DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 7: The department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry, Nagaland on Wednesday issued a rejoinder to the Eastern Mirror report published on September 6 under the headline "Can Nagaland have its own Central Agriculture University?"
According to the director of said department, the report has “given the wrong impression” that the state government could have achieved more. While accusing the report of belittling “what should have been lauded as a huge achievement”, the director stated that the Veterinary & Animal Husbandry College at Jalukie was established “through the sheer tenacity of the chief minister and the parliamentary secretary” concerned.“It must be appreciated that it was only through the personal intervention of the Chief Minister TR Zeliang and the magnanimity of the present NDA Government at the Centre, that Nagaland was placed under CAU Imphal, through an amendment of the relevant Act by the Parliament earlier last month, that we could set up our own Veterinary College at Jalukie,” the rejoinder read.
Also, according to the director of the department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry, “the request to set up CAU Nagaland would also be thoroughly and sincerely looked into.”
However, the director did not elaborate how the department will be pursuing the establishment of the CAU in Nagaland.
He claimed that had the present state government not taken the initiative ‘our dream of having a Veterinary College would still have been in the pipeline’. In consideration of all these, according to the director, it would be “unfair” to say that “it is the state government who should pursue it (the Central Agriculture University), with necessary seriousness and political will." He, in all fairness, did not say who – instead of the state government – should pursue it.
