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By Sandemo Ngullie
Dimapur | July 19
Realism rests on the assumption that an observer of politics must focus attention on what leaders do rather than consume time listening to what leaders say. Now, say what you will about the concept of realism, but if we observe the behaviour of our political It will never happen here be- elite, their political acts cause all the items we buy bear little resemblance to for meals comes straight their high-minded rhetoric from my field. on development, progress and welfare. The Morung Express Take the rocky, potPOLL QUESTIOn holed, and risky roads of Vote on www.morungexpress.com Nagaland for instance. Are SMS your answer to 9862574165 people tired of listening to the rehashed political rhetIs Article 371A capable of safeguarding the oric which tries to convince rights and aspirations the public that road develof the Naga people? opment is given top priority? According to most peoYes no Others ple, yes they are. “There is not a single stretch of motorway that Bills introduced is not damaged,” says Imand passed on the tisusang from Dimapur. And he is right. Almost the 3rd day of NLA entire National Highway On Page 5 under Dimapur and most town roads have remained in dismal condition. A visibly frustrated Imti exclaims, “Earlier, the state had the decency to at least DIMAPUR, JULY 19 (MExN): The Eastern Naga People’s Organization has withdrawn its non-co-operation movement towards the NSCN (IM) with effect DIMAPUR, JULY 19 from July 17. The non-co- (MExN): Luck ran out for operation was imposed fol- one relentless bike-lifter lowing the April 19 incident, when he was caught in when three persons claim- the act after a dream run ing to be NSCN (IM) cadres of sorts. The accused, 21 year-old Vilato Sema was assaulted the ENSF former caught by a police patrolspeaker, Throngse Yimchun- ling party on Thursday eveger. ENPO President Ching- ning, while trying to steal a mak Chang and General Sec- ‘Bajaj Platina’ at Westyard, retary NT Thamlong Phom Dimapur. informed that the non-coopPolice were stunned eration has been withdrawn to discover that this seemafter the three accused: Pan- ingly naive young man was ka Lotha, Chipo Lotha and already an old hand in the Akheto Sema had “tendered bike-thieving business. A an unconditional apology resident of Balijan, Karbithrough the media on July 11 Anglong, Assam, he had for hurting the sentiments of successfully gotten away Eastern Naga people in gen- on a quite a many occasion. Officer-in-charge of eral and the Eastern Naga Sub-urban Police station, leader in particular.” Apong Jamir, said that on interrogation, it was revealed that he has a history of bikethieving. Quoting his con-
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repair some roads during elections. But this time, the election process functioned under the shadow of potholes.” For people who earn their livelihood by ferrying people, this reality of road condition has become a nightmare. A group of auto drivers in Toulazu area in Dimapur share that the ten kilometre stretch of road from Toulazu to Singrijan has been damaged for more than three years. “Vehicles break down early because of bad roads,” one of them quite desperately points out. “The bad road leads to jerking and the passengers get irked. We are scolded whether we drive slow or fast.” The examples are numerous. Every district has its own set of roads that has received little or no attention. The condition in Mon is no better. A government official from Mon states, “The National Highway 61 connecting Mon and Assam, the main connection to Mon from neighbouring districts and states is relatively small and in a very pathetic condition.” The monsoon rain makes
Police nabs bike-lifter
DIMAPUR, JULY 19 (MExN): The main accused of the July 4, 2013 murder in Landmark colony, was on Friday produced to the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Dimapur, where his confessional statements were recorded. According to sources, the investigating officer prayed to the Court that accused Rikumkaba Pongen’s confessional statements be recorded, to which the court granted. In his confessional statement to the Court, it was learnt that the accused stuck to his earlier statement, which he had made while in police remand, admitting to the murder. After recording the statement, the accused was forwarded to judicial custody for 14 days. He was earlier on a 15-day police remand following his arrest on July 6. The sources further disclosed that the other three suspects were also granted 14 days judicial custody today. On expiry of the judicial remand period, all four will be again produced before the court.
