Key Takeaways
- The Manipur violence has displaced thousands, prompting emergency housing initiatives.
- The government allocated Rs. 5,000 per child under a special education scheme for labour card holders.
- Two phases of financial assistance (Rs. 1,000 each) are being rolled out to relief‑camp residents.
Imphal: Chief Minister N. Biren Singh said on Saturday that activities of people who want to disintegrate Manipur are the root causes of Manipur violence.
” Even though all are facing hardship due to the crisis, we are still living together by God’s grace, ” he added.
The Chief Minister informed that construction of prefabricated houses at different places for relocation of displaced persons are almost in completion stage. He continued that some displaced persons, whose houses had not been burnt or razed to ground in the violence, have started resettling in their original places of settlement. For those people whose houses had been burned down, the Government is planning to build new houses for them.
He further informed that under the Special Scheme for Education of Children of Labour Card Holders staying at relief camps, the government is providing a sum of Rs. 5,000 each to help their children’s education.
Additionally, the state government has already distributed financial assistance of Rs. 1,000 per person in the first phase and announced another Rs. 1,000 will be given in the second phase soon.
Expressing words of motivation to those staying at different relief camps, N. Biren stated that the Government has been taking up all possible measures to resettle all the displaced people and to provide necessary assistance.
