ICFAI Students Boycott Classes

Shillong, Oct 26 : Students of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University (ICFAI), Meghalaya on Monday decided to boycott classes and examinations after coming to know that the institution is an autonomous body and “not a Central university as announced earlier”.

“During our admissions we were told that ICFAI is a Central university which is affiliated to ICFAI, Hyderabad but recently we came to know that ICFAI here is just an autonomous university,” a student of the university, Donphang Gallong said.

The university has been witnessing a row of issues for a couple of weeks.

Vice Chancellor of ICFAI Meghalaya Professor YK Bhushan on Monday held a meeting with the agitating students who sought an explanation from him on ICFAI’s status, “non-fulfilment” of assurances on quality and service made by the university, qualification and behaviour of faculties, finalization of new education system, infrastructures and time schedules.

Prof Bhushan admitted that ICFAI Meghalaya is an independent body and that ICFAI, Hyderabad is only promoting and supporting the university here.

“We will take all corrective steps and even identify qualified teachers from outside as demanded by the students,” he said.

Source: The Shillong Times

Myanmar 'Unprepared' For Border Trade With India

Aizawl, Oct 26 : While India is almost prepared for the Indo-Myanmar border trade, the Myanmarese government has many works to finish for the same, an official said today.

PK Neihsial, Superintendent of Central Land Custom based at Champhai, informed DoNER Secretary Jayati Chandra, who visited the proposed border trade area at Zokhawthar, today said the border trade was yet to be commissioned.

''While Mizoram almost prepared for the border trade, the Myanmarese government has not executed works as expected. Among others, the road from Tiau (border point) to Tiddim is yet to be made an all-season road,'' the official informed the DoNER Secretary.

According to the customs official, border trade was taking place unofficially on one or two items of the 40 trade items listed for the border trade.

He said fertilizers, bicycles, vehicle spare parts and medicines were at the top of the list of the items which Myanmar wanted to import from India.

Mr Neihsial also said all the concerned departments were ready to occupy their offices at the Land Custom building once the border trade took off.

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Corporal Punishment 'Widespread' in Indian Schools

Punishments included hitting pupils with sticks and tying them to chairs

Corporal punishment is still widespread in India's schools, despite the fact it is illegal, according to a report.

More than 65% of children on average said they had received corporal punishment, according to children's organisation Plan International.

Its report found that the majority of these children attended state schools.

Out of the 13 countries which were the subjects of the research, India was ranked third in terms of the estimated economic cost of corporal punishment.

Stick beatings

The study, Prevention Pays, found discrimination by caste and gender was the major cause of violence against children in India.

Plan said many children abandoned school because of the punishments, which included hitting pupils with hands or sticks, making them stand in various positions for long periods and tying them to chairs.

Corporal punishment in India

Reports by children

State
Yes (%)
No (%)

Source: Plan/Ministry of Children and Child Development

Andhra Pradesh

50.03

46.97

Assam

99.56

0.44

Bihar

47.45

52.55

Delhi

69.11

30.89

Goa

34.25

65.75

Gujarat

48.97

51.03

Kerala

57.58

42.42

Madhya Pradesh

48.73

51.27

Maharashtra

75.9

24.1

Mizoram

90.86

9.14

Rajasthan

17.87

82.13

Uttar Pradesh

81.59

18.41

West Bengal

55.56

44.44

Total

65.01

34.99

Plan's report is taken from research carried out by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a UK think tank.

The ODI based its research on several sources, including Indian government data about child abuse in the country.

Delhi's Ministry of Women and Child Development interviewed more than 3,000 school children in 2007 to find out the extent of corporal punishment.

In total, nearly 12,500 children aged between five and 18 years old, including many who did not attend school, from 13 states took part in the research; more than half of them said they had faced sexual abuse.

The study found that more boy students (54%) suffered corporal punishment than girls (45%).

Students in the states of Assam, Mizoram and Uttar Pradesh reported the highest rates of corporal punishment, while Rajasthan and Goa had the lowest.

Plan said the main causes of violence against young Indians, including in schools, was discrimination on the basis of caste and gender; "societal acceptance of violence as a form of discipline"; and a general lack of awareness about children's rights.

The study found there were on average at least five beatings of students per day in the schools included in the survey.

Teachers tended to justify their actions by saying they were overburdened with too many pupils.

The study found that even many students believed corporal punishment was sometimes necessary.

