Inpui students also oppose class boycott

Imphal, October 24 : After some student organisations have raised their voices against the closure of educational institutions in Manipur, particularly in the valley by the All Manipur Students' Union (AMSU), Manipuri Students' Federation (MSF) and Kangleipak Students' Association (KSA), another student body has also come out openly against the class boycott.

The Inpui (Kabui) Students' Union has said that though the Union is very much against the killings and also opposes such incidents of fake encounter, the closure of educational institutions as a mark of protest is not the right step.

The Inpui students' body said that the closure of the educational institutions has caused irreparable loss to the student community.

The students' body then said that hampering the academic career of the students is not only the means to achieve the peoples' demands.

The Inpui students expressed concern for the class X and class XII students who would be facing Board and Council examinations soon.

The Inpui students' body appealed to AMSU, KSA and MSF to resort to other democratic means of agitation, and leave the students alone.

It is pertinent to note that All Tribal Students Union, Manipur (ATSUM) will be convening a public meeting in connection with the class-boycott issue on October 24 at Adimjati Campus in Imphal while the Democratic Students' Alliance, Manipur (DESAM) has convened a similar meeting on November 2 on the same issue.

Curfew after clash in Manipur

Imphal, Oct. 23: Indefinite curfew has been imposed at Kwakta and its surrounding villages in Bishnupur district after a skirmish between a man and a woman at a local fish farm yesterday snowballed and threatened to explode into a communal clash.

Md Salim from Kwakta had allegedly misbehaved with 18-year-old Th. Hema from Moirang Santhong at a fish farm last evening.

When Hema returned home and reported the matter to her family, a group from Santhong took Salim to their village club and allegedly beat him up.

As news of Salim’s assault reached Kwakta, hundreds of villagers, armed with axes, sticks and stones descended on Santhong, damaged the club, and rescued him.

The mob also dragged away Hema’s elder brother, Th. Shyamkishore Singh, along with them.

As the situation threatened to get out of hand, a police team rushed to the area and fired several rounds in the air, ordering the warring groups to return home.

Curfew was imposed around 8pm to prevent further clashes.

Around 10pm, the police recovered a badly wounded Shyamkishore Singh, who was lying unconscious near a cremation ground in Kwakta.

He was taken to an Imphal hospital, where his condition is stated to be serious.

“Thousands of residents of Kwakta stormed Santhong club and took me to their village. I was blindfolded and beaten up. I lost consciousness. I believe they threw me away thinking that I was dead. I was lucky,” Shyamkishore Singh said from his hospital bed today.

Villagers of Santhong are now demanding that Salim and those involved in the assault be punished.

A large number of armed police personnel were deployed at Kwakta and the neighbouring village today.

No one ventured out because of the curfew, but the situation remained tense.

The local MLA from the ruling Congress, M. Prithviraj Singh, and CPI member N. Mangi Singh, representing the neighbouring constituency of Kumbi, today visited the two villages and tried to defuse the tension.

Mob torches house of suspected Manipur rapist

KEIRAO - Irate mob burnt down the house of a person suspected of raping and murdering an 18-year-old woman, in Manipur’s Keirao District.

The victim Okram Tamphasana, wife of Chinglensana alias Naocha was found murdered inside a paddy field at Keirou Langthrei Loukon on October 20.
Her body is reported to have been recovered with visible symptoms of rape and several injury marks from a blunt weapon on her head.
Angry residents after getting to know that the suspected murderer was absconding burnt down his house.
“Culprit won’t be spared easily. We have burnt down his house because he had raped a girl and afterwards brutally killed her,” said Kamala Devi, a resident.
They say they will outcast the family.
The agitated mob stopped only when the fire tenders and the local policemen arrived at the spot.
“We are here to give protection to the people. As mob has already gathered, we need to take up necessary precautions so that the violence doesn’t spread further,” said S. Lalmohon Singh, sub-fire officer.

Manipur house torched

Imphal, Oct. 22: Angry residents of Keirao and its neighbouring villages in Imphal East today torched the house of a suspected “rapist-murderer” after a search this morning failed to locate the person.

Hundreds of residents from five villages around Keirao set the empty house of Pukhram Momba Singh on fire this afternoon after dismantling a portion of it and destroying household articles.

Momba Singh, a resident of Keirao Bitra Mayai Leikai, is suspected to have raped and murdered his sister-in-law, 18-year-old Okram Tamphasana Devi on Tuesday.

