Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 05:
The CPI Imphal District Council has urged the Registrar of India JK Banthia to check out whether the population data of the State furnished by the Census Directorate Manipur and Directorate of Economics and Statistics has flaws.
In a memorandum faxed to Banthia today, the council alleged that two districts, Senapati and Chandel, have registered unbelievable population explosion of 81.96 percent and 72.80 percent growth rate respectively during 1991-2001 as against the March 2001 projection of 20.06 percent and 25.81 percent.
It said that the decadal percentage growth rates in the remaining districts Imphal East and West (together), Thoubal, Bishnupur, Churachandpur, Tamenglong and Ukhrul are 17.15 pc, 14.62 pc, 13.90 pc, 29..81 pc, 29.23 pc and 28.98 pc as against the projected figures of 27.56 pc, 25.94 pc, 25.64 pc, 24.05 pc, 38.42 pc and 30.06 pc respectively.
Stating that knowledgeable citizens have expressed deep concern over the skewed official demographic record, the memorandum said that no event whatsoever resembling even remotely the Bengal Partition that led to the sudden increase in population in Tripura, has ever taken place in Manipur so as to warrant and justify the population spurt in Senapati and Chandel district.
The council said that given the geographical isolation and topographical situation peculiar to Manipur and the fact that the State is plagued by extreme socio-economic and political backwardness, ravaged by insurgency and frequent ethnic clashes, there is the imperative need of proper planning based on factual information including demographic ones for future development of the State.