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Churachandpur
Lamka
town
Country India
StateManipur
DistrictChurachandpur/Lamka
Area
 • Total
4,570 km2 (1,760 sq mi)
Population
 (2001)
 • Total
2 23,866
 • Density39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Languages
 • OfficialPaite
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
795128
Telephone code03874
Vehicle registrationMN
Sex ratio1034 females per 1000 males ♂/♀

Lamka town is the district headquarters of Churachandpur district in Manipur. "Due to its commercial origins, Lamka is the most multi-ethnic and cosmopolitan hill town in Manipur. During WW II, Lamka did not escape Japanese bombing; but it enjoyed about five decades of quiet and peaceful progress in the post-War period. Especially during the 1970s and '80s, Lamka was an "island of peace" which exerted a magnetic pull for many moneyed investors seeking good profit.

Education

CCpur district boasts a high literacy rate of 74.67% (2001 Census), above the state literacy average of 68.87% and the Indian average of 64%.

Schools

The town is served by a combination of state government high schools, competitive private schools and Central Government run Higher Secondary Schools namely.

Lalpuithluai Foundation School is one of the few schools in churachandpur district to offer Computer Science as an additional subject.[1] In fact, Lalpuithluai Foundation School is one of the very few school in India to introduce Tablets in place of traditional textbooks with the objective of taking learning to a new level. [2] Most of the schools are affiliated to Board of Secondary Education, Manipur (BSEM). Jawahar Novodaya Vidhyalaya (Tuinom), St. Paul's Institute (New Lamka) and Rayburn High (New Lamka) are the three schools in Lamka which are affiliated to CBSE. Mount Olive Elementary School Simveng has a unique reputation of imparting basic education to children below the age of 5 using Multimedia technology in all their Kindergarten Classes.

College

Churachandpur has two government degree colleges - Churachandpur College and Lamka College. Affiliated to Manipur University, all the local colleges offer several Three Year Degree (TDC) courses in science and liberal arts. Bethany Christian College is the oldest among private colleges in Churachandpur. Rayburn College, Sielmat Christian Higher Secondary School, VK Tawna College, Mangminthang College of Arts & Commerce, Bethany Christian College are some of the private Institutions that impart education at the Higher Secondary Level. it is a place where different ethnic groups of people are living together.

Socio-Economic

The district is inhabited by several tribes such as Paite, Thadou, Tedim Chin, Hmar, Mizo, Vaiphei, Gangte, Zou, Simte, Kom and other Zomi-Chin-Kuki-Mizo ethnic peoples. Each tribe has a distinct social order as well as community laws. The system of hereditary chieftainship as well as community ownership of village land is prevalent in the district. In case of hereditary chieftainship the chief is all-powerful as he controls not only the economy of the village through his ownership of the land but exercises social control over the households in the village. An overwhelming majority of the tribal population has converted to Christianity. Christianity has not materially changed the social order but was the critical faith in bringing to an end the head-hunting wars and savagery that characterized early tribal societies. Education rapidly spread through English medium schools. In the last hundred years the society has undergone radical change from the past. All tribal societies are patriarchal, but the women are not discriminated against. They play a significant role in agriculture and animal husbandry, besides being actively involved in weaving. Meitei, the major community of Manipur,constitute a small section of the population of the district,are largely involve in trade and other commercial activities. The town has grown considerably fast in the past few years with the addition of thousands of cars and bikes (quarterly) in the town as reported by the transport department. The population has grown massively due to the influx of people from small villages, coming in and settling down in search of a better life and education for their children.The hospitality department is also not left behind with the opening of new hotels like Hotel Venus which is in Go Chin Khup veng, New Lamka and Jessy guest house in Zenhang Bazar. It was just yesterday when there was no proper accommodation infrastructure for travelers but now with the investment in Hotels, the town has become popular with businessmen as they try to seek out more areas for investment. The only hindrance to development is the insurgency and rampant corruption that has destabilize the whole region from poor infrastructure to poor planning by the officials.

Media

Churachandpur has a vibrant press and media - be it print, audio-visual or electronic media.

The Manipur Express Daily Newspaper, started in 1981 and currently printing more than 10,000 copies daily in Paite language, is the largest newspaper in Churachandpur. Another newspaper published in Churachandpur, The Lamka Post, also prints around 10,000 copies daily in Paite language. These two dailies, with their own special Sunday Supplements are the largest in the District. Other newspapers in Lamka include Hmasawnna Thar (Hmar), Sikni-Eng (Mizo), Nisin Thuhiltu (Vaiphei), Zogam Today (Zou), etc.

Several monthly magazines in tribal languages are also published in Lamka - Tongdam (Paite), The Lamka Chronicle (Paite), Tongluang (Paite), ZingDaitui(Paite), Suangmantam Digest(Paite), Limlang(Paite), Ruth Messenger(Paite), Frontier Weekend(Paite-English), Voice of the Hills (Thadou), Zingvalpa (Thadou), Vanglai (Simte), Chollha (Thadou), Sawrtui (Hmar), Laizon Digest (Thadou), Khohui (Thadou), Zalen Banner (weekly in Thadou), etc.

Hornbill Cable Network (Manipur's first cable television network), TC Network, Sinlung Cable, Angel's Vision, ZRS and Laizom Cable are some of the main cable television networks in Churachandpur providing localised contents including news items.

Churachandpur also has its own FM Radio Station located at its district headquarter in Tuibuong, the All India Radio Churachandpur (101.4 Megahertz). Paite language, which serves as one of the lingua franca for the different tribal communities in the District (MS. Prabharaka: "Ferment In Manipur" Frontline, January 7-20, 1989, p.38) is used as the Link Language in Southern Manipur's lone FM Station.

Transport

Air

The neareast airport to the town is Tulihal Airport which is 60 kilometres (37 mi) from the main town. There is proper Road connectivity from the Airport to the town.

Rail

The town is yet to be reached by the development in Train Transportation. The nearest railway station is Dimapur and Guwahati.

Road

National Highway No. 150 also known as Tipaimukh Road passes through the heart of the town on its way to Mizoram. Tedim Road Connects the town with Imphal City, Guite Road also connects the town with the neighboring state Mizoram.

References

  1. ^ "High Schools having Computer Science as an Additional Subject in HSLC Examination".
  2. ^ "CCpur school to replace books with tablets".

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