CWS volunteers locking up the Executive Engineer, PWD (H) office in Tuensang on March 28. (Morung Photo)
Morung Express News
Tuensang | March 28
The Chang Wedoshi Setshang (CWS/Chang Students’ Conference) has locked the office of the Executive Engineer, PWD (H), Tuensang Division on March 28.
Earlier on February 13, the CWS had written to the Nagaland Public Works Department (NPWD) Engineer-in-Chief, seeking clarification on why the construction of the Mechanical Engineer’s office building and workshop; the PWD (Housing) staff quarters; and the residence for the PWD (Roads & Bridges) Additional Chief Engineer, have been left incomplete even after almost 16 years since construction began.
They sought a response within 15 days with effect from February 19.
“However, the department had failed to respond to our letter for the reasons well known to you. Henceforth, the Office of the PWD (Housing) Tuensang will be locked indefinitely until this Office receives the reason we seek. The Conference shall not be held responsible for any untoward situations,” CWS President C Pongsu and General Secretary Ebou Naset stated in the letter issued on March 28.
Meanwhile, speaking to The Morung Express, CWS President C Pongsu said, “This is discrimination towards our district. We were given the same sanction in the same year; however, the other districts' buildings are completed whereas only Tuensang is not completed.”
Pongsu further stated that the Mechanical Office in Tuensang “is in fact an old garage for more than 16 years. How can a government department run an office like this? This negligence is not only towards the concerned departmental buildings but to the whole citizens of Tuensang and we are unhappy with the concerned authorities responsible for it.”
CWS will seriously deal with this matter until and unless this is resolved, he asserted, while adding that “there are many different developmental activities and projects that are being neglected and we will go through them one by one and will seriously deal with them.”
