•-Apropos to the news item “Nagaland govt to clamp down on blockades” (MEX dated 13th May, 2011). Though late, the stern step taken by the state Government of Nagaland in clamping down on road blockages, ban, or restrictions on movement of people on public highways by any village, community etc in connection with inter village, inter-community or inter-group disputes is timely and welcomed. The government must strongly express its authority and will by strictly enforcing its laws and rules for the larger interest of all. No village or community should be allowed to take the laws into its own hand or dictate terms for its own benefit. If action is not sternly and swiftly taken, such primitive and uncivilized method can easily generate into dangerous conflagration of communalism and bloodshed, which the Naga people can ill afford at this age.
W. Kayina, New Delhi
