Bishnupriya Manipuri bodies resolve to work together

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Silchar, Jan 1: The annual conference of Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Students’ Union (NBMSU) and Bishnupriya Manipuri Ganasangram Parishad (BMGSP) which was held recently in Dr. Kaliprasad Memorial Divyashram Sanskriti Kendra, West Kachudaram, 30 km from here, took up for discussion a number of issues. The conference was conducted by acting president Gourav Rajkumar of NBMSU and acting president Dibakar Sinha of BMGSP. The general secretary of NBMSU Manoj Sinha took up the agenda and presented the annual report before the assembly.

The report was assented to and approved by the members present. A slew of resolutions adopted at this crucial annual conference included among others the formation of ‘Bishnupriya Manipuri International Students’ Development and Welfare Fund’. This fund would be utilized to extend adequate financial help to poor but meritorious students, besides offering grant to the poor students of talent as well as to the educated and unemployed youths in general in order to help them in their studies.

It was also decided that the International Welfare Fund so created would help the Bishnupriya Manipuri students in their pursue of studies and enable them to pass UPSC and APSC examinations in first class. Another development of significance was the unanimous selection of Gourav Rajkumar as the president of central committee of NBMSU. Dipu Sinha, former president of the students central committee, was expelled from the primary membership of the student body for his anti-organizational activities. The Government of Assam was thanked for including Bishnupriya Manipuri as MIL in the curriculum of SEBA and AHSEC.

Similarly, Assam University and Gauhati University were complimented for inducting Bishnupriya Manipuri as MIL in their courses of higher studies. The higher secondary education wing of the Assam Government was particularly complimented for incorporating Bishnupriya Manipuri language in the curriculum of Assam University and Gauhati University. In order to press the Centre for including Bishnupriya Manipuri as OBC and also for starting separate cell of Bishnupriya Manipuri language in AIR and DDK, both the Union and Parishad will have no alternative than to go for long drawn agitation.

Kripa Nath Malah, MLA of Ratabari, was specially thanked for extending all possible help in the broader interest of the community. A resolution was adopted in the conference to constitute ‘Bishnupriya Manipuri Talent Search Examination Board’ for holding Bishnupriya Manipuri talent search examination for the talented students from this year of 2017. The conference has been considered significant and well attended with 500 representatives and delegates from different places of Barak Valley. It has also been claimed apart from these delegates, more than hundred students turned up from different educational institutions of the valley.

In the open session of the conference were present senior most litterateur and the general secretary of Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Sabha, Nabendra Chandra Sinha, editor of ‘Abhiman’ news paper, Tambak Sena Sinha, social activist, Subal Sinha, former chairman of Ganasangram Parishad, Rajlakshmi Sinha, working president of the women wing, Mahendra Sinha, president, Primary Teachers Association, and Bimal Sinha, vice president, Bishnupriya Manipuri Language Teaching, Training, Diploma Holders Association, among others.

The resolutions adopted in the open session which were widely supported aimed at promoting the interests of the students and youths of the community. The help and cooperation of all sections people of the society were sought. Rajkumar Anilkrishna, chief advisor, presided over the open session. The one day open session concluded on a positive note, impressing upon the members of both the Union and the Parishad to work in close coordination and in the larger interest of the community.

Courtesy: The Sentinel