Tamphasana Devi’s body, stripped to her lower garments, was recovered from a drain in Keirao area that morning. Police recovered a piece of cloth belonging to the victim and a blood-stained trouser of the accused from his house the same day.

Another mob lynched a suspect, Moirangthem Tiken, in the rape-cum-murder case of another woman, Sapam Memton Chanu, 35, this evening. Chanu’s body was found near Pukhao Khabam in Imphal East yesterday.

Housewife’s body found in Manipur

Imphal, Oct. 21 : The battered body of a young housewife, stripped to her lower undergarments, was found alongside a drain near a paddy field in Imphal East this morning.

Okram Tamphasana Devi, 18, a resident of Serou in Thoubal district, went missing after she left an Imphal court with her brother-in-law, Pukhrambam Momba Singh, yesterday.

When her body was found, her torso looked untouched — though she had injury marks on her face — but the garment covering her lower body was missing. Police later found her phanek, a traditional skirt-like garment, lying a little away from her body. A blood-stained stone was also found near the spot.

From the manner in which the body was found, the police suspect the woman was raped before being beaten to death, probably by Momba Singh.

“Only a post-mortem report can confirm the rape ,” a police official who inspected the body said.

Momba Singh is the husband of Bimuta Devi, younger sister of Tamphasana’s husband, Okram Chinglensana.

Chinglensana in now in jail, having been arrested about three months back on charges of having links with militants.

Okram Indrani Devi, Tamphasana’s mother-in-law, had arrived in Imphal only yesterday.

Indrani Devi today said she, with Tamphasana and Momba Singh, had gone to an Imphal court in connection with her son’s case yesterday.

While she stayed back at the court to talk to their lawyer, Momba Singh and Tamphasana left for his house. Since then the two were missing until Tamphasana’s body was recovered this morning.

A police team visited the suspect’s house in Imphal today looking for Momba Singh but he could not be traced. Though the police have not disclosed any further detail, a source said the police had recovered some material evidence from Momba Singh’s house.

“We have made some progress in the investigation. We are looking for the brother-in-law for questioning. He is absconding,” a police source said.

‘Boy killer’ shot dead in Manipur

Imphal, Oct. 19: Unidentified assailants shot dead a youth in the Kumbi area of Bishnupur district last night within hours of a nursery student being strangulated to death, allegedly by the slain youth.

The Uripok area in Imphal East district also erupted in anger today after a girl was injured by bullets fired by unidentified persons last night.

Police said trouble broke out after Soram Prabhakaran, 7, the son of a local businessman in Kumbi Bazar, went missing since 1pm yesterday. After five hours, his body was recovered from a bamboo grove, 1km from the market. The boy’s gold earrings and a silver necklace were found missing.

As the residents were holding a meeting in the market at night, they came to know that some people had caught hold of Pukhrambam Mangoljao Singh, 22, suspected to have killed Soram. They rushed to his house at Kangjeibung Mapal on the outskirts of the market.

When they reached there, some unidentified persons dragged Mangoljao away and later shot him dead.

His body was found this morning at Khordak Thongkhong, about 10km from his house.

The police found a note that read: “I am responsible for the murder of the boy. I have accepted the punishment meted out to me.”

In Uripok, the residents today staged a sit-in to protest the firing in the locality at 10.30 pm in which Yurembi Princi, 13, sustained bullet wounds in her left thigh.

Imphal PO re-opens passport counter

Imphal, October 20 : The Imphal Head Post Office has re-opened the facility of making passports.

Now, application forms for passports can be obtained and submitted to the office.

Talking to The Sangai Express, Postal Director Som Kamei said that application forms for passports have been made available at Imphal Head Post Office at the suggestion of senior citizens after communication with the Ministry of External Affairs.

Moreover, the Post Office has also started issuing passports after tying up with the regional passport office of Guwahati.

The same made available since last month, however, does not encompass provision for passport renewal.

"There are certain technical problems to add the facility renewal here", Som Kamei said.

Claiming that Manipur is the first state in the entire North East to distribute NREGS wages through post offices, Som Kamei asserted that it would be wrong to presume that post offices would not be able to handle NREGS wages even before opening accounts.

"There is no objection in opening accounts in the 53 sub-offices and 644 branch offices of Postal Department located in Manipur", he said.

