Our puya says open the Nongpok thong Manipur will gain. Nongpok thong is now open. Let us see what comes out. There is a lot to be expected from the Chief Minister O. Ibobi’s Myanmar visit. Manipur has reaped benefit from legalising Indo Myanmar border trade. More need to be done to make Manipur another Singapore of India. If tiny country Singapore can gain the status of one of the richest nations of the world for having a dockyard where ships are docked Manipur for neighbouring with the prosperous south East Asian nations also move towards the path of attaining self reliant with income that can be collected from various sources that include trade and commerce. In the past men and women visited Kashmir and Darjeeling for sightseeing. Now people from far off, South, west and North of the country have expressed their desire to have a glimpse of Manipur. Very recently a polo team from Kashmir visited Manipur to take part in the polo tournament. They insisted they be taken to the border town. What they did at Tamu was taking photograph of themselves in the same manner tourists taking photograph in front of Taj Mahal. They were delighted that they had landed on the foreign land. Every single domestic tourist will experience the same feeling when they visit Manipur and the border town. What is needed to be done is to take step to bring more tourists to Manipur. It is time we take step for including Manipur in the tourist map of the country. Setting aside tourism, which has immense potential Manipur can gain a lot from intensifying the trade with Myanmar side. When the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission was grilled by the scribes from Manipur for the lackadaisical attitude shown in the development of Manipur what he said was you are neighbouring with the prosperous south East Asian nations. He said how you can suffer. Since then change has been senn. Manipur is moving forward. We are moving ahead in the field of sports also. Let us see what comes out after Manipur Chief Minister O. Ibobi’s visit to Myanmar. Surely we feel something will come out of it.
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