Morung Express News
October 11
Kohima: The Work culture of the Nagas today has always figured in most of the speeches of the Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio.
“Work culture is a subject I keep talking about. We have to admit that there is room for much improvement in the work culture among our people, “Rio affirmed in one of the NPF party meetings. “How is it that thousands of non-Nagas stay in Nagaland and comfortably earn a living while thousands of our own people are unemployed?” Rio questioned obviously saddened at the growing populace of the unemployed in Nagaland. He surmised the solution to it as that “We have to learn to do things ourselves. We have to inculcate work culture, which will enable our own people to do all the available works in the state”. Rio further said that such steps would ensure employment, a better and resilient economy and would automatically do away with the problem of immigrants. Under the Chief Minister’s Corpus Fund and PMRY the government has extended seed money to hundreds of entrepreneurs “but we find that in many cases the seed money is not being utilized for setting up entrepreneurship”. Rio said that the habit (of dependence and half-hearted enterprises) was becoming a vicious cycle that needs to be eliminated. “While our people remains unemployed, we are employing others to do our works,” Rio said and strongly felt that political leaders should play a frontal role in spreading and promoting the principle of work culture among the Naga people, especially to the younger generation.
