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| Brig. Haresh Pankan, commander of the 7 Sector, at the prize distribution ceremony of the pipe band competition |
Assam Rifles hits winning notes
The 12 Assam Rifles won the 7 Sector Assam Rifles Inter-Battalion Pipe Band Competition in Tuensang on September 13. Pipe bands of four battalions comprising 72 pipers, drummers and buglers took part in the contest.
A mass band display was organised on September 14, where all ranks and families of Tuensang Assam Rifles Garrison, officials in the civil administration, including the deputy commissioner, tribal leaders, eminent citizens and schoolchildren of Tuensang were present.
The 12 Assam Rifles Battalion Pipe Band was raised at Wokha in 1959. It has won the Inter Battalion Pipe Band Competition for the past seven years.
The Battalion Pipe Band was runners-up at the Director General Assam Rifles competition in 2006. Personnel of the Battalion Pipe Band have been representing the Assam Rifles at the Republic Day parade and All India Police Meet for the past four years.
Havildar Moti Thapa, the band major of the Battalion Band, leads the Assam Rifles Band at the Republic Day parade. He was declared the Best Pipe Band Major at the All- India Police Meet held in Jaipur in 2006.
A team from the Himalayan Ecological Studies Conservation Organisation, an NGO in Dehradun, completed a four-day training capsule in Benreu under Peren district in Nagaland.
The training session concluded on September 7.
Villagers were taught how to make jam, juice and pickle. They were also given training on making candles, incense sticks and baking cakes and biscuits. Training on packaging, bottling and canning was also imparted.Villagers gifted shawls and mufflers to the members of the NGO.
Director-general of Assam Rifles has sponsored the venture. The organisation has donated equipment and machinery to the villagers.
The next project will be organised by 28 Assam Rifles at Mount Pauna Tourist Village in Benreu for setting up a water mill (a small hydel unit), a rice mill, a plant for dehusking rice and maize and a plant for extracting oil.
A project for setting up a Technology Hub in Benreu was announced by the director-general of Assam Rifles Lt Gen. Paramjit Singh.
Commandant of the 22 Assam Rifles under the headquarters of the inspector-general of Assam Rifles (south), based at Maram in Senapati district of Manipur, delivered a talk on Youth and Democracy at Jesus Christ the King Church in Kalinamai on September 16.
Over 600 villagers and students of Mao Song Song and Kalinamai villages were present on the occasion.
The commandant spoke on various issues, including correct understanding of the word education, religion, freedom, citizenship, democracy, role of youth in sustaining democracy and the role of security forces in upholding and maintaining the rule of law in a democracy.
The function concluded with distribution of sweets among children and a community lunch.
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