Memo demands sops to jobless, ILP in State
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, July 07 2012: Police foiled a proposed rally of All India Youth Federation (AIYF) and All India Students' Association (AISF) Manipur State Council to present a memorandum to the Chief Minister before a delegation was taken to hand over the memorandum.

Demanding implementation of inner line permit system in the State and monthly allowance to educated unemployed youths, volunteers of AIYF and AISF trooped out of BT road Irabot Bhavan complex to hand the memorandum at around 12.30 pm today.

However, large number of police personnel already at the location prevented the volunteers from marching out of Irabot Bhavan complex thereby resulting in a brief commotion.

It is said that apart from demands for enforcing ILP and allowance to the unemployed youths, the AIYF and AISF memorandum proposed academic calendar of no less than 214 days as is the current practice of Central Board of Secondary Education.

Police block AISF/AIYF activists from taking out the procession

Presently the State's Board of secondary Education and Council of Higher Secondary have academic calendars of 180 and 160 days respectively.

To highlight these demands AIYF and AISF volunteers/activists holding placards and banners intended to march upto the CM's bungalow.

even though the volunteers tried to drive home the point that the issues were in the interest of the general public, the police did not relent and took away the banners/placards.

Condemning police action against the democratic movement, AIYF state secretary Akham Kunjeshwor Khuman said the peaceful procession was meant to draw the attention of the CM for adopting a resolution in the ongoing assembly session with regard to provision of allowance to the educated unemployed youths.

The other point mentioned in the memorandum included raising the age limit to 45 from the present 35 for candidates seeking Government jobs.

with reference to the UP Government recently announcing Rs 1000 monthly allowance to unemployed youths, the joint representation urged for similar arrangement in Manipur too.

While most of the volunteers were confined within Irabot Bhavan complex, some representatives of the Left parties' frontal organisation were taken to the CM's bungalow by a team of City police station to hand over the memorandum.