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DIMAPUR • Vol. XII • Issue 120• 12 PAGes • 5
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Vehicle involved in April 30 hit and run seized DImapur, may 3 (mExN): Dimapur Traffic Police have seized the vehicle involved in the hit and run incident of April 30, where three people were killed. A press note from the PRO, Dimapur Police informed that the vehicle is a Tata Mobile, which was found abandoned by the driver in a paddy field near the Chathe River. The driver is still absconding and police informed that necessary enquiry and investigations are on.
Hearing on fuel adulteration continues DImapur, may 3 (mExN): The first examination in chief and cross examination of complainants by the defense council in connection with the fuel adulteration case of June 2016 was held on Wednesday, May 3 at the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Dimapur. Two complainants testified before the court and Public Prosecutor (PP) Hutoi Yeptho said today’s hearing was in connection to the case filed at West Police Station Dimapur. Five of the six accused persons were present at the hearing. Considering the nature of the case and 42 witnesses yet to be testified, the PP said “the case may go continue till next year.” He said it cannot be predicted if the case will come to a conclusion by this year though some issues have been disclosed by the complainants and had materialized in today’s hearing. The next hearing is fixed for May 25 where three witnesses— one police and two seizure witnesses—will testify before the court of CJM, the PP informed.
NBSE Class 10 and 12 results on May 8
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DImapur, may 3 (mExN): The Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) today informed that results for the HSLC and HSSLC Examinations 2017 will be declared on May 8 afternoon. The results will be made available at www.nbsenagaland.com, www.exametc. com, www.indiaresults. com and www.examresults.net. The results can also be checked through SMS. For HSLC (Class 10) Examination 2017, text NB10<space>ROLL NUMBER to 54242. For HSSLC (Class 12) Examination 2017, text NB12<space>ROLL NUMBER to 54242. In printed form, the provisional Result Gazettes will be issued to all the registered institutions of the Board. The results will also be available on the notice board of the office. The NBSE has meanwhile informed the heads of registered institutions to collect the mark sheets and other documents from the afternoon of May 8 to 10. If the head of institution cannot come, duly authorized persons should be deputed to collect the same, it added.
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Clean Election Campaign is apolitical: NBCC Says campaign will not be used to oppose any particular politician or party Chizokho Vero Kohima | May 3
Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) General Secretary, Rev Dr Zelhou Keyho today said that clean election movement is an apolitical campaign. “NBCC as a church body is neither a political party nor is influenced by any political agenda within or without. The movement is not against or for any political party,” he said at the state level seminar on Clean Election here. It is also not against politicians, not to pull them down or to raise them up, he said, adding that the movement is aimed at doing at “what is right and what is meant to be.” It is a movement against the system that has gone weary, Keyho stated. The Church, he added, will not point fingers to any individual or party but will educate/speak against the corrupt system of election in our state and appealed to the conscience of the public to use their “God given birthright without monetary or any other means of
Participants of the State Level Seminar on Clean Election organized by the NBCC in Kohima on May 3. (Morung Photo)
influence to overrule God given wisdom and conscience to distinguish what is right and what is wrong.” The NBCC General Secretary also stated that the Church, being a religious institution, must remain that way without influence or setting any political agenda, or be influenced by the political agenda of any political party. “Clean election campaign
should not make us a mute angel to accept whatever comes our way namely, political ideologies with vested interest to entice us to compromise our Christian faith and beliefs. This may be construed as a political statement of the NBCC but we must underline that the church must always stand against any element that seeks to infringe on our faith with religious ideologies in the name of politics or
political party,” he said. “To this we will always be on guard and be vocal to speak against such design and this should not be construed as going against the CEC code of conduct,” he added. He continued that Clean Election Campaign is not a movement that came into being with any instigation from without but is a movement that originated from within.
“NBCC is clear that she has taken up herself CEC as her spiritual responsibility to be prophetic and stand against any form of evil and corrupt practices so that holiness is not only talk in the church but lived in the public square in spirit and in deeds. It is a holy discontent movement, a movement that says something is not right with us as a Christian majority society like ours. That, cleaning any system that is corrupt is the responsibility of the believing community based on our faith, the teaching of the Bible that has taught us to distinguish what is right and what is wrong,” he said. Keyho also placed before the House to initiate a disciplinary committee who will biblically, theologically, an ethnically empower the church to execute action that is suitable to those who violate the CEC “code of conduct” initiated by NBCC. He also informed that the Clean Election Campaign shall not be used to oppose any particular politician. “The church cannot define
who should and who should not contest in election,” he said, adding that the clean election campaign is not a license for a community/village to select a particular candidate over the other. Rather, it is to allow individuals to vote freely based on his/her conscience without any influence from anybody, be it politician /village authority and any other. Calling for the Clean Election Campaign to become a people/mass movement, Keyho also proposed to the House that it write to the Election Commission of the state to judiciously work hard on cleansing the electoral roll in Nagaland. NBCC President, Rev. Dr. Mar Atsongchanger, who is Convenor of theClean Election Campaign stressed on the need to come us a group from different disciplines and move in one direction, which he said will give momentum in the approach of clean election in the state. He called upon each and every individual to dive deeper in the Clean Election Campaign.
