NIT Site Face-Off
JAC warns state govt. over NIT site:
Imphal, Dec 14: The JAC for Protection of Residential, Agricultural and Wetlands in Langol-Lamphelpat has cautioned the State Government against igniting a Nandigram like situation in Langol-Lamphelpat by its adamant move to set up the National Institute of Technology (NIT) there.
Addressing a press conference at Manipur Press Club here on Friday, chairperson of the JAC and former MP Kim Gangte said what is happening in Nandigram, West Bengal is known to all the people now and the possibility of a similar violent situation cannot be ruled out if the State Government is adamant on its stand of setting up NIT at Langol area .
To highlight this point, three delegates of the JAC had recently gone to Delhi to met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, PMO Minister Prithiviraj Chauhan, HRD Minister Arjun Singh, MP Renuka Chaudhury, CPI National general secretary AB Bhardhan and other Central leaders, Kim Gangte said.
Apart from submitting the memorandum of the JAC to each of these Central leaders, the copy of the same has been forwarded to the three MPs from Manipur, she added.
As an outcome of the meeting with the Central leaders who gave a patient hearing to the case of the JAC, a National Fact Finding Team would be arriving to conduct public hearing on the issue at Imphal on December 19, she further informed.
The former MP informed that Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh had misled the Centre by stating that the people have no objection to setting up NIT at Langol.
As a matter of fact, JAC is not against setting up of NIT, but acquisition of the residential area, agricultural land and filling up the natural water bodies at Langol-Lamphelpat for construction of the said institute is objectionable, Kim clarified.
Langol-Lamphelpat area is a place where people belonging to different social backgrounds are living in social harmony. So the step being taken up by the Chief Minister would only disturb the social harmony and displace the people from their own homeland, she asserted.
Reacting to the assertion of the State Government that setting up of the proposed NIT at Langol is imperative from the security point of view, the former MP observed that such assertion is far from the truth and reality.
How could one say that the Langol area is safe, when the bungalow of the Chief Minister itself is not immune to bomb attacks and UGs have been arrested from the high security zone of Babupara quarters of the MLAs and Ministers?, she questioned.
The security of the NIT lies in the three points approved by the people and the same of which have been placed before the Central leaders by the JAC, she said, while pointing out that the issue of the NIT had been brought up in the Lok Sabha for discussion by MP Kirip Chaleha on December 6. With the support of other organisations and Churches., the JAC would continue to oppose construction of NIT at Langol, she added.
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Imphal, Dec 14: The JAC for Protection of Residential, Agricultural and Wetlands in Langol-Lamphelpat has cautioned the State Government against igniting a Nandigram like situation in Langol-Lamphelpat by its adamant move to set up the National Institute of Technology (NIT) there.
Addressing a press conference at Manipur Press Club here on Friday, chairperson of the JAC and former MP Kim Gangte said what is happening in Nandigram, West Bengal is known to all the people now and the possibility of a similar violent situation cannot be ruled out if the State Government is adamant on its stand of setting up NIT at Langol area .
To highlight this point, three delegates of the JAC had recently gone to Delhi to met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, PMO Minister Prithiviraj Chauhan, HRD Minister Arjun Singh, MP Renuka Chaudhury, CPI National general secretary AB Bhardhan and other Central leaders, Kim Gangte said.
Apart from submitting the memorandum of the JAC to each of these Central leaders, the copy of the same has been forwarded to the three MPs from Manipur, she added.
As an outcome of the meeting with the Central leaders who gave a patient hearing to the case of the JAC, a National Fact Finding Team would be arriving to conduct public hearing on the issue at Imphal on December 19, she further informed.
The former MP informed that Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh had misled the Centre by stating that the people have no objection to setting up NIT at Langol.
As a matter of fact, JAC is not against setting up of NIT, but acquisition of the residential area, agricultural land and filling up the natural water bodies at Langol-Lamphelpat for construction of the said institute is objectionable, Kim clarified.
Langol-Lamphelpat area is a place where people belonging to different social backgrounds are living in social harmony. So the step being taken up by the Chief Minister would only disturb the social harmony and displace the people from their own homeland, she asserted.
Reacting to the assertion of the State Government that setting up of the proposed NIT at Langol is imperative from the security point of view, the former MP observed that such assertion is far from the truth and reality.
How could one say that the Langol area is safe, when the bungalow of the Chief Minister itself is not immune to bomb attacks and UGs have been arrested from the high security zone of Babupara quarters of the MLAs and Ministers?, she questioned.
The security of the NIT lies in the three points approved by the people and the same of which have been placed before the Central leaders by the JAC, she said, while pointing out that the issue of the NIT had been brought up in the Lok Sabha for discussion by MP Kirip Chaleha on December 6. With the support of other organisations and Churches., the JAC would continue to oppose construction of NIT at Langol, she added.
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