Need for implementing National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy

As the state and the central government implement plans-some ongoing as well as completed- in Manipur, many families are being displaced and many livelihoods affected by projects as the road widening and expansion in Imphal city, construction of the Mapithel dam, Loktak Hydro-electricity project and the under-construction railway route till Imphal to name a few. This is not to say that development shouldn’t be an agenda. Neither should there be any move to stop any projects for the larger good of the society.

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As the state and the central government implement plans-some ongoing as well as completed- in Manipur, many families are being displaced and many livelihoods affected by projects as the road widening and expansion in Imphal city, construction of the Mapithel dam, Loktak Hydro-electricity project and the under-construction railway route till Imphal to name a few. This is not to say that development shouldn’t be an agenda. Neither should there be any move to stop any projects for the larger good of the society.

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