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Imphal · Northeast
New government (BJP) — sworn in February 2026. Figures and findings below may span the previous administration.
Chief Minister
BJP · in office since February 2026
Declared figures from the ECI election affidavit (2022), via MyNeta/ADR — as declared, not verified. Bars are the original publisher's 0–100 mappings (education mapping; legal: 100 − serious×18 − other×10) — theirs, not ours.
These 0–100 ratings are the original publisher's own, quoted here with their methodology. Audit India computes no score — the same way we carry UNDP's HDI as UNDP's number.
Transparency
26/ 100
the original publisher
Two CAG findings are carried here, both re-checked against the reports themselves in August 2026: the performance audit of construction workers' welfare in Report No. 2 of 2025 and the State Finances Audit Report for 2023-24 (Report No. 1 of 2025). The first finds ₹37.54 crore of cess never released to the welfare board and ₹16.08 crore of bounced cheques; the second finds a fiscal deficit of 4.14 per cent of GSDP against a three per cent limit and finances the auditor calls heavily stressed. Manipur's transparency score is among India's lowest — the 427-day internet shutdown makes civil society monitoring, journalism, and accountability oversight impossible in the affected areas; the investigation of ethnic violence shows selective accountability; and the dual governance failure (state government captured by one ethnic community's political interests) undermines institutional neutrality.
Officials' Legal Integrity
94/ 100
the original publisher
9 unique officials counted (Governor excluded; N. Biren Singh exits as former CM). CM Y. Khemchand Singh: 0 → 100; Speaker Thokchom Satyabrata Singh: 0 → 100; Thongam Biswajit Singh (Health): 0 → 100; Seram Kashiam Singh (Education): 1 case → 75; Awangbow Newmei (Tribal): 0 → 100; Nemcha Kipgen (Commerce/Deputy CM): 0 → 100; Sapam Ranjan Singh (Irrigation): 1 case → 75; Yumnam Khembhoi Singh (PWD): 0 → 100; L. Dikho Singh (Forest/Deputy CM): 0 → 100. Average: (7×100 + 2×75) ÷ 9 = 850 ÷ 9 = 94.4, rounded to 94. Provenance note: this score is the original publisher's and is left as published. It counts a Speaker and four ministers who are not in the council the Manipur Legislative Assembly publishes for the ministry sworn in on 4 February 2026, after a year of President's rule. The officials list below is that council; the arithmetic above is not.
Governance
32/ 100
the original publisher
Composite: indicators avg (38/100) × 50% + Transparency (26/100) × 25% + Integrity (94/100) × 25% = 19 + 6.5 + 23.5 = 49; adjusted down to 32 to reflect the severity of Manipur's governance failure: (1) 230+ deaths and 60,000+ displaced from ethnic conflict represent India's worst active internal displacement crisis; (2) the new CM Y. Khemchand Singh inherits an unsolved ethnic conflict — the same structural BJP Central government failure to resolve the Kuki-Meitei conflict that ended N. Biren Singh's tenure; (3) 427-day internet shutdown — the longest ongoing democratic-state internet blackout in the world; (4) hill district health centres left non-functional through the conflict; (5) investigation impartiality concerns remain unresolved.
The 0–100 rings are the original publisher's category scores, in their colour bands — theirs, not ours.
These statistics were carried over from the original publisher, which produced them with a language model rather than compiling them from the publications named beside them. We removed 38 whose figures were absent from the source they credit, and confirmed 45 against theirs. The rest name a publication we have not been able to check them against — read them as the original publisher's figures, not as verified fact.
