Manipur to have separate IAS, IPS and IFS cadres
Source: The Sangai Express / (Agencies)

Guwahati, December 09 2011: Manipur and Tripura will soon have separate cadres for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS).

Introducing the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Amendment Bill, 2011, in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Union minister of state for home Mullappaly Ramachandran said by amending the original Act of 1971, the long pending demand of the twin states would be fulfilled.

"Once the new law comes into force, Tripura and Manipur will have separate cadres of IAS, IPS and IFS.

At present, there is a joint cadre of these services for the two states," he said.

Another bill seeking to give Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to Inpui, Rongmei, Liangmai, Zeme, Thangal and Mate communities of Manipur and substitute Galong with Galo the right name of the tribe in the list of Arunachal Pradesh was also introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

The Bill to amend the original Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, was introduced by Union minister of tribal affairs V Kishore Chandra Deo.

At present, there are 33 communities appearing in the list of Schedule Tribe in Manipur and the amendment will meet a long standing demand for considering grant of ST status to these communities.

In the Arunachal list, Galong community was mentioned.

The state government has been recommending for long that the name Galo be substituted in place of Galong.

"Galong is a distorted version of the original word Galo.

A change is therefore required in the list of ST in Arunachal Pradesh," the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2011 said.

It may be mentioned that the Union Cabinet on Oct 29, 2009.approved the proposal of the Union ministry of tribal affairs to introduce a Bill in Parliament for inclusion of six communities Inpui, Liangmai, Rongmei, Thangal, Zeme and Mate in the list of Scheduled Tribes in the state of Manipur by amending the existing entries at S.No.8, 9, 10 and by inserting a new entry (relating to "Mate") at Sl No 34; and substitution of "Galo" in place of "Galong" at Sl No 5 in the list of Scheduled Tribes in Arunachal Pradesh.

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