Everything will be alright: Guv to IDPs
Source: The Sangai Express

Kangpokpi, July 10 2023: Governor Anusuiya Uikey today visited relief camps in Kangpokpi district and interacted with Internally Displaced Persons.

The Governor alleviated the Internally Displaced Persons that everything will be alright very soon.

She was accompanied by Kangpokpi District Administration officials including Deputy Commissioner and his subordinate officers, and leaders of the Committee on Tribal Unity Sadar Hills and various other civil society organizations of the district.

Visibly moved Anusuiya Uikey said, "As a guardian I came here to see and take stock of your situation and grievances and I feel your pain and suffering".

"Ihave already met with the other community leaders andlntemally Displaced Persons in the valley and also in Churachandpur" .

"I have also met with your MLAs and Ministers who have placed various grievances and hardships along with your demand which I have already conveyed to the Prime Minister, Defence Minister, Home Minister and even to the President of India at Delhi", she added.

"I have already apprised the Prime Minister to talk with the leaders of both the community and put heads together to solve the problems and bring back normalcy and peace at the earliest", she asserted.

The Governor also provided some relief materials to the Internally Displaced Persons at Motbung Model village's Shalom Academy and Motbung Govt High School relief camps.

She also ensured the education of internally displaced students and jobs/service of internally displaced employees.

Meanwhile, the Committee on Tribal Unity Sadar Hills submitted a memorandum to the Governor during her visit at the relief camps at Motbung Model village.

Among many others, the CoTU demanded deployment of an adequate number of Central forces and Army in the periphery areas of Kangpokpi district, Churachandpur district, Chandel district and Tengnoupal districtand also to protect tribal rights and land as enshrined in the Constitution of India.

To depute all categories of Central Service employees and State service employees who are posted in Imphal areas and reposting them outside Imphal areas or make special arrangements for them to continue their services was another demand made by CoTU through the memorandum.

Another demand was to provide all the Kuki-Zo areas a onetime exemption from all criteria to enable them to affiliate/switch over to CBSE or other contemporary boards of the country.

Arrangement for college and university students including medical and engineering students to complete their courses/ studies outside Imphal, Manipur or in other Northeast states.

To review the constitution of a team of non Kuki-Zo Ministers and MLAs for overseeing supervision and management of relief camps in the tribal areas and entrust the same task to local Kuki-Zo MLAs in respect of Kangpokpi district, Churachandpur district, Chandel district and Tengnoupal district was another demand placed before the Governor.

It also urged the Governor to recommend to the Union Government for immediate solution by way of creating a separate administration for the Kuki-Zo tribal in Manipur.

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