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Imphal,July 25: Court directive is awaited for compensation of the land owners affected by Loktak Project, as the case is in the Guwahati High Court said Chief Minister O Ibobi in the Assembly today.

He said that the Loktak Hydro Electric Project was taken up in 1983 under National Hydro Project Policy. In 1994, a case was filed at Guwahati High Court by the land owner affected by the project.

He further said that in 1999 the Guwahati High Court had directed to constitute a committee of expert to investigate on the matter. As per the court’s directive, in December 22, 1999 the said committee was formed presided by the Commissioner of Revenue, Government of Manipur with 11 member committee.

Unfortunately, before submission of the report by the committee, another group of land owners had filed a cased on the same matter. Later, on April 18, 2006 the report was submitted to the court. It recommended that the compensation must be paid by the user agency of the Loktak Hydro Electric Project that is the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation. But till now the court has not directed any further notification or order to the state regarding the matter, added the CM.

He also clarified the Cut motion of L Ibomcha for Installation of a search light in the Keishampat Junction area; he said that government is taking initiative on the matter.

Later, the House passed Rs 581,74,39,000 for six demands including Labour & Employment, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary including Dairy Farming, Power, Social Welfare Department, Tourism, Relief and Disaster Management.

In the another demand discussion on Social Welfare, MLA L Ibomcha suggested to consider on the search cum selection committee for recommendation of person for appointment to the post of the Commissioner for the state Commission for person with disabilities. The concern Minister Mirabai said that the suggestion will be considered.

Demand No.48 on Relief and Disaster Management, Demand No. 18 on Animal Husbandry and Veterinary including Dairy Farming and Demand No 13 Labour & Employment were passed without any debate in the House today.

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IMPHAL, July 22: The Manipur Legislative Assembly today passed a total sum of Rs 1310,68,91,000 for various six demands of various government departments.

Speaker Th Lokeshwar Singh took up discussion and voting on demands for grants, 2014-15 as the third business of the House today.

Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh who is also the leader of the House and the Finance minister tabled the amount for six different demands to be discussed and passed by the House.

The demands which were tabled by the leader of the House are Demand No 9 for Rs 5,40,56,000 for Information and Publicity, Demand No 10 for Rs 1062,73,97,000 for Education, Demand No 17 for Rs 189,06,05,000 for Agriculture, Demand No 27 for Rs 15,85,07,000 for Election, Demand No 37 for Rs 32,70,55,000 for Fisheries and Demand No 42 for Rs 4,92,71,000 for State Academy of Training.

Discussions on the demands were participated by only four MLAs of the 60-member House, namely AITC MLAs Dr I Ibohalbi Singh, Th Shyamkumar, Kh Joykishan Singh and Th Biswajit Singh.

During discussion on the Demand no 10 for Education, the four raised motions for disapproval of policy cut on the account of failure to streamline the standard education system in the State, failure to regularise ad-hoc graduate teachers, who were discontinued from their services in 2007, failure to repair and construct class rooms in high schools and primary schools, failure of transfer and posting policy in the department, incomplete infrastructure under SSA/ RMSA and failure to implement SSA and PMSA schemes as per ministry of Human Resources guidelines.

During discussion on Demand no 17 for Agriculture, MLAs Dr I Ibohalbi Singh and Th Biswajit Singh raised motions for disapproval of policy cuts.

The two had raised their motions on account of failure to adopt State specific agricultural policy and imporper management of temporary marketing system for agricultural products.

Ibohalbi had further raised a motion for disapproval of policy cuts during the discussion of Demand no 37 for Fisheries on account of inability of the department to have a policy for production of self-sufficient fish in the State.

However, the cut motions were withdrawn after the concerned ministers aided by the leader of the House Chief Minister Okram Ibobi provided clarifications and assurances

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