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Manipur govt education, sports and peace drive

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Since taking office in February 2024, Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh has linked education reform, sports development, and communal harmony in Manipur. He has promoted mother-tongue instruction under NEP 2020, allocated funds for modern sports equipment, and engaged athletes to illustrate pathways into public service. Amid recurring Naga-Kuki tensions, Singh has mediated between Hmar, Meitei, and Rongmei groups, urging displaced families to return and framing dialogue as the sole route to peace. In August 2026, Singh reported encouraging signs of peace, noting that displaced members of Kuki, Meitei, Hmar, and Paite communities expressed eagerness to return home. He highlighted new civil-society peacebuilding efforts, such as the Thadou-Meitei Covenant. ~~During a meeting with local artists, Singh called on the Meitei community to act as ‘big brother and big sister’ to help resolve the ethnic crisis.~~ By late ~~August 2026,~~ August, Singh reported that the Naga and Kuki communities had facilitated the resumption of public transport along National ~~Highway-2, connecting Imphal, Dimapur, and Guwahati.~~ Highway-2. On August 31, ~~2026, Singh~~ he appealed to all sectors ~~of society~~ to refrain from organizing bandhs or ~~blockades, stating such actions cause significant~~ blockades to avoid causing hardship to daily wage ~~earners, students, and women vegetable vendors, urging stakeholders to adopt other forms of democratic agitation instead. He also noted a successful campaign by civil society~~ earners and ~~MLAs in New Delhi regarding the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC).~~ students. On September 2, 2026, Home Minister Kanthoujam Govindas Singh ~~called~~ addressed the state assembly, calling for collective responsibility to restore ~~peace,~~ peace and urging religious and community leaders to ~~bridge~~ ‘bridge the trust ~~deficit.~~ deficit’. He affirmed the government’s commitment to protecting Manipur’s ~~unity~~ unity. During a visit to the Kangpokpi district, Chief Minister Singh met with displaced persons from both the Meitei and ~~clarified there are no official reports regarding land exchange agreements~~ Kuki communities, noting their shared desire to return home and calling for ‘forgiveness and reconciliation’. Additionally, the Chief Minister presented a request for supplementary grants totaling 3,861 crore rupees for the 2026-27 fiscal year, with ~~Myanmar.~~ approximately 90 percent intended for centrally sponsored, NABARD-supported, and externally aided development projects.

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