Leader Writer: Leivon Jimmy
Manipur always comes under extreme pressure one way or the other. A unique battle ground plague with myriad chronic problems left un-addressed, from man made disturbances to natural calamities, you just name it, everything is in the menu and yet more to be improvised out of the latter.

The battle for survival begins when some of these problems suddenly re-emerge on the surface. It is a well known fact that common people are always the sufferers. It is a “The rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer” situation, for the fact is that some peoples are always prepared for such a situation to feast on the weak.

The prevailing artificial scarcity is one glaring example of how things can get nasty in the trouble torn state. As the part of the problem cycle, the issue of ADC act re-emerges after over two decades and economic blockade was imposed by the ANSAM and its like minded groups demanding to reconsider the decision of the Government and not to go ahead with the recently concluded ADC under the existing ADC act. On the other hand, the Government was with the opinion for the need for reviving the election to revive the decayed grass roots developmental system of the hills which has been down under for more than decades. Apparently the goal is common, both in the interest of hill people. The situation took another twist with the homecoming news of Muivah. Situation got bad to worse as the National Highways become impenetrable at this stage.   
    
Given the situation, all the business sections started playing their market strategies, in fact not a common thing to the state, however the recent drive of AMSU unearth the existence of such strategies by unlocking huge godowns at Mantripukhri areas revealing the concealed stockpile of essential commodities hidden. Still the people failed to see any action from the part of the Government yet. At the same time some scavengers running amok, looking for few rupees more make the situation worse.

Amidst such dying situation the crucial decisions of the Transporters and Drivers Councils (TDC) dimmed the hope of the people. Moreover the situation of NH-53 is also far from improving giving hard time for the transporters, the peoples.

Compounding with the situation in a hard time are the emergence of controversy over the recruitment process of the primary teachers, another symptom of chronic corruption networks running in the state, epidemic of Japanese encephalitis and recent flood in some section of Imphal, unfortunately expanded the battle ground for the people.

Leaving aside the controversy of the education department for the time being, Government should put more serious thoughts on the suffering of the people due to the scarcity and the prevailing epidemic of the Japanese encephalitis as reported in the newspapers. The subjects involved the matter of life and death, Government should not give a chance to the epidemic to go with the scarcity.