Reverification of Senapati head count on : NPF questions rationale
Source: The Sangai Express / NNN
Senapati, September 04 2013:
Even as the Naga Peoples' Front (NPF), Manipur State unit has requested the Registrar General of India (Census) to accept the 2001 and 2011 census in respect of Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul sub-divisions of Senapati district, Manipur so that the matter is settled once and for all, re-verification of 3 sub-divisions of Senapati district namely Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul census 2011 is underway.
Altogether six teams comprising of 19 officials of the Registrar General of India (Census) led by Deputy Director SK Chakarbarti arrived here on Tuesday.
In a memorandum submitted to Dr Chandermolly, Director of the Registrar General of India, the NPF questioned, "How many verifications and re-verifications are needed ?" .
According to the NPF, even if re-verifations are done hundreds of time, it appears that the Manipur Government will never accept unless its target is achieved.
The NPF said, "It is ironical that the Manipur State Government has certain agenda to reduce the population of the said three blocks of Senapati district" .
It alleged that the State Government had rejected 'the physically counted' census data both of 2001 and 2011 and that too after the provisional census data was published which amount to violation of fundamental rights of the citizens concerned.
"As the officially verified and accepted figures of the population were rejected by the State Government, a joint re-verification of census 2001 and 2011 was carried out by SK Chakrabarti, DDG and Dr MC Mehanathan, Director Ministry of Home from May 9-10 in 2011 and found them hundred pencent correct," the NPF claimed.
"However, the State Government has rejected all these genuine data.
The State Government estimated the population at 40 pc randomly.
Such discriminatory stand of the State Government has to be checked.
The justifications of high rate population in the hilly tribal areas of those three blocks were clearly made by the concern SDOs and DC ," the NPF stated.
"The Manipur state govenment is determined to reduce forcibly the cityzen's population of the tribal dominanted Sub-Divisions namely Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul.
It is another form of genocide penetrated to the minority tribal by Manipur government.
Tribals in the said blocks are living death in this planet and both the government of India and Manipur government treated them as persona non-grata", the NPF fumes.
The teams from RGI along with State Government officials, have started randomly checking the enumerator, said a source and added that the exercise which started yesterday is progressing smoothly.
The teams have covered Mao-Maram and Paomata sub-division till today with the villagers extending the needed co-operation.
The officials from RGI will leave Manipur on September 6.Another team of officials from the RGI will arrive here on September 9 to carry out the random checking.