The Postal Director assured that all necessary measures would be taken up.

"If there is shortage of staff or security concerns, the same would be addressed", he added.

So far the number of accounts opened in Post Office specifically for NREGS is 5219 for Bishnupur district, 4793 for Chandel, 4083 for Churachandpur, 34,097 for Imphal East, 50,299 for Imphal West, 4399 for Senapati, 92 for Tamenglong, 62,208 for Thoubal and 400 for Ukhrul district.

Till date, Post Office has distributed more than Rs 12 crores to NREGS job card holders, Som Kamei said.

Claiming that a new initiative named Project Arrow has been envisaged with a view to provide world class postal service at Imphal head office, Som Kamei said that the project would be activated in the last week of November or the first week of December.

Moreover, Imphal Head Post Office would have direct link with the Head Post Office of New Delhi.

It is reported that Project Arrow might be launched by Union Minister of State for Communications Sachin Pilot at Imphal.

Restive Manipur in a state of utter disarray

Imphal | October 18 : Manipur has not had time for development. Each day is spent witnessing some  sort of pandemonium. Things are in a state of utter disarray and this is visible in Imphal where not a day passes without some form of protest or another. Those observing the bizarre politics of Manipur from outside as well as inside cannot but wonder at the indifference and nonchalance of the government to the burning issues facing the state. The state government is as adamant in carrying out its stupefying agenda as the protestors are in coming out to the streets. Judging from the number of protests against the government and the effigies of the chief minister that are burnt at regular intervals, O Ibobi Singh seems to have alienated every right thinking citizen in the state. So who is the government of Manipur representing?
Though Manipur’s descent into chaos started some decades ago, things have only got worse with the death of Ch. Sanjit Singh, a reformed former militant, and Th. Rabina, a young pregnant mother, in an alleged fake encounter, which happened to be captured frame by frame by a local photographer and whose photos were published in the Delhi based weekly magazine Tehelka. Ibobi Singh now has blood in his hands, being the chief minister of Manipur leading the Secular Progressive Front (SPF) government, holding the portfolio of the state home minister as well.
Having presided over the government of Manipur for five years and being re-elected for the second term, Ibobi Singh is now in his eighth year as the chief minister of Manipur. In these eight years, violence has escalated and fake encounters have become the order of the day, though none of them were captured in pictures as unequivocally as in the case of Ch. Sanjit at B.T. Road, Imphal on July 23, 2009.
Manipur today has been described as a “failed” state by academicians and theorists of democratic politics. It is difficult to think of other adjectives to describe a state where even school students are out of their classrooms and on the streets protesting against gross violations of human rights by both state and non-state actors, and who are at present deprived of attending their classes due to “class boycott” imposed on educational institutions by three prominent students organisations in the state as part of the intensification of agitation protesting the July 23 incident.
In recent times, the state, whether represented by the state or the central security forces, has been ruthless in its attempt to short-circuit militant activities. The methods adopted by the security forces, such as fake encounters, are considered by many to be self-defeating, as it is felt that using more violence to scale down violence only has a detrimental effect.
Although the present agitation spearheaded by the Apunba Lup, a conglomeration of civil society organizations in Manipur, protesting the July 23 killings is considered by many people to be justified, the sad part of the agitation is that it seems to have created a “divide” between the protagonists of the agitation and some sections of the society, which does not envisages good tidings for the society as a whole. One hopes and prays that better sense will prevail and a quick end to the present imbroglio is worked out by all concerned.

Can peace prevail in Manipur?

