Dimapur, Oct 31 (MExN): The Eastern Nagaland Students Federation (ENSF) has endorsed a memorandum to the BSNL for installation of cellular connectivity in Kiphire, Noklak and Shamator.
The ENSF lamented that desired attention for cellular connectivity and services are not being given to remote areas particularly ‘Eastern Nagaland’ in spite of appeals from all sections. The federation strongly appealed to the BSNL to give “intensive attention to bridge the gap in Eastern Nagaland by providing all accessories for better communication”. It took cognizance that although a high tower was erected at Kiphire almost a ‘decade’ back it remains bare and defunct due to non-installation of the required accessories as well as lack of manpower. The ENSF called attention of the BSNL for positive measures within a stipulated time “as it is a matter of impending progress in a district”.
The ENSF also informed of the situation at Noklak. “Now the Noklak tower had been erected strategically at a wrong place and above all no initiative had been carried out so far to avail facilities and to meet the needs of general public in the area. Recently trucks loaded with materials had reached to Noklak but to public dismay and anguish it is informed that it had wrongly headed to Noklak in other words materials were to be unload at Tuli” stated a letter from ENSF General Secretary P Methna Konyak while demanding immediate installation of connectivity at Noklak without delay.
The federation informed that the situation at Shamator is the same as Noklak’s “where progress is on halt due to improper planning and works on the part of telecom department in the state”. The ENSF felt that fair and equal opportunity should be given to the stated areas. Taking into account all these, the ENSF has called for immediate measures to address the same and “in any manner to squash the immediate demands” of the federation, it shall not hesitate to take “into account for the welfare of Eastern Nagaland”.
