Newly elected Mahasabha Executive Members given oath on May 24 at Silchar

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The combined oath taking ceremony of the newly elected executive members of the Mahasabha, and its Sahitya and Sanskriti Parishad, took place in the holy name of Radha Madhavjiu on May 24, 2009 at the Community Hall, Srila Bhubeneswar Sadhutakur Sevashram, Tarapur, Silchar, Assam.

The ceremony was performed by Sri Prangopal Mukherjee, the Gaddishwar of Ghaghrapar. He administered the oath of allegiance to Dr Debendra Kumar Sinha, the elected President of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM). The President in turn administered the oath of confidence to all other executive committee members and the office-bearers of Sahitya and Sanskriti Parishad.

Central Committee Mahasabha

President:

• Dr Debendra Kumar Sinha (Silchar)

Working Presidents:

• Chandrakanta Sinha (Silchar) Sahitya, Sanskriti, Andolan Parishad, Legal affairs
• Sundar Mukherjee (Tripura), Development Council & Finance & Organization
• Rebati Mohan Sinha (Mumbai), Organization outside N.E & Finance
• Padmasen Sinha (Bangladesh), Organization Bangladesh & Finance
• Hemkanti Sinha, Research & Analytics and Development Council

Vice Presidents:

• Sandya Banerjee Sinha (Silchar), Social Reforms & Andolan Parishad
• Krishnaballav Sinha (Meherpur), Radhamadhavjew & Social Development
• Pulin Behari Sinha (Baromuni), Economic Development & Employment
• Rajendra Sinha (Bikrampur), Religion Social Affairs
• Manikumar Sinha (Kalain), Sri Sri Radhamadhavjiu, Org and Finance
• Matikanta Sinha (Dudpur, Natural Calamities & Emergency)
• Paritosh Sinha (Tripura),7 Point Demands & org in Tripura
• Ramusena Sinha (Puna), Finance & org outside NE.
• Haripodo Sinha (Tripura), Finance
• Haridas Sinha (Tripura), Social Affairs in Tripura.
• Anil Sinha (Diphu), Organization of Assam & Manipur
• Badal Sinha, Organization of Barak Valley
• Srikanta Sinha (Tripura), Education

Secretary General:

Uday Sinha (Silchar)

General Secretaries:

• Dr Sushanta Sinha (Tripura), Organization & Deputation etc.
• Dr Prabat Sinha (Silchar), Research & Analytic Development Council & Student affairs
• Dr Nirmalya Sinha (Delhi), Organization and Finance.
• Krishnadas Sinha, Andolan Parishad, Social Welfare and org.

Secretaries:

• Santilal Sinha (Pratapgarh), Organization, Student affairs.
• Nirmal Kumar Sinha (Meherpur), Andolan Parishad.& Students Affairs.
• Sushil Sinha (Bangladesh), Org & Literally affairs.
• Bagindra Sinha (Jatrapur), Communication & Org.
• Premananda Sinha ( Dullavchara),Cultural affairs
• Ramani Sinha (Kalain), Social Affairs & Org.
• Samarjit Sinha (Guwahati), Org of Brahmaputra Valley & Finance.
• Henryy Sinha (Delhi), Student Youth Affairs & Publicity
• Subhal Sinha (Tripura), Organization in Tripura .
• Rakesh Sinha. (Manipur), Organization Of Manipur.
• Binoy Sinha, Organization of Barak Valley.
• Shyamananda Sinha. (Ahur), Social Affairs & Andolan Parishad, Tripura.
• Donomani Sinha, (Agartala), Org.

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Mahasabha gave nod to create national Fund

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Bishnupriya Manipuri people residing all over India can now contribute to the Mahasabha Fund. The decision to extend the geographical reach of the fund by Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) was taken in a meeting held in Silchar, Assam, on May 25, 2009.

Earlier contribution to Mahasabha Fund was limited to Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya and other north-eastern states where Bishnupriya Manipuri are residing. With the passing of the resolution it would facilitate Bishnupriya Manipuri people living in other States of India to contribute to the Fund of the decade-old socio-cultural body.

A 25-member Committee under the Presidentship of Dr Debendra Kumar Sinha (Silchar) has been formed to chalk out the procedures and means to strengthen the Fund.

