IDPs ask for time-bound resettlement
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By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Dec 16: One again reminding the Government of its commitment to resettle IDPs by the end of December 2025, IDPs have urged the Government to immediately announce and implement a comprehensive, time-bound resettlement plan for all IDPs.
Representatives of IDPs, endorsed by the COCOMI, submitted a reminder memorandum to the Governor and the Chief Secretary today too.
Apart from a comprehensive, time-bound resettle- ment plan for all IDPs, the memorandum urged the Government to ensure security, restoration of basic services and housing reconstruction prior to resettlement.
It also asked the Government to establish a trans- parent monitoring and review mechanism with the participation of IDP representatives and civil society organisations including COCOMI.
On the night of December 15, 2025, 41 represen- tatives of the IDPs, along with members of COCOMI, visited and spent the night at Moirang College relief camp which continues to function with minimum and inadequate basic amenities.
The teams also visited Phougakchao Ikhai and Torbung Mamang Leikai where some IDPs could be resettled now with necessary security arrangements, it said.
“Spending even one night in these relief camps was physically and emotionally exhausting for us. It was a deeply distressing experience that made us realise the gravity of suffering endured by our people.
“We find it impossible to imagine how thousands of families, women, children, elderly and the sick have been forced to live in such conditions for years without certainty, dignity or security”, the memorandum said.
Despite these ground realities, the majority of IDPs remain confined to relief camps with no clear resettlement timeline, it said.
Basic facilities such as healthcare, sanitation, nutrition, education and livelihoods remain grossly inadequate.
Even as winter conditions have further aggravated health risks and human suffering, there is still no publicly declared, comprehensive, district-wise resettlement roadmap, it said.
The reminder memorandum said that any further delay in initiating meaningful and State-wide resettlement will compel the IDPs to adopt democratic but stronger forms of moral appeal, including requesting responsible officials and public representatives to spend a night in the same relief camps so that they personally experience and understand the lived reality of displacement and the inhuman conditions under which the displaced people continue to survive.
Until visible, concrete and State-wide resettlement actions are initiated, the ongoing sit-in and democratic protests by IDPs will continue, it added.
IMPHAL, Dec 16: One again reminding the Government of its commitment to resettle IDPs by the end of December 2025, IDPs have urged the Government to immediately announce and implement a comprehensive, time-bound resettlement plan for all IDPs.
Representatives of IDPs, endorsed by the COCOMI, submitted a reminder memorandum to the Governor and the Chief Secretary today too.
Apart from a comprehensive, time-bound resettle- ment plan for all IDPs, the memorandum urged the Government to ensure security, restoration of basic services and housing reconstruction prior to resettlement.
It also asked the Government to establish a trans- parent monitoring and review mechanism with the participation of IDP representatives and civil society organisations including COCOMI.
On the night of December 15, 2025, 41 represen- tatives of the IDPs, along with members of COCOMI, visited and spent the night at Moirang College relief camp which continues to function with minimum and inadequate basic amenities.
The teams also visited Phougakchao Ikhai and Torbung Mamang Leikai where some IDPs could be resettled now with necessary security arrangements, it said.
“Spending even one night in these relief camps was physically and emotionally exhausting for us. It was a deeply distressing experience that made us realise the gravity of suffering endured by our people.
“We find it impossible to imagine how thousands of families, women, children, elderly and the sick have been forced to live in such conditions for years without certainty, dignity or security”, the memorandum said.
Despite these ground realities, the majority of IDPs remain confined to relief camps with no clear resettlement timeline, it said.
Basic facilities such as healthcare, sanitation, nutrition, education and livelihoods remain grossly inadequate.
Even as winter conditions have further aggravated health risks and human suffering, there is still no publicly declared, comprehensive, district-wise resettlement roadmap, it said.
The reminder memorandum said that any further delay in initiating meaningful and State-wide resettlement will compel the IDPs to adopt democratic but stronger forms of moral appeal, including requesting responsible officials and public representatives to spend a night in the same relief camps so that they personally experience and understand the lived reality of displacement and the inhuman conditions under which the displaced people continue to survive.
Until visible, concrete and State-wide resettlement actions are initiated, the ongoing sit-in and democratic protests by IDPs will continue, it added.