Plan reckons anything between $1.4bn and $7.4bn was being lost every year in India in social benefits because of school violence.

The cost is based on estimates of how the larger economy is affected by the impact of corporal punishment on pupils' attendance and academic performance.

Only the US and Brazil suffered a greater economic cost because of corporal punishment, according to the research.

Plan said it had introduced a campaign to raise awareness about the impact of violence on children, Learn Without Fear, in seven Indian states.

The other 10 countries involved in Plan's study were Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Jordan and Egypt.

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Bru Refugees Split on Repatriation To Mizoram

By Prabir Sil
 
Agartala, Oct 26 : Uncertainty looms large over the repatriation of Bru refugees to Mizoram now sheltered in North Tripura’s Kanchanpur subdivision after a vertical split among refugee bodies.

As per the Centre’s guidelines, around 1,200 refugee families were supposed to return to Mizoram within first part of October but it has not happened due to a ‘misunderstanding’ among refugee leaders.

Sources claimed, the repatriation of Bru refugees has virtually stalled due to a split among refugee leaders belonging to Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF) and other NOGs. Virtually declaring a revolt against Elvis Chorkey, president of MBDPF, three NGOs under the leadership of Binoy Reang has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his intervention to remove the stalemate.

They have also staged a demonstration in front of the Dasda RD block office in Kanchanpur subdivision on Sunday to ventilate their grievances. In the letter addressed to the Prime Minister, BRU NGOs had mentioned the plight of the refugees sheltered in six relief camps since a long time.

The letter has been jointly submitted by MBDPF, Young Bru Association (YBA) and Bru Displaced Welfare Organisation (BDWO) in protest against the unconditional repatriation of Bru refugees and signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) against the will of majority of the Bru people.

Earlier, the BDWO had expressed it’s dismay over the ongoing preparation for the settlement of refugees after they were being repatriated to Mizoram.

According to administration here, the split among Bru refugee leaders has virtually marred the prospect of return of refugees though the Centre has been piling heat on the Mizoram Government to take all the bonafide refugees back. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in his last visit to Mizoram had made it clear that all the refugees should be repatriated by end of this year. It seems, the process will get further delayed due to the squabbles among the refugee leaders.

Naga Youths March in Delhi To Push Peace Process

By Ninglun Hanghal

New Delhi, Oct 26 : Impatient over the long drawn peace process between the Government of India (GOI) and NSCN, hundreds of Naga youths in black shirts took out a silent march from Delhi's Jantar Mantar to Parliament street calling for an outcome of the 13-year long peace talks.

In the press hand out distributed at the occasion, the silent marchers stated that the peace talk was welcomed with much enthusiasm and hope for the Nagas to finally live with dignity and to ascertain their own destiny.

Yet, as it stands today, the youth and the Naga community at large feel that the peace talks had not yielded any substantive result.

Instead it has come to a standstill without any sign of a tangible solution, the handout said.

Naga youths during the protest demonstration at New Delhi

It also noted that Government of India, while claiming that it recognizes the unique history and situation of the Nagas, has failed to show political will and decisiveness to arrive at a political solution, even after the Nagas proposed a model of solution under "special federal relationship' with GOI.

the GOI attempting to derail the peace process at critical juncture through calculated provocations and infringements, it opined.

It also stated that while Nagas and their leadership, continued to believe on the political negotiation, the GOI has tested and taken patience of the Nagas for granted; GOI has failed to honour "primary gist of the Amsterdam Joint Communiqué, declared on July 11, 2002, on which the political negotiation would carry forward and solution to be arrived at.

One of the participants in the silent march, James Pochury, a human rights activist, who spoke to this correspondent, said that the Ceasefire Monitoring Cell created in 1997 had laid down a non negotiable guidelines .

On the matter of the GOI breaking the peace agreements, the activist pointed out that there are several occasions like the Siroy Seige of 2009 and continued implementation of AFSPA in the areas inhabited by the Nagas, while the valley areas of Imphal in Manipur had been lifted.
The latest breached of trust being the arrest of Anthony Shing – an NSCN leader from Kathmandu airport in September 27, 2010 by India's National Investigation Agency, who was on his way for the peace talks in Delhi.

According to Pochury, the basis for the peace talks should begin from the people and should be a dialogue process, on a win-win situation.

The peace marchers also submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to take the Indo – Naga peace process seriously and reminded that the Government of India has in letter and spirit failed to honour and recognized the political nature of the Naga issue for which the peace talk is indispensable.