Sit-in-protest
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, July 11 2014 :
Demanding for devolution of power, among others demand, to the Panchayat by the Govt.of Manipur, the PRI members of Thoubal CD Block have today organised sit-in-protest at Thoubal Athoubam bazaar in Thoubal District and a rally will be organised by the Panchayat members at Imphal on July 14, 2014 .
During the agitation, the President of the District Panchayat Parishad Thoubal A Dhiren Singh expressed that the Panchayati Raj Institution in Manipur is in a pitiable condition and there is no taste for serving the people as an elected member of this grass root level elected body.
He further told that a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Govt.of Manipur and the PRI in 2004 in presence of the then Union Minister Mani Sangker Ayer for transferring 16 departments to Panchayat and an ultimatum was also submitted the Chief Minister of Manipur on December 2, 2013 remanding him about the MoU.