Nagas have every right to determine Electricity crisis plagues Meluri Town their own future, reaffirms NSCN (R) Morung Express News
DImapur , may 3 (mExN): The NSCN (R) today reaffirmed that Nagas “have every right to determine their own future” and have a “very strong basis for demanding their right to self determination.” A press note from the MIP of the NSCN (R) however questioned why it is taking so long to resolve the Naga issue. “Is it because of the reluctant attitude of the GoI or is it because we have failed to put our case at the right perspective?” it asked. It lamented that Nagas are “speaking in different tune and tone.” All Nagas count, the NSCN (R) stated, and called upon all Naga leaders that “every step we take must be as per Christ.” While acknowledging that “cent percent people cannot be
brought on board to accept or reject, partially or wholly on any issue,” it however stated that “majority of the people must agree and accept.” “In recent past, we have seen many critics in groups and in person, who were very critical on the likely solution,” it pointed out. The NSCN (R) however termed it a “common phenomenon for when a man in the form of Christ was also rebuked by the man of this world whom he came to save, this much of criticism is acceptable.” “It is also true that, the Naga leaders used their wisdom and chose what was right for them at the time when Nagaland state was created as they were under tremendous pressure or there were serious humanitarian crisis but, it is also equally
true that acceptance of Nagaland state as a 16th State of the Indian Union, was the first nail in the Naga coffin. Let us not allow our prejudices to become another nail against the long cherished desire of the Naga people for self determination,” the NSCN (R) said. It meanwhile cautioned that if the Naga people fail to raise their concern in unison “we must consider that it is a lost battle we are fighting.” The Naga people, it advised, “need to think seriously as we Nagas cannot waste our time and energy for eternity.” The NSCN (R) encouraged that all Nagas must “strive and think what we can do for the sake and cause of the Nagas and not, what we can take or make for ourselves from the Naga cause.”
Govt of India ‘creating chasm and fomenting division,’ says NSCN (K) DImapur, may 3 (mExN): The NSCN (K) has accused the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of the Government of India (GoI) of “creating chasms” between Naga national workers and the Naga public. In the wake of the NIA arresting three Nagaland State Government officials for ‘providing funds’ to the NSCN (K), an outfit that is ‘banned’ by the GoI, the Naga armed group has questioned the alleged “anti-Naga and anti-people” policies and actions of the NIA. On the other hand, it observed, the GoI has not taken up a single case of corruption, rampant in “every public establishment,” for investigation despite public outcry against it. It is a “conspiracy,” of the GoI, it claimed, to “foment divisions” and “create several criminal gangs” that torment the “economically challenged state of affairs.” “Arresting of several state government officials by NIA for alleged nexus with NSCN is but a desperate attempt to veil off its frustration and failure to stem the Naga struggle and to coerce the patriotic and freedom loving Nagas to abstain
from performing one’s obligation towards national cause,” the NSCN (K) stated in a press release from its MIP today. In the same breath, the NSCN (K) warned that it will “not tolerate any departmental authorities collaborating with NIA.” It will thus take “punitive action” against “conniving traitor officials individually,” a consequence for which the NIA will be held accountable, it maintained. Taxation The NSCN (K) press release today affirmed that taxation is a “conscious political exercise of the Naga people that legitimises the mandated national aspiration for sovereign independence.” “The common Nagas are ever supportive and finds common ground with NSCN/ GPRN’s self-governing mechanism of taxes, donations, stipulations etc,” noted the NSCN (K). “Taxation always formed an integral part of Naga selfgovernance.” Thus, the NSCN (K) will continue levying “reasonable and affordable” taxes which, it stated, the people had been “willingly subscribing to not
only for the sustenance of our national struggle but in preservation of the inherent rights to self-govern and self-determine our destiny as practised for centuries by our forefathers in an independent sovereign village republics.” Alien authority The GoI, it alleged, has created and sponsored “several anti-Naga factions” to “combat” the NSCN (K) and “mislead” the Naga people, thus “discrediting the genuine people’s mandated struggle.” Urging Nagas to “rise against an alien authority persecuting the upright Naga public servants while massive corruption in public offices remains unchecked and criminals roams scot free,” the armed group asked the Naga people to “seriously ponder over the free reign and patronage being accorded to certain group by NIA and GOI to publicly enforce exaction of 12% taxes on State’s public servants when it is an open fact that the group has acceded to the condition ‘acceptance of Indian constitution’ as repeatedly affirmed by top Indian political leaders.”
