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Manipur To Get India’s First Sports University to promote sports education in the areas of sports sciences, sports technology, sports management and sports coaching Rs. 100 crore funds allocated in the 2014-15 budget for setting up the university 325.90 acres of land has been made available by the Government of Manipur in Koutruk village in Imphal West district
Bhaichung Bhutia launched Hamro Sikkim Party at Daramdin in West Sikkim.
Daramdin is the same place where Sikkim Democratic Front founder and Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling had launched his party back in 1993. Pema Khandu laid down the foundation stone of Rhodendron park in Tawang.
• The park would not only add to the scenic enhancement of the city, but would also offer an opportunity for conservation of Rhodendron species, which are under serious threat due to various ongoing road and land acquisition projects by the Army and BRO.
• The park would be partly funded under border area development programme (BADP).
• More than 30 species of rhododendrons would be planted and conserved in the park where terrace cutting would also be done to raise the beauty and scenic component.
the weavers of Assam’s Sualkuchi earned official recognition for their products.
The Sualkuchi village, about 40km from Guwahati, is recognized world over for its indigenous silk weaves (eri, muga and paat) produced on traditional hand looms.
Mission Lakadong – Meghalaya
• Meghalaya has launched Mission Lakadong to produce 50,000 metric tonnes of the famous Lakadong turmeric per annum in the next five years.
• The mission (2018-2023) was launched by governor Ganga Prasad with the objective of enhancing the livelihood of farmers and building the brand equity of the Lakadong variety.
• Lakadong is a village in the West Jaintia Hills. Bogibeel, India’s longest rail-road bridge
• It has been built by Indian Railways over river Brahmaputra and provides crucial
rail-road connectivity to the lesser developed districts of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
• the Bogibeel bridge comprises of two railway lines and a three lane road bridge on top.
• Will connect Dibrugarh of Assam and Pasighat Arunachal Pradesh.
• 4.94 kilometers long Last electrified village in India
• Leisang Village , 77 km away from the capital city, Imphal
• Leisang village was established in 1996
• It was once within the jurisdiction of Senapati district of Manipur before carving out Kangpokpi and Saikul subdivision,
to create Kangpokpi district. While the village got recognition in 2002, electricity reached the village on April 27 evening.
North-east at the commonwealth Mirabai Chanu – Manipur – Gold, 1st Gold for India at CWG
Mary Kom – Manipur – Gold (Flag-Bearer also at closing ceremony)
Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu – Manipur – Gold
• The Arunachal Pradesh government erected a statue of legendary music composer and singer Bhupen Hazarika at Bolung village in Dibang Valley district of the state.
• The ten feet bronze statue, sculpted by Biren Singh of Guwahati
• The Bolung village is adjacent to Assam’s Sadiya area where his parents lived
• Hazarika also produced the first Arunachalee content based film in Hindi – ‘Mera Maa Mera Dharam’ in 1976 and shot his Assamese film ‘Rashmi Rekha’ in 1971-72 in Arunachal.
Arunachal Pradesh’s Bugun tribe won a national conservation award.
• In the forests inhabited by the Bugun tribe in Arunachal Pradesh’s West Kameng district, 10 village boys take turns every week to patrol a 17 square kilometre special area.
• In January 2017, the tribal members of the Bugun community of Singchung Village joined hands with the Forest Department to launch the Singchung Bugun Community Reserve (SBVCR) — a 17 square kilometre hotspot for biodiversity, the NGO won the India Biodiversity Award 2018 in the “Conservation of wildlife species” category conferred by the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) and presented by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change in association with the United Nations Development Program in Hyderabad.
• The Reserve lies right next to the Eaglesnest Wildlife sanctuary, a biodiversity hotspot.
The Bugun Liocichla — a new bird species from the Reserve has no reported sighting anywhere else in the world.
Found in Eaglesnest Wildlife sanctuary International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Liocichla is classified as Critically Endangered (CR).
First commercial flight’ lands in Arunachal Pradesh since Independence.
• The flight took 1.5 hours to cover the distance of 650km from the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Airport in Guwahati to Arunachal Pradesh’s Pasighat airport.
• The 42-seater ATR Aircraft of the Alliance Airlines (a subsidiary of Air India) landed at the Pasighat Airport
Muri Linggi becomes the third woman from Arunachal
to scale Mt Everest
• The 40-year-old scaled the world’s highest peak at 8 am on May 14.
• Muri Linggi’s expedition was flagged off by Rajya Sabha MP Mukut Mithi at Roing on April 5
• She is from Lower Dirang Valley District
• Tine Mena, was the first woman from the state to have summited Mount Everest in
2011.
• Anshu Jamsenpa was 2nd and she set a world record in May last year when she conquered the peak twice in a span of five days CM Pema Khandu inaugurated Arunachal Pradesh’s biggest solar plant.
• The plant, with a capacity of 1 MW, was commissioned on April 1 at an estimated investment of Rs 8.50 crore.
• at Energy awareness park in Itanagar List of Smart Cities in North-east
Guwahati – Assam
Agartala – Tripura
Imphal – Manipur
Namchi – Sikkim
Kohima – Nagaland
Pasighat – Arunachal Pradesh
Aizawl – Mizoram
Gangtok – Sikkim
Itanagar – Arunachal (Added in 2018-19 Budget)
PM Modi Arunachal Visit
• laid the foundation stone for the Academic Block of the Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Science.
• Inaugurated the Dorjee Khandu state convention centre.
• a new train called Arunachal Express connecting Naharlagun to the national capital New Delhi will start soon. It will run twice a week.
• PM Modi launched DD Arun Prabha, a new 24×7 satellite television channel of Doordarshan for the north-eastern region 2 Arunachal places could be in UNESCO’s World Heritage list.
• The Arunachal Pradesh government wants two of its sites in UNESCO’s World Heritage list
• The Apatani cultural landscape in Ziro Valley under Lower Subansiri district of the state
• Thembang Dzong, a fortified village in West Kameng district Arun Jaitley announced new tunnel at Sela pass in Arunachal Pradesh in Budget speech.
• The Sela pass is located between the Tawang and West Kameng districts of Arunachal Pradesh and considered crucial from strategic perspective.
• Sela Pass located at an elevation of 13,700 ft which will ensure faster movement of troops in Tawang, a strategicallylocated town in Arunachal Pradesh bordering China.
115 aspiration districts list
• Arunachal – Namsai
• Assam – Darrang, Dhubri, Barpeta, Goalpara, Baksa, Udalgiri, Hailakandi
• Manipur – Chandel
• Mizoram – Mamit
• Nagaland – Kiphire
• Meghalaya – Ribhoi
• Sikkim – West Sikkim
• Tripura – Dhalai
• Arunachal Pradesh emerged as the second state in the Northeast, after Sikkim, to be declared Open Defecation Free.
• Arunachal has 21 districts and the state attained the feat much before the national deadline of October 2, 2019.
• Sikkim – 1st State in India to become ODF
New railway lines in Arunachal • New railway line from North Lakhimpur in Assam to Ziro in Lower Subansiri district.
• New railway line from Silapathar (Assam) to Aalo, headquarter of West Siang district.
• The railway line from Bhalukpong to Tawang , it will cut down travel distance between Bhalukpong to Tawang from 385 km to just 165 km.
• Northeast Frontier Railway
Naga filmmaker Sesino Yhoshü’s ‘The Pangti Story’ adjudged the Best Environment Film at the 65th National Film Awards explores the story behind the people of Pangti village in Wokha
district of Nagaland turning protectors from predators of the Amur Falcon.
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