Body urges government for fair compensation
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, November 10 2023:
Khumujamba Meitei Leikai Pattadar (landowner) Association has urged the state government to exercise all fairness in providing compensation to the victims affected by the ethnic conflict.
Addressing media persons at Manipur Press Club, here, on Friday, Association's general secretary Ngariyambam Ullen Mangang said that in 2015 when the Legislative Assembly passed three Bills, the public got enraged and burnt the house of an MLA in the hill district.
Following the incident, the government provided compensation amounting to Rs 50 lakh for repairing the damaged house.
However, it is resentful that the government is planning to provide compensation of Rs 10 lakh only to victims of the communal violence whose houses have been burnt down or razed to the ground using heavy machines.
Such partial attitude of the government is condemnable in the strongest terms, he said while suggesting that government representatives make public comment/statement only after proper verification because their statement could harm interest and sentiment Meitei people driven out from Churachandpur district.
He said that the Association had appealed to the then SDO Darun Kumar S, presently t)C Churachandpur, to verify the lands owned and settled by Meiteis in Churachandpur following which the deputy registrar of Society, Churachandpur conducted the verification process on December 15, 2022 and declared pattadars of the lands settled as genuine and true, the report of which was submitted to the Churachandpur SDC under reference number P-136/ SR/2022- CCP/154 .
Ullen Mangang also urged the state government to initiate steps similar to the one taken up in Moreh following the killing of Moreh SDPO Chingtham Anand, in Kangpokpi and Churachandpur as well.