Source: The Sangai Express / S Singlianmang Guite
Lamka, October 13 2010:
Further expanding the firm stand CoPTAM has adopted on the Government towards their varied demands including on the census exercise, a release of the committee today placed three options; accept the first census information submitted by the enumerators, recensus or declare 'null and void' the census information instead of unscrupulous removal of tribals from the census record.
The release that came a day after the committee's summit had announced boycott of hill MLAs said, the summit after a deep deliberation, outrightly denounced the imposition of fixed decadal population growth rate for tribal in the State and the subsequent steps taken by the district administrations to reduce the population by deleting some people from census records.
It also clarified that the extreme step of boycotting hill MLAs was taken as their earlier dateline of Oct 1 to publicly declare their stance was ignored.