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are all admirable but what of the existing roads that people travel on every day. “If the first directive of the road safety bill is to ensure that there is actual tarmac on the road, I’ll be all for it,” states Jacob, a teacher from Kohima. He adds, “We’ve been hearing the road rhetoric over and over again and we’ve had enough.” It is understandable that continuous ramblings criticizing the road condition may be construed as repetitive or even redundant. However there is a reason people continuously hammer home this issue. “Good roads are a basic trademark of development,” states Kevi from Kohima. “And it’s not like the state has not had time. I mean even a little effort would have been nice.” Meanwhile, durability of the roads has always remained questionable. A civil engineer confides that Nagaland lacks competent engineers, monitoring of standards, and modern machinery in road building. “The work methodology is very poor here (Nagaland). Engineers concerned are barely pres-
ent at construction sites,” he states. “The contractors work according to their will without any supervision.” The raw materials and the techniques generally used in Nagaland to build roads do not follow Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), he adds. On March 11, at a meeting with various officials, the current Minister for Roads and Bridges termed roads as the “most important sector.” The Minister advised Engineers to be “specific while preparing estimates” and to “never compromise” on the quality of work. The Minister went as far as to say that he would sleep on the roads to supervise road works. This was all good and admirable rhetoric to inspire the department into action. But was it all just talk? A quick glance at any of the roads in Nagaland suggests that it was. With the second session of the 12th NLA in progress, the political class have an opportunity to change the present milieu of cynicism, mistrust and doubt. It remains to be seen whether they will heed to the people’s voices.
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Vehicles navigate their way through a pothole dominated road in Dimapur on July 19. Despite the nagaland Road Safety Authority Bill 2013, unless the nagaland State government exercises their political will in initiating a major makeover to improve road conditions in nagaland, road safety will remain a serious concern. (Morung Photo)
it worse, he says. “Under such conditions, economy and other developmental strategies are affected.” Same is the case with the roads leading to and within Zunheboto. Kavili from Zunheboto exclaims,
“The roads are too bad I am even scared to travel in a vehicle.” The inconveniences caused by the infamous roads are indefinite. Travelling becomes a timeconsuming chore, while the exterior areas remain
devoid of many privileges. A four-lane highway, Foothill Roads to connect the whole of Nagaland State and a bill to ensure road safety have dominated the ongoing session of the NLA. These discussions
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‘nagaland budget empty, directionless’ Our Correspondent Kohima | July 19
The budget for 2013-14 is only for disbursement of salary and pension, recovery of debts and other miscellaneous expenditure
bition issue, Tokheho said that there are more than 10 bars in Dimapur and two bars near the police station. Under such circumstances, he said “we cannot call our state as a dry state.” Commenting on poverty in Nagaland, he said, “In literacy we may be the first but poverty is not decreasing.” NPCC President SI Jamir pointed out the lack of austerity measures which should start from the top. He said that bodyguard deployed for ministers, MLAs, ex-ministers, ex-MLAs are all against austerity measures. Jamir further felt that politicians should not be made chairmen of public sector corporations.
fessional statement, the OC said that only three months back he had lifted a ‘Bajaj Platina’ from Murghi Patti. Before that he had stolen two more (Bajaj Discover) from 3rd Mile and another – a ‘Bajaj Pulsar 150’ from Purana Bazaar, bringing the total to five. He has been booked under section 379 of the Indian Penal Code.
Congress Legislature Party leader, Tokheho Yepthomi today termed the Nagaland State budget for 2013-14 as empty, directionless and meaningless. Participating in the general discussion on budget presented by Chief Minister on the floor of the House on July 18, Tokheho said that it has been presented only to complete formalities. The Congress leader stated that the budget for 2013-14 is only for disbursement of salary and pension, recovery of debts and other miscellaneous expenditure. Stating that the government has restricted payment of pen-
sion, debt servicing and other allowances, Tokheho added that “when one looks at the deficit figure, there is nothing left.” He said that during the Congress rule; flow of fund was limited, adding that there was only the NEC fund besides the normal plan size. He added that the inflow of fund with CSS, flagship programme was very substantial besides the normal plan size, when NPF took over the government. Tokheho further informed that the NDA had
granted Rs. 365 crore in 2003-04 and had completely wiped out the deficit, while the UPA sanctioned Rs. 712 crore to the DAN government during 2011-12 to meet the 6th ROP revision. He claimed that despite assistances from the central government, there is financial mismanagement in the DAN government. Alleging that there is corruption, nepotism and favoritism, Tokheho said the NPF has to accept both appreciation and criticism. He added it has divided
domly issued job cards and as a result the cards were misused. “Several instances of un-executed projects, execution of non-permissible projects and diversion of projects outside the perspective plan had defeated the purpose of which the scheme was designed,” the report pointed out. The report said that implementation of convergence programmes in Nagaland was not encouraging as the public was not aware of the schemes and were not executed according to the approved action plan. Absence of monitoring mechanism in Nagaland also adversely affected the implementation of the scheme, the report said, adding that mandatory inspection on state, district and block levels were not carried out and auxiliary objectives were not achieved due to the execution of low priori-
tized works. The report informed “there was shortfall in release in matching share of Rs. 113.17 crore by Government of Nagaland during 2007-08 to 20112012, which affected implementation of the state to that extent.” During the transmission of scheme funds from nine test-checked POs to 71 test-checked VDBs in four districts, suspected financial leakage of Rs. 84.35 crore was observed. Tampering of muster rolls by way of cutting, over writing, erasing and pasting of papers were notice in five VDBs out of the testchecked 71 VDBs having wage payment of Rs. 10.31, the report said. It added that 100 projects amounting to Rs. 10.84 crore stated to have been completed did not exist physically indicating possible misappropriation of Rs. 10.84 crore in 71 test-checked VDB alone.
