Manipur aims to resettle 40,000 IDPs by March

Guwahati

The Government of Manipur has intensified efforts to resettle much than 40,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) by March, the State’s Chief Secretary, Puneet Kumar Goel, said connected Thursday (January 29, 2026).

They beryllium to immoderate 10,000 families displaced since the taste struggle betwixt the Kuki-Zo and Meitei communities broke retired connected May 3, 2023.

Mr. Goel said the authorities has rehabilitated implicit 3,700 families, comprising 16,500 people, to date. The State has released astir ₹124 crore towards the initiative.

The authorities emphasised a holistic approach, aiming not conscionable to relocate families from alleviation camps but to reconstruct livelihoods, education, and wide assemblage well-being. “Our precedence is simply a unafraid and sustainable instrumentality to mean beingness for IDPs,” Mr. Goel said.

By December 2025, much than 2,200 families, astir 10,000 IDPs, had been resettled. Under the Special PMAY-G (Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin), astir 7,000 houses person been sanctioned to regenerate afloat damaged homes, with operation underway astatine assorted locations, helium said.

A State-Level Committee, chaired by the Chief Secretary and comprising elder officials, including the Commissioner of the Home Department and the Director General of Police, oversees the rehabilitation process. District-level committees nether the District Magistrates behaviour regular reviews to guarantee creaseless resettlement.