Figures below are as declared by each individual in their own ECI or Rajya Sabha affidavit. We report them; we do not score them. The small bars under education are the original publisher's 0–100 mapping of the declared qualification — their construct, not a measurement of ours.
| Name | Office | Party · since | Declared cases | Declared qualification | Affidavit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YKY. Khemchand Singh | Chief Minister | | 0 | Post Graduate | 2022 |
| AKAjay Kumar Bhalla | Governor | — | — | — | — |
| NKNemcha Kipgen | Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Rural Development & Panchayati Raj and Tribal Affairs & Hills | | — | — | — |
| LDLosii Dikho | Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Public Health Engineering and Forest, Environment & Climate Change |  | — | — | — |
| KGKonthoujam Govindas Singh | Minister for Home and Youth Affairs & Sports | | — | — | — |
| KLKhuraijam Loken Singh | Minister for Arts & Culture and Tourism |  | — | — | — |
Findings from CAG audit reports on schemes as they ran in this state, quoted with their report references. We add no grade of our own.
Welfare of Building and Other Construction Workers, Manipur
Manipur collected ₹101.15 crore of labour cess for construction workers but released only ₹63.61 crore of it to the welfare board, and on just two occasions, leaving ₹37.54 crore sitting with the government. Seventy-three cheques worth ₹16.08 crore that were presented for deposit into the board's account bounced. The board put ₹5.31 crore into the Manipur State Cooperative Bank, which is not a nationalised bank, against a Supreme Court direction.
What the audit measured
The State notified the rules under the 1996 Act only in October 2008 — twelve years late. The State Advisory Committee has met twice in its history, in November 2010 and December 2015, and had not been reconstituted as of March 2023. The labour department made no significant effort to identify or register employers; none of the 52 registered employers filed the annual returns they owe for 2017-22, and no follow-up was taken. No cess assessment was carried out by the Deputy Labour Commissioner during the entire audit period. Records showed 433 people with the same name, father's name, address and date of birth holding multiple registration numbers. Of 675 natural-death payments, 242 were made between 61 and 1,947 days late.
State Finances — Manipur
Manipur ran a fiscal deficit of 4.14 per cent of GSDP in 2023-24 against a three per cent limit, with total outstanding liability at 41.94 per cent of GSDP — 42.28 per cent once off-budget borrowings are counted in. The audit's own conclusion is that the State's finances are heavily stressed, and that a primary deficit running through 2019-24 means economic growth alone will not cover the State's debt.
What the audit measured
The budget bore little relation to the spending. In the revenue section the estimates exceeded the outturn by 32.59 per cent; in the capital section by 25.64 per cent, with 15 grants spending nothing at all against their provision. Supplementary provision of ₹426.04 crore across nine grants proved wholly unnecessary. Excess expenditure of ₹11,205.82 crore under one appropriation, incurred between 2019-20 and 2022-23, had still not been regularised by the legislature, and a further ₹1,509.24 crore of excess disbursement in 2023-24 also awaits it. Of ₹2,295.13 crore transferred to Single Nodal Agency accounts for centrally sponsored schemes — all of it on abstract contingent bills — ₹619.46 crore was still parked there on 31 March 2024.
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Where a CAG finding is quoted below, its figures have been checked against the report cited. Thirty-seven were withdrawn because the report they named does not exist or is a search page.
Maintain peace and harmony among all communities in Manipur
Manipur witnessed its worst ethnic violence in decades starting May 2023 — Meitei-Kuki-Zo conflict that displaced 60,000+ people, killed 200+, and destroyed thousands of homes and churches. The CM N. Biren Singh's handling was widely criticised; he did not visit conflict zones for months. Internet suspended for 140+ days. Violence continued through mid-2026 with parallel administrations in hill and valley areas.
1 lakh employment opportunities in Manipur within the term
Manipur Public Service Commission and departments recruited ~12,000 government employees (2022-25). Private sector employment was heavily disrupted by the 2023 ethnic conflict; industrial zones in the valley functionally shut for months. Imphal-Moreh highway improvement continued. 1 lakh target unreachable given conflict disruption.
Imphal-Moreh National Highway 102: complete 4-lane highway to Myanmar border
NH-102 (Imphal to Moreh, 110 km) upgrade is underway as part of India's Act East Policy; provides access to the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway. Progress slowed significantly due to ethnic conflict from 2023 — contractor access to hill sections restricted. ~40% of upgrade complete as of mid-2026.
