Resettled village

IMPHAL, Dec 8: A team of COCOMI led by its convenor Khuraijam Athouba and a committee of IDPs today visited Leimaram Waroiching Leikai where displaced families have resettled a few days back.
Together with local leaders of Waroiching, the team  visited the houses one by one.
Khuraijam Athouba said that many of the houses have broken down as they were abandoned for two years and a half.
Some houses are no longer fit for dwelling. As such, the families have been in makeshift structures made of tin sheets, he said.
Notably, there are around 67 households at Leimaram Waroiching.
The COCOMI convenor said that the amount sanctioned by the Government collectively for repairing the damaged or worn out houses would not be enough.
The Resettlement and Rehabilitation Committee need to look into all the requirements for constructing houses, he said
The villagers must be members of the committee  and the committee must take up necessary measures  which can make up the requirements of running a family, Athouba said.
He added that the villages have lost all their sources of income.
On the other hand, the sit-in-protest being staged at Lamboi Khongnangkhong under the aegis of COCOMI and IDPs has completed eight days today. It is said that the Government now has only 23 days to keep its promise of resettling IDPs.