JAC stage protest against the government negligence; submits memorandum

Chandel, July.22: The Joint Action Committee (JAC) Selected Beneficiaries 2016-2017 KVIB/KVIC/DIC under PMEGP has staged a sit-in protest against the Govt. Negligence on PMEGP 2016-2017 at DC Lamkhai in Chandel today.
Placards reading “We Strongly Condemn the govt. negligence on PMEGP 2016-2017”, “Erase Unemployment at The Right Time”, “we want Assurance for Selected Beneficiaries” and “Every Selected Beneficiaries Deserve Equal Opportunity” etc were displayed by the demonstrators.
Secretary of Selected Beneficiaries PMEGP,Chandel District, A Tongsen said that a memorandum in the connection has been submitted to the Chief Minister of Manipur, Industry Minister and Chairman PMEGP, Chandel through the Deputy Commissioner of Chandel today afternoon.
As per the memorandum submitted to the Chief Minister, Industry Minister and Chairman PMEGP the beneficiaries of 2016-2017 KVIB/KVIC/DIC under PMEGP, Chandel District 2016-2017 after being selected through interview and strict identification, were deprived of their beneficiary right.
The Industry Department namely KVIC, KVIB and DIC intend to sponsor and forward very few recommendations of 30 beneficiaries list.The number of Selected Beneficiaries comes to around 530 and KVIC is still inappropriate,it’s said.
The memorandum further said that for DIC, the total number of Selected Beneficiaries in both 1st and 2nd list is 338, for KVIC its 54 and in KVIB the total number of Selected Beneficiaries in both 1st and 2nd list is 138 and for DIC/KVIC/ KVIB the whole total comes to 530 Selected Beneficiaries.
The Memorandum appeal and instruct the concerned industry Departments and the financial banks to take initial steps at one period to Sponsor and sanction the fund mean for unemployed people.