The Northeast Notebook

Lighting up NagalandNagaland has launched an ambitious project to electrify every village of the state by the end of next year. Under a prog...

Lighting up Nagaland
Nagaland has launched an ambitious project to electrify every village of the state by the end of next year. Under a programme called the Nagaland Empowerment of People for Economic Development (NEPED), the state government has already started producing electricity in villages with tiny contraptions called ‘hydrogers’. Each of these produces 0.5 kw to 5 kw power, which is enough to meet the requirements of a village with a hundred households.

While the first few such contraptions were imported from China, Nagaland’s chief minister N Rio now wants these to be produced in the Northeast.

High tee at Shillong course
With the Assam Rifles and Border Security Force joining forces to restore the Shillong Golf Club to its former splendour, good times are ahead for this 18-hole golf course.

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Founded in 1924 by the British, the Shillong Golf Club will now be part of an ambitious tourism development programme.

Juvenile crime up in Guwahati
GUWAHATI is not just the gateway to the Northeast. It has also become the centre for juvenile crimes in the region. Statistics released by a city-based NGO called GOLD, said as many as 126 crimes involving children in the age group of 10 to 18 years were recorded in Guwahati since January this year. Of these cases, 99 involved boys.

Tripura makes rehabilitation plans
The much-awaited peace talks between the Tripura government and outlawed NLFT (Nayanbashi faction) will be held next month.

Preparations for the talks are on. Nayanbashi Jamatiya, self-styled leader of the NLFT faction had earlier surrendered in April at the instance of the state government. The authorities are now looking after the 50 members of the group till a rehabilitation plan is chalked out.

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Mizos want voter lists revised
The Central Young Mizo Association, (CYMA), the most influential youth body in Mizoram, has pressed the state as well as the central government to revise the state’s electoral rolls, erasing names of all those who don’t belong to the state.

While there have been complaints that the CYMA was trying to snatch away the rights of a few Mizo migrants from across the Indo-Myanmar border, the youth group said all it wanted was strict adherence to the provisions laid down in the Constitution of India. Inclusion of names of foreign nationals—Bangladeshis and Myanmarese—in voter lists has been a contentious issue in the Northeast.