Manipur Chief minister N Biren Singh on Wednesday said that no one can tamper district boundaries by way of buying lands or installing signboards with false information, while stating that there is no new alteration in the district boundaries of the state since the conduction of Land Revenue Boundary Survey in 1960.
Speaking during the releasing of a book entitled “A Compendium of Important Decisions of Manipur Information Commission”, published by the Manipur Information Commission (MIC) at his secretariat in Imphal, Biren said that for matter related to district boundary, the government will rely on the Land Revenue Boundary Survey of 1960.
CM Biren also informed that efforts have been made to maintain the past status of Forest and Land Records and that teams have been deployed to retrospect location and the area covered by the forest in all districts through satellite mapping.
Concerning the importance of documentation in Land Revenue records, he informed that the state government had started the digitisation process for land records.
Lauding the efforts of the MIC towards documentation and record keeping, he admitted that most of the official documents of the state government such as gazettes, durbar ruling, state cabinet, Assembly and acts had been out of track.
Fortunately, many of the important documents have been recovered from private parties, he said, adding that the recovered documents have given a new insight to the state government to witness the real picture of Manipur’s past.
Pointing out that Acts such as RTI and constitution of Lokayukta in the state is to ensure transparency and fight corruption with the aim to give at least some hope and aspiration to the masses, he said unfortunately RTI is being misused by many.
Some individuals are trying to create an issue out of nothing to create a disturbance atmosphere in the state which is very sensitive and complex, the chief minister said and appraised the public to be alert from those anti-social groups or individuals and maintain unity and have mutual respect among all.
