Guwahati: The Manipur government has disbursed Rs 6.138 crore as financial assistance for 61,387 people displaced in the six-month-long ethnic clashes in the state, and currently taking refuge in different relief camps, Chief Minister N Biren Singh has said,
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh said, “Financial assistance of Rs 1,000 per head has been disbursed for all the displaced persons residing at the relief camps on October 24, 2023 through the District Commissioners (DCs). These payments are aimed at providing the displaced people some assistance to purchase clothing and personal belongings as winter approaches in the state.”
“A total of Rs 6.138 Crore has been released to DCs which will be utilised for providing the assistance to 61,387 persons presently living in relief camps in the state. The state government will continue to provide assistance to everyone affected irrespective of the communities they belong to,” Chief Minister Singh added in his post on X.
Chief Minister Singh also informed that 98.28 per cent of the students who are staying at various relief camps of the state have been admitted to schools.
“Pleased to learn that 98.28% of the students staying at the relief camps have been admitted back to the nearest feasible schools. The Department of Education-S has appointed nodal officers for each relief camp and daily data on the requirements of displaced students is being collected by the department by opening a control room,” Chief Minister Biren Singh said in another post on the social media platform.
Meanwhile, security forces deployed in the state continued to recover arms and ammunition looted from the state police armouries. The Assam Rifles along with the Manipur police carried out extensive search operations in the fringe and vulnerable areas of the state’s Thoubal, Bishnupur and Kakching districts over the past 24 hours.
In one such operation conducted in the foothills of Chandrakhong under the jurisdiction of the Nongpok Sekmai police station in the Thoubal district, a joint team of the Assam Rifles and Manipur police recovered one 5.56mm INSAS rifle, two 7.62mm Self-Loading Rifles (SLR), three 9mm pistols, one 40mm lathode gun, 30 live rounds of ammunition, 11 explosives, one HTRF walkie-talkie set, one Bullet Proof (BP) jacket and two BP jacket plates.
On the other hand, the Manipur police late Wednesday arrested two active members of the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), a separatist insurgent group of Manipur, from the state’s Imphal West and Imphal East districts. The police recovered one 9mm pistol, 143 live rounds of ammunition and three mobile handsets along with four SIM cards from their possession. The police said that the duo was involved in the extortion of huge amounts of money from the public.