Most members of this committee had stressed the enrolment drive of Annual/ Life membership should be carried out with renewed vigor. The Annual and Life membership fees were fixed at Rs.10 and Rs.1000/- respectively. All members present felt a strong need to make the NBMM stronger for which the organs of the Mahasabha like Student Union, Women’s Organization, Ex. Servicemen’s Forum, Andolan Parishad, Reformation Cell need be strengthened.

Other members who are on the Committee are:

1. Rebati Mohan Sinha, Deputy Chairman,(Mumbai)

2. Ramisena Sinha (Pune) Member

3. C.K.Sinha, Member,(Silchar)

4. Dr Nirmalya Sinha (New Delhi) Member

5. Nilkanta Sinha, (Tripura)

6. Jyotiprakash Sinha

7. Uday Sinha(Silchar)

8. Prabhat Sinha.(Silchar)

9. Sabyasachi Sinha

10. Kulendra Sinha

11. Dalim Sinha

12. Brojomohan Sinha, Agartala

13. Dr Lakhikanta Sinha, (Agartala

14. Dr Indrajit Sinha, (Agartala)

15. Sarajit Sinha, (Agartala)

16. Krishnadas Sinha (Dilip) (Kailasahar)

17. Rana Sinha, (Kanchanbari)

18. Madan Sinha, (Kamalpur)

19. Subhash Sinha, (Kamalpur)

20. Babaidhani Sinha,( Ahur)

21. Sri Anil Sinha ( Gautam) (Diphu)

22. Debasish Sinha, (Singla)

23. Lalit Sinha. (Singla)

24. Satyen Sinha, Convener, (Guwahati)

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Teachers called off their hunger strike; meeting on June 18 with Government

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The Bishnupriya Manipuri Language teachers have called off their indefinite hunger strike on June 6, 2009. The decision to withdraw the protest has come after the Assam Government gave nod to meet with them on June 18, 2009 in Dispur, Assam.

The stay on the protest is temporary and it will be resumed if the Assam Government doesn’t meet the longstanding demands of the 149 Bishnupriya Manipuri teachers who sat on strike on June 5, 2009 in Silchar, Assam, said Anil Rajkumar, President, Bishnupriya Manipuri Student Union.

Hunger strike which ran for two days in the precincts of the DC Office, Silchar, Assam, two persons got critically serious and they had to be given immediate medical assistance. The names of the teachers are Subodh Sinha from Singhari and Namita Rajkumari. Subodh Sinha teaches in the Merwah LP School, Chencoorie, and Namita Rajkumari in the Tikarbasti LP School, Silchar.

The Assam Government should follow its own decision on releasing the remuneration of the 149 Bishnupriya Manipuri teachers, said Prabir Rajkumar of Bishnupriya Manipuri Language Teachers Association.

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9 Years of Hope

By RK Rishikesh Sinha, New Delhi

The 149 Bishnupriya Manipuri teachers were slogging in the decrepit Government schools for complete nine years with one wish that one day their job will be permanent and they will be receiving remuneration to their services. What we will call – is it not a mockery in broad day-light with the lives of 149 teachers and their dependents?

The financial and psychological toll that these teachers had to undergo year after year is beyond one guess and imagination. The child who was in class I in 2001 is now a teenager and is getting ready for the matriculation examination; is it not an irony that the same teacher who had taught this child, his life didn’t move an inch. His life has been brought to a screeching grinding halt.

It not only put a pause to the professional and personal advancement of the person, but it ceases the lives of many people: his wife, children and his old parents. The lives of all the dependents were put on stake.

A simple arithmetic calculates the figure to over 600 people (considering a family is consists of 4 members) whose life has been put to backburner. They haven’t seen growth, what “growth” means to them. They were nowhere in the race of growth. For them growth was a burden. That they knew very well the burden, one day, if not got a support from the government and the civil society, they will perish.

The plight of these teachers who went to teach the Bishnupriya Manipuri language in the primary schools of the states in the three districts of Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi, were abstained from the basic source of their sustenance since 2001.

The message that comes out from this episode is that the survival of the Bishnupriya Manipuri language, spoken by a minority community which has its presence in the three districts of Assam, is indeed in stake and it may, sooner or later if not taken steps, might appear in the list of endangered language of India like the Lepcha language of Sikkim is.

