NCP team airs displaced kids' woes to Governor
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, August 30 2023:
A political delegation of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by its Youth National president Dheeraj Sharma, along with five others namely Pune City former mayor Prashant Jagtap, NCP Youth national general secretary Javed Inamdar, NCP Manipur president Iboyaima Soram, general secretary Gopi Mohan and NCP, Youth Pune City president Kishore Kamble called on Governor Anusuiya Uikey at Raj Bhavan on Wednesday evening and apprised her of the ground situation in vulnerable areas they have visited in Manipur.
Dheeraj Sharma conveyed that many Internally Displaced persons (IDPs) in Terapur, Imphal East are yearning for the intervention of the Governor into the issues related to financial hardships faced by students in relief camps who are studying in private schools and informed that some of the children stopped going to school as they were unable to meet pay the fees.
On her part, the Governor assured to intimate the matter to the chief secretary for resolving the same at the earliest as no children should be deprived of their educational facilities.
The team further informed that they have distributed many essential relief items like foods, clothes, diapers and sanitary napkins, amongst others for the IDPs and will continue to distribute in various relief camps in the state.
They handed over essential relief items to the Governor for further distribution to the IDPs through her office.
The Governor informed the team that separate Relief Bank Account has been opened by Governor's Secretariat for providing assistance to the IDPs and those who wish to donate can extend their help through the relief bank account number which is 42104850437 and IFSC Code: SBIN0000092.While appreciating humanitarian service of the visiting team for people staying in relief camps and assuring continuous efforts to reach out to both the Meitei and Kuki communities for bringing amicable solution, the Governor maintained that as peace and normalcy can be restored only through non-violence all should refrain from any forms of violence.