Dimapur, November 1 (MExN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has accused the DAN Government of rising prices of essential commodities in the State. It also charged the District Administration, Dimapur Municipal Council, Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and the Naga Council for failing to address such issues of public importance on expected lines. NPCC stated that present state of affairs is effecting every spheres of peoples’ lives, and their day to day problems has become so enormous that their very existence is being seriously challenged to the very hilt.
In a press note issued by Media Cell, NPCC stated: “The rampant and unabated indulgence in corruption by all the law enforcement agencies from topmost political echelon to the bottom down to the Municipal and Town Councils has drastically affected even our own domestic markets resulting in shooting up of rates for all the everyday essentials.” The NPCC has provided a comparative price index of a few essential commodities whose rates have been dramatically hiked. (See bottom)
NPCC pointed out that building materials such as Deopani(sand), MS rods and bricks, to name a few, which people usually buy at Rs. 7,500 per truck load, Rs. 43.50p. per kilo and Rs. 5.00 per piece at Bokajan/Khatkhati(Assam) are being systematically syndicated at Dimapur and are being sold at an exorbitant rate of Rs. 14,000 – 17,500/-(sand) per truck load, Rs. 48.00(MS Rod) per kilo and Rs. 7/8.00(bricks) a piece.
“Such chaotic and ever fluctuant scenario created in our own domestic market shows how lackadaisical, complacent and dormant our Government and its law enforcement agencies has become,” the NPCC stated; adding “the government of the day has neither political will nor the sense of public probity to enforce various rules of laws to curb such nefarious practices owing to its own selfish designs for embezzlement of public funds by hook or by crooked means.”
NPCC also stated that DMC instead of overseeing all such malpractices with administration by framing rules and regulations and enforcing them has become more or less a “defunct Council.” It also stated that the Government, instead of conducting proper election to the Council, has handpicked Advisors for assisting the Administration “who have either become a shareholder or has created his own syndicate.”
NPCC also charged the government that there has been no improvement in streamlining the toll taxes even after abolishing of unwarranted gates of enters districts, townships and States. Ironically, NPCC added that it is optimistic that the outcome of the recently held public rally against anti- social in Dimapur and that all sections of society will to rise above their narrow differences in safe guarding right to livelihood.
In a press note issued by Media Cell, NPCC stated: “The rampant and unabated indulgence in corruption by all the law enforcement agencies from topmost political echelon to the bottom down to the Municipal and Town Councils has drastically affected even our own domestic markets resulting in shooting up of rates for all the everyday essentials.” The NPCC has provided a comparative price index of a few essential commodities whose rates have been dramatically hiked. (See bottom)
NPCC pointed out that building materials such as Deopani(sand), MS rods and bricks, to name a few, which people usually buy at Rs. 7,500 per truck load, Rs. 43.50p. per kilo and Rs. 5.00 per piece at Bokajan/Khatkhati(Assam) are being systematically syndicated at Dimapur and are being sold at an exorbitant rate of Rs. 14,000 – 17,500/-(sand) per truck load, Rs. 48.00(MS Rod) per kilo and Rs. 7/8.00(bricks) a piece.
“Such chaotic and ever fluctuant scenario created in our own domestic market shows how lackadaisical, complacent and dormant our Government and its law enforcement agencies has become,” the NPCC stated; adding “the government of the day has neither political will nor the sense of public probity to enforce various rules of laws to curb such nefarious practices owing to its own selfish designs for embezzlement of public funds by hook or by crooked means.”
NPCC also stated that DMC instead of overseeing all such malpractices with administration by framing rules and regulations and enforcing them has become more or less a “defunct Council.” It also stated that the Government, instead of conducting proper election to the Council, has handpicked Advisors for assisting the Administration “who have either become a shareholder or has created his own syndicate.”
NPCC also charged the government that there has been no improvement in streamlining the toll taxes even after abolishing of unwarranted gates of enters districts, townships and States. Ironically, NPCC added that it is optimistic that the outcome of the recently held public rally against anti- social in Dimapur and that all sections of society will to rise above their narrow differences in safe guarding right to livelihood.
