{"id":13895,"date":"2023-05-02T18:46:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=13895"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:17:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:47:28","slug":"meitei-community","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/meitei-community","title":{"rendered":"Meitei Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Context:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Meitei community in Manipur seeks Scheduled Tribe (ST) status, but the <\/span><b>Hill<\/b><b> Areas Committee (HAC) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the <\/span><b>Manipur Assembly<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">passed a resolution against their demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Some community members plan <\/span><b>to file contempt proceedings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against HAC.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Underlying Issue:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently the Manipur High Court ordered the State government to recommend the inclusion of the Meitei community in the Scheduled Tribes list.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0The Hill Areas Committee (HAC)\u00a0 of the Manipur Assembly, passed a resolution opposing the High Court\u2019s order and called for the Centre and the State government to appeal it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>About Meitei Community:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are the <\/span><b>dominant community<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><b>Manipur.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are divided into clans, the members of which do not intermarry.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently<\/span><b> categorised as OBCs or SCs, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Meitei people dominate in more than half the State\u2019s Assembly constituencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>majority of them identify as Hindu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while about 8% are Muslim.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The community, through the Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee, Manipur, has been demanding ST status for decades now.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They argue they had been listed as one of the tribes of Manipur before it merged with India in 1949 but they lost this tag when the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, was drafted.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b style=\"color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\"><i>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 News Source: <\/i><\/b><a style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Delhi\/manipur-meitei-members-to-file-contempt-proceedings-against-hac\/article66800415.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>The Hindu\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 The Meitei community in Manipur seeks Scheduled Tribe (ST) status, but the Hill Areas Committee (HAC) of the Manipur Assembly passed a resolution against their demand. \u00a0Some community members plan to file contempt proceedings against HAC. Underlying Issue: Recently the Manipur High Court ordered the State government to recommend the inclusion of the Meitei&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/meitei-community\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meitei Community<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[221,219,220],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/13895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/13895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13895"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=13895"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=13895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}