Dimapur, May 22 (MExN): Calling for inculcating work culture among the Naga people, state Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio today said that it was time to work and ‘not be lazy’ searching for ‘easy money.’
Giving a powerful speech at the power tillers and tractors distributing function at the Agri Expo Site in Dimapur, Rio told the gathered beneficiaries that the Naga society is improving and setting a trend, however, he lamented the fact that the state remains by and large, a consumer society, with nothing to boast of and nothing to produce. “We are even importing labourers,” lamented Rio and added that no country in this world depends on outside labourers and that all the countries in the ‘world do the things for themselves.’
Saying forty three years of statehood is enough time for maturity and for the state to start producing, Rio called upon the people to be responsible citizens and added that the government is a felicitator and not the sole provider.
In this regard, Rio said Nagaland is a ‘land of opportunities’. He said that the people have so many opportunities at hand but are unable and unwilling to work, which according to him is a crime, a sin leaving the people with no future.
About the employment scenario in the state, the chief Minister said that government job, although ‘good,’ makes the people ‘lazy.’ He said that those government employees who are drawing their ‘salaries without doing any work’ and without contributing anything, are setting a bad example to their children who are closely watching them. He said by such action of the ‘lazy government employees,’ they are teaching their children how to be crooked and be irresponsible, making the children a liability to the society and the family and leaving them with no future.
Rio called for broadening the horizons of the people and start working. “If you don’t work, then there is no future” Rio reminded.
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