Dimapur, July 8 (MExN): The “eastern Naga” civil society based in Kohima on July 4 took a number of decisions pertaining to employing domestic helpers from the “eastern” areas for Kohima households. The meeting saw in attendance the Kohima units of Eastern Nagaland Peoples Union, Eastern Nagaland Women Organization, Eastern Nagaland Students’ Union and tribal units. The meeting decided against encouraging or permitting “rampant employing, trafficking of eastern Nagas as house maid and so on in and around Kohima” and that the organizations shall not “compromise under age to be employed as house maid from eastern Nagaland.”
In “certain unavoidable cases,” that a person wishes to employ a “house maid,” it shall have to be done so with the approval of the tribal union after proper verification and registration. “Any person, persons doing so without the approval of the tribal unions he or she shall be doing at their own risk, and the union shall not be responsible for any untoward incidents that may arise,” stated a copy of the decisions taken, received here from the ENPUK.
Those who have employed people from the areas in question in their house “as house maid or else in any manner” is asked to report to the tribal union for proper verification and registration within 30 days from the date of issue of this notice. Any person failing to do so shall be held responsible for any untoward incident that may occur in future, it added.
