Name changed
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 24 2020:
The Chandel Naga Peoples' Organisation (CNPO) will now be known as Khurmi Naga People's Organisation (KNPO) .
In a statement, KNPO said that the organisation will function at Administrative Head Office at Chandel H/Q and its administration will extend to all the areas where the Naga tribes of Khurmi resides within the jurisdiction of Chandel and Tengnoupal.
Saying the organisation shall officially represent on collective issues and shall function as the only apex organisation of the Khurmi Naga tribe, KNPO appealed all its subordinate bodies to rectify their nomenclatures at the earliest in concurrence to the KNPO Constitution.
KNPO also appealed to the State Government to provide adequate facility and fund to the constituted voluntary COVID-19 task force groups and the frontline workers of the district.
The organisation urged the State Government to strengthen and support the Institutional Quarantine Centres (ICQs) in the district and advised the District Administration to convert all the Government establishments and offices as ICQ if there is a shortage of capacity in accommodating the returnees.