{"id":35869,"date":"2023-06-11T08:50:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T03:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=35869"},"modified":"2025-04-21T12:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:27:46","slug":"violent-clashes-in-manipur-centre-sets-up-peace-panel-to-include-ethnic-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/violent-clashes-in-manipur-centre-sets-up-peace-panel-to-include-ethnic-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent clashes in Manipur: Centre sets up peace panel, to include \u2018ethnic groups\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major Communities Residing in Manipur<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What&#8217;s Behind the Violence in Manipur?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Why does the Meitei Community want ST Status?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Why are Tribal groups against ST Status for Meiteis?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Is this the only Reason for the Conflict?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary Regarding Peace Committee<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>With the violence continuing in Manipur for more than a month now, the Centre announced<strong> a peace committee<\/strong> to facilitate the peace-making process among various ethnic groups in the state.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the committee will include representatives of different ethnic groups like the <strong>Kukis and Meiteis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Major Communities Residing in Manipur:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The State is like a football stadium with the Imphal Valley representing the playfield at the centre and the surrounding hills the galleries.<\/li>\n<li>The valley, which comprises about 10% of Manipur\u2019s landmass, is <strong>dominated by the non-tribal Meitei. <\/strong>This area yields 40 of the State\u2019s 60 MLAs.<\/li>\n<li>The hills comprising 90% of the geographical area are inhabited by more than <strong>35% recognised tribes<\/strong>. This area sends only 20 MLAs to the Assembly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u25cf \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/bBZZw9mWIQvUS5tqWTfCLZ7B-MbYi2uAmDW_RARhSvM4KPRQLDuSyw4APUdV-U7w0kd10cOooBqh9aIwr4oRubD_oeT02oaWjNTVyR3ozovrQxGi95efBJNIp_FO-eO0D9RmOnB9v_UKddygtwzdt8Y\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What&#8217;s Behind the Violence in Manipur?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The recent protests were triggered by the Manipur HC\u2019s direction to the State to pursue a 10-year-old recommendation to <strong>grant Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the non-tribal Meitei community.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Court\u2019s order has brought the <strong>historical tensions<\/strong> between the valley-dwelling Meitei community and the state\u2019s hill tribes to a boil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why does the Meitei Community want ST Status?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The demand for ST status arose from the<strong> need to preserve the community<\/strong>, and save the ancestral land, tradition, culture and language of the Meiteis.<\/li>\n<li>As per the arguments forwarded by the community in the court:\n<ul>\n<li>The community has been <strong>victimised <\/strong>without any constitutional safeguards to date and have been gradually marginalised in their ancestral land.<\/li>\n<li>Constituting 59% of the total population of Manipur in 1951 has now been <strong>reduced to 44% as per 2011 Census data.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why are Tribal groups against ST Status for Meiteis?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The tribal groups say the Meiteis <strong>have a demographic and political advantage besides being more advanced<\/strong> academically and in other aspects.<\/li>\n<li>The Manipuri language of the Meiteis is included in the <strong>Eighth Schedule<\/strong> of the Constitution.<\/li>\n<li>Sections of the Meitei community &#8211; which is predominantly Hindu &#8211; are already classified under<strong> Scheduled Castes (SC) or Other Backward Classes (OBC)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Hence, the claim that Meiteis need ST status to protect their culture and identity is self-defeating.<\/li>\n<li>They feel the ST status to the Meiteis would lead to <strong>loss of job opportunities<\/strong> and allow them to acquire land in the hills and push the tribals out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Is this the only Reason for the Conflict?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Pro-government groups in Manipur claim that some tribal groups with vested interests are trying to scuttle the <strong>CM\u2019s crusade against drugs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The anti-drug drive began with <strong>destroying poppy fields <\/strong>and the theory that <strong>illegal settlers from Myanmar<\/strong> are behind clearing forests and government lands to grow opium and cannabis.\n<ul>\n<li>These settlers are ethnically related to the <strong>Kuki-Zomi <\/strong>people of Manipur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The first violent protest was against the <strong>eviction of the residents of a Kuki village<\/strong> allegedly in violation of<strong> Article 371C<\/strong>, which confers some administrative autonomy to the tribal-dominated hill areas of Manipur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media\">\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZeDPVbntS1s\">\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZeDPVbntS1s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary Regarding Peace Committee:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Government of India has constituted a Peace Committee in Manipur <strong>under the chairpersonship of the Governor, Manipur<\/strong> (Anusuiya Uikey).\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The peace committee<\/strong> was part of a series of measures, including a judicial probe panel, announced by the Union Home Minister at the end of his four-day visit to Manipur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The members of the committee<\/strong> include the CM, a few ministers in the state government, MP, MLAs and leaders from different political parties.<\/li>\n<li>The committee includes<strong> former civil servants, educationists, litterateurs, artists,<\/strong> social workers and representatives of <strong>different ethnic groups.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The mandate of the committee<\/strong> will be to strengthen social cohesiveness, mutual understanding and facilitate cordial communication between various ethnic groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It lists the official languages of the Republic of India. As per Articles 344(1) and 351 of the Indian Constitution, the eighth schedule includes the recognition of the following 22 languages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) How ST status is granted in India?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The process to include tribes in the ST list begins with the recommendation from the respective State governments, which are then reviewed by the Tribal Affairs Ministry, sent for the approvals of the Registrar General of India, NCST before the list is sent to the Cabinet for a final decision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/manipur-violence-peace-committee-governor-8655778\/#:~:text=With%20the%20violence%20continuing%20in,ethnic%20groups%E2%80%9D%20in%20the%20state.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Manipur: Centre sets up peace panel, to include \u2018ethnic groups\u2019<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent protests were triggered by the Manipur HC\u2019s direction to the State to pursue to grant Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the non-tribal Meitei community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}