{"id":954186,"date":"2026-08-16T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenow.in\/?p=529115"},"modified":"2026-08-16T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:45:00","slug":"manipur-rs-600-crore-funds-withheld-over-delayed-panchayat-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2026\/08\/16\/manipur-rs-600-crore-funds-withheld-over-delayed-panchayat-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur: Rs 600 crore funds withheld over delayed Panchayat polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manipur Panchayat elections\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<figure><img width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manipur Panchayat elections\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-design-3-4.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Imphal: Director of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (RD&#38;PR) Ksh Umananda said around Rs 600 crore allocated to Manipur under the 15th Finance Commission has not been released because the state has not held Panchayat elections. The tenure of the previous Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) representatives ended in October 2022, and no elections have been [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/manipur-rs-600-crore-funds-withheld-over-delayed-panchayat-polls.html\">Manipur: Rs 600 crore funds withheld over delayed Panchayat polls<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/\">NorthEast Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/manipur-rs-600-crore-funds-withheld-over-delayed-panchayat-polls.html\">https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/manipur-rs-600-crore-funds-withheld-over-delayed-panchayat-polls.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal: Director of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (RD&#038;PR) Ksh Umananda said around Rs 600 crore allocated to Manipur under the 15th Finance Commission has not been released because the state has not held Panchayat elections. The tenure of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20380],"tags":[34,319,20383,20381,20384,20382],"class_list":["post-954186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nenow","tag-manipur","tag-manipur-news","tag-nenow","tag-northeast-news","tag-northeastnow","tag-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954192,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954186\/revisions\/954192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}