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9th Oct 2018 10:10:PM State
ITANAGAR, Oct 9: The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, India region (Zone III) conference held in Guwahati on Monday discussed at length issues related to insurgency in the North East with participants examining the scope of a collective approach to resolve the decades old problem.
MLA Gabriel D. Wangsu, called for a total review of forest reservation policy and said that a perfect mechanism be put in place so that the people affected by insurgency get access to the precious land while ensuring that efforts to protect the forest are not disturbed.
While addressing the 3-day conference, Wangsu said that benefits of packages and policies should percolate down to the last man so as to ensure that such mechanisms should not breed poverty.
In Tirap, Changlang and Longding districts most of the fertile and plain areas are declared as forest reserves whereas the people are compelled to continue jhum cultivation in the mountainous areas and thus are left reeling under poverty and unproductive engagements, Wangsu said during the discussion on “Collective approach to resolve insurgency”.
It is commonly held that insurgency finds its root in poverty and thrive on economic deprivation, and hence, it’s no surprise that unemployed and poor people mostly from under-developed areas are easily drawn to activities detrimental to growth of society, he further added.
Earlier, delivering the keynote address, Rina Mitra, IPS, Special Secretary (Internal Security) in the Ministry of Home Affairs, presented an overview of the insurgency scenario in the North East and dished out statistics to prove that the situation had improved in the past few years.
Winding up the discussion, Arunachal Pradesh Speaker TN Thongdok, who chaired the session, said insurgency in the region did not occur just without any reason and called for setting up a special task force comprising of Ministers, peers and academic to hold talks with insurgent groups.
Thongdok also suggested replacing the word “insurgent” with “some softer word” and said this would encourage the groups to come forward for talks. “State Government has better understanding of ground issues and the group will be more comfortable talking to them,” he said. Application of force has proved that it was not the right solution,” he remarked.
Kenter Joya Riba
(Managing Editor)She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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