IT News
Imphal, August 10:
As a part and program of the commemoration of Patriotic Day and 75th Independence Day, “Heritage Walk” has been flagged off from Mangolnganbi College premises at Ningthoukhong,35 km south of Imphal today.
Director Dr. Rangitabali Waikhom of University & Higher Education, Retired senior government officer Dr R K Nimai Singh,Principals Dr M Mangi Singh (C.I. College Bishnupur) and RK Birjit Singh, Principal (Mangolnganbi College Ningthoukhong) and Major Mayank Khosla of 31st Assam Rifles were present during the day’s flagging off ceremony.
The Heritage walk which was jointly organised by Mangolnganbi College and CI College supported by 31st Assam Rifles, neScholar and Manipur Mountaineering and Tracking Association, will conclude at Laimaton Hill Range Point 5846.
More than 100 students from Mangolnganbi College and C.I. College, Bishnupur participated in the walk. This year marks the seventy-eight anniversaries of the twin battles of Imphal and Kohima when,in 1944 the Indian Army stopped the Japanese advance into India in its tracks and wrote a chapter of military history in letters of gold.
It is a story which must be recounted repeatedly to generation after generation so that we may fittingly cherish the valour and sacrifice of those many, many braves.
