NPRAAF on ‘Colloquium on Road Connectivity’
Dimapur, October 10 (MExN): The Nagaland Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum (NPRAAF) asked what connectivity the government talking about when people have already lost most of the roads and bridges to connect to other side of their habitat.
Commenting on the ‘Colloquium on Road Connectivity’ organised by the State Government on October 10, NPRAAF wondered whether it was a colloquium on connectivity after the government has finished all money meant for development.
The hundreds and thousands of crores of rupees released for roads and bridges, if utilized judiciously, could have saved a lot of sufferings and miseries of the public, NPRAAF noted in a press statement from its Information & Publicity Cell.
No amount of presentations showed by the various departments on ongoing works can erase the irregularities committed earlier, it maintained.
The conspicuous absence of MLAs from the other than NPF party also sheds a different light about the meeting, it added.
The Chief Minister TR Zeliang reportedly stated in the meeting that the need of the hour is to “bring a change in the working system” but it cannot be brought about unless the earlier wrongs are righted and placed in its right place, NPRAAF pointed out.
The Forum was also skeptic about the CM’s assertion that the government was going to start over and bring corrective measures starting from himself to his colleagues, bureaucrats and other officials.
“Starting all over can begin with washing off dirty linens without which the same cloth will dirty cleaner clothes and everything will be back to square one despite lofty ideals and talks,” it said.
The need of the hour is to ‘start’ correcting the past irregularities in all the departments, punish the guilty and fix responsibilities on all erring politicians, officials and everyone involved in working shadily hand in glove with the government, it added.
The CM opined that those people who are always mocking the Government will never bring the solution, but NPRAAF believes that ‘solution’ on corruption will come along with fearless investigation which will bring out the entire truth, it added.
NPRAAF further maintained that CM’s statement that, “after this consultation let us see who will still go negative and who will come out with positive suggestions” can be viewed “as a veiled warning to those individuals and organizations that continue to demand clarifications from the government departments on various irregularities.”
To that end, NPRAAF said that it ‘will never be cowed down by such diplomatically crafted veiled warnings but will relentlessly fight for public rights until issues are arrived at logical conclusions.”
It also reiterated its demand on the government for setting up SIT headed by Chief Secretary to probe into the irregularities in various departments.
“Initiative to request central investigating agencies to step in will be inevitable if the demand is wilfully ignored.”
Meanwhile, NPRAAF lauded the Association of Kohima Municipal Wards Panchayat for being vigilant on the issues raised and seeking clarification from the government and encouraged public in different areas and locations to keep a check on developmental activities taking place or have taken place within their jurisdiction.
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