KSO condemns

IMPHAL | Dec 31

The Kuki Students’ Organisation, Bungpi Block has alleged that ministers are withholding teachers’ salaries of six ADCs and educations department, hills of Manipur for the unsettled 10 percent amount.

A release alleged that the finance minister and tribal affairs minister were engaged in blackmailing and harassing the six autonomous district councils, demanding to settle the amount with five percent respectively, for releasing of funds meant for the education department of six ADCs. In this regard, different CSOs in the hills of Manipur alleged that the state government is misusing their authority in their hands exercising different techniques to seize some of the amount of the developmental funds allocated for the ADCs, the release said.

Despite the governor of Manipur’s order for releasing the salaries of government employs before December 18, the finance minister and minister of tribal affairs and hills have completely ignored the governor’s order and went ahead with their selfish motives which resulted in the non-payment of teachers’ salaries of six ADCs of hills till date, the release further alleged.

The organisation has condemned the government’s indifferent attitude towards the ADCs which is considered as a step motherly treatment and is the main hurdle in different sphere of developmental activities, the release continued. KSO has further appealed that the state government to work sincerely for the progress of the hill people respecting the true nature of the autonomous bodies, and release the funds timely, it added.