{"id":65036,"date":"2013-08-24T20:30:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T00:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/?p=19969"},"modified":"2013-08-24T20:30:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T00:30:30","slug":"ukhrul-villagers-against-ceding-of-manipur%e2%80%99s-land-to-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2013\/08\/24\/ukhrul-villagers-against-ceding-of-manipur%e2%80%99s-land-to-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukhrul villagers against ceding of Manipur\u2019s land to Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, August 24 NNN : Autonomous District Council (ADC), Ukhrul has insisted in a memorandum to the Union Home Minister on Saturday that the border village of Choro in UKhrul district of Manipur should not be ceded to Myanmar to barter land between the neighbouring country and India.<br \/>\nThe memorandum says ADC members and the public of Ukhrul in the interest of the people of the state oppose the process for inclusion of Choro in the land exchange process between the two countries.<br \/>\nBoth Manipur and Central Governments purportedly intend to give away the Choro village to Myanmar for the purpose of the current Indo-Myanmar Border Fencing.<br \/>\nIn the representation to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, ADC, Ukhrul says both Manipur and Central Government are taking steps to cede Choro village in exchange of Myanmar\u2019s land at Manipur\u2019s Moreh in Chandel district.<br \/>\nIt says Choro is a hill village that pays house tax and it is inhabited by Manipuris who have been safeguarding the boundary since time immemorial.<br \/>\nBorder village of Choro was wisely saved from losing to Myanmar (Burma) when the Kabaw Vallley of Manipur was given to the neighbouring country, says the memorandum.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/ukhrul-villagers-against-ceding-of-manipurs-land-to-myanmar\/\">http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/ukhrul-villagers-against-ceding-of-manipurs-land-to-myanmar\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, August 24 NNN : Autonomous District Council (ADC), Ukhrul has insisted in a memorandum to the Union Home Minister on Saturday that the border village of Choro in UKhrul district of Manipur should not be ceded to Myanmar to barter land between the neighbouring country and India. The memorandum says ADC members and the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,4],"tags":[986,988],"class_list":["post-65036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manipur-mail","category-news","tag-manipur-mail-2","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}