During December 2014, MEELAL investigated books published by the Manipur Board of Secondary Education for classes 1-10.

[citation needed] In December 2014, at MEELAL's head office in Imphal, volunteers tore up and banned three books that were found to contain non-native words.

[1][3] During December 2014, the Meitei-language film Court Marriage was banned by MEELAL for containing foreign language words.

[1] In February 2015, MEELAL sought to ban songs in "fusional" forms of Meitei from All India Radio and Doordarshan.

The change was strongly opposed by the South East Asia Cultural Organisation on the grounds that the government should have chosen an indigenous name, and due to the lack of consultation.