5 MAY,2023.
05-05-2023
By Admin
What is behind Manipur’s widespread unrest? (PG 12)(GS 2,3)
5 MAY,2023.
•What triggered the conflict between the nontribal Meitei people and other tribal groups?
Largescale violence broke out on May 3 triggered by the Manipur High Court’s direction to the State to pursue a 10yearold recommendation to grant Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the nontribal Meitei community.
The petitioners told the High Court that the ST status is needed to “preserve” the community and “save the ancestral land, tradition, culture, and language” of the Meiteis.
Tribal groups feel that the ST status to the Meiteis would lead to loss of job opportunities and allow them to acquire land in the hills and push the tribals out.