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Limawati Ao speaking at the Kohima Longjang Senso Telongjem Golden Jubilee celebration at Molu Ki, Kohima on April 4.[/caption]
Dimapur, April 5 (EMN): The Kohima Longjang Senso Telongjem (KLST) celebrated its golden jubilee at Molu Ki, Kohima on April 4, informed an update from DIPR.
Speaking on the theme ‘Mera Tasen Jangzü’ (Trumpet for a New Step), Director Information & Public Relations Limawati Ao said soldiers used trumpets or bugles to give signals and warnings to their fellow colleagues in battlefields before the technology age. In the same way, a community also needs to listen and see to these signals and warnings as it moves along with the change of times, he said.
Ao stated that ‘human development began from prehistory where changes took place in a slow pace but now in this data age, the internet has brought about vast and rapid developments that it is known as the ‘Age of Acceleration’, and with these rapid developments the world has become a global village.’
Now that KLST is a matured union, he asked it to retrospect on the past mistakes and move along with the change of times; not live in the past but talk about advancement, economic development, tourism, education, marketing avenues etc,; and be leaders and guide for the people in the villages.
T. Sashimongba Pongen, one of the pioneers of the union, recalled how eight elders founded it on April 4, 1969 and worked tirelessly. He called upon the KLST to walk in their footsteps with honesty, hard work and live in truth.
T.N. Mannen, IAS (Retd) in his exhortation said that “we need to be punctual, live with the times and use time properly” besides urging the union to be “united with empathy, love and truth and move forward with new thoughts, vision and ideas; and not to live in the past.”
Er. Tsuktinungsang, chief engineer, department of Water Resources and leaders from several organisations spoke during the event. Phutoli L. Jamir released the golden jubilee souvenir and a minute silence was observed as a mark of respect to the deceased (KLST pioneers). The main highlight of the programme included recitation of jubilee poetry and cultural folk songs.