IMPHAL, Nov 3 : An amicable settlement has been brought to the controversial issue of the land encroachment at Jessami Village, Ukhrul district, by Nagaland Armed Police, NAP, said the chairman of the Jessami Village Council.
Informing this during a press conference today at the Manipur Press Club, the village chairman, Kanmi Wezah, said that an understanding has been reached at a village to village level.
However there are still some instances of intimidations from village guards of a nearby Nagaland village, he said.
Further he revealed that the rest house which was taken over briefly by the NAP has again been occupied by 111 BSF.
Besides this a unit of the IRB was also posted at the Jessami village and attached to the Jessami Police station he added.
While lauding the effort of the government, and the prompt actions it took up, the chairman also appealed to the concerned government authorities to station the IRB unit there permanently viewing the ceaselessly sensitive situation which arise frequently in the border village and also in the interest of whole of Manipur.
Further while highlighting the hardship faced by the people of the Jessami village in terms of health, communication and issue of encroachment etc, the chairman revealed that Jessami village which is 116 km from Ukhrul and 200 km from the state capital has been doing without the service of even a single doctor.
Village are compel to travel long distance for treatment he said urging further the conversion of the village PHSC to PHC level with the posting of full strength of doctors and staff.
With regards to the sensitive border issue he also appealed to the concerned authorities to make the SDO and SDPO offices at the village functional.
He also hoped the village stands to gain from the recently held recruitment rally of Village Defence Force in which 59 persons of the village took part.
In connection with this issue the chairman also drew the attention of the chief minsiter through a memorandum submitted to his office calling for stationing of Village Guards at Jessami, to ward off frequent harassments and intimidations by the neighbouring villages in Nagaland.
He said these intimidations include threats to kill the villagers of Jessami while they were working in the field, shots fired at the village while constructing irrigation canal at Thetsii wet paddy field etc.
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