GOVERNMENT OF MANIPUR

CHIEF MINISTER’S SECRETARIAT: IMPHAL

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PRESS RELEASE

CM DISTRIBUTES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE UNDER SPECIAL SCHEME FOR EDUCATION OF CHILDREN

Imphal, 30th September, 2023 (DIPR): Chief Minister Shri N. Biren Singh distributed one-time financial assistance to beneficiaries under Special Scheme for Education of Children of Labour Card Holders staying at Relief Camps.

The distribution programme was organized by Manipur Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat today.

Addressing the gathering, Shri N. Biren Singh reiterated that the current crisis in the State is instigated by a group of people who intentionally want to disintegrate the State. Even though all are facing much hardship due to the crisis, we are still living together by God’s grace, he added.

The Chief Minister informed that construction of prefabricated houses at different places for relocation of displaced persons are almost in completion stage. He continued that some displaced persons, whose houses had not been burned or razed to ground in the violence, have started resettling in their original places of settlement. For those people whose houses had been burned down, the Government is planning to build new houses for them.

He further informed that under Special Scheme for Education of Children of Labour Card Holders staying at Relief Camps, the Government is providing a sum of Rs. 5000 each to those labour card holders staying in relief camps, to help a little in the education of their children. Apart from this, he also stated that the State Government had already distributed financial assistance of Rs. 1000 to each person staying in relief camps as first phase and informed that another Rs. 1000 would be distributed as second phase soon.

Expressing words of motivation to those staying at different relief camps, Shri N. Biren stated that the Government has been taking up all possible measures to resettle all the displaced people and to provide necessary assistance.

Water Resources Minister Shri Awangbow Newmai, Transport Minister Shri Khasim Vashum, Advocate General Shri Lenin Hijam, Chairperson, Manipur Building and Other Construction worker’s Welfare Board Shri K. Saratkumar Singh, Chief Secretary Dr. Vineet Joshi also attended the programme among others.

Under the special scheme, one-time financial assistance of a sum of Rs. 5000 shall be provided for education of children to every family having valid labour card and staying in the relief camps set up by the Government of Manipur.