IMPHAL, March 4: The Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System has in a press statement said it is not completely happy but welcomes the government`™s last minute decision to table a bill for enactment of a law for safeguarding the indigenous population of the State by extending the assembly session.
The release said, JCILPS came to know that the Business Advisory Committee report does not have an agenda to discuss the ILP issue and realized that the government was tryimg to neglect the demand of the people for enactment of a law by passing a bill in the ongoing 10th session of tenth Manipur Legislative Assembly.
Following this various forms of agitation were launched with the support of the public to press the demands. Sit-in-protests were staged at various places in Imphal on March 2 demanding to discuss the issue in the ongoing assembly session, it further said.
It said the people are now waiting for the government to see if it going to keep its commitment by understanding the sentiments of the people as well as considering the opinions of the experts.
JCILPS has also demanded the government to consider the five points, which was submitted to the government earlier, while framing the law for safeguarding the indigenous population.
`By seeing the way it is acting, we cannot completely trust the government. We are preparing to launch various forms of agitation if the government fails to come up according to the wishes of the people,` it added.