WMC rings SOS to CM with ST call
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By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Oct 5: The World Meetei Council (WMC) has once again made a desperate appeal to Chief Minister N Biren to send a recommendation to the Centre along with the latest socio-economic and ethnographic report of Meiteis/Meeteis before the end of the current year for insertion of Meitei/Meetei in the Scheduled Tribes list.
If the Meeteis are not given Constitutional protection by 2025 before the scheduled delimitation exercise in 2026, Meeteis will have no future, the WMC said in a press release.
Insertion of any community in the ST list takes time.
First, the State Government must send a recommendation along with the ethnographic and socio-economic reports of Meeteis to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs will send the reports to the Registrar General of India (RGI).
With due approval of the RGI, the reports will be sent to the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) which will ultimately send back the reports to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. The recommendation and the reports will be finally tabled before the Union Cabinet.
If the Union Cabinet approves the State Govt’s recommendation, the Parliament will adopt a resolution to amend the Constitution to insert Meetei/Meitei in the ST list, the WMC elaborated.
As it takes a long process to put any community in the ST list, it is imperative for the State Government to send the necessary recommendation and reports before the end of the current year, it said.
The WMC further appealed to the Chief Minister not to mix up the issue of Meetei’s demand for ST status with the current crisis.
A recent Supreme Court verdict has also removed the Chief Minister’s apprehension that any move of the State Government on the issue will enrage the Nagas, it asserted.
As for the objections raised by the immigrant community who do not qualify to be given ST status, their objections are driven by an ulterior motive to rob the future of Meeteis.
The Government must initiate steps to remove the immigrant community from the ST list, it added.
IMPHAL, Oct 5: The World Meetei Council (WMC) has once again made a desperate appeal to Chief Minister N Biren to send a recommendation to the Centre along with the latest socio-economic and ethnographic report of Meiteis/Meeteis before the end of the current year for insertion of Meitei/Meetei in the Scheduled Tribes list.
If the Meeteis are not given Constitutional protection by 2025 before the scheduled delimitation exercise in 2026, Meeteis will have no future, the WMC said in a press release.
Insertion of any community in the ST list takes time.
First, the State Government must send a recommendation along with the ethnographic and socio-economic reports of Meeteis to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs will send the reports to the Registrar General of India (RGI).
With due approval of the RGI, the reports will be sent to the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) which will ultimately send back the reports to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. The recommendation and the reports will be finally tabled before the Union Cabinet.
If the Union Cabinet approves the State Govt’s recommendation, the Parliament will adopt a resolution to amend the Constitution to insert Meetei/Meitei in the ST list, the WMC elaborated.
As it takes a long process to put any community in the ST list, it is imperative for the State Government to send the necessary recommendation and reports before the end of the current year, it said.
The WMC further appealed to the Chief Minister not to mix up the issue of Meetei’s demand for ST status with the current crisis.
A recent Supreme Court verdict has also removed the Chief Minister’s apprehension that any move of the State Government on the issue will enrage the Nagas, it asserted.
As for the objections raised by the immigrant community who do not qualify to be given ST status, their objections are driven by an ulterior motive to rob the future of Meeteis.
The Government must initiate steps to remove the immigrant community from the ST list, it added.