DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 19 (MExN): The Centre Chakhesang Public Organization (CCPO) today drew the attention of the Nagaland State Government on delay in the Land Encumbrance Free Clearance to the Union Ministry regarding the Pfutsero-Phek 2-Lane road project via Sakraba-Khomi under SARDP.
A press note from the CCPO said that this has delayed the process for resumption/fresh tender of the said road project.
It informed that the CCPO during its general public meeting on June 8, 2011 had unanimously resolved to donate land for construction of Pfutsero-Phek 2-lane road via Sakraba-Khomi under SARDP – NE Phase ‘A’. However it stated that compensation should be granted to those owners whose agri and allied projects are to be damaged and whose standing houses/buildings are to be affected.
The said resolution and clearance from all Seven Village Councils i,e Porba, Sakraba, Gidemi, Pholami, Upper Khomi, Middle Khomi and Lower Khomi villages along with the Vice Chairman of Sakraba Town Ad-hoc Committee was submitted to the concerned authority. Besides that, all necessary matters for donation of land referred to us from time to time by the concerned department regarding the said project were also furnished, it added.
The CCPO however expressed dismay that the State Government has not issued Land Encumbrance Free Clearance to the Ministry for resumption/fresh tender of Pfutsero- phek 2-land road project till date even though the land owners had already donated their lands way back in 2011.
“If at all the said road project fails it would remain to be a curse on the people of Centre Chakhesang Area. The message of the abandonment or failure of the project will be that the Government came to destroy us in lieu of development, and the Government should be answerable to it,” it stated.
The CCPO demanded that the government do the needful without any further delay so as to enable the resumption/fresh tender of the project to ensure timely completion within the stipulated time as directed by the Supreme Court of India.
