HSEB PROGRAMME BRIEF REPORT

October ni 4, 2012 Zingkar hunah Board inthungin hmatieng fe dan ding hriltlang a nih. Hi ni vek hin HSA Executive Council neina hmunah chun Zarzolien Memorial Award 2012 chu Nk. Janice Malsawmkim D/o Rev. HL Lallawmthang, Hmarkhawlien kuomah inhlan a nih. Ama hi SEBA Cl-X exam a HSA Barak Valley JHQ member lai a mark hmu insang tak a nih. Award hi certificate mawitawk tak le sumfai cheng 10000/- a nih. Inchuklai tamtak in hieng ang award hi hmangtieng pei ah inhnarna an hung nei a nasataka thang an hung lak pha beisei ani bawk. Hi award hi riruong lo siem dan chun HSA Day 3rd Oct. 2012 zingkar programme a inhlan ding ti nisienkhawm, pumpel theilo remchangnawna a um ta leiin ropuitaka Executive Council palaihai le HSEB aiin HSA HQ Adviser hai in Executive Council neina hmunah hin an inhlan ta lem a nih. Nk Janice Malsawmkim hi a nu le pa’n an hung tawiawm. Zarzolien Memorial Award hi HSEB’n Award a peksuo hmasatak ala ni a, hieng thawthei a ei hang um hi lawm a um takzet a, ei Pathien zar ani tak meu meu a nih.

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October ni 5, 2012 khan Hmarkhawlien Community Hall ah Career Guidance and Motivation Programme Barak Valley JHQ huoihawtna le HSEB sponsor na hnuoia hmang ani a, High School Student (fielbik cho khawm) hall kenglo rak khawp in an fekhawm. Hi huna hin

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resource person Pu. Joseph Lalrothang ZEO le Prof. Vanlalnghak hai fiel anni ang hrimin an thupui hnesawtakin an hril. Inchuklai hai nungchang atha em em a, programme tan anthawk risie le tuolsuok khawm umlovin programme tawp chen an thang a nih. Nasataka hlawkpui a inhrie in hieng ang programme hi nei sunzawm pei an nuom bawk. Hmarkhawlien hi inchuklai sang tel hmun dang dang anthawk fekhawm hai umna hmun ani a, school level inchuklai hai lai hin competition khawm an sang hle a result khawm a tha thei hle hrim a nih. Amiruokchu inchuklai tamtak hai an hmatieng inchuk ding le lampui tha kawkhmu le inhriettir chu an pawimawin an mamaw hle a nih.

October ni 26/2012 khin Muolhoi hmunah Career Guidance Programme NC Hills & Karbi Anglong JHQ huoihawt le HSEB sponsor chu sun le zan programme hmang ding le zantieng ruoi the dinga insingsa mek ani bawk, zan huna hin education campaign khawm nei nghal ning a tih. JHQ huomsung a Unit dang dang hai khawm hi programme a hin thang veng an tih.

Hung tlung ding November 2012 third week sung khin Sinlung Hill JHQ le HSEB chun Sinlung Hill JHQ huomsung Education Campaign le Unit tin hai kanna nei a tih. Hihi ding hin JHQ hai chun nasatakin hma an lak mek a, hlawtling hle dingin beisei ani bawk a nih. Hieng ei programme popo hai a hlawtling theina dingin mitin mani tawngtaina ah lo hrie seng dingin ei infiel tak meu meu a nih. Inchukna le hrietna hmangin ei hringnun suk awlsam ei tiu.

 

Raising Day of Hmar Students’ Association celebrated

Silchar, October 3, 2012: The 73rd Foundation Day of Hmar Students’ Association was celebrated with all gaiety and enthusiasm by the Barak Valley joint headquarters of the organization at Hmarkhawlien near Lakhipur today. Participants from Manipur, Mizoram and Barak Valley as well as Dima Hasao district were present at the celebration. Various cultural troupes from schools in and around Lakhipur added to the colour and verve of the occasion.

The day-long programme began with greetings and silent prayer, followed by congregational song. Invocation by Rev Huolthanglur set the celebration tone and a short speech was delivered by the Association’s general headquarter. It was heightened by modern dance by Ronal. A highlight of the celebration was the HSLC 2012 academic award which was followed by the speech of chief-guest, H T Rothang Hmar, and then momentos’ distribution. Cultural dance competition was yet another presentation to enthrall the assembled guests and invitees. Benediction was delivered by Rev John Lalnunmawi.

