Joint Meeyamgi Numit and Hill Leaders' Day held
State government trust the positive response and commitment of centre: CM
Source: IT News / DIPR

Imphal, November 15 2019: Chief Minister N Biren Singh said that the present State Government has full trust in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah that they would keep their positive commitments on the Indo-Naga Peace talks.

This was stated by him at the press briefing in connection with Meeyamgi Numit and Hill Leaders' Day held at the Durbar Hall of Chief Minister's Secretariat today.

Speaking to media persons, Chief Minister maintained that they have gathered a rough report collected from various levels consisting of opinions and wishes of people and CSOs of the State.

Joint Meeyamgi Numit and Hill Leaders' Day held

The same has been shared to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah this morning, he added.

Chief Minister also stated that the State Government would invite the representatives of Coordination Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) and other stakeholders for thorough discussion before consultations with the Centre on the issue.

Regarding the demand for convening a special session of Manipur Legislative Assembly, he said that the State government is not unwilling to convene a special Assembly session.

Within the short tenure of the present Government, Assembly resolution on protecting State's territorial integrity had been taken twice and similar resolutions on the same issue had been taken twelve times by earlier governments, he added.

Mentioning that the State government firmly trust the positive response and commitment made by the Central Government on the issue, Chief Minister stated that the government will convene the Assembly session when the situation arises.

Chief Minister urged the people and different civil society organisations of the State to have trust in the present government.

He informed that the Union Home Minister also earlier assured them that all stakeholders would be consulted before finalising the peace talks with the Nagas.

Replying to the query about disclosing the contents of the Indo-Naga peace talks, Chief Minister maintained that we had asked about the contents of the peace talks, however the Central leaders reiterated that the Indo-Naga deal wouldn't affect the Administrative structure of Manipur and won't led the formation of districts based on ethnic lines etc.

Responding on the recent ban on financial transactions of the State government, Chief Minister said that the ban was just a precautionary measure to overcome the excessive overdraft of the government account so that the Reserve Bank of India would not impose ban on financial transactions of the State.

He maintained that the Centre's share of around Rs.161 crores was credited to the State government's account yesterday which was due to be credited on the first week of every month.

He assured that the ban would be lifted soon.

The Chief Minister heard around 300 complaints and met around 1000 people from 9:15 am to 12:15 pm.

Many differently-abled persons, widows and people belonging to poor families were instantly enrolled under Government's noble schemes like Chief Minister-gi Hakshel-gi Tengbang (CMHT) and Chief Minister-gi Sotharabashing-gi Tengbang (CMST) etc.

Many educated and skilled youths were also identified to provide soft loans from different banks.

Officials of Health Department and JNIMS were there to attend to the people, who seek medical assistance, reimbursement and health care in Government medical hospitals.

Other Departments including Minority, Other Backward Classes and Scheduled Castes, Social Welfare, Education (S), Manipur State Co-operative Bank Ltd and Manipur Police were also present to help resolve people's grievances.

Around 1500 tree saplings were also distributed by the Forest Department to the people who turned up to highlight their grievances on joint Meeyamgi Numit and Hill Leaders' Day.

The saplings included Champaka (Leihao), Jackfruit (Theibong), Indian Olive (Chorphon), Yellow Myrobalan (Manahi), Arjuna (Mayokpha), Indian Gooseberry (Heikru) and Tree Bean (Yongchak) .