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IMPHAL, 25 Mar:<\/strong> Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Friday assured a team of journalists, led by All Manipur Working Journalists’ Union (AMWJU) President K Shamjai, IJU President Geetartha Pathak and Indo-Bangla Journalists Forum (IBJF) Joint Secretary Abdul Hadi, that he will take up the matter of “granting easy Indian visas to Northeast visiting Bangladeshi citizens, including Bangladeshi Manipuri people.”<\/p>\n The CM also assured the team that he would “uplift the AMWJU office to a smart building<\/p>\n with state-of-the-art technology, modern elevation system, media centre, digital display board, sound system, etc.”<\/p>\n Apart from agreeing with Pathak’s suggestion to “transform the AMWJU building to a gateway and hub of Indian journalists to South East Asia,” the CM said that he is “considering increasing the pension amount from the present Rs 8,000 to higher slab.”<\/p>\n Hadi on his part said that he is “very much concerned about the Meitei people living in Bangladesh,” and said that he would send a team of journalists from Manipur to Bangladesh “to take stock of the condition of the Manipuri people of Bangladesh.”<\/p>\n The CM further said that Manipur will host a meeting of the IBJF shortly.<\/p>\n Besides the AMWJU and the IJU presidents, the team included AMWJU Secretary K Naoba, IJU Treasurer Asem Bhakta Singh, and Journalists Union of Assam’s executive body member Shahidul Islam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IMPHAL, 25 Mar: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Friday assured a team of journalists, led by All Manipur Working Journalists’ Union (AMWJU) President K Shamjai, IJU President Geetartha Pathak and Indo-Bangla Journalists Forum (IBJF) Joint Secretary Abdul Hadi, that he will take up the matter of “granting easy Indian visas to Northeast visiting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}