Alternate route opened for regular supplies
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, May 15 2023:
Jwalamukhi-based Assam Rifles Sector, which is already ensuring safe passage of civil mucks carrying essentials on NH-02, has re-portedly opened another axis for transportation of supplies through NH-37 and ensured that violence affected civilians get uninterrupted supplies of rations and medicines.
Working in close co-ordination with the civil administration and state police of both Manipur and Assam, a total of eight columns of Assam Rifles are deployed on NH-37 to ensure the safe passage.
The columns have reassured the truck drivers of security and successfully managed to pump supplies to violence-Mt Imphal Valley.
Noting that the landlocked state is facing an unrest situation owing to violence between the Kuki and the Meetei communities, a source said that Kangpokpi and Churachandpur are the worst affected districts in the current situation.
The unrest in Kangpokpi district, in particular, has adversely affected the movement of civil trucks carrying essential like medicines and rations to the Imphal valley.