best NCC Girl Cadet to economy with a focus on sector while addressing the will benefit.
efforts to contain the deadly Mayanglambam Nenita Devi. middle class people . nation on 74th The Prime Minister
disease, he added. He Deputy Chief Minister Y. Prime Minister reiterated the Independence Day. He said emphasised that now along
mentioned that the Joykumar, Cabinet Ministers, importance of Aatmanirbhar that the Government is with Make in India , we have
government acknowledges MLAs, Chief Secretary, DGP, Bharat and assured full prioritising on improving the to move forward with mantra
the selfless sacrifice made by top civil, police and military support to fellow Indians overall infrastructure for of Make for World also.
the doctors, nurses and other officers and others took part during the need of the hour. faster development with the In his address , the Prime
medical staffs in the fight in the celebration. Over 130 crore Indians have help of National Minister said thatthe whole
against COVID-19. He lauded World has been noticing the
th
the team of doctors of JNIMS 74 Independence Day celebrated in RIMS reforms being pursued in
led by Dr. Tharoijam Utthan for India. As a result, the FDI
rendering their service ‘Help desk for hill districts in RIMS Hospital’ inflow has broken all records.
selflessly towards treating the India witnessed 18% jump in
COVID-19 patients at JNIMS. IT News care services of RIMS FDI even during the Covid
He appealed the people of the Imphal, August 16: Hospital. We need to work and pandemic.
State not to stigmatize the shortly, he added. Minister Narendra Modi, fight the COVID-19 pandemic The Prime Minister said that
healthcare workers and other Mentioning about the various developmental works The Regional Institute of together. 7 crore poor families were
frontline warriors. The Chief achievements of the present are being taken up in the Medical Sciences, (RIMS) At the outset of his speech, given free gas cylinders,
Minister urged the people to government in ‘War against NorthEast and there is peace Imphal celebrated 74 th the Director remembered more than 80 crore people
support and cooperate in Drugs’, Chief Minister said and development in Independence Day in RIMS, Major Laishram Jyotin Singh, were provided free food with
fighting the deadly COVID-19 that with the establishment of NorthEast India. He Imphal. Prof. A. Santa Singh, an Army doctor who died or without ration cards, about
disease. Fast Track Court, around 110 mentioned that Prime Minister Director hoisted national flag fighting a suicide bomber in 90 thousand crores were
Mentioning about the persons have been convicted laid the foundation stone for in front of Administrative Kabul, who conferred the directly transferred to bank
unwanted incidents that so far in connection with drug the Rs. 3000 crore Manipur Block of RIMS, Imphal today. country’s highest peacetime accounts. Garib Kalyan
happened recently due to related cases. He said that Water Supply Project recently. The celebration was followed gallantry medal, Ashok Rojgar Abhiyan has also
denial of admission of patients various drug factories have The Union Minister for Road by award function in front of CRED. The cash awards were Chakra, posthumously at the been started to provide
in hospitals, Chief Minister been busted by the police in Transport and Highways Shri A Block, RIMS, Imphal. Prof. given in recognition of the 62nd Republic Day parade. We employment to poor in their
appealed to the hospitals and various parts of the State. He Nitin Gadkari will lay the A. Santa Singh awarded cash sacrificed made by the front feel proud that the RIMS could villages.
doctors not to refuse said that the government will foundation stones for various awards to Prof. Ch. line health workers such as produce such courageous The Prime Minister said that
treatment to any patient. He continue the crackdown National Highway projects Arunkumar Singh, Medical doctors, nurses, paramedical doctor for the nation. The of the 40 crore Jan Dhan
also warned the hospitals and against drug smuggling. He amounting to around Rs. 3000 Superintendent of RIMS staff, civil security services Director announced the accounts opened in the
doctors against denial of mentioned that the present crores in Manipur on 17/08/ Hospital, Prof. Kh. Sulochana and sanitary health workers proposal to name RIMS country, about 22 crore
treatment to patients. The government brought smile to 2020 through video Devi, Professor in-charge of during the COVID-19 Sports Medicine Complex accounts are of women only.
government has already the faces of the people and conference. Virology Research & pandemic. under the name of Dr. Laishram At the time of Corona, in
issued an order in this regard, scores of people including old On the occasion, in Diagnostic Laboratory, Prof. The Director also announced Jotin Singh as an honour to April-May-June, about thirty
he added. aged persons have been recognition of absolute valour Kh. Ranjana Devi, Head of that a HELP DESK will be open his supreme sacrifice. thousand crore of rupees
Stating about the extension of benefited from various and gallant spirit of late Department of Microbiology, in RIMS Hospital especially The Independence Day have been directly
lockdown, Chief Minister said schemes such as GTV, GTH, Riflemen Ratan Salam of RIMS, Prof. Th. Suraj Singh, for patients coming from the celebration was attended by transferred to the accounts
in consultation with the CMHT, CMST etc. He opined 4 th Assam Rifles, Chief Professor in-charge of Multi- far flung areas of hill districts Medical Superintendent of of women in these three
Cabinet Ministers and that the present government Minister handed over the Disciplinary Research Unit, of Manipur in particular and RIMS Hospital, Principal of months.In Corona’s time, we
members of the Consultative does not give false promises cheque of Rs. 5 lakhs to the Mrs. Sh. Lata Devi, Nursing village area in general. This Dental College and College of have seen what the role of
Committee on COVID-19, the to the people and is committed wife of late Riflemen Ratan Superintendent of RIMS HELP DESK will help people Nursing, Heads of Digital India campaign has
government will decide on to fulfil every promise made to Salam under the newly Hospital, Shri Manihar Singh, coming from far flung areas of Departments, senior officials, been. Just last month, almost
extension of the lockdown. the people. instituted scheme called Major Chief Security Officer of MSS hill districts while coming for faculty members, nursing 3 lakh crore rupees have been
SOPs and other guidelines will Chief Minister stated that Laishram Jyotin Singh Ex- and Shri L. Hemchandra treatment in RIMS Hospital officials, staff, civil security, transacted from BHIM UPI
be issued in this regard under the leadership of Prime gratia scheme. Singh, Vice-President of and to improve the patient and health workers of CRED. alone, he said.