Protect constitutional rights of all communities; ensure equal development of hills and valley
May 3, 2023: A "Tribal Solidarity March" in Churachandpur, organized by tribal groups opposing the Meitei community's demand to be included in the Scheduled Tribe list, turned violent. Within 48 hours the conflict spread to all 16 Manipur districts. The proximate trigger was a Manipur High Court order (March 27, 2023) asking the state government to consider granting ST status to Meiteis — contested by 33 Scheduled Tribe (Kuki-Zo, Naga) communities who feared loss of land and reservation protections. Root causes: decades of asymmetric development (valley Imphal vs hill districts), the drug economy running through hill areas, historical land rights disputes (Meiteis cannot buy land in hill areas; tribals can buy in valley), and the BJP government's perceived partiality toward the Meitei community. Consequences by mid-2026: 230+ dead, 60,000+ displaced, 5,000+ homes burned, 400+ churches and temples destroyed, 14+ months of internet shutdown, two parallel administrations (Meitei valley vs Kuki-Zo hills), two separate armed opposition groups (Kuki militants + Arambai Tenggol — a Meitei radical group with direct politician ties). N. Biren Singh resigned under pressure in January 2026; President's Rule imposed for ~1 year. Y. Khemchand Singh sworn in as CM on 4 February 2026 with an explicit ethnic-sharing cabinet. The conflict remains unresolved.
The CAG has published no audit of the ethnic conflict, its relief camps or the investigation that followed. The State Finances Audit Report for 2023-24 (Report No. 1 of 2025) does record what the conflict cost the exchequer indirectly: a fiscal deficit of 4.14 per cent of GSDP against a three per cent limit, total outstanding liability at 41.94 per cent of GSDP, and — in the auditor's own words — State finances that are heavily stressed.
Har Ghar Jal: piped drinking water to every rural household in Manipur by 2024
Manipur certified 87.2% FHTC coverage — but this masks a severe valley-hills split. Imphal West, East and Bishnupur (Meitei valley): 96% coverage. Five conflict-affected hill districts: 42-55% coverage. Pipeline networks in the hill districts were left non-operational — partly destroyed, with pipes stolen or vandalised during the ethnic conflict, and with pump operators and local water committee members fled from the conflict zones. No CAG audit of the Jal Jeevan Mission in Manipur has been published, so no audited count is carried here. Loktak Lake — the source for 60% of Imphal's piped water — receives 180 MLD of untreated Imphal city sewage daily, causing eutrophication and health risks.
No CAG audit of the Jal Jeevan Mission in Manipur has been published. The State Finances Audit Report for 2023-24 (Report No. 1 of 2025) records that of ₹2,295.13 crore transferred to Single Nodal Agency accounts for centrally sponsored schemes during the year — all of it on abstract contingent bills — ₹619.46 crore was still parked in those accounts on 31 March 2024.
Improve Manipur's fiscal health; reduce Central dependence; boost own tax revenue
Manipur's fiscal structure remains among India's most Central-transfer-dependent (90%+ revenue from Central transfers). The State Finances Audit Report for 2023-24 (Report No. 1 of 2025) records the State's own tax revenue falling 34.50 per cent in that year, total expenditure down 6.12 per cent to ₹16,570.59 crore, a fiscal deficit of 4.14 per cent of GSDP against a three per cent limit, and total outstanding liabilities of ₹18,871.80 crore — 41.94 per cent of GSDP, or 42.28 per cent once ₹153.07 crore of off-budget borrowing by state undertakings is counted in. Outstanding guarantees stood at ₹1,482.56 crore.
CAG Report No. 1 of 2025 (State Finances Audit Report, Manipur, 2023-24): the State's own tax revenue fell 34.50 per cent, total expenditure fell 6.12 per cent to ₹16,570.59 crore, the fiscal deficit was 4.14 per cent of GSDP against a three per cent limit, and total outstanding liabilities reached ₹18,871.80 crore — 41.94 per cent of GSDP, 42.28 per cent counting off-budget borrowing. Budget estimates exceeded revenue outturn by 32.59 per cent, and excess expenditure of ₹11,205.82 crore from 2019-23 remains unregularised by the legislature.
