ATSUM demands opening of TRI office

IMPHAL | Oct 8

The All Tribal Students’ Union Manipur (ATSUM) strongly condemned the locking of the tribal research institute (TRI) office by a student organisation for their misgiving over appointment and functioning of a Tribal department.

A statement issued by information and publicity secretary of ATSUM, Mikah Kamei, said whatever student body’s grievances and misgiving must be addressed to the government or take legal course.

The issues of the current problems over appointment of deputy director TRI has been explained to the public through print media on August 23, 2017 and ATSUM stand by that statement, it said.

The unwanted action of shutting down of TRI office and character assassination of a senior tribal IAS officer is condemned in the strongest term, it said.

Stating that the tribal offices and officers must not be targeted for lack of employment by some vested individual, ATSUM also questioned the rational of perpetrating group, AMSU.

It is very unfortunate that the TRI offices which was locked on October 6 right under the nose of the government is yet to broke opened despite instant appraisal to the government for initiation of action, it lamented.

Nowhere in any department has such incident occurred without the interference of the government except TRI wherein the rules of law is being given to an organisation, it contended.

Taking serious notes on this present issue, ATSUM draws the attention of the government and AMSU and do the needful to open the locked doors before 12 noon of October 9, failing which it warned to take its own course of action.