Boycotts and midnight gunshots
security forces would be considerable change. is time for all stakeholders how many people from of people of all faiths, caste, that, there are certain
everywhere, looking for those Independence day, for a concerned to prioritize mainland India know the and colour. responsibilities which we as
rebels who had fired the not- change, is celebrated now in ‘negotiation’ and ‘solution’. heroics of Maniram Dewan, U India is free from the a citizen owe to the country
celebratory gunshots. There the Hills and not boycotted. The Government on its part Tirot Sing, Bir Tikendrajit, Britishers. Are its people free and the people who fought
was a reason why people Measuring that development should also accord due Chengjapao Kuki, Rani from - being oppressed, being for its freedom. Eight
were wary of the so-called by its own standard is worth importance to resolving Gaidinliu, U Kiang Nangbah, Taji subjected to authoritarian decades ago, people were
operations by the security applauding. However, the real militancy issues in the North Mideran, kushal konwar, rule, inequality, poverty, etc.? ready to sacrifice their life
forces; boys and men would sense of freedom is yet to be East to usher in peace and Shoorvir Pasaltha, Bhogeshwarii The slogan of freedom from so that their future
By: T S Haokip be paraded and a masked man experienced as would have development. Efforts should Phuakanii, Kanakllata Barua and poverty had long been a generations could decide
would scan all the faces one been expected in a country be taken to bring all the rebels Matmor Jamoh. movement within the their future with no white-
The boycott and shutdown by one. The fact that anyone that has experienced seventy- to the talks table. ‘Disturbed The day India got its development world. ‘Garibi men dictating terms on
calls, for independence day whom the man with mask three years of Independence. area’ tags have disturbed the independence i.e 15th of Hatao’ (Eradicating poverty) them. Let us not take for
2020 by six militant groups pointed would be nabbed As far as militancy issue is economic growth of the August 1947 merits a was modeled along this granted the freedom we
based in Manipur, Tripura, irrespective of whether one concerned, we have come a region for far too long now. celebration with pomp and concept. Today it appears as enjoyed today. We have been
Assam and Meghalaya and was innocent or not long way but there is still Except for the millennials, not joy by all; it came with huge if the movement has been given freedom from foreign
ULFA-I and GPRN/NSCN in (everyone was innocent- no another long way to go; there many people will have a costs of life, money, and time. misunderstood as Garib Hatao rulers. It is time for us to
the entire North East India, militants stayed in a village are many organisations who fascinating story of the To ensure that, India need not (Eradicating the poor). It is continue our flights for other
revoked childhood after firing shots on 14th are yet to come to the talks Independence Day conduct operations to nab our responsibility to ask freedoms. All of us, as an
memories- where it was August midnight) frightened table. The people have long celebration, especially in the those not celebrating the day. ourselves- Is it justifiable that individual, society, and state
customary for militants to most people, which made been held to ransom with the states like Manipur and Nationalism can’t and the freedom that our has a role to play. As the tri-
boycott Independence day them all the more suspicious promise of a separate Nagaland. Coupled with that shouldn’t be enforced- rather forefathers whether rich or colour is unfurled today, may
and fire gunshots at the in the eyes of the masked homeland, based on experience, the history books it should come from within. If poor, from north or south, those ideals and dreams that
stroke of midnight on the man. Independence day was historical cause. While we of schools and colleges seem we in any way contribute to Brahmins or Adivasis, our freedom fighters fought
14th of August every year. a day not many people look pay much attention to to dwell mainly on the the feeling of alienation, Muslims, or Hindus gave their for, be revived and may their
The sound of those forward to then. For a decade history, our future, and the narratives of the mainland discrimination and life for should only benefit a idea of freedom, which is - in
gunshots, though similar to or so, the ordeal was the same. future of our children are Indians and their fights. subjugation felt by our own few selected people? What the words of Rabindranath
celebratory crackers as Post the ceasefire and SOO drifting towards serious Northeastern people are countrymen, it is us who worth is Independence if Tagore, ‘where the mind is
must have been witnessed agreements between the economic gloom. The made to worship leaders should rethink. Primarily, we people die hungry, untreated, without fear and the head is
elsewhere in India on Government and a few militants should consider projected to have played will have to make certain the and communalised? Is this the held high,’ be realized. Happy
Independence day had militant organisations, what is best feasible for the bigger roles just because they prevalence of an India that is India that was envisioned? Independence Day to all!
quite the opposite situations in trouble-torn people if they truly represent occupied bigger space in the a c c o m m o d a t i v e , While we look at the different
connotation in the North states like Manipur and the causes of the people, as history books of schools and understanding and aspects of freedom, it is (The writer is author of the
East. It was frightening as Nagaland have witnessed a often proclaimed by them. It colleges. It will be interesting sympathetic to the concerns equally important to remember book HILLY DREAMS)