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The Manipur government has announced that the government will help those affected families in the mob violence in their resettlement process and houses for them will be built up by the government. The State government has already announced an ex-gratia of Rupees five lakh each for those who died in the mob violence and Rupees two lakh each who have suffered grievously injured. The government will also provide Rupees two lakh each for those families which are affected during the mob violence and new houses for them will be built up by the government.
The State Education (School) Department has also announced that the summer vacations for all schools in the State will immediately start from 4th of May till the last of May. Meanwhile, the government has received 247 weapons from the protestors so far. It may be mentioned that the frenzy protesters looted arms and ammunition from various police stations during the violence.
One thousand forty-one arms along with around seven thousand five hundred ammunitions were looted from Manipur Police Training College only during the mob violence. The State government has initiated an operation to retrieve the looted arms and ammunition. Two hundred sixteen FIRs have been taken up in connection to the violence in the State.
Meanwhile, the security forces have been continuing flag marches in the affected districts and normalcy has been restoring slowly in the State. The rescue and evacuation of stranded people and transportation to safer places or homes has been going on smoothly. More than one hundred column of Assam Rifles and fifty-four companies of paramilitary personnel have been deployed to control the unwanted situation in the State in addition to thirty thousand Manipur Police personnel.
The public curfew will be relaxed from five AM to eleven AM tomorrow in Imphal East and West districts. Other districts have also slowly extended the curfew relaxation hours with the improvement of law-and-order situations. The petrol pumps have started opening and people visited the market during the curfew relaxation hours.