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Manipur’s Indigenous People’s Forum Sounds Caution On "Demographic Shift"

New Delhi: Manipur’s population growth, fuelled by illegal immigration, is surpassing natural population growth with severe implications for the socio-political landscape, a key civil society group in the border state told reporters in Delhi today.The impact of this migration is particularly evident in areas like Jiribam district, where the population surged by 80.22 per cent between 1951 and 2011, Indigenous People’s Forum Manipur (IPFM) said.IPFM chief Ashang Kasar pointed at what he called “another key concern” and raised the matter of “unnatural growth of villages in some hill districts of Manipur between 1969 and 2001.”After Manipur’s merger with India, the state experienced unusually high decadal growth rates, consistently exceeding 30 per cent for three decades, the IPFM said, adding between 2001 and 2011, the growth rate remained high at 24.5 per cent.”A decadal growth rate of 42 per cent is considered unnatural, raising questions about the factors driving this rapid expansion….