CDOs' families struggling as salaries remain unpaid
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, August 07 2023: Personnel of Manipur Police and its commando units, who are at the forefront of the current crisis in protecting civilians from persistent attacks by Kuki militants, are bearing the weight for sustenance of their famines due to pending salaries.

According to some CDO personnel, who have been promoted to ASI from head constable last year, they as well as other personnel are at the forefront of the ongoing crisis battling heavily armed Kuki militants in the foothill areas protecting civilians from the persistent attacks of the militants.

Maximum of them get hardly any leave since the violence begun on May 3 and they have been carrying out their duties day and night without having the opportunity to meet their family members.

Moreh is a location where posting is rotated for every three months and there are several personnel, who have been transferred to other locations but still stuck in the border town.

Those personnel, whose transfer orders have been issued from Moreh, are not in a position to file their necessary documentations and complete the transfer and posting process due to the ongoing violence.

As a result, these CDO personnel are being denied of their salary for three months putting them in a dire situation apart from being unable to get out from the border town and meet their family members.

However, the real problem is not with their stay in Moreh but the financial burden their family members are facing due to non-release of salaries for three months.

Many of the families are suffering untold miseries as they could no longer afford to buy food let alone other basic needs.

Most of them are from farming families but are in no position to help the family members carry out agricultural works as they are stuck in Moreh.

The situation is also same for other CDO personnel deployed in other foothill areas of the state as they are unable to tend to their field, which they usually did in the past years by taking leave for few days.

The situation threatens their food security too and many are caught in the middle of their duty and the livelihood of their families, the CDO personnel said.

Drawing attention of authorities concerned to their situation, they appealed to the state government to relax the mandatory process for transfer and posting for them and release their pending salary until the situation improves.

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