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<font size=3D4 color=3D"#808080"><b>Namphalong market glitters while Moreh
dithers<br>
</font><font size=3D3 color=3D"#000000">from Tarakishwor Aheibam<br>
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Moreh, Jan 7<br>
</b>Work is on in full awing to upgrade the gutted Namphalong Market
bordering the state's Moreh town to a modern business hub with the coming
of a new millennium.<br>
<br>
The venture is being taken up by the Myanmar authorities in a bid boost
trade and business between the two neighboring countries. Brick and pucca
building are now replacing the dilapidated market sheds most of which
were reduced to ashes by anti-socials two years back.<br>
<br>
Even before completion also, Namphalong market, which boasts of numerous
items right from sweets to motor tyres and electronics gadgets, has a
business turnover of around Rs 20-30 lakh per day. Almost every cosmetic
items and women's wear are available here.<br>
<br>
Comparing Namphalong market with the state's Moreh market will be too
pompous a task. The former is a symbol of modernisation while the latter
still lacks signs of progress.<br>
<br>
Most Meitei (Manipuri) villagers live by hand to mouth by going to the
jungle searching firewood and their tribe is increasing day by day. It is
only adding a murky picture to the already existing unemployment problems
of the state. The only visible changes are the fast mushrooming hotels
and video parlours.<br>
<br>
The town's business community comprises mostly of Burmese, Tamils,
Nepalis and other tribal groups. Burmese women selling vegetables in the
village streets is a spectacular sight in Moreh.<br>
<br>
The state government too do not seem to care a pie about the sleepy town
which is an international trade centre situated on the Indo-Myanmar
border. <br>
<br>
Meiteies residing in the border town told this report that there is not
even a place to do business of more than Rs 5 -10 thousand. The reason
was the loss of confidence in the Meities by the Burmese traders.<br>
<br>
For the international trade between the two countries to progress,
fist&nbsp; of all the development of Moreh town is very much necessary.
It will give an indirect means&nbsp; of survival to the state's people
who are already lamenting of the step-motherly treatment meted out to
them by the authorities.<br>
<br>
The Sangai Express<br>
IMPHAL Saturday 8 January 2000 VOL I/116<br>
<br>
</font><font size=3D4 color=3D"#808080"><b>Ephedrine is declared 'controlled
substance'<br>
<br>
</font><font size=3D3 color=3D"#000000">IMPALA, Jan 7<br>
<br>
</b>The central government has declared ephedrine, pesudoephedrine and
their salts as 'Contolled substances' under clause (vii a) of section 2
of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985). The
declaration comes in the wake of a major seizure of Myanmar bound
ephedrine in the state. Ephedrine is used in manufacturing certain
amphetamines and metamphatamine. Many youths particularly those drug
addicts in the state have increasingly started using ephedrine in leu of
heroin and morphine, sources said. A large number of ephedrine are
frequently smuggled into Myanmar for manufacturing heroin power which is
again brought back to the country.<br>
<br>
Receiving information about smuggling these substances through the state,
Mahesh Kumar, superintendent (Executive) of the Central Bureau of
Narcotics has communicated the central government's notification to the
assistant commissioner of customs, Imphal and the superintendent of
customs, Moreh to check the substance, an official source said.<br>
<br>
The Sangai Express<br>
IMPHAL Saturday 8 January 2000 VOL I/116<br>
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