Rectification of gazette on Hill Areas Act demanded
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, July 19 2013 :
Headmen & Elders' Forum (HEFO) in its General Assembly held today at Tangkhul Avenue Community Hall has denounced the Manipur Gazette notification of TA & Hills department dated 6th March, 2013 regarding Village Authorities in Hill Areas Act-1956, in which all the headmen of Kasom Khullen Block were listed as elected chairmen.
HEFO contended that the prescribed format has totally abolished the names headmen even though there has been no village authority election in the year 2012.The villages themselves constitute the Village Authority for the prescribed term of three years.
And in the matter of headman/chairman, there is no question of election for Chairman.
Headman is always headman, it is customary and heredity.
If the existing Headman/Chief expired, his eldest son would take over the Headmanship.
Constitution of Village Authority was done under the Headmanship of the concerned Headman of respective village on the basis of the Tangkhul Naga Customary Law and Kukies.
Therefore, it is disheartened to see elected Chairman in every village in the said gazette, the statement added, while demanding immediate rectification of the said gazette by the TA and Hills Department.