Imphal, Sept 4 NNN : Even as the Naga Peoples Front (NPF), Manipur State unit has requested the Registrar General of India (Census) accept the 2001 and 2011 census in respect of Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul sub-divisions of Sanapati district, Manipur so that the matter is settled once and for all, re-verification of 3 sub-divisions of Senapati district namely Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul census 2011 is underway.
Altogether 19 officials of the Registrar General of India (Census) led by deputy director SK Chakarbarti arrived here on Tuesday.
In a memorandum submitted to Dr. Chandermolly, director of the Registrar General of India, the NPF questions, “How many verifications and re-verifications are needed ?”
According to the NPF, even if re-verifations are done hundreds of time, it appears that the Manipur government will never accept unless its target is achieved. The NPF then said, “It is so ironical to say that the Manipur state government has certain agenda to reduce the population of the said three blocks of Senapati district.”
It alleged that the state government had rejected ‘the physically counted’ census data both 2001 and 2011 and that too after the provisional census data was published which amount to violation of fundamental rights of the concern citizens.
“As the officially verified and accepted figures of the population were rejected by the Manipur government, a joint re-verification of census 2001 and 2011 were carried out by S.K Chakrabarti, DDG and Dr. MC Mehanathan, Director Ministry of Home from May 9-10 in 2011 and found hundred pencent correct,” the NPF pointed out.
“However, the state government has rejected all these genuine data. The state government estimated the population at 40% done randomly. Such discriminatory attitudes of the state government have to be checked. the justifications of high rate population in the hilly tribal areas of those three blocks were clearly made by the concern SDOs and the deputy commissioner,” the NPF stated.
“The Manipur state govenment is determined to reduce forcibly the citizen’s population of the tribal dominanted Sub-Divisions namely Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul. It is another form of genocide penetrated to the minority tribal by Manipur government. Tribals in the said blocks are living death in this planet and both the government of India and Manipur government treated them as persona non-grata”, the NPF fumes.
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