KOHIMA, AUGUST 12 (MExN): The Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland today alleged that the Administrator of Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) was issuing the so-called ‘Tender Permits’ on essential commodities to “few moneyed individuals, thereby abusing the system shamelessly.”
A press note from the ACAUT said there is “no ground for issuance of Tender Permits and allowing a handful of individuals to monopolise one of the biggest markets in the state.”
“This Tender Permit system is absolutely condemnable and the Administrator of KMC should immediately clarify as to who is behind this trying to introduce syndicate system failing which the KMC establishment shall not be above suspicion of having compromised itself,” it stated, and supported the KVYO’s demand to revoke all illegal permits within 7 days.
‘Tender Permits’ and ‘Agencies,’ it said, are nothing but illegal monopolies which harm all consumers, mostly the poor people. It added that the ‘Agency System’ prevalent in Tuensang is “another notable example of how the DCs or the district administration in the districts have become indifferent to the cries of the common man either due to fear, lack of integrity, or simply because of individual incompetence.”
The demand of Tuensang Town All Ward Union (TTAWU) demanding from the DC, Tuensang, for the cancellation of all ‘Agency Systems’ is justified and long overdue, it added.