The Government of Assam has failed to support and enrich a language spoken by a minority population in the state. The act of negligence to the development and preservation of the Bishnupriya Manipuri language is contrary to the universal belief that a child ability to absorb facts and information increases when the primary medium of instruction is in its mother tongue.

But this hasn’t been practiced in this case.

How one could expect with the unsympathetic approach of the state government that people will take up the noble profession of teaching? Definitely they will abstain from taking up the teaching profession. This will not only have a cascading affect on the language but it will bring into edge the identity of the whole community. It will create ‘identity-crisis’ amongst the members of the affected community.

Unfortunately this has been taking place in the community. If it is not stemmed there is an imminent danger lurking ahead that a generation will come with out any basic knowledge of their language, culture and custom.

In the same breathe a fact that calls for urgent attention and pondering is: the type of education children of the 149 teachers would have received. These aggrieved teachers couldn’t have thought of giving proper education to them. Alas! The future that is lying ahead for these children is gloomy and uncertain. They can’t even think of standing to the future challenges that they had to face. Forget the condition health of these children.

However, things become more serious when one considers the man-hour loss of these 149 teachers for 9 years. Take this: If a take-home salary of a teacher is meager Rs. 5000 INR per month, in 9 years it amounts to Rs. 8, 04, 60,000 INR! This figure comes considering the revision of the salary didn’t take place in the 9 years. What a great loss for us and for the whole community?

Now with the costs and man-power loss involved in this period, one question that has to be answered urgently: Is it worth carrying the cost for another unimaginable time period? A definite answer has to come very soon.

Else the teachers would again resume their duties with a hollow hope that one day they will start receiving their dues from the government. Things will go on and on.

If you or your relatives have been affected by the non-payment of the dues, do comment.

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Bishnupriya Manipuri Teachers’ body lauds Govt initiative

Lack of vote-bank mars demand of Bishnupriya Manipuri teachers

Creation of Political Platform: Dire need of the time

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Braving rain, over 100 teachers sat today on strike in Silchar

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Over 100 Bishnupriya Manipuri teachers sat on a hunger strike today morning braving rain at the Deputy Commissioner Office, Silchar, said President of Bishnupriya Manipuri Language Teachers Association, Prabir Rajkumar when he was contacted.

At 4 pm, representatives from Bishnupriya Manipuri Students Association, Bishnupriya Manipuri Gana Sangram Parishad and Bishnupriya Manipuri Language Teachers Association held meeting with Gautam Ganguli, Deputy Commissioner, Cachar at his office.

In the meeting, Gautam Ganguli urged the representatives to called off their strike in keeping in view that the budget is going to be tabled soon in the State Assembly. But the offer was rejected, said Prabir Rajkumar.

Unless and until officially any communication is not sent, the hunger strike of the Bishnupriya Manipuri teachers will not be stopped and it will be carried out as usual, said the President of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Language Teachers Association.

The Bishnupriy Manipuri teachers from Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts of Assam participated in the strike.

The meeting was attended by Prabir Rajkumar of Bishnupriya Manipuri Language Teachers Association, Samir Sinha of Bishnupriya Manipuri Gana Sangram Parishad, and Anil Rajkumar, Bishnupriya Manipuri Students Association.

The 149 Bishnupriya Manipuri Language teachers have not received any remuneration since 2001 from the Government of Assam.

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Hunger strike by Bishnupriya Manipuri Language teachers on June 5 in Silchar

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Water has gone above the roof for the 149- strong Bishnupriya Manipuri teachers appointed in the LP schools of Assam. They are sitting on an indefinite hunger strike to draw attention of the state government to their plight on June 5, 2009 in front of the Silchar DC Office.

In a memorandum submitted to the Deputy Commissioner, Silchar, the Bishnupriya Manipuri Language Teachers Association, intimated that due to failure of the government to regularize their services they are taking this course of action.

The Teacher’s Association has submitted similar memorandums to the Deputy Commissioners of Karimganj and Hailakandi districts.

In 2001, altogether 149 Bishnupriya Manipuri Language teachers were appointed in LP schools in three districts (Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj) of Barak Valley. But they have not been receiving any remuneration as their services were not regularized.

The Bishnupriya Manipuri Gana Sangram Parishad and Bishnupriya Manipuri Students Association had extended their support to the Bishnupriya Manipuri Language Teachers Association’s decision.

