Kin of Manipur’s 49 people missing since 2023 ethnic conflict to get ₹10 lakh each

Manipur Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam. | Photo Credit: PTI

GUWAHATI

The Manipur Cabinet has approved a one-time financial assistance of ₹10 lakh each for the kin of 49 people missing since the ethnic conflict erupted in the State on May 3, 2023.

Manipur’s Home Minister Konthoujam Govindas told the 60-member House in September that the conflicts — first between the Kuki-Zo and Meitei communities and then between the Kukis and Nagas — claimed 306 lives and displaced more than 60,000 people.

“The Cabinet approved a Home Department proposal for the one-time assistance of ₹10 lakh each for the survivors of the 49 missing persons as a special humanitarian measure,” Manipur Government spokesperson and MLA Sapam Ranjan Singh told journalists on Thursday (October 1, 2026) evening after the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Yunman Khemchand Singh.