IMPHAL, June 10: The All Tribal Students’ Manipur (ATSUM) has in a release reiterated its charter of demands says it will continue with its intense agitation to stop the construction work of NF Railway construction.
“Having turned a deaf ear to the cries of the long pending legitimate demands of the All Tribal Students ’Manipur (ATSUM) by the Government of Manipur, the Union was compelled to launch an intense agitation for 38 hours w.e.f. 5.am of June 3, 2013 to 7.pm of 4th June 2013 followed by a sustained agitation for 38 days under the code name (ROTO) Reckoning of the others in protest against the indifferent attitude of the GoM,” the release said.
“With no response from the Government with the above series of agitations the ATSUM add up the actions to stop the construction work of NF Railway construction indefinitely that is taken up between Tupul- Jiribam from the midnight of June 7 until and unless the Manipur State Govt. concede to the genuine demands of ATSUM,” it further said.
The constructions work of NF-Raiways from Tupul- Jiribam is completely stopped now, it added.
ATSUM demands include appointment of adequate teaching and non-teaching staff in the Hill areas; development of Infrastructures to School in the Hill areas; Setting up of B.ED centers in the Hills; IGNTU-Issues; to make all PHSC, PHC, CHC and DHC functional; proper equipments with required specialist Doctors and Nurses in all the District Hospitals of the Hill; reservation of ST Quota for different grades of posts in JNIMS.