Manipur Looks At One Last Step To End Hereditary Chieftainship
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The Manipur Hill Areas (Acquisition of Chiefs' Rights) Act 1967 was passed in 1967, and the then President gave assent to the bill, which was further notified in the same year, BJP MLA Rajkumar Imo Singh said
The Manipur government will take "appropriate steps" to enforce a law that will end the system of hereditary chieftainship in the hills areas of the state, BJP MLA Rajkumar Imo Singh said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. A very important statement by the Chief Minister on the floor of the Manipur Legislative Assembly that the State Government will consult and take appropriate steps for the implementation of The Manipur Hill Areas (Acquisition of Chiefs' Rights) Act 1967. This Act was passed by...
The state is seeking to scrap the chieftainship system to end the rule of village chiefs, who are the sole leaders of settlements and own entire villages, and pave the way for setting up a democratic way of rural governance.
Referring to Chief Minister N Biren Singh's statement in the assembly on Monday that the government will enforce an Act, which was passed in 1967 to abolish hereditary chieftainship, Imo Singh said the then President had also given assent to the bill in June 1967.