The academic award was instituted in memory of Zarzolien Hmar, the former general secretary of the union, who expired on April 21 this year. It carries a citation and a cash of Rs 10,000 which was given away to Janice Malsawmkim. She secured the highest marks among all the HSA members of the area in HSLC examination of 2012. It was also the occasion to hold final match of Zarzolien Memorial Football Tournament in the afternoon witnessed by a large assembly. The evening was enlivened by cultural programme presented by local artistes as well as those from Manipur and Mizoram. Lalthuthlung Hmar, president, and Oliver Sungrohlun, general secretary, Hmar Students’ Association, Barak Valley, expressed their happiness and gratitude to all participants and guests as well as invitees for making the Raising Day memorable and eventful.

Biresh Chandra Nath, SDO civil, Lakhipur, who was the guest of honour, addressing the distinguished assembly, said after joining his office, he gave priority to visit Hmarkhawlien, famous for its pineapple plantations, and discussed with NGOs and clubs as well as the leading citizens how best the products of the area could be made to have its access in the Indian market as a whole. He had prepared a master plan to ensure that the plantation was made round the year for the benefit of the growers. For that, he said schemes and projects were being taken up.

He was aware of the problems of Hmarkhawlien and other tribal areas and in order to have better ideas about them he would be visiting the unvisited areas. He was happy to note that the Hmar Students’ Association and other NGOs ‘have kept alive the rich tradition and culture of the community, known for its wide-variety heritage.

Source: The Sentinel

Hmarkhawlien sets pineapple record

Silchar: A feel-good factor is at present sweeping through Assam’s largest pineapple orchard in Hmarkhawlien, 25km from here, in Cachar district’s Lakhipur block, with south-east Manipur on its border.

The cash books of the 1,000 fruit farmers in the foothills of the village, peopled with the Christian Hmar community, a Mizo tribe, are ringing, following a record output this summer and the resultant profit.

According to Ngursunthang, a 75-year-old veteran pineapple farmer and a former chairman of the Barak Valley Hill Tribes’ Development Council, the village has recorded an all-time high output of pineapples this summer around a whopping one crore pieces.

Another 20 lakh pieces of pineapples were produced in the village during autumn.

He added that this surge in production of pineapples has also spawned a series of problems.

This includes the lack of a modern cold storage for storing the fruit and the recurrent non-availability of a proper transport system to ferry the pineapples to both the wholesale and retail outlets in the district and outside.

A visit to Hmarkhawlien any time this summer is bound to unfold the scene of piles of the pineapples stacked high at different places by the side of National Highway 53, connecting this town with Imphal.

The frenetic activity that characterises this village in summertime with the farmers collecting pineapples from the groves and then unloading them in the rows of trucks lining the highway, is definitely a refreshing scene for the visitors there.

One particular feature of the Hmarkhawlien fruit farmers is their collective reluctance to use fertilisers, pesticides and insecticides.

The current chairman of the council, Lalthamlien Neitham, also a pineapple-grower, said, “Our farming here is totally organic and we are so obsessed with pineapple cultivation that we do not grow any other crops here, not even rice.”

In a nutshell, the farming of pineapples is the mainstay of the economy of about 5,500 inhabitants of Hmrkhawlien and the nearby fruit orchards of Labankhal, Molong and Sonbari. The process of growing pineapples is undoubtedly a rigorous and time-consuming procedure.

During the farming of this fruit, trimming, pruning and cleansing of the shrubs that surround any of the pineapple fields on the slopes of the highland and hills are required thrice in a farming season.

According to L.T Hmar, a pineapple farmer, there are two types of this fruit that bedeck the clusters of orchards in Hmarkhawlien. One is of a size above 14 inches and the other variety has size measuring between 12 and 14 inches.

He, however, rued the fact that the farmers there are constantly fleeced and exploited by the wily traders from the plains, who in general buy a big-sized fruit for Rs 8 only, but reap a large profit selling them for Rs 20 each.

He said the growers have no other alternative than to sell their fruits at a low rate, as most of these orchard owners are heavily indebted to the traders, who double as the buyer also.

The bank loans are few and far between. The pineapple-growers of Hmarkhawlien and its adjacent villages would prosper even more if the banks would give them loans with a low interest rate.

It is also required to set up a pineapple processing factory in the village to enable the orchard owners to arrange exports in the form of canned sliced fruits and juices.

Earlier, there was a fruit processing factory run by a cooperative, but it closed down in 1985, because of mismanagement, though it was exporting pineapple juice to Russia.

The plantation in Hmarkhawlien was founded in 1932 by a Welsh Baptist pastor, James Roberts, who brought saplings from Tripura but enhanced its sweet flavour through various farming experiments.

The sugar content of the Hmarkhawlien pineapples is between 16 and 18 per cent, an all-time-high in the Northeast.

~The Telegraph