September 8, 2019

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Vol XXIX No. 273

DIMAPUR, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2019 Pages 12 ` 5.00

Physiotherapy in health care delivery system: The need and reality

Nadal through to US Open final

Intl media react to Chandrayaan-2

Sunday Post Supplement

sports, Page 12

international, Page 9

Despite Moon mission disappointment, India rallies behind ISRO

JIC term extended DIMAPUR, SEP 7 (NPN): State government has further extend the period of Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) to inquire into January 31, 2017 incident in Dimapur for another three months till October 31, 2019 for submission of the commission report. In a notification, the home department (political branch) stated this was the last extension of period and requested the commission to submit its report within the extended period.

Power shutdown

DIMAPUR, SEP 7 (NPN): Power department has informed that there would be shutdown of 66KV Mokokchung-Zunheboto transmission line from September 8, 2019 4pm till September 14, 2019 owing to repair and maintenance of transmission line. In a press release, SDO(Trans), Mokokchung Transmission Division stated that during such time, Zunheboto district would draw power from 33KV Akuluto feeder.

Fuel prices cut

N E W D E L H I , S EP 7 (AGENCIES): Petrol and diesel prices were cut for the third day on Saturday. After Saturday’s price revision, petrol became cheaper by 8-9 paise while diesel became 4-5 paise cheaper across all key cities.

This is it!

“The graph may show economic slow down but from my end, it shows our party enrolment high up.” K Y M C

VIKRAM DESCENT TRAJECTORY

Altitude (km)

BENGALURU, SEP 7 (PTI): India’s bold bid to become only the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon ended in a huge disappointment on Saturday when contact with Chandrayaan-2’s landing module was abruptly lost seconds before it was to descend the final 2.1 km and touch down on the lunar surface. As crestfallen scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) here struggled to come to terms with the reverse after lander ‘Vikram’ was on steady course to touch the lunar south pole, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the nation in rallying behind them, saying they should not get disheartened. India also would have been the only country to land on the Moon’s unexplored south pole as part of the Rs 978 crore Chandrayaan-2 mission conceived a decade ago. The process of controlled descent starting with the rough braking of the 1,471-kg lander named after Dr Vikram A Sarabhai, father of the Indian space programme, its progression to fine braking (till the

FINE BRAKING PHASE

Down Range (km) Screen capture of the trajectory of the Vikram lander (Inset) at the moment mission control lost contact. Note the down range deviation at the end of the path. (ISRO / DD News)

altitude of 2.1 km), all considered “complex and terrifying,” culminated with a statement that contact with ‘Vikram’ was lost. While millions of people waited with bated breath to witness the lander’s touch down after the mission was launched on July 22 to flawlessly cover nearly 4 lakh kilometres in 47 days in multiple manoeuvres, a mood of gloom descended over the control centre after ISRO Chairman K Sivan made a sombre announcement in the presence of the prime minister after some tense

moments. “Vikram lander descent was as planned and normal performance was observed up to an altitude of 2.1 km. Subsequently, communication from the lander to ground stations was lost,” said Sivan, his voice choking. “The data is being analysed”, he said at the control centre at the ISRO’s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) here. The last 15 minutes of the mission when the lander attempts to guide it-

self with the help of its own propulsion system without any support from ground control has repeatedly been described by Sivan as “15 minutes of terror”. A senior ISRO official said the four-legged lander and the six-wheeled rover ‘Pragyan’ housed inside that was planned for a roll-out between 5.30 am and 6.30 am to carry out experiments may have been lost. If ‘Vikram’ had pulled off the historic touchdown, the country could have joined the US, Russia and China in soft-landing on the

lunar surface. Though the intended mission met with a reverse, an ISRO official said the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is healthy and safe in the lunar orbit, in some relief to the space agency. “The orbiter is healthy, intact, functioning normally and safely in the lunar orbit,” the official told PTI. The mission life of the 2,379-kg orbiter is one year and its payloads will conduct remote-sensing observations from a 100-km orbit. According to US space agency NASA’s ‘Moon Fact Sheet’, the success rate of lunar missions undertaken in the last six decades is 60 per cent. Of the 109 lunar missions during the period, 61 were successful while 48 failed. Approved in 2008, it is a Rs 978-crore initiative (satellite cost Rs 603 crore, GSLV MK III cost Rs 375 crore) and a successor to Chandrayaan-1 mission, it comprised an orbiter, lander and rover. The orbiter carries eight scientific payloads for mapping the lunar surface and study the exosphere (outer atmosphere) of the moon.

