Corruption stands correct
The Manipur Government has yet again pushed its State into another level of squabble by neglecting the MoU jointly signed by the representatives of the Ima Keithel and the Government. Leaving the poor and deprived in a tragic loss of livelihood.
- Joe Hmachhuana
The political crap that goes around in Manipur has been affecting the people of villages for decades now. On contrary to the Government’s years of ignorance to implement right doses of justice in this area, civilians are crying in vain on their daily mission to cradle a livelihood to survive. It is a true tragic situation where the rich are getting richer and so on the saying goes.
In order to attest to the rigor... its the glimpse of the poor who sore muscles, shovel gravel, lug woods, dig post holes and lift heavy boulders to reinforce the price of living in disturbed roads of Manipur everyday.
Manipur State Government is held responsible for the dark clouds glooming over Ima Keithel,the second largest women’s market in Asia. Women vendors are deprived of their seats and have descended on the verge of losing hope for what used to be their livelihood.
Displeasure caused by the Government in the name of the modernization has agitated thousands of women traders who have been robbed of their right with corruption, bribery and favoritism. A bulk of corruption leading the permanent license holders into categories of temporary license holders.
A difficult thing to measure or compare, however, is the impact of corruption on poverty versus the effects of inequalities that are structured into law, such as unequal trade agreements, structural adjustment policies, so-called “free” trade agreements and so on. It is easier to see corruption. It is harder to see these other more formal, even legal forms of “corruption.” It is easy to assume that these are not even issues because they are part of the laws and institutions that govern national and international communities and many of us will be accustomed to it—it is how it works, so to speak.
It is no longer a time for a mere combat against corruption; it is battle against the officials’ thrive on domination. Animals higher in the chain eats those in the lower belt. And if you remember we humans are at the top of this food chain. And we are the biggest casualties.
