Dimapur, June 15 (MExN): Giving more teeth to the demand for integration of all Naga-inhabited areas, the Nagaland Government-instituted Consultative Committee for Peace (CCP), has appealed to the Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India to affiliate all schools in the Naga areas in Manipur, to the Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE). Relatively, the CCP while asking the Centre and the two NSCNs to rectify the “defects” in the ceasefire ground rules, also appealed to the warring underground factions to engage in the reconciliation process and stop the fratricidal bloodshed in the interest of the Naga people.
According to a release issued by CP Giri, Special Secretary (Home) and Acting Member Secretary of the Committee, the resolutions and pronouncements to that effect were made at the CCP meeting held on June 15 in Kohima. The CCP asked the Ministry of Human Resources to “sympathetically” consider the “request” of the Naga people, living in contagious Naga-inhabited areas of Manipur State, to get their schools affiliated to the Nagaland Board of School Education.
Furthermore, the committee asked both the Centre and the two NSCN factions to immediately rectify the “defects” of the existing ceasefire ground rules and enforce strict compliance of the same. “….display absolute sincerity and commitment to their efforts to find an amicable and acceptable solution to the Naga political issue and speed up the negotiation process by listening to the voice of the Nagas as expressed through various public rallies and in the mass media” the CCP urged.
The committee also appealed to all factions from incurring more blood. “The CCP appeals to all the factions of Naga undergrounds to stop fratricidal fighting and killings, but engage themselves in the process of reconciliation and stand united on the Naga political issue in the larger interest of the Nagas” the resolution stated. Civil societies, the Church, NGOs and the Naga public were also urged to continue rendering their support to the long-drawn peace process “with patience, perseverance and with positive hope for the future”.