Improve school quality in hill districts; expand Manipur University technical programmes
The May 2023 Kuki-Meitei ethnic conflict devastated Manipur's education system in hill districts. NESDA (Northeast Students Development Alliance) reported: 310 government schools in Churachandpur, Kangpokpi and Tengnoupal districts completely destroyed or abandoned; 68,000 students unable to attend school due to conflict displacement; 5,200 teachers displaced from their postings. Manipur University (Canchipur, Imphal — a Central University) maintained operations in the valley but hill-campus students (12% of roll) could not return. As of mid-2026, 240 schools in conflict-affected hills remain shut. The BJP 2022 promise of "quality education for all" became contextually impossible in the context of a civil conflict the government failed to prevent. NIT Manipur (Langol): 2,400 students, functioning normally in the valley. Imphal-based RIMS (Regional Institute of Medical Sciences): 800 MBBS/MD students — services hit by conflict displacement of patients from hills but institution itself intact.
Expand organic farming; promote Manipuri black rice (Chakhao), pineapple, ginger for export
Manipur has one of India's most unique agricultural biodiversities — a combination of valley paddy cultivation (Meitei farmers in Imphal valley) and hill shifting cultivation (Kuki-Naga jhum farming). BJP 2022 promised to leverage this for organic export value. Chakhao (black rice) — Manipur's GI-tagged scented rice variety, grown on 8,200 ha in Manipur — is internationally sought for its anthocyanin content (anti-oxidant properties). Chakhao Parba festival: ₹18 crore in premium exports to UK, USA, France (2023). Pineapple: 52,000 ha (Churachandpur, Kangpokpi — now conflict zones), production collapsed 48% in 2023 due to disruption. Ginger: Manipur's Thoubal and Senapati districts produce 12% of India's ginger; exports to Bangladesh and Myanmar through the Moreh-Tamu border. The ethnic conflict has severely disrupted hill agriculture (Kuki farmers = pineapple, ginger producers) while valley agriculture (Meitei = paddy, vegetables) is relatively intact.
Empower Manipuri women through Nupi Keithel, SHGs and MGNREGS expansion
Manipuri women have historically wielded exceptional economic and social power — the Ima Keithel (Mothers' Market, Imphal) is believed to be Asia's oldest all-women market, with 4,000+ women traders selling produce, textiles and handicrafts since the 16th century. The "Nupi Keithel" (women's market) promise aimed to expand this tradition to district towns. 12 new women's market complexes inaugurated (2022-25). MGNREGS in Manipur (2022-24): 3.1 lakh women (68% of total enrolled workers) received employment; average 49 person-days/year — above the national average but below Manipur's 60-day target. The 2023 ethnic conflict disrupted MGNREGS delivery in all 6 hill districts (Churachandpur, Kangpokpi, Tengnoupal, Pherzawl, Senapati, Jiribam) — hill MGNREGS effectively stopped mid-2023. Women-led SHGs: 48,000 SHGs (5.8 lakh women) with ₹1,200 crore in cumulative loan disbursement through MANIPUR STATE CO-OPERATIVE BANK.
Drug-free Manipur: eradicate poppy cultivation and drug trafficking
Manipur government launched aggressive poppy eradication: 2,80,000+ acres destroyed (2017-22). Drug seizures increased. However Manipur remains on the Golden Triangle route; heroin and methamphetamine trafficking adapted. The 2023 ethnic conflict has complicated law enforcement in hill areas where poppy is cultivated — enforcement disrupted.
Economic blockade elimination: ensure uninterrupted supply to Manipur valley
Economic blockades by hill groups had periodically paralysed Manipur (2016 blockade lasted 139 days). BJP government negotiated peace with Naga groups; major NSCN(IM) blockades reduced. However the 2023 ethnic conflict created new supply disruptions between hill and valley. Alternative supply routes via Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal rail (under construction) will eventually reduce blockade vulnerability.
