A woman’s rights body said on July 3 that relief camps in Manipur were in a grim condition and were mostly being run with the efforts of well-meaning citizens and civil society groups with very limited support from the State government. Most of the people in the camps are daily wage workers and ordinary people.
After the ethnic violence between the tribal Kuki-Zo and Meitei communities erupted in the State on May 3, nearly 60,000 people have been displaced and are living in relief camps in Manipur and neighbouring Mizoram.
It said that the State government and its machinery remained defunct in the ongoing crisis and the criminal apathy of the Union government exacerbated the prevailing grim situation.