Why not was the answer from a Manger of the lead bank of Manipur in a discussion on Aug. 1st recently. I had a chance to lodge a complaint for blurred and indelible account statement in my bank pass books updated by the computer operator of the Bank, to their Manager briefing him that I am a regular customer of their Bank but my genuine grievances could not be solved by the Bank.
The Manager showed anguish and expressed that no expert computer experts of their defective computers inspite of several reminders sent to their Head Office in N.E. state. Then I raised another suggestion why can’t you engage local experts. What he replied, there no local experts for quality repairing. Moreover he reiterated that he is fed up to work in Manipur where their is no work culture among the employees and in the existing environment of Manipur.
When enquired about his whereabouts, the reply was he hails from N.E. state. When I suggested why not N.E. states (8) form a region where all the people can lead a viable and peaceful life. He agreed to my proposal, he further reiterated, of course, who will bell the cat? The underground organizations are growing like mushroom in the N.E. areas, more so Manipur has an alarming nos. Assam has ULFA / BODO, Tripura- T.P.D.F, M.P.L.F Manipur with another 29 such organizations, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalay, Arunachal but Sikim is peaceful. How can they meet and found out a solution with varied aim and object, varied interest and without people’s support, the Manager expressed. He further continued that for bringing development and peace in N.E. states other than Manipur, the underground organizations started realizing people’s mind and opinion, which are expressed openly at every nook and corner like meeting place, group discussions, seminars, social functions / festivals etc.
Lastly, I expressed that People’s movement would be the need of the hour in N.E.S. particularly in Manipur with the aim of achieving ‘Green Revolution’ (not insurgency Revolution) through work culture which could bring a peaceful life for all half- hearted and Psychologically suffered Manipuris.

Drug protest rocks RIMS

300 stockists stage sit-in

Members of the Manipur Chemists and Druggists Association stage a demonstration on Friday. Picture by Eastern Projections Imphal, Oct. 17 : Three hundred medicine storeowners today staged a sit-in in front of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences demanding closure of two stores opened on the hospital campus two months ago, fearing monopoly of drugs sale in the area. The medical superintendent of the institute, Y. Mohen Singh, however, said the demand was unreasonable and there was no question of closing the two stores on the campus. The institute opened two medicine stores two months’ ago after inviting tenders to “facilitate” patients in procuring medicine easily and at “subsidised rates”. Mohen said anybody buying medicines from these two stores are getting a 10 per cent discount. There is a 12 per cent discount for people with below poverty line cards and 15 per cent discount for cancer patients. Besides, buying medicines from these shops also saves valuable time. “We are taking minimal rent from the two stores. Our objective is to make medicine available easily and at discounted rates. The institute does not get any benefit from opening the two counters. It is purely for the benefit of the patients. If the patients say they do not want medicines on discounts, we will be happy to close the two stores,” Mohen said. The Manipur Chemists and Druggists Association charged that opening the two stores on the hospital campus was an attempt to monopolise the medicine business by RIMS in the garb of discounts. The standoff reached a flashpoint today when all the stockists in the state cut off supplies to the two medicine stores. They are now procuring medicines from outside the state.

Manipur lightning bandh on Monday

Imphal | October 17 : A “chakka bandh” has been called from 6 am to 6 pm on October 19 in Manipur by the Indigenous Democratic Front (IDF) to press the government of Manipur to announce the date of Autonomous District Council elections forthwith. This decision was unanimously resolved by district representatives of IDF at a meeting held on Friday in Imphal.
Speaking to Newmai News Network, the president of IDF Ngachomi Chamroy said all the hill districts will resort to different forms of agitations indefinitely after the “chakka bandh” till the demand is fulfilled. “This is a democratic fight to the finish,” the IDF president said. For the past 20 years, the government of Manipur have been saying that elections to ADC is going to be held, the last announcement being April 18, 2008 as the election date announced by the chief minister of Manipur O Ibobi Singh, said Chamroy.
It is not surprising that the ADC election has not been held even now, stated the president of IDF, adding that the government cannot ‘fool all the people all of the time.’ Continuing his assault on the delay-tactics of the government in holding the ADC election, Ngachomi Chamroy asserted that many people have been convinced by the government that the ADC election will happen now automatically.
The alibi given a month earlier to the centre by the government of Manipur for not announcing the date of the ADC election was the delimitation process being incomplete; now that the delimitation process is complete, what is stopping the government of Manipur from announcing the date of ADC election, he queried. A memorandum has also been submitted to the chief minister of Manipur today demanding announcement of the date of the ADC elections immediately.

An interview with Sitara Begum -- a shining star for Muslim women in Manipur

By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

Sitara Begum hails from Porompat area in Imphal, Manipur. A renowned social activist in the state and presently head of the NGO United Manipur Muslim Women Development Organisation. Begum did B.A. in 1980 at the age of 26 and became the second female graduate among Muslims in Manipur. Her contribution to the uplift of Manipuri Muslim women is astounding. Her own life is a piece of inspiration for thousands of Muslim women in the state who were denied basic rights in the name of religion. In an interview with Anjuman Ara Begum of TwoCircles.net, Sitara Begum talked about her life and work.

