ATSUM lines up bandhs, blockades
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, August 16 2013 : Another series of bandh is glaring at Manipur.

This time, the All Tribal Students Union, Manipur (ATSUM) has taken a decision today to launch a series of intense agitations including total bandh and blockade in Manipur in the next few days' time in protest against the State Government's failure to implement its assurances.

ATSUM president Muan Tombing and its general secretary Vareiyo Shatsang said setting up of a separate commission for the Scheduled Tribe in Manipur which was demanded by the tribal students' body and assured by the state government, is till yet to be established, reports NNN.

"We had suspended our protest under the code-name ROTO (Reckoning of the Others) earlier after the government had assured to sep up the commission but till date we are yet to see it," lamented the ATSUM leaders.

The ATSUM leaders also said after the survey was made on the teacher-student ratio in the hill districts, "the state government had made a commitment to recruit the required number of teachers but till date that too was not done" .

ATSUM then said after the series of child trafficking cases that were exposed involving large number of children from Manipur, the state government had not done anything in this regard.

"After the Jaipur child trafficking incident, there was also the Bangalore case where they had been highlighted in the media saying many were sexually abused by the traffickers of the children, but the state government of Manipur continue to ignore those incidents," stated ATSUM leaders.

"We will never suspend our agitations as long as we do not see our demands get implemented by the state government," asserted ATSUM leaders.

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