Short execution by diverting the amount to non-permissible works in respect of 57 works valued at Rs. 10.32 crore and execution of 49 non-permissible works valued at Rs. 11.12 crore were also noticed during joint physical verification. The report said that Nagaland state level official functionaries could verify only 50 works (30 per cent) against the target of 168 works during the last five years. The district level officials carried out inspection of 273 works (33 per cent) against the target of 839 works whereas, block functionaries carried out inspection of 3657 works (44 percent) against the targeted 8384 works. The report also informed that 297 social audits (57 per cent) at VDB level were conducted against the requirement of 522 social audit meetings in the 71 testchecked VDBs.
DIMAPUR, JULY 19 cord straight. reported in a local daily on (MExN): The Nagaland The NPCC stated it “is June 26. Pradesh Congress Com- aware that the crime comNotwithstanding the mittee has responded to mitted is connected to il- clarity of the provision, the the news item in local pa- legal arms, ammunitions, police authority concerned pers on July 19, where the cash and liquor which is a had sought prosecution NLA Speaker had replied cognizable offence of the sanction from the Speaker to the President, NPCC highest degree and there- for the apparent reason concerning the dethat the accused is mand for prosecu‘In the present case charge a sitting member of tion sanction against Assembly. Theresheet can be filed without the Imkong L. Imchen fore, the NPCC stated Minister, Health & waiting prosecution sanction that it had also waited Family Welfare, Nawith anticipation that galand. The party in from the Speaker is now clear’ the Speaker would a press note issued give an appropriate by its Vice President, Nillo fore the offence (not com- reply in time. Rengma clarified on what mitted while dischargUnfortunately the NPCC it termed as “certain mis- ing public duties) cannot lamented that the Speaker giving in the report”. as a matter of course be took almost three months The note pointed out brought under the protec- to issue a reply. The NPCC that NPCC on its own had tive umbrella of require- added, “Section 197 CrPC, not invoked Section 197 ment of sanction (197 which you (President) CrPC as implied in the re- CrPC).” have mentioned does not ply. Rather it said that the As such in the present fall within the purview of party only referred the sec- case, the NPCC pointed the Speaker to accord prostion mentioned by the in- out that chargesheet can ecution sanction against vestigation authority (SP be filed without waiting a Member.” The NPCC has Wokha), while requesting for prosecution sanction further queried whether the Speaker to accord pros- from the Speaker, as this the Speaker has replied to ecution sanction. In this re- has now become clear. The Wokha SP’s letter and “if so gard, the NPCC reproduced NPCC stated that a similar the same be similarly pubthe subject title of the letter comment was given by the lished in media for the pubdated May 10 to set the re- office of DGP, Nagaland and lic to know the fact.”
The accused, Vilato Sema in police custody.
civil societies and the underground, and pointed out that law and order has completely failed. Stating that the government is not in a position to control rampant taxation in Nagaland, he continued that as long as commission and taxation exists, the state will never have development. Also referring to the series of agitations in Nagaland against taxation, he said the government should look into the matter to control all unauthorized taxation in the state. Touching on the prohi-
Mnrega: nagaland did not achieve NPCC responds to Speaker guaranteed wage employment: cag on “prosecution sanction” Our Correspondent Kohima | July 19
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme aims to enhance livelihood security of rural households by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household, whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. However, performance of the MNREGA in Nagaland for the last five years could not achieve guaranteed wage employment due to improper planning made in the perspective plan. This was stated in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AGI) for the year ended March 31, 2012 tabled in the state assembly session on July 18. The report also said that the department ran-
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