What does it mean for individual farmers who have surplus stock of paddy when there are few takers inspite of the heavy investment they had to incur during cultivation given the conditions of lack of farm labour and hike in wages of agricultural workers in view of the MGNREGA incentives?

The need of the hour is working out a sustainable means of livelihood for the poppy farmers.

If Abdul Nasir had won, he could have been made a minister and a Meitei Pangal representative in the Biren Singh-led Council of Ministers as he was among the Congress MLAs who saved the BJP-led government.

Every sane person knew in the depth of their hearts that the SOPs would be followed more in violations than adherence.

The Imphal Municipal Corporation has not been able to stand on its own feet and always had to depend on state government grants for clearing up the borrowed wages of the employees.