Stakeholders to be consulted in drafting liquor regulation
Now don't have more than four kids, advises Cabinet
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, October 13 2022: The State Cabinet has decided to work out a population ordinance restricting couples from having more than four children.

The decision was taken during a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister N Biren today.

Another important decision adopted during the meeting was to constitute a committee which would draft the rules and regulations for sale, consumption and brewing of liquor in the State after consultation with all stakeholders including Meira Paibi groups.

Briefing media persons after the Cabinet meeting, Tribal Affairs and Hills Minister Letpao Haokip informed that the population Ordinance would be promulgated after obtaining due approval of the Governor.

Stakeholders to be consulted in drafting liquor regulation

The Ordinance, once enacted, would put a ceiling on the number of children a couple may have at 4.Apart from restricting couples from having more than four kids, any couple found having more than four children would be delisted from all Government schemes, said Letpao Haokip.

The State Cabinet also minutely discussed on how sale of liquor would be regulated after prohibition has been lifted, said Letpao and added that a committee to draft the rules and regulations would include doctors, intellectuals of Manipur University, experts of Food Safety and Standard Authority of India and officials of Excise Department.

The ILP System currently enforced in the State was another main agenda of today's Cabinet meeting.

The Cabinet decided to make it mandatory for a non-local man to provide a local telephone number when he applies for an ILPS pass.

In addition, the pass issuing authority should collect all details such as the reason for coming to Manipur, their place of stay and the names of agencies if the non-local people happen to be labourers.

As agreed at the Cabinet meeting, a mobile app called 'Meri Pehchan' would be used by police at airport, Moreh, Mao and Jiribam to detect and identify forged Aadhaar cards.

The State Cabinet also discussed purchasing paddy produced by local farmers.

As decided at the meeting, the Govt would bring out a policy under which paddy would be bought at a uniform rate, Letpao conveyed.

Under the same policy, the Government would provide paddy seeds of the same variety to all farmers.

The Government would buy the yield of these seeds at the rate of Rs 25 per Kg.

It is essential to provide paddy seeds of the same variety to all farmers as their produces would be bought by the Government and distributed as rice at subsidised rate to the people/beneficiaries under NFSA and other schemes, Letpao Haokip said.

He informed that the Cabinet gave its consent to establishment of Manipur Food and Public Distribution Corporation Limited in order to implement the Government's policy of purchasing rice from the local farmers.

The State Cabinet also gave its consent to recruitment of 750 Grade C and Grade D employees who would be posted at the Autonomous District Councils of Senapati, Ukhrul, Tamenglong, Churachandpur, Chandel and Kangpokpi.

The Cabinet meeting further decided to recruit 1159 police personnel and fill up the vacant faculty posts of Churachandpur Medical College, Letpao conveyed.

Expediting the Civil Secretariat construction work so that the same can be inaugurated by the Prime Minister by the end of the current year and eviction of encroachers from around Loktak Lake were some other agenda of the Cabinet meeting.

While the task of expediting the Civil Secretariat construction work was entrusted to the PWD, a committee headed by the PHE Minister as Chairman would be constituted for eviction of encroachers from around Loktak Lake, Letpao Haokip informed.