Complete Jiribam–Tupul–Imphal Railway: end Manipur's road-only connectivity
The Jiribam–Tupul–Imphal railway (111 km, ₹14,931 crore) is among India's most complex engineering projects — traversing the North Cachar Hills with 45 tunnels and 20 major bridges, including the world's second-highest railway viaduct (Noney Bridge — 141 m — higher than Eiffel Tower's first floor). The project will, when complete, connect Manipur to the Indian railway network for the first time — ending the state's exclusive dependence on NH-2 and NH-37 road arteries (which get blocked during monsoons and insurgent-called blockades). Target completion: repeatedly revised. Original: 2014. Revised: 2022. Current estimate: 2027-28. A tragic landslide at Tupul (June 29, 2022) buried a railway construction camp — 61 workers and security personnel killed, 15 still missing — becoming one of India's worst construction site disasters. The landslide, caused by railway cutting destabilising a fragile slope during monsoon, reframed Manipur's connectivity project with a human cost. The ethnic conflict (2023) disrupted work on the hill sections between Tupul and Imphal.
The CAG has published no audit of the Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal railway, so no audited progress or expenditure figure is carried here. The project is executed by the Railways, not the State Government, and falls outside the State audit reports.
Bring permanent peace through dialogue; reduce AFSPA footprint; normalise Northeast
The 2017-22 BJP government under N. Biren Singh achieved significant insurgency reduction in Manipur valley and partially in the hills. AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act) — which grants security forces immunity from civilian prosecution and has been in force in Manipur since 1958 — was reduced in geographical scope: in April 2022, AFSPA was lifted from 15 police stations in Imphal valley and Jiribam district — the first reduction in 60 years. Valley insurgency (IRF, PREPAK, KYKL groups) had declined sharply from 300+ incidents/year (2010) to under 30 (2021). Surrenders: 2,000+ militants surrendered under the CM's rehabilitation programme (2017-22) — the highest in NE India history for that period. Naga Framework Agreement: the NSCN(IM) Framework Agreement signed 2015 under the Centre has not been formalised into a final peace treaty as of 2026 — the "Naga flag and constitution" demand remains unresolved, delaying peace in Manipur's Naga-inhabited areas (Ukhrul, Senapati, Tamenglong districts). The Kuki-Meitei conflict (2023) reopened many of the security architecture questions — Kuki militant groups (Kuki National Army, Zomi Revolutionary Army) operating parallel administration in hill districts re-created the dual-government problem that valley insurgency had partially addressed.
Improve public healthcare; expand JNIMS and district hospitals; combat HIV/AIDS from drug corridor
Manipur's HIV prevalence of 1.15% (India's 2nd highest after Mizoram) is driven by IV drug use on the "Golden Triangle" transit route — Myanmar heroin crosses into India at Moreh (Tengnoupal), passes through Manipur to supply NE markets. The 2017-22 government expanded JNIMS (Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal) capacity and created 6 new district-level De-Addiction Centres. Poppy eradication (2,80,000+ acres destroyed) reduced opium cultivation supply, pushing addicts to cheaper methamphetamine (Yaba tablets from Myanmar). The 2023 ethnic conflict then collapsed hill district health infrastructure further. No CAG audit of drinking water and public health in Manipur carries the PHC staffing figures once cited here.
Report No. 3 of 2022, cited here in the imported corpus as a performance audit of drinking water and public health, is not that audit and contains none of the primary health centre figures that were attributed to it. No audited PHC staffing or service figure for Manipur is carried.
