Lets appreciates the thousands heroes of Manipur
- Imphal Times Editorial :: August 07 2020 -

Novel Coronavirus- the deadly virus that brings disaster to human kind across the globe is finally pulling out the humane in every human being leaving aside some few people who believe that politics is their religion.

Information gathered from internet that has been happening across the world shows thousands people extending helping hand to one another to make sure that human kind survives by defeating the dreaded virus that cause COVID-19, killing thousands of human kinds irrespective of caste, creed, rich poor.

These attackers know no religions or community – they attack any human whom they can access too.

The only means, left with the human kind as of now is social distancing and total lockdown to break the chain of spreading the pandemic.

In the state of Manipur which have around 30 lakhs population (Subject to correction) from no case in March now reached over 3000. The number of death due to COVID -19 has reached 8.

Saying so may have recovered and there are around 1197 active cases at which 502 are from the Central security forces.

Doctors in the state who were always criticized accusing them for all wrong reason, before the invasion of the virus, now proves that they risk their lives to save people no matter the state has poor medical equipment like PPEs.

At time of crisis due to the invasion of the virus the humanity in all the medical practitioner finally showed and is notice by everyone.

It is over 5 months , that the state has been put under complete lockdown even though it was relaxed for few days.

There are daily wage earner who lives on hand to mouth in the state of Manipur, but then the fortunate part is that almost all indigenous people have a place to stay.

Whether they come from villages to work or to study they have place to stay indoors.

The only problem is the shortage of food and other edible items due to the total lockdown.

Knowing the problem it is fortunate for the state that irrespective of who is in the voter list the is trying all its best to make sure that people don’t remain hungry during the lock down.

The unfortunate part is that some people still are not getting what they deserves.

But leaving aside these narrow minded people, Manipur is glad to have many individuals who have distributed the essential edible item by buying from their own pocket money.

CSOs, students’ bodies are trying to help people who remain hungry and provided them assistance whatever they could.

Manipur still have people (who always think of making money) at time of crisis.

There are suspicion that whether the so call agents nominated by MLAs and some MLAs are taking advantage in this crisis period to make money looting the share of the people.

Remember award winning Hollywood movie - A Thousand Heroes (also known as Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232) , bases on a true story of the crash landing of Flight 232 at Sioux City, Iowa on July 19, 1989.

Each and every one of the citizens of Sioux City came out and help the crash victims with whatever they can. The citizens of the city is still remembers as a city of thousand heroes.

Why not Manipur be another city of thousand heroes .