Sit-in demands shifting of MIE Khoirom
Source: Chronicle News Service
Thoubal, September 04 2022:
Locals of Yairipok Khoirom Mathak Leikai staged a sit-in protest at local community hall and later took out a rally on Sunday demanding chief minister N Biren to shut down the plywood factories and sawmills at the Minor Industrial Estate (MIE), Yairipok Khoirom Mathak Leikai or relocate the MIE permanently from the area.
Speaking to media persons at the venue of the protest which was organised by JAC Against The Establishing Of The Khoirom MIE In Residential Area, one of the protestors conveyed that locals want the removal of MIE from the locality as the noise made by five sawmills located in the industrial estate make life very difficult for the people with students unable to study, sick people not able to rest, bad road conditions caused by waste from the factories, people unable to properly breath due to the pollution from the sawmills and waste water released front plywood factory polluting the local Water bodies.
In such a situation, the authorities proposed plan to set up five more plywood factories in the MIE which is unacceptable to the local public.
They want shutting down or shifting of the MIE to save the health of future generations.
Hence, the people want authority concerned and the CM to look into the matter immediately, the protestor said.
Later, a rally was taken out by the locals till MIE shouting slogans demanding shifting of plywood factories and sawmills.