India, June 19 -- The Manipur government has begun the exercise of collating database of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) affected by the ongoing ethnic conflict in the state since May 2023, an official in the state government said.

Deputy commissioner Mayanglambam Rajkumar Singh of Imphal West District, in a notice on Wednesday, said the government of Manipur is conducting an exercise of capturing data of IDPs residing in the state through a portal developed by the IT department.

"This exercise will cover both the categories of IDPs staying in the relief camps as well as those staying at various places outside the relief camps,"the notice said.

As part of this exercise, the district administration Imphal West has started and is ...