Manipur CM prioritises peace, harmony and development during visit to Jiribam

way2barak, April 5: Manipur Chief Minister, Yumnam Khemchand Singh said that the Jiribam has created a history by becoming the first district in Manipur where all communities sit together in the restoration of peace after three-years of unrest.

Addressing the people during a “Community Interaction Programme” held at New Alipur Rongmei Naga village in Bidyanagar, Jiribam here, the chief minister said that as his government completes two months in power, he decided to visit Jiribam for the second time as people belonging to different communities have agreed to sit together under one platform. “People of Jiribam are the broad minded in the state”.

Khemchand interacted with the internally displaced persons (IDP) belonging to the Meitei community, Kuki, Paite and Hmar tribes. He mingled with the crowd and listened to their grievances. A Meitei woman IDP explained to him the fear of returning home while a young Hmar tribal girl narrated the difficulties in getting a government job for the people in backward areas.

Khemchand told the IDPs that the purpose of today’s programme is to remove the trust deficit and narrated a story when he recruited 74 staff in a most transparent recruitment test in the Rural Development department when he was a minister.