with reference to the ministry of states’ letter no.d.4101-b-49, dated 28 april 1949, the dewan of manipur state, vide his letter no.2/ag/49/0695-96 dated 6 june 1949, gave the list scheduled tribes of manipur mentioning ‘khoibu’ at serial no.18 of the list for inclusion in the draft constitution of india. the latest recognition document is the one granted by manipur hill area committee, which is a statutory body under the constitution of india, in its resolution no.4(hac) 2002 dated 28 october 2002, vide order memo no.4/3/2002-la (hac), imphal dated 11 november 2002. the manipur legislative assembly hill area committee (hac), in the year 2002 and 2011, recommended the recognition of the khoibus as a separate tribe to authorities concerned