DIMAPUR, JANUARY 15 (MExN): The first meeting of the BJP’s recently set up Chargesheet Committee was held in Guwahati on January 10 with BJP presidents and general secretaries of all states. Nagaland State BJP president Dr. M Chuba Ao and general secretary Prashant Arora attended the meeting and submitted a list of 14 major projects proposed by the Nagaland State Government to the UPA government which otherwise remains to be implemented.
The Committee comprises three other members, namely, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Deputy Leader of Opposition, Rajya Sabha; Ahluwalia, BJP National Vice President and Election Incharge of North East India and Sitaraman, MP and Party Spokesperson. The BJP’s “chargesheet” against the UPA government ahead of the Lok Sabha polls seeks to draw views from people on the theme “the dark decade of malgovernance.”
A press release from secretary of BJP Nagaland informed today that among the subjects in the list forwarded by the Nagaland State BJP unit are the 428.80 km Foothill Road from Tizit to Khelma with projections of linkage with the Trans Arunachal Highway at Khonsa in the north and with the Quadrilateral highway in the south that ends with Silchar. The “poor attitude of the UPA government in solving the Naga Political issue despite the fact that the previous Rajiv Gandhi Government had brought about the Punjab and Mizoram accord to a lasting solution. Even the state congress unit is very distant from the urge to have this problem solved,” noted the press release.
Other projects brought to notice, as per the press release, include: “Promoting Indo-Myanmar trade routes from three points of Pangsha, Lungwa and Awangkhu of the total length of 211 km. Construction of 2 lane Trans Eastern Nagaland road from Mon to Avangkhu. Extending National Highway corridor of NH 37 and 29 from Nowgong to Moreh. Construction of new international Airport at an alternate new location in Dimapur as the existing airport is a waterlogged area and non expandable. Commencement of the surveyed new 257 kms railway line from Tizit to Dimapur of the total project cost of Rs. 4274 crores. Setting up of Medical college at Dimapur of the cost of Rs. 402.7 crores for capacity building and employment besides enhancing the medical seats and efficient and medical services not only to the people in the state but of the North East. Construction of the State’s ministers’ and Speakers’ bungalows as the existing are over 50 years. Sanction of the Rs. 300 crores Special package for the Eastern Nagaland region, Power units at Lower Tizu, Zungki and Dikhu of the total of 256 MW, Commencement of the revival package of the Tuli Paper mill following the Rs. 100 Crores already released out of the total cost of Rs.600 crores, Upgradation of the SASRD, Agricultural college, Medziphema to a full fledged University, Establishment of Veterinary college at Peren.”
