Facilitate land allotment to indigenes: MMTU
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 13 2024:
The Meetei (Meitei) Tribe Union (MMTU) has urged the people who do not possess land documents (Patta) to fill land allotment forms and submit the same to the Sub-Deputy Collector concerned.
As per a 2015 report appeared in The Telegraph, 70 percent of people in Manipur do not possess patta and are landless people.
The Government and its Revenue and Settlement Department should pay attention to this and facilitate allotment of land to the indigenous people, said MMTU, in a statement.
Many of the Meiteis/Meeteis living at the peripheries of the valley have been found without pattas though the land they live on have been passed down by their ancestors through generations.
They have not been able to avail benefits of many Government schemes as they do not have the pattas of their land, it said.
A significant number of Meiteis/Meeteis not possessing pattas is also the failure of the Government and its Department, MMTU added.
Urging the SDCs and officials concerned to facilitate smooth transaction of all applications submitted to allot land to the indigenous Meitei/Meetei people, MMTU emphasised that the Government officials shouldn't cause unnecessary and unwarranted inconveniences to the applicants.
Government officials and the Departments concerned should avoid corrupt practices, and take it as their duty to allot land to the people.