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MPHAL: Nagaland Police, who occupied a post in the remote Jessami area in Ukhrul district, vacated the place on Wednesday following intense
pressure from the Centre and Manipur government. A company of IRB (Manipur) has occupied it.
"After pressure from chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh on the issue, the ministry of home affairs intimated DGPs of both Manipur and Nagaland to carry out the occupation process," government spokesman and sports minister Biren said.
Trouble began after a joint team, including a group of Manipur scribes, visited the Jessami area bordering Nagaland recently and saw a police post and two rest houses set up there by the Nagaland government. The issue was published in the media and subsequently the post was vacated by BSF.
Biren added that there were no hard feelings between the two state governments over the issue and the Nagaland government had informed that the occupation of the vacated BSF post by Nagaland Police was not done with any intention of encroachment.
Ibobi Singh had already stated the same in his intimation and Union home minister P Chidambaram clarified that the Centre had not given any instructions to Nagaland Police to occupy the barrack left by the BSF.
The CM said efforts would be made to include Jessami villagers in the proposed recruitment of 300 Village Defence Force (VDF) personnel for Ukhrul district. Reacting to the Jessami issue, the United Committee Manipur (UCM) had expressed serious concern over the government's inactiveness in protecting against the state boundaries.
A conglomerate of social organizations campaigning to safeguard Manipur's territorial integrity, UCM said the state was unable to set up a boundary commission and put up boundary pillars in correct areas along the porous India-Myanmar border.
MPHAL: Nagaland Police, who occupied a post in the remote Jessami area in Ukhrul district, vacated the place on Wednesday following intense
pressure from the Centre and Manipur government. A company of IRB (Manipur) has occupied it.
"After pressure from chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh on the issue, the ministry of home affairs intimated DGPs of both Manipur and Nagaland to carry out the occupation process," government spokesman and sports minister Biren said.
Trouble began after a joint team, including a group of Manipur scribes, visited the Jessami area bordering Nagaland recently and saw a police post and two rest houses set up there by the Nagaland government. The issue was published in the media and subsequently the post was vacated by BSF.
Biren added that there were no hard feelings between the two state governments over the issue and the Nagaland government had informed that the occupation of the vacated BSF post by Nagaland Police was not done with any intention of encroachment.
Ibobi Singh had already stated the same in his intimation and Union home minister P Chidambaram clarified that the Centre had not given any instructions to Nagaland Police to occupy the barrack left by the BSF.
The CM said efforts would be made to include Jessami villagers in the proposed recruitment of 300 Village Defence Force (VDF) personnel for Ukhrul district. Reacting to the Jessami issue, the United Committee Manipur (UCM) had expressed serious concern over the government's inactiveness in protecting against the state boundaries.
A conglomerate of social organizations campaigning to safeguard Manipur's territorial integrity, UCM said the state was unable to set up a boundary commission and put up boundary pillars in correct areas along the porous India-Myanmar border.
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