IMPHAL, March 24: The Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System has accused the Government for creating confusion in regard to the ILP issue in the State while refuting government`™s claim that the points submitted by JCILPS was included in the visitors`™ Bill.
A press statement of the JCILPS said as a part of the movement launch by JCILPS with the support of the indigenous population of the State demanding implementation of Inner Line Permit System or a similar regulation in Manipur, the State government formed All Political Party Committee on ILPS.
The first meeting of the committee held on August 20 last year resolved to regulate a law for safeguarding the indigenous population of the State.
As a follow up, after conducting around 15 meetings of the committee, a recommendation which contains six points that has 280 pages was submitted to the government on December 10 last, it said.
JCILPS urged the government to provide a copy of the Bill to be tabled by the government prior to the Assembly session so that the people get a chance to express their opinion. However it was denied by the government, it further said.
But now that the Bill was passed in the Assembly without the proper consent of the people, various kinds of confusion, objections, arguments, etc are being raised by the people of the State, it said.
However, JCILPS considers that there is still time for making changes to the Bill if the government acts sincerely and transparently by informing the public, it said.
It said they have read some of the points which were discussed in the meeting of the All Political Party Committee on ILPS and the Government held yesterday through the newspapers.
It was said that the six point recommendation submitted by the JCILPS has been included in the Bill, which is not true, the release continued.
It said, the Bill does not mentioned the first point which suggested to provide a `pass or permit` to the outsiders entering the State and the fourth point which says `The Manipur Land Revenue and Land reforms Act, 1960 may be suitably amended to incorporate a provision for imposing restriction on the transfer of land to the non residents of the State`¦..`
Further, JCILPS has appealed the people of the State to support the movement by not renting rooms or spaces to non-Manipuris and also not to employee non-Manipuri helpers at homes.
It has also appealed to extend co-operation to the JCILPS teams who will be visiting houses to check renting of rooms or spaces to non-Manipuris.
If any club, Meira Paibi who want to conduct public meeting, street corner meeting, etc can contact JCILPS office at Nongmeibung or email jcilps2014@gmail.com, facebook/joint committee on inner line permit system-official, it added.