Our Correspondent Imphal, Aug 10 (EMN): A day after the Manipur government restored mobile data (internet) services following a report of “positive development,” the All Tribal Student Union of Manipur (ATSUM) on Wednesday decided to temporarily suspend the ongoing economic blockade along the National Highways in the hill areas with immediate effect. However, the student body resolved to further continue the agitation with other forms of democratic agitations. The decision to “temporarily suspend the economic blockade” along the highways was decided during an emergency meeting of the student body with its federating units in Kangpokpi district “considering the plight of the general public” on Wednesday. The ATSUM’s department of information and publicity in a press communiqué issued on Wednesday reminded the members of the Hill Areas Committee (HAC) to clear their position on ‘The Manipur (Hill Areas)Autonomous District Council Bill 2021 in the Manipur legislative asse
Confusion reigned over the five-day old "economic blockade", called by the All Tribal Student Union Manipur (ATSUM), along the National Highway 2 (Imphal-Dimapur) as the Manipur government on Tuesday said that it had been called off .