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Manipur blockage by Nagas causing extreme hardship - Manipur CM to meet Naga students in Delhi
India Air Force has started lifting supplies to Imphal. But the situation is getting grim as the national highways connecting Manipur with other states are blocked by the Naga students.
Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh is likely to come here after August 15 to hold talks under Central supervision with Naga students who have imposed an economic blockade on the northeastern state since June 20.
This was decided at a meeting between representatives of the Manipur Government and Naga students on Friday.
Union Home Secretary V K Duggal is likely to meet officials of the Manipur, Assam and Nagaland Governments before this to "work out a strategy to cope with the situation and to ensure continuous flow of essential commodities".
Amid all this, the Home Ministry conveyed through Joint Secretary (North East) Rajiv Agarwal on Saturday that it was willing to talk to the agitating students "if required".
The Home Ministry had earlier said the issue concerned two states and a political solution should be worked out by Nagaland and Manipur. Even though central intervention had been requested, the ministry categorically said it was not keen to intervene.
Manipur has been cut from the rest of the country since the blockade began. The students have blocked National Highway 39 connecting Dimapur and Imphal while National Highway 53 connecting Silchar and Imphal is controlled by troublemakers and insurgents belonging to Manipur and the NSCN (I-M).
The Army was asked to clean up NH-53 and it made the highway operational on August 3.
But a continuing shortage of essential commodities has forced the Centre to airlift supplies. Agarwal said Indian Airlines and the Air Force made three sorties to Imphal on Saturday carrying essential supplies.
He added that around 1,000 trucks have ferried essential supplies to Manipur under police protection since the blockade was imposed. LPG and petrol are still scarce.
Agarwal said the home ministry has not received any reports of "human misery" caused by the shortage of supplies.
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