Tell me about your family

My father was Late Abdul Wahab and mother Late Sona Hambi. We were 10 siblings - 7 brothers and 3 sisters. I am 6th child of my parent. I am married and have four children - two daughters and two sons.

How did you start working for the society?

I used to take all kids of my area to school when I was only 6 years old. Villagers liked me a lot for this. I was famous. I was born in 1961. I was only 14-years-old when I got married. At that time I had just passed class 10th. I had no knowledge and my level of understanding was very low. I had given birth to five children when I turned 20. Then one day I became nearly hysterical thinking that I need to do something. I cannot live a life like this. I went to the doctor and did sterilization. I took admission in class 11th and completed my B.A. in 1980 at the age of 26. I became the second female graduate among Muslims in Manipur. I was the first woman to sing song in radio. In school I had a group of 10 girls and we were very active though there were restrictions from the family and community. I loved reading books.

Then?

I helped about 300 women to sterilization. I opened a school at my own house and started to educate adult females of my community.

Did you face resistance for such work?

Yes. People laughed at me as I was teaching housewives and elderly women. People made fun of me. But it did not stop me. Now I want that Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme should start in my area. I went to CM's office and got the order yesterday (October 3, 2009).

Were your students happy?

Yes. They were very happy. Many women could count their money and read letters and newspapers.

How long you taught like this?

This school continued for 6 months. Then I established an organization called United Manipur Muslim Women Development Organisation. I don't get fund for my organization. I never run after funds. I want to empower women of all communities. Today people recognize me as a Muslim woman from Manipur. People recognize me and my contribution. I have traveled all over India and talked about my community. People from all over the world came and visited my hut and talked to me. This is my satisfaction. There is power in unity and fun in working together. I want to see all our communities get united.

What is the main work of your organization?

We are giving vocational training in tailoring and other similar works. After training they go back and work in their localities. We run schools for housewives. Also, we conduct awareness campaigns on domestic violence and violence against women in general.

What is the population of your area?

About 30 thousand people live in Porompat area. Muslims, Nagas, Meitei all are here.

What is the main occupation of the people here?

Mainly agriculture, many others are daily wagers.

What about the education level?

It's very low. Very few graduates are here. And educated women are very less. Only 7 women are graduates here.

What do you think about the Muslim insurgency in Manipur?

In 1993, a fight between Meitei Muslims and Meiteis took place and unfortunately, I think, that gave birth to Muslim insurgency. And later we came to know that some Muslims groups are active here. Situation is quite tense here. Everyday newspapers are flooded with the news of killings. Peoples are afraid to come out. Many people don't have TV. So they don't know what's happening outside. We conduct door to door awareness campaign for women to be aware of the existing situation.

What is the solution to insurgency here?

I don't believe that killing will solve the problem. We need to have peace dialogue. We need to stop fake encounter killings. The struggle will go on.

What about the fear level in people's mind?

We don't go out after 7 pm. There is wide spread extortion. People are afraid to come out.

How do you view Manipur in 10 years now?

I think in ten years from now, the problem of insurgency will be solved. Otherwise there will be civil war.

(Sitara Begum can be contacted on 09856116315 or at her home in Hafiz Hatta, Minuthong, Imphal)

Five militants killed in Manipur shootout

IMPHAL - Five separatist guerrillas were killed and a police commando injured in a gun battle between the militants and security personnel in Manipur, an official said Sunday.

A police spokesperson said the shootout took place late Saturday at Leimaram village, about 30 km south of Imphal, between militants of the outlawed Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) and a joint team of army soldiers and police commandos.

“The militants fired at the security patrol and in retaliatory attacks, five KYKL militants were gunned down. A police commando was also injured in the encounter,” a police official said requesting anonymity.

A large number of weapons and ammunition were recovered from the militants.

The KYKL is fighting for an independent homeland for the majority Metei community in Manipur, a state of 2.4 million people bordering Myanmar.

More than 10,000 people have lost their lives to insurgency in Manipur during the past two decades.

Manipur Rifles unit takes lead in green earth campaign

Imphal, October 5 : Notwithstanding their heavy schedule in the maintenance of law and order in the State, comparatively peaceful atmosphere prevalent in Tamenglong district is being showcased by the number of cherry trees nurtured along the curvy highway stretch that leads to the district headquarters.

