Manipur is witnessing ethnic violence involving two prominent communities of the region, the Kuki tribe and Meiteis who are in the majority. More than 100 people died in the violence
New Delhi: To provide financial assistance to the people of Manipur, the Ministry of home affairs has approved a relief package of ₹102.75 crore today, according to the State security advisor, Kuldiep Singh.
Singh also said that the situation in the region is completely peaceful. No incident of violence is reported in the last 48 hours.
“The situation in Manipur remained peaceful and under control,” said former the former Central Reserve Police Force Chief, Kuldeep Singh.
According to Singh, Amit Shah, during his four-day visit to Manipur, directed the Manipur Government to send a request to the Ministry of home affairs seeking a relief package for the displaced communities.
Manipur is witnessing ethnic violence involving two prominent communities of the region, the Kuki tribe and Meiteis who are in the majority. More than 100 people died in the violence and hundreds were injured. In the violence, around 40,000 people have been displaced and living in relief shelters. With hundreds of houses and shops.
People are surrendering the stolen weapon
While he was in Manipur, Amit Shah appealed to people to surrender the weapons stolen from the police stations and army camps. He said failure to do so would involve strict punishment. Around 3,500 guns and 500,000 guns were stolen from police stations since the start of the violence in May.
Since the appeal of the home minister, a large number of weapons have been recovered, according to Kuldiep Singh.
“In the last 24 hours: security personnel recovered 27 weapons, 245 ammunitions and 41 bombs at the Porompat police station area in Imphal East district, while one gun and two bombs were recovered in Bishnupur. The total recoveries by police until Thursday evening were 896 arms, 11,763 ammunitions and 200 bombs, said Singh.
“Since the appeal of Amit Shah, 144 weapons have been recovered, most of them from Imphal East(102 weapons), Tengnoupal(35 weapons), Imphal West(2) and Thoubal(5). Singh 18 weapons were from the international border town of Moreh and that the most common arms recovered were self-loading rifles, carbines, AK 47s and grenades,” Singh added.
Moment of vehicles on Highways continue
Union Home Minister, after he visited Manipur, also appealed to people to open the Highways for the movement of goods across the region.
According to Singh, the movement of essential items along National Highway 37 is now happening. And, NH 2 which was blocked by the people has been open now for the movement of vehicles.
“294 empty vehicles have left Imphal for Jiribam today. A total of 220 loaded vehicles have left Noney and 198 loaded tankers and trucks have left Jiribam today,” Kuldeep Singh said.
The violence in Manipur started on May 3 when people of the Kuki tribe organised a rally to protest against the reservation demands of the majority Meitei community. Since then, the situation all in several regions is tense with clashes happening regularly. The last big clash happened on June 1 in Sugnu town of Imphal valley in which one BSF Jawan died and several got injured from the other sides.