JCILPS and STDCM should go together: PMRM
May 21, 2016:
JCIPLS and STDCM should support each other as demands by both groups are facsimile of each other.
People’s Movement for Resurgent Manipur (PMRM) supports 38 hour General strikes (Sintha Leppa) of Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) to intensify the demands for converting one year old pending Bills on Inner Lines Permit to an Act.
Wishing the Schedule Tribe Demand Committee of Manipur (STDCM)’s public meeting on 22nd May at Iboyaima Shumang Leela Sanglen, PMRM requested everyone should attend the public discourse for the future of Manipur.
PMRM lamented on pseudo intellectuals for the anti ST campaign. These scholars must study the case of neighbouring ST states of Mizoram and Nagaland, whose literacy rates outnumbered than the National percentage.
Before agitating against the ST demands by Meetei/Meitei, they must study the status of the community in terms of literacy, employment, economic index and compared with other ST communities which are protected by Constitutions of India.
If Meeteis/Meiteis were included in the Schedule Tribe lists during 1960s, unrest among the people would not be created and the voice for alternate arrangements or separate administration would not be seen by today’s generation. There won’t be any hill-valley divide too.
Status of Meetei/Meitei will not go down by enlisting in the Schedule Tribe. We must expose the myth created by few Intellectuals. Notion of Tribes in India is determined by the political and administrative consideration of uplifting a section of population, which is remotely situated in hills and forest. Manipur, as a whole must be considered a hilly state. Indian administration looks at entire Northeastern region as Hill states of the Country, which is supported by North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) in Shillong.
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Khagemba Ningthouja
Publicity Secretary
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This Press Release was posted on May 22 2016
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