Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 29:
To interact with the Government as well as chalk out any action plan if the authority concerned goes ahead with its plan to set up the NIT at Langol by evicting thousands of people drawn from different communities, having their own patta lands, a body christened, Joint Action Committee for Protection of 91-Meitei Langol Patta Land/Residential Areas, Imphal have been formed with former MP Kim Gangte as the chairperson.
In a statement the JAC today said that it would take into confidence all civil society organisations to seek their full co-operation and added that all developmental works should not be confined to Imphal area alone.
The JAC added that the construction of the NIT or any other projects in residential areas and farm lands which will dislodge the inhabitants in the name of development is a criminal violation of human rights.
Developmental works should be spread to the hill areas too, it added.
The statement further said that the proposed NIT at Langol should be stopped immediately in the larger interest of integration and right to property which is not only a Constitutional right but is also about human rights.