EMN
Dimapur, February 11
Policemen from the Nagaland State Police have been encouraged to represent the ethos and life of the people of Nagaland in the country.
People from the mainland, India, do not get opportunities to visit Nagaland or other north-eastern states to see the land and the culture, policemen stationed in the country’s capital Delhi. Hence, they must represent the state and the region before the people in their dedication and duty, the governor of Nagaland PB Acharya told Nagaland policemen recently.
Governor Acharya met with officials of the Nagaland state police posted in the country’s capital Delhi. The governor met with the officers at Nagaland House on February 10, it was informed on Thursday.
During the meeting, police Commandant Neiba Newmai briefed the governor about the officials’ duties and current activities in Delhi. He said that there were 1, 266 Nagaland policemen posted in the capital. He said that the policemen are ‘doing well in their duties and comfortable in their stay in Delhi.’ On behalf of the police officers and policemen in the region, he thanked the governor for giving them an opportunity to meet him and share their experiences.
Governor PB Acharya congratulated the officers and policeman for their ‘good performance in their duties’ at the capital. He exhorted them saying that life was not only about engaging in duties associated with the uniform but that ‘in all activities we are the ambassadors of the state of Nagaland.’ The people of the mainland regions of the country do not get ample opportunities to visit Nagaland or the other northeast states; whereas the people of the northeast region come out of their states to pursue their studies, seek jobs and do businesses in all the major cities of the country.
‘We need to take the responsibilities together to share about our state and the northeast people, culture, tourism and many more opportunities in the region to the people of our country,’ the governor said in exhortation to the policeman.
He said further that Nagaland House was the ‘welfare centre’ of the Naga people and that all the staffers of Nagaland House, and policemen, businessmen and students of Nagaland are representing their ‘sorrow and happiness’ of the life of the people before the country in Delhi.