Modi consoles ISRO chief as he breaks down tional outburst, Sivan was seen in tears. Modi who was being accompanied by the scientist on his way out, immediately hugged

him and held him. Words were exchanged as a disturbed and disappointed Sivan took time to gain his composure.

There will be new dawn: PM Modi

PM Modi consoles ISRO chief K Sivan in Bengaluru on Saturday (PTI)

BENGALURU, SEP 7 (IANS/PTI): Years of hard work literally came to naught for ISRO on Saturday after it lost communication with Moon lander Vikram, and no amount of words could put it right for the scientists at ISTRAC Bengaluru. Despite a motivational speech by none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had rushed in to watch the mission’s success late last night and then again was with the Team Chandrayaan-2 to speak to them, ISRO Chairman K. Sivan could not hold his tears and broke down as the PM was about to leave. In a very visible emo-

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked ISRO scientists to not get disheartened by the setback in the Chandrayaan-2 mission and asserted that there will be a “new dawn and brighter tomorrow very soon” after this learning experience. Modi delivered a message of optimism, solidarity and hope to scientists in an address seeking to rally the nation around the ISRO, hours after it announced it had lost communication with the lander. The nation is proud of them and stands with them, he said. “We came very close but we need to cover more ground in the times to come. Learning from today will make us stronger and better. The nation is proud of our space programme and scientists. The best is yet to come in our space programme. There are new

frontiers to discover and new places to go. India is with you,” Modi said. “Effort was worth it and so was the journey. It will make us stronger and better. There will be a new dawn and brighter tomorrow very soon... I am with you, nation is with you,” he added. Praising the scientists, he said they ventured where no one previously went and India is proud of each and every one of them, and expressed confidence that they will achieve success in the next attempt. Modi sought to lighten the mood in the moments of disappointment for scientists, saying the moon has been so much romanticised in poems and literature that Chandrayaan in its last steps ran to embrace it, a reference to Vikram’s failure to lower its speed as planned during its descent to the lunar surface.

State’s first Homeopathic Treatment Centre opened Kenye raises Dimapur Rly station issues Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, SEP 7 (NPN): Minister of Health and Family Welfare (H&FW), S Pangnyu Phom, inaugurated Homeopathic Treatment Center, the first independent AYUSH dispensary in Nagaland, at Padumphukuri village Block-II here on Saturday. Speaking at the inaugural function, Pangnyu announced that the Homeopathic Treatment Center would be health and wellness center under AYUSH mission. The minister also said that the state government was committed to establish separate Ayush directorate and Ayush hospitals in all the districts. In this regard, he said the cabinet has approved creation of more posts so as to have sufficient manpower to run separate directorate. At present, the minister informed that Nagaland has

S Pangnyu Phom inaugurating the HTC in Dimapur. (NP)

full-fledged Ayush hospitals in Dimapur and Noklak providing medical services to the people. Pangnyu disclosed that another Ayush hospital at Raza, Chedema under Kohima district has been completed and was expected to be inaugurated soon. He said Sapagya inte-

grated Ayush hospital was also under construction. In order to provide better health facilities, the minister said the centre has introduced policy and programmes to convert the sub-centres into health and wellness centre. He said the state Ayush mission

society in collaboration with NHM has identified 19 sub-centres to take up in phase-1. He said it was submitted to the ministry for consideration. Pangnyu said the PDA government under the leadership of chief minister Neiphiu Rio was working earnestly to improve the health delivery system in the state. He congratulated the citizens of Dimapur on having the first Homeopathic Treatment Center in the state. The minister also lauded Ayush mission for doing excellent work in health sector even to the extent of reaching all the grassroots level. Though the centre was established in 2004, Pangnyu said it was functioning under civil surgeon, Dimapur. However, from today the centre would function as first independent Ayush dispensary in Nagaland.

