Our Correspondent
Imphal, Oct. 15 (EMN): Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh said the government wants to develop Behiang as an international business hub like Moreh town as there are various developmental plans for the area.
Behiang is a border village in Manipur’s Churachandpur district which borders Myanmar.
Biren Singh was speaking at the foundation stone laying function of Manipur Southern Cultural Centre at Behiang and inauguration of Chivu – Chandrakirti Memorial Park at Tonjang village on Oct. 14.
Rajya Sabha MP Maharaj Leishemba Sanajaoba,Minister(Tribal affairs) Letpao Haokip(Tribal affairs), MLAs Losii Dikho(Mao), Paolienlal Haokip(Saikot), Letzamang Haokip(Henglep) and DC Churachandpur Dr. Sharath Chandra Arroju led officials were also present during the function.
Stating that the Manipur Southern Cultural Centre will be constructed at a project cost INR 6 crore, he also highlighted several other developmental works taken up in Singhat.
‘There should be equal development’, he said, adding that there are no small or big communities, ‘we are all humans and should live together’.
The chief minister also announced rewards for the 13 villages of the area for properly maintaining the forest cover and for declaring that there is no poppy cultivation in their area.
Announcing projects under Horticulture for each of the villages, Biren Singh also assured inclusion of a High School Leaving Certificate Examination Centre in the area. He said that the new Medical College at Churachandpur was set up in the district because ‘the people deserve it’.
‘Let us settle differences, problems, grievances through the process of talk, discussion and meeting instead of resorting to violent disturbances like bandhs, blockades’, he added.
In his speech, Leishemba Sanajaoba expressed his happiness to the people of the area for preserving and protecting the artifacts.
The inscribed stone at Chivu was erected during the reign of Maharaj Chandrakirti (1850 -1886 CE) in 1872 CE to commemorate the Lushai Expedition. A large stone slab with a pair of engraved footprints of Maharaj Chandrakirti and General Nathan is lying in front of the inscribed stone. A stone symbolising Lord Thangjing and his consort is also located within this complex. The total protected area is 607.50 sq m.