IMPHAL, Sept 12 NNN : The Naga Peoples Front (NPF), Manipur State unit said that as long as the Manipur government achieves its ‘target’ more re-verifications of census are bound to continue.
The census reports of 2001 and 2011 in respect of Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul sub-divisions of Senapati district, have been rejected by the state government of Manipur on the ground that there have been abnormalities of population growth which was not possible.
“No matter how many re-verifications are conducted by the Registrar General of India (RGI), the Manipur government will not accept the reports if they turn out to go against its interest. There is a motive of the Manipur government in this connection,” alleged Athuan Abonmai, general secretary of the NPF, Manipur state unit. He questioned whether those people in Senapati district whose names are rejected in the census count be made the citizens of China or Myanmar or any other country if the government really refuses to accept them. Athuan Abonmai also said never ending re-verifications of the census have wasted the time of busy farmers in the district.
Altogether 19 officials of the Registrar General of India (Census) led by deputy director SK Chakarbarti are now conducting the census re-verification task in the three sub-divisions of Senapati district since last week. They are leaving for New Delhi on coming Saturday.
On September 4, in a memorandum submitted to Dr. Chandermolly, director of the Registrar General of India, the NPF questioned, “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 cityzen’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.
Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/census-work-badly-done-npf/
