Kim James 
IMPHAL, Mar 1: Village headman of Mapao Jingo, Wungnaoyo Zimik, conveyed that the villagers are striving to hold retaining the homes and surrounding areas of Mapao Jingo clean, adding that this fashion might be surpassed directly to the villagers and the future generations as ethical schooling. Macao Jingo has positioned approximately 20 km from Imphal, under the Saikul Sub-Division of Kangpokpi district.
The Sangai Express visited the village and interacted with the villagers and their headman today. During the go-to, the villagers managed to preserve the village surrounding easily and green from the place to the village to foothills, every home, small roads, backyards, and so on. Dustbins had been seen hooked up on the roadsides too, which shadows the level of recognition approximately cleanliness and healthful way of life.
It would now not be an exaggeration to say that the villagers hold a smooth lifestyle by preserving the right drainage device, sanitary latrines, tidy rooms, and kitchens even as not a single plastic or piece of paper were visible anywhere the village place. The Sangai Express, Mapao Jingo headman Wungnaoyo Zimik stated that the village forefathers used to reside on the Mapa Jingo hilltop; thanks to transportation constraints from the top hill, the villagers started out residing at the foothills from 1963.
He went directly to the kingdom that there were 30 to forty surnames; however, they started out spreading out when they got here down from the hill pinnacle to form 3 different villages at the foothill Mapao Jingo, Mapao Thangal, and Mapao Jingtun. Headman Wungnaoyo similarly stated that a total of six hundred population belonging to 108 surnames in Mapao Jingo and the humans living in Mapao village place belong to the Tangkhul network.
Speaking to The Sangai Express about development activities in the village, he maintained that a Government High School is a gift with an enrolment of 60 college students. A personal school named Stepping Stone English School is set up within the region with 200 students. Although a Primary Health Centre is present inside the region, the necessary personnel and management are absent; he stated that the most effective nurse comes from the Saikul Sub-Division at the time of polio immunization, deworming forth.
He narrates that the villagers had to journey to hospital centers in Imphal for remedy. Talking about electric delivery within the vicinity, the village headman claimed that the village gets proper delivery of electricity. However, some homes have prepaid machines whilst a few nonetheless use the old device. We similarly claimed that the locals contributed to shopping for GI pipes and hooked up underground to facilitate clean drinking water in the village.
Three Go to village camps, organized by Kangpokpi district management, had been conducted in the village thus far where the villagers have most effective the day to deal with their grievances and issues to the officers, but no tremendous movements have been witnessed till date whilst the villagers nonetheless have not obtained any enjoy the GTV camps.
He narrates that three homes had been built for beneficiaries out of the whole six beneficiaries carried out beneath Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Housing For All scheme. In contrast, construction for the remaining three beneficiaries has now not started till present date. The headman claimed it protected around Rs 1,70 lakh for the development of 1 residence below the scheme.
As per the 2011 census, the simplest 50 beneficiaries/households have obtained gasoline connection out of the entire 60 households carried out; he said adding that unemployed households with ten members receive the most effective eight kg of rice beneath the AAY scheme to date. Claiming that the villagers by no means get hold of the complete quota of PDS rice thus far, the village headman said that the authorities involved have additionally become a blind eye to the grievances of the humans regardless of repeated appeals.
Wungnaoyo stated that people from Japan often visit the village because the hill became one of Japan’s struggles while lamenting that the villagers could never display enough hospitality to travelers attributable to the absence of visitor homes. The headman maintained that the village surely follows the rules and policies strictly consisting of the prohibition on deforestation, trapping/catching birds, drug abuse, etc., including that any individual violating these policies are served with a fitting punishment. Meanwhile, a maximum of the ladies within the village are engaged in farming and weaving to manipulate their circle of relatives, whilst a few promote culmination and veggies at Pangea Keithel, Lamlong Keithel, Khunam Lampak, and Khwairamband Keithel. Wungnaoyo is knowledgeable that at least 30 humans of the village are doing Government service.
