Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 22 2010:
The Federation of All Tribal Youth Clubs, Manipur (FATCYM) has strongly condemned the State Government's act of releasing pay and allowance of all the State Government employees and gazatted officers excluding employees under ADCs for the month of December in view of the ensuing Christmas festival.
Terming this exclusion open discrimination and step-motherly treatment of the tribal populace, a press release issued by the federation questioned if employees under ADCs are under the purview of Central or some other authority, not under the Government of Manipur.
Pointing out that 90 per cent of the ADC employees are tribes and Christians, it observed that release of pay and allowance for the month of December as Christmas festival advance to all Govt employees excluding majority Christian employees under ADCs is a mockery and crime.