Parliamentary Secretary, Er. Wochumo Kithan and Special Secretary (Home), L Singsit (IPS) are seen alonwith others during the inaugural of the sub-fire station at Chumukedima on Friday, May 13.
DIMAPUR, MAY 13 (MExN): There is a grand proposal to set up 53 new fire stations all across the state. If the plan is to take concrete shape, it will touch all the sub-divisions of the state, including Peren, Longleng and Kiphire. The three districts are at present without fire and emergency services of any kind.
Parliamentary Secretary for Prisons, Home Guards, Fire & emergency Services, Er. Wochumo Kithan made the disclosure during the commissioning of a fire fighting unit at Chumukedima on Friday, May 13.
Proposal for a further 53 fire stations
Chumukedima township finally got a much needed fire fighting unit, nearly a decade after construction had first started at the site. Now, a fully functional sub-fire station has materialized. It is located inside the perimeter of the long-proposed Deputy Commissioner’s office of the district at Chumukedima. For the time being though, the sub station has to make do with only two fire engines borrowed from its sister unit in Dimapur.
On the aforementioned proposal, Kithan said: “These are all in the conceptual level… such proposal requires a good amount of funding.” The target of the proposal is reach fire & emergency services to those places which have none.
Newly commissioned Chumukedima sub-fire station was actually proposed to start functioning a few years ago, but could not, owing to some reasons which were not disclosed. The parliamentary, nevertheless, expressed happiness that it has gained concrete shape and functional, while terming the occasion as a “momentous day for the Fire Services department in Nagaland.”
For a thickly populated place like Dimapur, he underlined the importance of a well coordinated firefighting unit. The fire incident which destroyed the Chief Minister’s official residence, he said exposed the absence of coordinated response in an emergency, though it was hampered in part by the narrow roads and traffic congestion, he added.
The construction of the station was completed in three phases beginning 2003-04. Special Secretary (Home), L Singsit (IPS) giving a brief of the costs incurred disclosed that a total amount of Rs. 36, 64, 000 was sanctioned while the ‘actual payment after tax deduction’ was Rs. 36, 95, 951. The first phase was funded under ‘State Plan Negotiated Loan under GIC’ and the final two phases were from ‘State Plan Negotiated Loan under NIC’. Singsit also holds the additional charge of IGP, Fire & Emergency Services.
He said that owing to fund constraints, the sub-station had to borrow two working engines from the fire station in Dimapur. The number of fire engines for the Dimapur unit now stands at five.
Parliamentary Secretary for Prisons, Home Guards, Fire & emergency Services, Er. Wochumo Kithan made the disclosure during the commissioning of a fire fighting unit at Chumukedima on Friday, May 13.
Proposal for a further 53 fire stations
Chumukedima township finally got a much needed fire fighting unit, nearly a decade after construction had first started at the site. Now, a fully functional sub-fire station has materialized. It is located inside the perimeter of the long-proposed Deputy Commissioner’s office of the district at Chumukedima. For the time being though, the sub station has to make do with only two fire engines borrowed from its sister unit in Dimapur.
On the aforementioned proposal, Kithan said: “These are all in the conceptual level… such proposal requires a good amount of funding.” The target of the proposal is reach fire & emergency services to those places which have none.
Newly commissioned Chumukedima sub-fire station was actually proposed to start functioning a few years ago, but could not, owing to some reasons which were not disclosed. The parliamentary, nevertheless, expressed happiness that it has gained concrete shape and functional, while terming the occasion as a “momentous day for the Fire Services department in Nagaland.”
For a thickly populated place like Dimapur, he underlined the importance of a well coordinated firefighting unit. The fire incident which destroyed the Chief Minister’s official residence, he said exposed the absence of coordinated response in an emergency, though it was hampered in part by the narrow roads and traffic congestion, he added.
The construction of the station was completed in three phases beginning 2003-04. Special Secretary (Home), L Singsit (IPS) giving a brief of the costs incurred disclosed that a total amount of Rs. 36, 64, 000 was sanctioned while the ‘actual payment after tax deduction’ was Rs. 36, 95, 951. The first phase was funded under ‘State Plan Negotiated Loan under GIC’ and the final two phases were from ‘State Plan Negotiated Loan under NIC’. Singsit also holds the additional charge of IGP, Fire & Emergency Services.
He said that owing to fund constraints, the sub-station had to borrow two working engines from the fire station in Dimapur. The number of fire engines for the Dimapur unit now stands at five.