Modernise Manipur agriculture: irrigation for all paddy farmers; cold storage for hill produce
Manipur's agricultural economy is bifurcated: valley paddy cultivation (Imphal, Bishnupur, Thoubal, Kakching districts) supports 2.8 lakh farmer households; hill jhum cultivation (15 tribal districts) supports 1.2 lakh households with shifting agriculture. BJP 2017 promised a comprehensive irrigation programme. Dolaithabi Barrage project (on the Iril River, Senapati): 20,000 ha command area — 78% complete by 2022; fully operational 2024 after BJP 2022 term. Loktak Lake — Manipur's most important freshwater body and the largest natural freshwater lake in NE India (290 sq km) — is a dual asset: source of irrigation, fisheries (5,500 fishermen families) AND a conservation conflict (phumdis — floating biomass islands — were drained under the Loktak Project, displacing 3,000+ families). The Manipur Organic Mission: 22,000 ha certified organic (predominantly tribal produce: ginger, turmeric, cardamom). Hill cold storage: 8 cold storage facilities commissioned (Churachandpur, Ukhrul, Senapati) — 12,000 MT capacity. Pre-conflict trade through Moreh-Tamu (India-Myanmar border): pineapple, ginger, vegetables exported to Myanmar were ~₹340 crore/year; conflict + Myanmar civil war disrupted this completely.
International airport at Imphal; complete Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal railway; fast internet connectivity
Imphal International Airport (Tulihal) received its formal international status in 2019 under BJP government — the only international airport in NE India after Guwahati. International services: Imphal-Yangon (Myanmar Airlines) and Imphal-Bangkok (IndiGo); Imphal-Kuala Lumpur (AirAsia). Terminal 2 (new integrated terminal, ₹490 crore) inaugurated 2023. Flight frequency: 85 flights/week (2022) vs 28 (2017). The Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal railway (111 km, world-class engineering: 45 tunnels, 20 major bridges including Noney Viaduct — 141m, taller than Eiffel Tower first platform) has the world's tallest bridge pier (88m). Target: repeatedly revised — now 2027-28. The June 2022 Tupul landslide (61 workers killed) was India's worst railway construction site accident in a decade, slowing progress. Internet: Manipur was connected to the NE Optical Fibre Network (2019); 4G coverage now reaches 62% of Manipur's villages (below the 80% target) — hill districts still have 10-15% coverage due to terrain and infrastructure attacks by armed groups.
End 15-year Congress "misgovernance"; transparent procurement; zero tolerance for corruption
BJP 2017 came to power on an explicit anti-Ibobi (Okram Ibobi Singh — Congress CM for 15 years, 2002-17) governance narrative. IBI's government was associated with chronic blockades, rampant corruption in public works contracts, and the sclerotic Indo-Myanmar trade facilitation at Moreh. BJP's governance claims: (1) e-tendering for all contracts above ₹1 lakh (implemented 2018); (2) Direct Benefit Transfer for all welfare schemes (implemented 2019); (3) Cabinet review of 12,000 pending government cases (completed 2020). Anti-corruption: EOW (Economic Offences Wing) filed 48 new corruption cases (2017-22), including against former ministers. However CM N. Biren Singh's own government faced allegations: the 2021 MANISHA (Manipur Infrastructure Society) land irregularities case, in which public land was alleged to have been allocated irregularly to private parties. The 2023 ethnic conflict — which many observers attribute partly to governance failures (Biren government's handling of Meitei ST demand) — is the most serious governance failure of the 2017-22 BJP term.
Safe drinking water to all Manipur households; end waterborne diseases in hill districts
Manipur's water supply challenge is acute: the valley (Imphal area) relies on Kangchup-Chingarel water treatment plant, while hill districts depend on gravity-fed spring water — unreliable in dry season. JJM Manipur progress: 9.8 lakh of 12.6 lakh rural households connected to tap water (77.8% coverage, as of June 2026). This is above the NE India average (72%) but below the national average (80.3%). Hill district coverage (Churachandpur: 61%, Tengnoupal: 52%, Kangpokpi: 64%) is significantly below valley coverage (Imphal West: 91%, Imphal East: 88%). The 2023 ethnic conflict severely disrupted JJM work in hill districts — 48 JJM construction sites abandoned. Waterborne disease burden: diarrhoea, cholera and typhoid in hill districts is 3-4x the valley rate. Prior to JJM, Manipur's tribal communities depended on streams that pass through jhum (slash-and-burn) fields — leading to high coliform contamination.
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