
Manipur activist seeks status of hill area schemes
The Hindu
Welfare schemes have failed to reach many people, he says
A Right to Information activist in Manipur has sought the status of a slew of welfare schemes in the State’s hill areas that have allegedly failed to reach many.
In a complaint on Tuesday, Imphal-based activist Wahengbam Joykumar Singh has asked the chairperson of Manipur State Commission for Scheduled Tribes to direct the commissioner and director of the Hill Affairs and Tribal Development Department to publicise the details of the ongoing or implemented schemes and upload the list of beneficiaries.

The Ottiyambakkam panchayat had an harrowingly difficult time keeping people from swimming in the deadly quarry with its protruding rocks under the water. There had been many deaths. And then nature intervened, and the fatal accidents stopped. An invasive, floating weed that is a bane of water sources everywhere, the water hyacinth is not just tolerated in the quarry but welcomed












