Kohima, July 23 (MExN): The Nagaland Information Commission (NIC) held a hearing on the Public Information Office (PIO) of the Home Department, Government of Nagaland, for not furnishing the “full and final” report of the High Powered Committee on Illegal and Multiple Taxation on July 16. The NIC has reportedly decided to reserve its decision “for further clarification” in the next hearing, which, it said, will be notified later.
This was informed by the Nagaland Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum (NPRAAF) that attended the said hearing called by NIC in Kohima in connection with a complaint lodged by NPRAAF against the PIO Home Department for not furnishing the said details. Officials from the Home Department, Political Branch, were also present during the hearing, the NPRAAF informed today in a press release from its Information & Publicity Cell. “The issue of illegal and multiple/unabated taxation being of high public importance outweighing any harm to the protected interests of the state government as well as the NIC,” stated the NPRAAF, appealing the NIC to “fix date for the next hearing at the earliest in the interest of justice.”
