Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Dimapur, November 02:
The contractors in Manipur will soon have to make a bee line at the doors of the Who is Who of the NSCN-IM if they want to garner plum contract works in the "Naga Areas" in Manipur.
In an interesting development today, the National Socialist Council of Nagalim of the Isak-Muivah faction has directed that no contract works in the "Naga Areas" in Manipur will be allowed to be taken up without its recommendations.
The NSCN-IM warned that "Zero Tolerance" will be exercised or enforced against anyone defying this directive.
The bottom-line of the measure taken up by the NSCN-IM is that the tribal people should not be denied their rightful place in the developmental works.
"No contract works sans recommendation from GPRN in the Naga Areas shall be allowed under any circumstances.
Consequences, thereafter for violation shall be serious with dimensional effects.
Ongoing works in the hill areas if found without the recommendations of the GPRN shall face action for deliberately by-passing the GPRN authority," declared the NSCN-IM.
The directive of the outfit, which was made available to Newmai News Network by the outfit's Ministry of Information and Publicity (MIP) in Dimapur, states, "In the backdrop of the ground reality where the Manipur Government in complicity with the valley-based underground groups are exploiting the tribal or hill people in the allotment of contract works related to any developmental programs sponsored by Central or State Government the GPRN/NSCN is constrained to issue the directive to the concerned departments that henceforth 'Zero Tolerance' shall be exercised or enforced against anyone who dare to deny the tribal people their rightful place in the developmental works that falls in their areas".
The NSCN-IM said that Manipur Govt is serving the "people of the valley only".
It asserted that "the valley underground groups" have no right to enter into complicity with different "department heads in collusion with the concern ed Ministers to exploit the hill people." The NSCN-IM asked, "Where is their revolutionary concept of integrity if the valley undergound groups practise corruption and exploitation of the highest order?".
The outfit pointed out that the Central Government has not poured in so much money just to fill up the coffers of the Ministers and "valley UGs and therefore, anyone found indulging in such mischief will only face penalty with irreparable lost".
With a fiery tone, the NSCN-IM cautions that time to face the reality and bills drawn without any work done in the hill areas are being checked and "if proved to be true such persons shall be treated as peoples' enemies and debar from any contract works in the hills".