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Armed militancy in Manipur began with opposition to the merger of the territory into the Indian Union in 1949 put up by the Hindu Meitei community . But it is no good mindlessly pumping money into states like Manipur because that would only foster the militant groups , made up mostly of young unemployed men and women , and then sending in the army to fight them , " said Prof Ganganath Jha , an expert on the northeast who teaches at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi . " Paying up is one thing , but satisfying all of the 25 different banned militant groups that operate in Manipur is another . It was why the Northeast was ignored by government and reeked with corruption , why they are now " scheduled tribes " who get preference in jobs and education admissions because of decades of previous discrimination , and why Manipur is the most over-funded state in India , but my tailbone still ached from the terrible roads .