Dimapur, April 6 (EMN): The Central Nagaland Tribes’ Council (CNTC) has supported the questions raised by its two federating units, the Lotha Hoho and the Sumi Hoho on the issue of the up-grade to the Khelhoshe Polytechnic institute at Atoizu in Zunheboto district and on the alleged ‘discrimination’ in ‘road funds allocation’ for Wokha district.
The CNTC’s media cell issued a press release on Thursday.
“The Central Nagaland Tribes Council has backed the demand made and the question raised by its two federating units, the Sumi Hoho and the Lotha Hoho on the issue of the up -gradation of the Khelhoshe Polytechnic Institute at Atoizu to a degree level engineering college and on the discrimination of the road funds allocation for Wokha district respectively,” the press release stated. In spite of the cabinet decision, passed on the 17th of December 2007, to upgrade the “KPA”, it is still “yet to materialize and become a reality even after a decade,” the CNTC stated.
“It wondered as to when other new institutes and centers of learning are sprouting up and being upgraded around the state, why this first polytechnic institute of the state is being neglected till now when a cabinet decision has already been passed?”
On the matter of allocation of funds for roads in the state, the press release stated, Wokha district “being the fourth largest in area-wise and sixth in population-wise in the state, the CNTC espoused the question raised by the Lotha Hoho that allocation of the funds were of highly discriminatory in nature and therefore were questionable.”
Repair and maintenance funds for roads in Wokha district “had been diverted to other places,” the CNTC alleged.
“Our legislators are elected to speak and work for the electorates and so should give the best of their service and ability. When smaller districts, sub-divisions and some villages were allotted sufficient funds, how was Wokha district deprived of what it actually deserved?” the press release queried.
The organisation added that the roads at present “are in such dismal conditions that it has become impossible for the people to ply normally.”
The CNTC has appealed to the state’s government to “maintain fairness and impartiality while allocating funds in future so that misunderstandings amongst the people does not arise.”
