Rochunga's body to arrive today
Source: The Sangai Express
CCpur, October 22 2015:
The mortal remains of Rev Dr Rochunga Pudaite who breathed his last in the US on October 10 will be arriving here tomorrow, to be laid to rest at the PMS bungalow in Sielmat, even as the funeral committee has set into motion a massive reception schedule.
The body of the revered Christian minister will be arriving at the IGI airport tonight at around 9.30.If things work out as planned, the body will be flown from New Delhi early tomorrow and is scheduled to arrive at Imphal around 9.30 am, said Rev Jessai L Neitham, Secretary of the Dr Rochunga Pudaite Funeral Committee.
He said, the HYA Imphal Joint Hqtrs will receive the body at the airport and they will also lead the motorcade that will accompany the body till Sielmat.
At Sielmat the body will be shoulder-carried by the youths with a specially assembled Hlang, 12x60 feet large and meant to be carried by 160 people till the PMS bungalow where it will be kept for the night.
On Saturday a funeral programme will be hosted at Sielmat Christian Hr Secondary School Campus after which he will be laid to rest at a cemented grave inside the PMS Bungalow.