DIMAPUR, SEP 7 (NPN): Lone Rajya Sabha MP from Nagaland, KG Kenye, who attended Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR) Meet 2019 at NFR Headquarters Maligaon on Friday, raised several issues regarding the Dimapur Railway station. Eleven MPs from six North East States held a meeting with a team of senior railway officials led by general manager of NFR, Sanjive Roy as part of the efforts by Indian Railways to reach out to people through their elected representatives. (Cont’d on p-7) At the meeting, Kenye

Munda reviews ongoing projects in Nagaland DIMAPUR, SEP 7 (NPN): Union Minister of Tribal Affairs, Arjun Munda, Friday reviewed the progress of the ongoing projects sanctioned by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to the state government besides special central assistance to tribal sub-scheme and Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) for the past five years. The review meeting held with some key departments in Nagaland at Hotel Vivor on September 6, 2019, was attended by Minister of Tribal Affairs, Temjen Imna Along, and other senior officers from the ministry of tribal affairs. During the review meeting, the union minister was apprised of the decision of the state government on creation of the new department of tribal affairs by the state cabinet

Union Minister Arjun Munda reviewing the ongoing projects during a meeting with state government officials in Kohima on Friday.

on August 2, 2019. Additional Chief Secretary, Tribal Affairs, Government of Nagaland, Lhoubeilatuo Kire, gave a power point presentation of all the projects sanctioned by the Ministry to the state government, which the Planning & Co-ordination Department Nagaland was implementing, such as Ar-

ticle 275(1), SCA to TCS and EMRS before creation of the new Department. He also presented the activities and achievement of the Department of Under Developed Areas, one of which is the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for Minor Forest Produce (MFP) under Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development

KG Kenye attending the Northeast Frontier Railway Meet at NFR HQ Maligaon on Friday.

Federation of India Limited (TRIFED) of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. The project is being implemented through the Anghya Brand launched early this year. This Brand was conceptualized as handholding initiatives for providing livelihood solutions to farmers and entrepreneurs of Eastern Nagaland.

ASFPA extended for 6 months in Assam G U WA H AT I , S e p 7 (AGENCIES): The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act has been extended for six months in Assam, effective from August 28, after reviewing the law and order situation in the State, a government release said on Saturday. The Act that empowers security forces to conduct operations, arrest anyone anywhere without prior notice has been continuing in Assam since November 1990. The declaration was made under Section 3 of the AFPSA by the State Home and Political Department, the release said. “Consequent upon review of law and order situation in Assam, in the past six months, the State government...has declared the entire State of Assam as ‘Disturbed Area’ w.e.f 28-08-2019 upto six months unless withdrawn earlier”, it added.

demanded that the divisional headquarters, currently held by Lumding in Assam, be restored back to Dimapur. Pointing out that Dimapur railway station being the second highest grosser of revenues in the North East, the MP said justice should be done in this matter and not let nepotism or step motherly treatment obstruct its due share. MP also urged the railway authority to draw up a master plan for Dimapur railway station to provide basic amenities and state of

the art technologies to be on a par with the best stations around the country. Further, he appealed to the railway authorities to reserve at least 75% (Grade III and Grade IV) of the employment for the local qualified youths of the North Eastern States. He said justice was not done in earlier case with majority of the posts being taken up by the outsiders. Besides, MP also demanded expediting Dimapur-Zubza railway lines and Dimapur-Tizit railway lines.

DRDA employees begin total shutdown of offices Correspondent

KOHIMA, SEP 7 (NPN): As part of fourth phase of agitation, the aggrieved employees of District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) on Saturday resorted to total closure of DRDA offices across the state over the failure of the government to release their pending salary. Total closure of all the DRDA offices is likely to paralyze the whole machinery under DRDA. One of the DRDA project directors said Management Information System (MIS) would be affected severely. It would trigger down to BDOs and VDBs would also be affected, project director said. Following the total shutdown of the DRDA offices, around 1200 villages

under DRDA were likely to be affected severely, while most of the files and grantin-aid of VDBs are also pending due to the ongoing agitation. In the third phase of agitation, the employees went on a mass casual leave from September 2-6, 2019. In the event of the failure of the department to respond positively to their rights and entitlements, the DRDA employees, in a representation, cautioned that they would take appropriate measures that could include “seeking for interventions from higher Authority or resorting to legal recourse(s) as guaranteed by Industrial Disputes Act of 1947 or any other as deemed appropriate, for which we should not be held responsible”. (Cont’d on p-7) K Y M C


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