Manipur: Meitei community wants government to provide family allowance money on a priority basis
ethnic strife, the affected people belonging to the Meitei community have voiced out their utmost sufferings in eking out their living.
Stating that money is the only driving wheel to augment their daily requirements, they categorically demanded the government to provide family allowance money on priority basis.
“It seems justice has become a distant dream for us”, said a visibly perturbed Naba Ningthoujam, co-convenor of Joint Committee on Affected Meitei Victims Manipur – a body formed by representatives of the hard-hit 47 villages from Bishnupur, Tengnoupal, Kakching, Thoubal, Imphal West and Imphal East districts of the state.
Over 60,000 people, who were affected by the ongoing violence that unfolded on May 3 are currently putting up at around 351 relief camps in both the valley and hill districts since then.
Of them, members of the committee are taking refuge at 249 relief camps in the valley districts. At least 4,786 houses were ravaged by the violence across the state.
Naba (49), who hails from Chin-Kuki-Zo dominated Churachandpur district and whose house was torched by miscreants, is currently taking shelter at a relief camp opened on the premises of a college in Bishnupur district since violence erupted.
He said most of the inmates, who are now lodged across the relief camps, are under severe mental stress, and the strength to hold on to the hope of returning back to their respective homes seems to be fading away.
“We came running for our lives with nothing, but with just a single piece of cloth to cover our bodies. It’s trying times and we know we can’t expect the comfort of our homes.
