manipurtimes/events-pr/959 Report Community Dialogue for Better Understanding Issues Facing Citizens from North East India Held in Delhi Time & Venue: 5.00pm – 7.00pm 12th May 2014, Air NCC Hall, Humayunpur, Safdarjang Enclave, Delhi -110029 Participants at Community Dialogue, Air NCC Hall, Humayunpur, Sadarjang Enclave, Delhi 12 May 2014: A community meeting was organized by Northeast India Forum Against Racism (NEIFAR) in collaboration with Aman Biradari Organization and Delhi Police on title name as “Community Dialogue for Better Understanding Issues Facing Citizens from North East India” at Air NCC Hall, Humayunpur, Safdurjung Enclave, Delhi. The scope of this meeting was to bring and highlight the issues being faced by Northeast residence living in Safdarjung Enclave and nearby villages namely Arjun Nagar, Krishna Nagar and Humayunpur. The broader aspect of this community dialogue was to bring both local residence and northeast residence together to discuss and explore various ways to short out the issues which being faced by northeast tenants. Since this was the first community dialogue between both the community and Northeast resident to develop the relation and various confusions due to distinct ethnic and cultural values of the Northeast community. For purpose of more clarification about ethnicity of Northeast India, it was useful to hold these kinds of dialogue which bring sufficient methodologies to inculcate the demographic feature and culture of Northeast India. This dialogue was called for better understanding through healthy discussion towards building up strong social organization. Certain grievances were not being adjudicated by Govt. and law enforcing agencies. Since the dialogue had sufficient capacity and media coverage to bring the issues to the attention of police as well as Government, element of this dialogue is a collective outcome of an appropriate discussion between young people and elderly people of both communities, Around 90 people attended the community dialogue. Most of the highlighted issues were ill treatment by landlords to their tenants as well as discomfort and social insecurity among the tenants of Northeast residence, racial attacks on Northeast people. Secondly, the point of discussion raised by the local people was more focus on the attire and questioning the sense of dressing on the basis of their cultural values.
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