IMC poll schedule to be announced today
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 11 2016:
Schedules for the election to Imphal Municipal Corporation (IMC) would be announced tomorrow and the election code of conduct would come into force as soon as the election schedules are announced.
This was stated by Deputy Chief Minister and Horticulture and Soil Conservation Minister Gaikhangam at the inaugural function of a farmers' training hall constructed anew at Khonghampat under the Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) today.
He stated that inauguration of the farmers' training hall would have to wait two/three months if the election schedules were announced before it .
The hall is inaugurated today before the election code of conduct comes into force in view of its importance to farmers, Gaikhangam stated.
A meeting of MPCC would be held at Congress Bhavan here today with the Chief Minister in connection with the IMC election.
He then exhorted farmers of both the hills and the val-lev to cultivate crons extensively in all available lands so as to make Manipur self reliant in different agricultural and horticultural produces.
He suggested farmers of hill districts to give up jhum cultivation of paddy and replace the same practice with plantation of horticultural crops.
He expressed hope that farmers would be slowly giving up jhum cultivation.