[20] In a period between March 1958 to February 1959, multiple symposia were organised and in a certain meeting, the Meetei Mayek sub-committee passed a resolution to accept the use of 27 letter system of the Meitei script, including 18 ancient alphabets that read the letters as "Kok, Sam, Lai, Mit, Pa, ..." and 9 derivative alphabets.

The symposium organised by the Progressive Writers Association, from 11 to 12 September 1976 at GM Hall, followed by multiple academic meetings for more than two months, accepted the 27 letter system.

[a][25][26] On 18 August 2003, a registered body of 24 social associations and organisations named "MEELAL" (Meitei: ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯏꯔꯣꯜ ꯏꯌꯦꯛ ꯂꯣꯏꯅꯁꯤꯜꯂꯣꯜ ꯑꯄꯨꯟꯕ ꯂꯨꯞ) started to spearhead the movement.

A state government library in Imphal, housing a significant number of Meitei language books written in Bengali script, was incinerated in one night by some unknown protesters.

[30][31] MEELAL script activists visited different educational institutions, collected and burned Manipuri textbooks written in Bengali script for almost 2 months, during the Indian National Congress government led by Okram Ibobi Singh, that was merely waiting and watching the chaos and the turmoil.

[32] MEELAL made its script revival movement stronger in pace by enforcing an economic blockade in Manipur, besides the libricide.

In response to MEELAL's actions, Meitei language newspaper dailies of Manipur stopped their publications for 3 consecutive days, protesting against the intrusion of their freedom of rights, until there was a negotiation under which they were allowed to distribute their newspapers if they reserved some space on the front page for news in Meitei script.

"[40] The Manipur Police arrested several MEELAL script revival activists as well as many artists and number plate dealers.

Despite the obstacles, MEELAL didn't give up by saying that they are not against the law of the land as Meitei script is already included in the Government Gazette besides being used in educational institutions of Manipur.

Currently, the Meitei script is taught up to Master's degree in the Manipur University and other equivalent educational institutions.

However, during the movement to achieve this current status, around five hundred MEELAL script activists were arrested and 20 were detained under the National Security Act (NSA).

[53]During July 2022, MEELAL held a convention and adopted 3 resolutions, which are: (1) to ban all the obstructions to the use of 27 letter system of the Meitei script, (2) to consider any association or organisation violating the resolutions as public enemy and (3) to induce the government to consult experts and take up necessary steps to promote the 27 letter system of the Meitei script.