Imphal:
The Home Secretary has told NDTV that Central forces will move in on Tuesday to break the two-month-old Manipur blockade.
The blockade will be broken all along the National Highway 39 from Assam to Manipur, he said.
There has been an acute shortage of essential goods due to the blockage. The state has slipped into a virtual emergency with the largest group of private hospitals planning to shut down due to unavailability of fuel, oxygen and medicines. (Read: What Manipur blockade is about)
Teachers' attendance in schools and attendances in offices have dropped because of fuel shortage. Prices of every commodity have shot up. Government regulated fuel supply is just not enough. The food grain stock is worrying as well. (Read: Crippled, Manipur in state of emergency)
the Naga protesters who have been agitating for over a month against Manipur's decision of not allowing NSCN leader T Muivah to visit his ancestral village.
The blockade will be broken all along the National Highway 39 from Assam to Manipur, he said.
There has been an acute shortage of essential goods due to the blockage. The state has slipped into a virtual emergency with the largest group of private hospitals planning to shut down due to unavailability of fuel, oxygen and medicines. (Read: What Manipur blockade is about)
Teachers' attendance in schools and attendances in offices have dropped because of fuel shortage. Prices of every commodity have shot up. Government regulated fuel supply is just not enough. The food grain stock is worrying as well. (Read: Crippled, Manipur in state of emergency)
the Naga protesters who have been agitating for over a month against Manipur's decision of not allowing NSCN leader T Muivah to visit his ancestral village.