Mahasabha Central Committee meets on 24 May in Silchar

After the 43rd conference held at Tripura, the newly-elected Executive Members of Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha Central Committee are meeting on 24 May, 2009 at Srila Bhubeneshwar Sadhuthakur Sevasram community Hall, Silchar.

The meet will be discussing on the resolutions, adopted in the 43rd conference held in Tripura, and on its implementation.

The meeting convened by NBMM will be attended by two of its own body – Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Parisad and Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sanskriti Parisad.

The meeting will be marked with the oath-taking of the newly-elected Executive Members. Discussions on fund and on the Constitution will also take place, according to a communiqué released by the Office of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha.

In the 43rd conclave, NBMM raised the demand for introducing the Bishnupriya Manipuri language in the primary stage of education, appointment of Bishnupriya Manipuri language teachers and SI of schools, and establishment of Devolopment Council in Assam and Tripura.

List of office-beares. 

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List of contesting candidates from Silchar Lok Sabha constituency

Lok Sabha Election 2009 Special – Part I

Total number of candidates: 16
Candidates of recognized National and State Political Parties: 4

(1) Name of Candidate:
Kabindra Purkayastha

Party affiliation:
Bharatia Janata Party

(2) Name of Candidate:
Dipak Bhattacharjee

Party affiliation:
Communist Party of India (Marxist)

(3) Name of Candidate:
Badruddin Ajmal

Party affiliation:
Assam United Democratic Front

(4) Name of Candidate:
Sontosh Mohan Dev

Party affiliation:
Indian National Congress

Independent Candidates:

1. Kantimoy Deb
2. Chondan Rabidas
3. Jayanta Mallick
4. Jay Sundar Das
5. Nagendra Chandra Das
6. Nabadwip Das
7. Pijush Kanti Das
8. Manish Bhattacharjee
9. Yogendra Kumar Singh
10. Subir Deb
11. Sumit Roy
12. Nazrul Haque Mazarbhuiyan

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Kartik Sena Sinha – 3rd richest MLA from Assam

If Kartik Sena Sinha is not media savvy and doesn’t have any political say of his own in the Assam politics, so what? He is the 3rd richest Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Assam. Being a rich MLA in the Assam Assembly at least hogs media light on him. Though occasionally! And this what that came out in the India’s prestigious news magazine India Today in its February 23 cover issue (page 28) story “Assembly of the Rich”. 

Ahead of him in the crorepati bracket comes – Badruddin Ajmal of AUDF (South Salmara constituency), his net worth is Rs. 14.2 crore; second, Bithika Dev (Silchar constituency) with Rs 6.2 crore. Kartik Sena Sinha net asset is Rs. 4.5 crore.

A Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) candidate from Patherkandi constituency, Kartik Sena Sinha defeated K. M. Baharul Islam (AUDF) by a margin of 2,580 votes in the Assam Assembly election held in 2006. Among 8-candidates contesting from the LA-2 Patherkandi Assembly Constituency, he got the highest votes (37220) totaling 36.96 percentage of votes. 

Other candidates in the election fray with him were – Nandeswar Mukharjee (AGP), Monilal Gowala (INC), Moinul Haque (JD(S)), Abdul Hamid (IND), Taj Uddin (IND), Debangshu Nath (IND). 

Kartik Sinha also served as a Member in the Committee On Public Undetakings under the chairmanship of Membar Gogoi. 

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Bithi Sinha begged the first position in Golden Voice of Barak competition

Bishnupriya Manipuri girls are coming forward and are proving their mettle. In a recently held mega final competition Golden Voice of Barak programme it was very much visible. Bithi Sinha begged the first position in the closely contested competition. In the same platform, the third position was shared by Manjula Sinha (of Patherkandi, Assam) and Chandrani Sharma. 

The mega finale competition was inaugurated by President Mrs Sushmita Dev; Saptaparna Chakroborty of Sa-Re-Ga-Ma fame and well known singer Sivaji Chatterjee were in judges’ chair. 

With the success of musical shows on the Indian television, talent hunt shows are widely used to give a platform to singers to showcase their talent. The trend is catching and is being accepted by upcoming singers to bring out their singing talent.

Sa-Re-Ga-Ma is one successful musical show running in Zee TV which has produced singers of repute like Shreya Ghosal and Kunal Ghanjawala. Other similar musical programmes on the same format are running in almost all entertainment channels. 

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