Loktak Lake

In Manipur, and elsewhere around the globe, the instances are galore on wetlands gradually dying slow deaths. For the State, it is too often quoted on how the two most important urban wetlands – Porompat and Lamphelpat – have been subjected…

The disputes in Loktak Lake, Manipur is now overflowing to the adjoining wetlands like Pumlen, Khoidum Pat, Ikop, Kharung, and others. The disputes centre on the issue of rights – land rights, right to life, right to livelihood, and the…

In Manipur, there are several instances of conflicts of interest between the State and local communities over the extension of Protected Areas (PAs) in pockets that are primarily inhabited by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities who…

Stating that Loktak Lake cannot be saved without its people, Apunba Loktak Ngami Sinmi Cooperative Society and Loktak Floating Homestay Association, Thanga (LOFHAT) urged the authorities to take back the “biased” notification by July 30,…

Loktak Development Authority (LDA) issued a notification asking people living in the Loktak Lake area to remove the shelter huts built on the floating biomass and the circular open water fish culture ponds.  LDA says these huts have…

Nisith Pramanik, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs and YAS visited Loktak Lake and assured of all possible help. TFM Desk Works, Youth Affairs and Sports (YAS) minister Govindas Konthoujam on Sunday sought central assistance…

The organisations also called upon the state government to repeal The Manipur Loktak Lake (Protection) Act 2006 and to replace the same by the National Wetlands (Management and Conservation) Rules 2017. TFM Desk Several organisations…

In all of these years since its inception in 1987, the implementing agency, namely, the Loktak Development Authority appears to have not considered it of utmost priority to validate the actual existing boundary of the lake. By Salam…

M Ashinikumar Singh, the chairman of the Loktak Development Authority (LDA) has initiated to review the Loktak Lake Protection Act, 2006 and restructure the LDA with a new dimension for holistic approach By Diana Potshangbam M…

The inflow of pollutants and solid wastes from the urban areas carried by the river Nambul has been cited as the main cause for increasing the pollution level in the lake and also influencing eutrophication leading to the aging of the…