“Degradation of moral values in the state deplorable”
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IMPHAL, September 24: A 16 day brotherhood tour - a joint venture of the All India Tribal Student Association, Delhi, its state branch and the Mongoloid People Forum, MPF concluded on Sept 21.
The tour was flagged off on September 5 from Hotel Imphal with the objective of awakening the people from the narrow aspiration and move towards resolving the day to day common problem irrespective of tribe/community.
Speaking to a select group of media persons today, convener, Mongoloid People Forum, Delhi, K Zou said the organizations are moved by the deplorable moral value of the people of Manipur, particularly those who study outside the state.
He said that the slightly privileged people like the govt employees neither had respect for the source of their livelyhood as doctor and nurse seem to have forgotten their ‘principal of medical ethics’ and the teaching of their religion even inside the hospital as proved by the desperate and economically poorer patients of remote area who are not treated well in most hospitals.
“The simplicity and traditional honesty of the common public is badly exploited by some member of our own society”, he says and added that families of govt officials/employees and economically well to do, even influential politicians are holding BPL card/job cards etc whereas homeless people and rickshaw pullers etc. are deprive of their due share and unless we fight together for a reliable administration system, modern health care system, sustainable education system, and innovate ideas of self-employment we, the people of Manipur and our future will worsen in the coming future, he said.
K Zou concluded by saying that the forum deplores the attitude of the Assam Riffles in recent past, but in the same vein, he said that as civil society we must be aware/alert so that no such act of security force will be tolerated and they should be held accountable to their action.
The tour was flagged off on September 5 from Hotel Imphal with the objective of awakening the people from the narrow aspiration and move towards resolving the day to day common problem irrespective of tribe/community.
Speaking to a select group of media persons today, convener, Mongoloid People Forum, Delhi, K Zou said the organizations are moved by the deplorable moral value of the people of Manipur, particularly those who study outside the state.
He said that the slightly privileged people like the govt employees neither had respect for the source of their livelyhood as doctor and nurse seem to have forgotten their ‘principal of medical ethics’ and the teaching of their religion even inside the hospital as proved by the desperate and economically poorer patients of remote area who are not treated well in most hospitals.
“The simplicity and traditional honesty of the common public is badly exploited by some member of our own society”, he says and added that families of govt officials/employees and economically well to do, even influential politicians are holding BPL card/job cards etc whereas homeless people and rickshaw pullers etc. are deprive of their due share and unless we fight together for a reliable administration system, modern health care system, sustainable education system, and innovate ideas of self-employment we, the people of Manipur and our future will worsen in the coming future, he said.
K Zou concluded by saying that the forum deplores the attitude of the Assam Riffles in recent past, but in the same vein, he said that as civil society we must be aware/alert so that no such act of security force will be tolerated and they should be held accountable to their action.
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