IMPHAL, June 19: The Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System in Manipur Students’ wing has criticized the reaffirmation stand taken up at the Manipur State Legislative Assembly to urge the Centre to reintroduce ILP in the state.
Speaking to the media at a press meet held today at the DESAM office at Keishampat Junction, the convener of the students’ wing of the joint committee Moirangthem Angamba said that the students’ wing has no trust in the state government.
Last year on July 13, a private member resolution was passed to urge the Centre to reintroduce Inner Line Permit in the state however nothing was done in this one year period, he said.
The state government has failed to turn the things which they have assured to the people of the state into action and has remained silent during this entire one year period, the student representative said.
He further said that ILP cannot be reintroduced in the state unless the state government approaches the Centre with a true heart and dedication to work for it, he maintained.
The awareness programs conducted at various schools and colleges in the state in favour of reintroduction of ILP in the state organized by the students’ wing of the committee will continue, he said while condemning the Chief Minister for standing against it.
He said that today, a team of students’ wing took a visit at the Industrial Training Institute at Takyelpat and found eight non-Manipuris trying to fill up forms for admission to the institute without proper identification proof.
He urged all the concerned officials not to allow admission into their respective institutes without properly verifying the candidates.
He appealed to all the concerned district officers and District Transport Officers’ not to issue driving license or domicile or residential certificates to non-locals without proper verification saying that they have come across several fake documents provided by the concerned authority.
He also appealed to the Imphal Municipal Council to check the growing number of unauthorized non-local hawkers and to take appropriate action against them.
The press meet was attended by representatives of All Manipur Student’s Union, Apunba Ireipak Maheiroi Sinpanglup, Kangleipak Students’ Association (KSA), Students’ Union Kangleipak (SUK), All Manipur Muslim Students’ Organization and Democratic Students Alliance Manipur.