Rectify Olympian Park's official address: ATSUM
Source: The Sangai Express
Kangpokpi, January 21 2023:
Claiming that the recently opened Olympian Park is legally and technically located in a hill district, the All Tribal Students' Union Manipur (ATSUM) has urged the State Government to rectify the official address of the much-touted Olympian Park.
ATSUM legal secretary, Vipuni Ruhmai said that people of Manipur including the hill people welcomed the recently opened Olympian Park which was handed over to the public by the Chief Minister as a fitting tribute to the nineteen Olympians from Manipur but the Government's attitude over the park's official address does not get down well with the hill people as the whole gamut comes as an insult to them.
He asserted that the official address of the Olympian Park is given as Sangaithel, Imphal West whereas the park is actually located in Kangpokpi.
As such the official address of the park given by the Government as Imphal West left many of the hill people of the area dumbfounded, he added.
Claiming that the land where the park stands is hill land, the ATSUM legal secretary pointed out that it [the land] was donated by the local land owner tp the Sericulture Department and the Government later acquired it from the Sericulture Department to build the Olympian Park.
He also pointed out that the land was not donated to Sangaithel village by the local land owner but to the Government, therefore, the official address of the park need not bear the name of Sangaithel village while adding that the land and the park must bear the name of the village and the district that donated it.
He continued that there are many projects of grandeur undertaken by the State Government and the Olympian Park is one of them but many hill people would like to question what harm is there if one of such projects is located in the hill district, after all, the Olympian Park is legally and technically located in the hill district.
The policy of the Government to locate all its major projects in the valley has to change, asserted the ATSUM legal secretary while urging the state Government to rectify its oversight over the Olympian Park's official address at the earliest.