User:Haoreima/Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee of Manipur

The Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee of Manipur (STDCM), also known as the Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee (STDC), is a committee for the demand for the Scheduled Tribe (ST) status of the Meiteis (also mentioned as the Meeteis) of Manipur and other states of Northeast India. The primary reason for the Scheduled Tribe status demand for Meitei ethnicity is to get some constitutional protections, including but not limited to the provisions of Scheduled Areas so that the Meiteis could be saved from being outnumbered and overpowered by external threats of massive immigrants coming from outside Manipur.

The reports of the ethnographic and socio-economic conditions of the Meitei people are needed be sent by the Government of Manipur to the Central Government of India for the recommendation for the consideration of the enlisting of the Meiteis in the Scheduled Tribe list. As of now, the Government of Manipur had not taken up any steps to send the report for the recommendation.

The STDCM organises peaceful democratic protests along with the public to urge the Government of Manipur to provide protection of the Meitei ethnicity. For this, the committee urged Manipur Government to send the recommendations asked by the Central Government of India for the consideration of the enlisting of the Meiteis in the Scheduled Tribe list. However, Manipur Government did not take up any initiative to protect the ethnic group. As a result, the STDCM declared that they might be compelled to organise strong agitative movements if the Government didn't understand the concerns of the people of Manipur.

During September 2022, the Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee of Manipur (STDCM) gave a warning to the Government of Manipur that they will launch a series of intensified agitative movements if the Government still proceed to keep out of the focus the democratic demands of the Meitei people, regarding the recommendations to include the Meiteis (also mentioned as the Meeteis) in the list of Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities of the Constitution of India.

The STDCM organised several peaceful protests in different places, including Lamphel Supermarket, along with women vendors of Manipur as a part of the scheduled tribe status demand movement.