Hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Sajiwa and Sawombung relief camps in Imphal East returned their entire November ration allowance of ₹11,74,320 in protest against the government’s new Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) system. The aggrieved IDPs alleged that the revised DBT drastically reduced their rice allowance from ₹20 to just ₹4 per person, calling the move “insensitive and humiliating.” The protesters marched to the Sawombung SDO office and handed over the amount to the Sub-