IMPHAL: Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs, Kaushal Kishore on Wednesday chaired a review meeting of various central schemes taken up in Manipur including the Imphal smart city and PM’s housing for all scheme. The meeting, which was held at the City Convention Centre in Imphal, was attended by state’s Municipal Administration Housing and Urban Development minister Yumnam Khemchand, Commissioner (MAHUD) M Joy and Chief Town Planner (in-charge)N Benju and other officials. Earlier in the morning, Kaushal Kishore also had a discussion on the implementation of the government schemes and projects with the state Chief Minister N Biren Singh at the latter’s secretariat in Imphal. Sharing the photographs of the discussion at CM’s secretariat in Imphal in a tweet, Biren Singh wrote, “It was a pleasure to have Shri @mp kaushal ji Hon’ble Union MoS for Housing & Urban affairs at my official residence.Deliberated on the implementation schemes & project
The grants for demands, including Land Revenue, Stamp and registration and District Administration among others, were passed in the state Assembly on Wednesday.
Manipur women street vendors staged a sit-in protest at Temporary Ima Market in Imphal in protest against government order on specific timing for selling goods.
Our Correspondent Imphal, Nov. 2 (EMN): 20-year-old Teresa N Varte was crowned Miss Kut 2022 during a day-long beauty pageant held at Peace ground Tuibuong, 65 km south of Imphal in Manipur’s Churachandpur district on Nov. 1. 18 beautiful girls belonging to different communities participated at the Miss Kut 2022 beauty contest as part of the state level Kut festival, the annual premiere and post-harvest festival of the Kuki-Chin-Mizo tribes in Manipur. Teresa N Varte, a BA first year student from Rayburn College Teresa who is a resident of Churachandpur’s Renkai locality went home richer with a cheque of INR 1 lakh and gift hampers by Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Yumnam Khemchand. The MLAs Th Arunkumar and Kimneo Haokip Hangshing presented the prizes along with gift hampers to Vahichong Haokip and Rost Niangbakmawi who were crowned first and second runners-up respectively. They were also awarded cheques of INR 75,000 and INR 50,000 respectively. Besides, the first