Dimapur, March 31 (MExN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC), while welcoming the repeal of the Nagaland Municipal Act, 2001, has expressed hope that the government would consult all the concerned stakeholders in its endeavour to enact the new law.
Expressing its gratitude to the government for taking up with concern the anomalies in the Nagaland Municipal Act, 2001 that has been brought to public domain, the NTC in a press release received here on Friday, stated that the “legislation to repeal the N M Act 2001 vis-a-vis ULB election has done much of the damaged control of the protective Art 371A of the Constitution of India, and for smooth administration of Municipal and Town Councils in the state in the long-run.”
Further, hoping that the government would “exercise consultation of all concerned stakeholders in its endeavour to enact its own Nagaland Municipal Act,” it also hoped that the new Act “would be free of criticism, Art 371A of the Constitution of India, the customary practices & traditions, and people of Nagaland friendly Act. (Sic)”
