India, March 12 -- A top official home affairs ministry (MHA) met representatives of the Federation of Civil Society (FOCS) on Wednesday morning in Imphal's Babupara to chalk out a roadmap to restore peace in Manipur. This comes a day after home ministry met leaders of the Kuki-Zo Council (KZC) and other Kuki bodies, including the committee on tribal unity (COTU).

The KZC and COTU are Kuki bodies, while FOCS is a Meitei body.

"A.K. Mishra, advisor to the ministry of home affairs (North East) assured us a roadmap to restore peace in Manipur had been prepared and was already being implemented. The peace initiative has entered its first phase with the roadmap's implementation, FOCS president-in-charge B.M. Yaima Shah said.

Shah added that...