JSCC urges for acceptable Bill
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, July 14 2015 : The Joint Students' Coordination Committee (JSCC) has categorically stated that withdrawing the Manipur Regulation of Visitors, Tenants and Migrant Workers (MRVTMW) Bill 2015 is neither a solution nor end in itself.

The Government must introduce a new Bill which would be acceptable to the people.

Speaking to media persons at MSF's Keishamthong office this afternoon, JSCC member Manjit Sarangthem asserted that the ongoing movement being orchestrated by the JCILPS is about survival of the indigenous communities of Manipur.

Had the Government taken its responsibility in time, Sapam Robinhood would not have died and there would be no casualties.

He asked whether the Government was waiting for all these ugly things to happen before a new legislation acceptable to the public is enacted.

It was a tragedy that police took unarmed students as their enemies and subjected them to unrestrained violence, Manjit said.

Moirangthem Lakshman, another member of JSCC said that they attended a meeting chaired by Education Minister M Okendro yesterday.

But the officials present at the meeting blamed student organisations for misleading and mobilizing young students for protest movements.

Young students were never pulled out from their schools/colleges.

"We condemn the term 'pulling out' used by officials and the plan to deploy security forces at schools/colleges is equally abhorrent", Lakshman said.

JSCC is very much in favour of re-opening educational institutions but the State cannot militarize educational institutions, he said.

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