• About Us
  • Copyright Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
Assamese |  
Thursday, February 21, 2019
NORTHEAST NOW
  • HOME
  • NORTH EAST
    • Assam
    • Meghalaya
    • Tripura
    • Mizoram
    • Manipur
    • Nagaland
    • Arunachal
    • Sikkim
  • Neighbours
    • Nepal
    • Bhutan
    • China
    • Myanmar
    • Bangladesh
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Environment
  • Citizen Journalists
  • Opinion
No Result
View All Result
  • HOME
  • NORTH EAST
    • Assam
    • Meghalaya
    • Tripura
    • Mizoram
    • Manipur
    • Nagaland
    • Arunachal
    • Sikkim
  • Neighbours
    • Nepal
    • Bhutan
    • China
    • Myanmar
    • Bangladesh
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Environment
  • Citizen Journalists
  • Opinion
No Result
View All Result
NORTHEAST NOW
Assamese
Home NORTH EAST NEWS Manipur

Central team visits Manipur border amid controversy

NE NOW NEWS NE NOW NEWS
IMPHAL , July 25, 2018 9:48 pm

3 min read

Myanmar border

Myanmar border

56
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The three Central government officials who inspected the controversial Border Pillar 81 near Kwatha Khunnou along Manipur-Myanmar border on Wednesday said there was no inconsistency about its location.

“We are going to submit a report to the Centre,” Surveyor General of India, Lt Gen Girish Kumar said.

Representatives of several political parties and civil society organisations alleging inconsistencies also joined the inspection.

The border villagers have alleged that the border post has been “shifted” inside Manipur, altering its position. They said the Central team had refused to visit the “original location of BP 81” which is now inside Myanmar.

Manipur Govenment spokesperson Letpao Haokip said: “There is no question of losing our land. We will study the report once it is submitted to the Centre. The official team came to Manipur at our request”.

Hareswor Goswami, a Congress spokesperson and a retired bureaucrat who had authored a book on Manipur’s shrinking border, says BP 81 is located deep inside Manipur. He produced maps and other documemnts before the officials.

This view is shared by A. Tombikanta, the collector of Tengnoupal district under which BP 81 falls.

The three Central officials, Sripriya Ranganathan, joint secretary of Ministry of External Affairs (Bangladesh and Myanmar), A.V. Dharma Reddy, joint secretary of Ministry of Home Affairs (border management) along with the Surveyor General of India had arrived at Imphal on Tuesday.

The Centre deputed the team to visit the border for verification of the location of the BP 81 in the wake of allegations by villagers, activists and some officials of Manipur that the BP 81 was shifted 3 km deep inside Manipur.

The Central team met representatives of United Committee Manipur (UCM) which was formed in June 2001 for the protection of Manipur’s territory. Khuraijam Athouba, general secretary of UCM later said that the central officials came without instruments to verify the rightful location of BP 81.

“The officials said that the location of BP 81 is based on the traditional boundaries which were agreed upon in 1967. They could not explain the basis for the traditional boundaries. We are not satisfied and will continue our agitation,” said Khuraijam Athouba.

Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju during his recent visit to Imphal had maintained that there was nothing wrong in the location of BP 81. However residents of Kwatha Khunnou and other villages say that BP 81 was shifted.

Activists say Manipur has lost 110 sq. km of territory in an “unexplained manner” ever since Manipur was merged with the Indian Union on October 15, 1949.

JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER
Join over millions visitors who are reading our news and get instant alert in your email
Your email address will not be shared with anyone

Meghalaya: USTM pays back fees to 27 NET qualified students

Assam : Over 36500 posts of teachers lying vacant in state schools

frog

Rare frog species found in Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh

seba

Assam : Two regional SEBA offices to stop functioning from March 1

Sikkim Assembly

Sikkim Assembly passes interim budget of Rs 3,566.29 crore for six months

NORTHEAST NOW

Northeast Now is a multi-app based hyper-regional bilingual news portal. Led by a group of professionals, the digital news platform covers every inch of the eight states of northeast India and the five neighbouring countries. It is the first of its kind new media initiative in the northeast, and is based in Guwahati. As the political dynamics in the northeast is intricate and fluid, Northeast Now is always politically neutral.

 
Available at

Follow Us

Facebook Twitter Youtube
 
Our Properties
 
  • NORTHEAST NOW ASSAMESE
  • NORTHEAST JOBS
  • NORTHEAST TENDERS
  • INNFINITY
  • About Us
  • Copyright Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Authors
  • Contact Us

© 2019 - Maintained by EZEN Software & Technology Pvt. Ltd

No Result
View All Result
  • HOME
  • NORTH EAST
    • Assam
    • Meghalaya
    • Tripura
    • Mizoram
    • Manipur
    • Nagaland
    • Arunachal
    • Sikkim
  • Neighbours
    • Nepal
    • Bhutan
    • China
    • Myanmar
    • Bangladesh
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Environment
  • Citizen Journalists
  • Opinion

© 2019 - Maintained by EZEN Software & Technology Pvt. Ltd