Kohima | May 3
For almost a month now, residents of Meluri Town have spent their night in total darkness after the town’s transformer broke down last month. However, for the sprouting town of 5191 people, with 1154 households, the electricity crisis is nothing new. “Time and again, the electricity goes off. It has become very frequent. We are so used to it that we have even stopped demanding,” said C Nyuthe, a resident of Meluri town who mentioned that this crisis has been going on for more than three years now. Further, the resident added that the Power Depart-
ment has not replaced the transformer despite repeated demands, but instead keeps repairing the old one. The consumption is beyond the capacity of the transformer. “It’s nothing new for the residents. Every year, for at least two months (once in summer and once in winter) Meluri town spends it in darkness,” stated a government administrator, mentioning that the transformer allotted to the town has very less capacity and that due to the rapid expansion of the urban area, the problem will continue until they install a new transformer with higher capacity. An official source has informed that the transformer ca-
pacity is only 500 kVA for the expanding town and will require another 250 kVA. Further, in order to repair the transformer, it has to be transported to Dimapur which takes days to fix. The Power Department has connected the power line of the public institutions such as the hospitals, banks and administrative offices to the Meluri village power line, which has a different transformer. However for the residents, most of them go to the village to charge their phones and other electrical appliances. “We have to go to the village to charge our phones, invertors. All our demands are falling on deaf ears,” lamented another resident.
Students and teachers suffer due to non-completion of RMSA classrooms Morung Express News Kohima | May 3
Despite being upgraded in 2012 under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) mission, students and teachers of the New Market Middle School Kohima continue to face inconvenience due to the delay in the construction of the upgraded school. A report published last year in February in The Morung Express, mentioned about the delay in construction and non-deployment of teachers. Immediately, constructions began. However it has been put to halt, compelling the students and teachers to conduct classes in makeshift rooms provided by the ward Panchayat. “The environment of the (temporary) classrooms is not good for the students,” said one of the RMSA teachers, who mentioned that due to the lack of classrooms, the school sought the help of the ward where classes are currently being held at the New Market Panchayat hall and the ward Youth Building. After the upgradation of the school to Class 9 and 10, the 10th class did not begin due to the lack of teachers and classrooms. However this year, the school has begun its first batch of Class 10, where 20 students have enrolled. Further 67 students have been enrolled in Class 9 this year. The school being one of the oldest schools in Kohima town, has an enrollment of 414 students from Class A to Class 10 out of which over 80 students are left without any
Students of New Market Middle School Kohima attending their classes in makeshift rooms. (Morung Photo)
classrooms. “Because we cannot teach in one proper location, controlling the students becomes a problem. The Class 7, 6 and 10 are staying in the makeshift classrooms,” mentioned another teacher who informed that the School had approached the RMSA several times since last year but no action has been taken till date. Members of the School Management Committee (SMC) New Market also informed that they met the RMSA Mission Director where the Director is said to have mentioned that the money had already been released since last year for the construction of upgraded classrooms. Further assurance was given to pressure the Contractors in charge to expedite the building constructions. “The RMSA assured that they will talk to the Contractors to complete the constructions but till now, there is no construction taking place,” said a member of the SMC. “Sometimes fund concern is there but as far as we know, the fund
had already been released last year. I don’t know what is their problem for delaying the constructions,” stated another teacher. Six RMSA teachers were deputed in the school last year. Besides the problem of non-payment of salaries for six months, the teachers too have to adjust in the computer room of the middle school. Further, teaching aides and other equipments for the Science lab has not been provided. “We find it difficult to teach without the aides especially while teaching math,” lamented another teacher. “The whole school is affected because of the non completion of school. We are not blaming anyone but whoever is responsible must own up. They must perform their duty on time,” expressed an SMC member. While the construction of the classrooms are on the verge of completion, drainage, toilet and water tank constructions have not even started.