Kohima, June 10 (MExN): The Angami Students’ Union (ASU) has reaffirmed its stance against imposition of fund-raising activities within its jurisdiction. “The union’s stand on this is being reiterated at the behest of the general public dwelling in and around Kohima,” the union’s president Voto Neikha and general secretary Neingusalie Khruomo said in a note today. In view of the unbecoming fashion of donations and random fund raising activities in and around Kohima by ‘inconsequential and unscrupulous organization and civil societies’, decency and dignity of life is being put at stake, it said.
The union mentioned a survey undertaken in this regard, “about a score of unregistered organization/societies, from all parts of Nagaland and even outside states come to the capital for fund drive/donation through various mediums, in about single week time.” These activities have taxed the citizens of Kohima to the extreme, ASU said, adding that being the apex students’ organization at the capital, ASU with support from the Angami Public Organization, will enforce a total blanket ban on all fund drive activities with immediate effect.
The union said, in the implementation of its resolution it will keep a strict vigil. It also directed business establishments and shops and individuals not to entertain any collection which is without the consent and approval of the ASU’s office or the state authority. “Defaulters including any establishment or shop entertaining any such organization or union will be penalized,” it said. It also stated that any organization desiring to undertake any fund-drive projects, “must prior to initiating any plans, report to the union’s office along with their details of proposed project for necessary clearance to avoid being impeded on the same thereafter.”