Thanks of relative peace in the district security forces, particularly personnel of the 5th Manipur rifles battalion had been able to contribute their mite in the protection of the environment through tree plantation activities.

Under the aegis of the battalion's Commanding Officer KC Lokho the mR personnel had embarked on the noble mission to protect the environment and begun cherry tree plantation activities since 1995 and the result is being reaped today as weary travellers on this accident-prone road could atleast stop to not only get engrossed in the beauty of the surrounding but also realise that gun-totting security personnel also have a humane heart and cares for the nature.

Cherry trees planted, groomed and protected by the 5th MR personnel adding serenity to the Tamenglong-Khongsang road

Beginning from Khongsang village the entire roadside upto Tamenglong district headquarters is being dotted with cherry trees.

Even though the serene atmosphere in Tamenglong district sometimes get shattered when gun-fights break out, mostly inter-factional showdowns, the district is today among the most peaceful zone in Manipur even since the Central Government signed ceasefire with the Naga rebel group the NSCN (IM).

It is informed that the cherry tree plantation programme began with over 1000 saplings brought from Mao sub-division of Senapati district.

Initially, the vision of the MR unit's CO to beautify parts of Tamenglong district as supplementary contribution to the global initiative of retaining the earth's green cover seems headed for disaster as there was hardly any assistance from the locals.

Apart from villagers that reside along the route uprooting newly planted saplings to plant them at their own places, stray cattles used to trample them thereby leading to premature withering of the cherry trees.

Undeterred by such setbacks, the MR personnel stubbornly persisted with their non-combat task and went on replenishing the damaged section and ultimately succeeded in their mission that today villagers prefer to rest under the cherry trees and appreciate its beauty.

Cherry flowers are said to blossom in November and the rows of plantation along Tamenglong-Khongjarol are on the verge to blossom.

Preferring to stay aloof from the media limelight inspite of his personal contribution to the cherry tree plantation endeavour the 5th MR CO cut short a recent attempt by this reporter to extract comment from KC Lokho who only muttered that the plantation activities began about 15 years back.

Despite the CO's reluctance to be drawn into the chat, some battalion personnel conveyed that on a regular basis teams of MR personnel are despatched for nurturing and protection of the cherry trees by plucking weeds and clearing overgrowths thereby also able to present a clean look of the surroundings.

When the assigned task is not so arduous or little tending is required the personnel's service are utilised in mending potholes along the highway stretch, they informed.

Expressing that there had been appreciative remarks from travellers upon witnessing beauty of the area, the MR personnel humbly commented that they could atleast extend some contribution in not only retaining the district's green foliage but could also chip in controlling soil erosion.

While most of the battalion campus had been covered with fully grown cherry trees, it is said that the CO has plans to spread the cherry tree plantation programme on an even wider scale in the district.

Students agitators reject CM`s call for end to class boycott

IMPHAL, Oct 1: The three students bodies AMSU, MSF and KSA which have been spearheading the current class-boycott stir have rejected chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh`s appeal for ending their agitation.

After a long silence, the chief minister made an appeal to the three students bodies to end their stir while speaking at the closing function of the Schools Meet yesterday.

In a joint statement, the students bodies said the chief minister`s appeal has no meaning as people`s appeal for his resignation on moral ground has not been met. The students` bodies will consider the appeal only after Ibobi has resigned and punishments have been awarded to commandos involved in the Khwairamband killing.

It said by giving misleading information to the Central leaders that the current agitation in Manipur is instigation by underground elements, the chief minister is trying to save his position. His efforts are proving to be fruitless and it is like fetching water in a hollow pot, the statement said.

Reacting to chief minister`s reported statement regarding distribution of live bullets to heads of some schools, the students bodies said it was Ibobi`s drama to malign the image of the students bodies and a ploy to paint the current movement as one instigation by militants.

The three students bodies also warned of stern action against five schools which defied the class-boycott agitation.

The schools are RUDA Academy, Thoubal Wangma Taba, Peace and Freedom Academy, Thoubal Haokha, Briliant Academy, Thoubal Mela ground, KM Blooming school, Khangabok and Anandpurna School, Thoubal Tumjing Makhong.

Asking the authorities of all the five schools to explain in writings for opposing the peoples` movement and defying class-boycott stir within October 5, the students bodies warn of taking up stern action as announced earlier.

The students bodies however assured to relax its stance if the school authorities clarified through media about their wrong deeds and stop resuming classes.