2500 security personnel to safeguard farmers

IMPHAL — Manipur Chief Minister, Biren Singh, today said that a total of 2,500 security personnel have been provided for safeguarding farmers while taking up agricultural activities, while he added that compensation would be provided to those farmers whose agricultural land could not be cultivated due to the present conflict.

Biren Singh was speaking while distributing benefits under special scheme for education of children at relief camps for labour card holders. Informing that the Home Ministry, Government of India, had sanctioned an amount of INR 38.6 crore for the same, he stated that the concerned deputy commissioners would undertake survey whose agricultural farms had not been cultivated and what would be their earning from the agricultural land if cultivated.

He also handed over reconstructed labour cards and financial assistance of INR 5,000 under the scheme to the labour card holders staying in different relief camps.

With the onset of winter season, he informed that the government would soon start providing blankets to the people at relief camps. 

He informed that many displaced people whose houses had not been burnt down, but fled their homes out of fear in the early days of the conflict, have now returned to their original places of settlement. He continued that experts from departments like Agriculture, Horticulture, Industries and others had been made to interact and assist the displaced people, so that the latter could take up suitable activities for earning their livelihood.

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Biren further informed that 98 percent of students staying at relief camps set up at valley areas had been admitted to nearest schools. However, it is less for students staying at relief camps set up at Churachandpur, Kangpokpi and Tengnoupal districts.

Mentioning that around 3,000 families had been relocated from relief camps to newly constructed prefabricated houses, he informed that the central government would provide financial assistance for construction of new houses for those whose houses had been burnt down.

The financial assistance would be given in two to three installments through the concerned deputy commissioners, the chief minister said adding that the government had started taking up the process.

He further assured that the government had been putting all possible efforts to aid the affected people.

Ministers, MLAs, chairmen, members from Manipur Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board, Manipur chief secretary, government officials and labour card holders staying at different relief camps also attended the programme.

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