We are watchdog & sentinel: ATSUM
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, June 25 2015 : All Tribal Students' Union Manipur (ATSUM) on Thursday said they are watch dog and sentinel on the tribal issues in Manipur for peaceful coexistence of all communities through mutual understanding on the table.

In a press statement issued by ATSUM President Muan Tombing it was alleged that the indifferent attitude of the state government has compelled their organisation to launch intense agitation at sporadically in a sustained manner.

Muan said holistic approach for regularisation of contractual teachers as stated by the Chief Minister O Ibobi seems like a statement made by an academic but his good self should not forget the huge disparity of teaching faculties with only fourteen regulars lecturers manning the fourteen higher secondary schools in the entire hill districts of Manipur.

As tribal students apex body in the state, they want all the higher secondary schools and colleges functional with the minimum required members of teaching faculties and for that matter we have been championing the issue of contractual lecturers who are deprived of their due share as professional, Muan said.

ATSUM does not encourage rampant up gradation sans the required number of staff in schools and colleges.

Maun Tombing warned that the issue of foreigners as branded to some tribal community is a sensitive issue that may trigger chaos and unwanted social unrest in Manipur.

He demanded of the MYF to clarify who are the foreigners in the hills.

MYF-SEA has stated in the some Imphal based dailies saying "The indigenous hill people of the state have now been dominated by foreigners who pose themselves as the peoples of the state" .

Muan said "It is something that cannot be kept in an abeyance because there are no foreigners in the ancestral domains of the tribal".

He appealed to the organizations to withdraw or apologise for the statement in larger interest of the tribal brethren hurting the sentiments of the indigenous tribals of Manipur.

It may be mentioned that on June 15, 2013, Directorate of Settlement and Land Records had been directed by the state government to complete transfer of all available land records of Churachandpur District, Jiribam, Kangpokpi, Saikul and Saitu to their respective DC and ADC within June 30, 2013 .

In continuation of this order, the state government had been requested to transfer all available land records of Chandel, Ukhrul, Senapati, Tamenglong and Senapati during the course of the series of talks and even in the last talk held on October 22, 2014 .

It is also an earnest appeal to our non-tribal communities to help us get what we rightly deserve inclusive of all the charter of demands.

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