KANGPOKPI, Nov. 28: Amidst much opposition and offering of land for construction of the National Sports University in the State, the Kuki Students`™ Organization Sadar Hills today critically censured the land offered by Koutruk, Senjam Khunou & Senjam Chirang Development Organization to the State government for construction of the university today.
Speaking to media person this evening at Kangpokpi, KSO-SH president Thangminlen Kipgen alleged that the land offered by Koutruk, Senjam Khunou and Senjam Chirang Development Organization belongs to Haraothel village which is under the administrative jurisdiction of ADC Kangpokpi.
He continued that the photo captured and published in a local daily yesterday is not the land of Haraoching Chingkhong but it belongs to Haraothel village.
With the intention of acquiring the land under the administrative jurisdiction of Imphal West district, Koutruk and its surrounding villages calculatedly offered the land free of cost to the government, he alleged.
Elucidating the matter to the combined team of MPP officer bearers, local leaders and media persons Thangminlen Kipgen said that the area measuring 800 acres at Haraoching Chingkhong offered by Koutruk, Senjam Khunou and Senjam Chirang for the proposed sports university free of cost is a disputed land.
MPP officer bearers and Koutruk, Senjam Khunou and Senjam Chirang leaders evidently know that the Centre`™s instruction was to set up the Sports University at a place where there are no disputes, pointed out Thangminlen.
We would like to offer the State Government the land required for the proposed sports university at any site whether it be near Trans Asian Highway or in the interior site within Sadar Hills where there are no disputes and no objection if the Government in reality wants to construct the Sport University in the Hill area, Kipgen added.
Cautioning the Koutruk, Senjam Khunou and Senjam Chirang Development Organization, he once again reminded the organization that the land they offered free of cost is a disputed land and therefore it will be wise on their part to stop claiming authority over it so as to avoid any untoward incident.