Source: The Sangai Express
Jiribam, September 18, 2010:
With the Government failed to respond to the COPTAM sponsored 48-hour bandh call, CDSU volunteers today snatched away a huge number of Census files and other related materials from the office of SDO Churachandpur, reports our correspondent.
The CDSU took the move as the State Government failed to respond positively to the demands of the students' body despite its assurances made earlier.
Defending their act, the CDSU in a press statement issued late in the evening today said that their move of confiscating all Census documents in the district was in protest against the Government's imposition of fixed population growth rate and attempt to cut the natural growth rate on the argument that the population growth rate in the hill/tribal areas cannot cross the population growth rate in the valley district.
"The Government's differential treatments crossed the limit of our tolerance and understanding," it asserted even as it sought to clarify their act as a part of the larger COPTAM movement.
House listing documents, a huge cache of files, about 36 cartoons of NPR forms were among the documents confiscated by the CDSU.