EMN
Dimapur, December 8
The Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI) is happy that the department of Industries & Commerce has set up modernized meat dealerships and stores that the organization says helps the local economy. The MCCI issued a press release on Tuesday, December 8, stating happiness at the new economic units.
“The modernization of five meat shops in Mokokchung sponsored by the Department of Industries and Commerce, government of Nagaland under the National Mission of Food Processing Industries is a welcome development,” the MCCI stated in its press release.
“The beneficiaries of the scheme have all expressed gratitude to the government and the Mokokchung Municipal Council. Supong Aier (dealing in mutton) and Nungshiwapang (dealing in chicken) have already started operating their business at Salangtem New Market while S Tali Imchen (dealing in pork) and Opangrenla (dealing in chicken) have also started their businesses located at Arkong Ward and Sungkomen Ward respectively,” the press release stated. Said dealers are based in Mokokchung town while the fifth shop is located at Liroyim village.
During an interaction with one of the beneficiaries, the MCCI stated, S Tali Imchen, a 39 year old man, who is a second generation meat business owner with 17 years of experience, said to have started operating his modernized meat shop on December 3.
Imchen’s shop is located near the regional business office of the State Bank of India in Arkong Ward. The shop is well-furnished and “fully tiled and has air conditioning, deep freezer, display cabinet chamber, digital weighing machine, meat dryer, fly catcher, meat mincer and meat chopper board,” an enthusiastic MCCI stated in their press release.
“All the other three modernized meat shops in the town are also equally modernized. The beneficiaries while saying that they procured all the facilities after being sponsored by the government added that they would on their part work dedicatedly,” the MCCI said.
“This is an indicator that Mokokchung is slowly developing. It also makes the town more beautiful. We now work and sell under hygienic conditions and the customers also get their money’s worth,” Imchen was quoted by the MCCI as having said. He added that when businesses prosper, Mokokchung will ‘automatically develop and hoped that the government would sponsor more beneficiaries in the near future.’
