Dimapur, October 22 (MExN): Censuring the alleged forced closure of the East India Transport Agency (EITA) in Dimapur, run by two Naga lady entrepreneurs, ACAUT Nagaland on Thursday urged the law enforcing agency to abide by the seven day deadline given by the Public Action Committee on October 21.
The disturbing question that has emerged out of this fiasco is about bona-fide Nagas, that too women entrepreneurs who are harassed and obstructed from doing business in their own land, it said in a press release issued by the ACAUT Media Cell.
Stating that it was only a month ago that ACAUT wrote an open letter to the Governor of Nagaland “exposing the upgraded modus operandi of specific commodities being assigned to prescribed transport agencies with added unabated taxes leading to escalation of price in essential commodities,” it said that the incident “should awaken the conscience of every right thinking citizens of the State as it is about depriving right to livelihood and survival.”
It is as good as asking its citizens not to continue living in their own land and goes against the very basic tenets of Human Rights, it added.
Further, it said that in 2014, ACAUT brought to the public knowledge about one South India Transport Agency owned and operated by a Naga which was not allowed to run business by the transport cartel conniving with some members of the Naga National Groups.
“The unscrupulous elements forming the transport syndicates should respect the Naga sentiments by not jostling with upcoming Naga entrepreneurs otherwise a breaking point has come where public will put our feet down against such parasitic vermin,” the statement read.
