A notice of caution is displayed on a bridge that collapsed over the Chathe River in Dimapur, Nagaland on Jul. 12 2017. An ageing bridge over the Chathe River in Nagaland collapsed on July 11 2017 following days of heavy monsoon rain, killing four people and injuring five others. Despite two FIRs being registered, the authorities have yet to take any action. (EM File Photo)

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Chathe Bridge collapse: FIRs remain in cold storage

Constitution is the greatest public policy – Justice Chelameswar

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despite repeated attempts over the days. When con-tacted, the Diphupar Village Council (DVC), which had

also filed an FIR in connec-tion with the case on July 2017, told Eastern Mirror that they do not know the

outcome of the case. In its FIR, the Acaut

had requested the author-ities to take cognizance

of the tragedy against the culpable individuals and organisations namely the then minister for Roads and Bridges, the executive engineer (PWD), Dimapur division; the department of Roads and Bridges; the sand and gravel mafia in-cluding the contractors and the ‘concerned village council authorities’ for ille-gally allowing extraction of stones from the riverbeds. It has also demanded im-mediate arrest of the ac-cused persons.

According to Eastern Mirror’s report on July 2017, the Acaut demanded that the Nagaland government pay adequate compensa-tion to the victims’ families, set up a ‘high powered inde-pendent inquiry committee comprising members of the public to probe the collapse of the bridge,’ and the chief minister to “immediately sack the then minister for Roads and Bridges.”

The Acaut had termed the tragic and civic disaster as sheer negligence and corruption on the part of the PWD (R&B) depart-ment, the government of Nagaland, and the district administration’s failure to supervise.

Eastern Mirror Desk Dimapur, Jan. 20 : The Nagaland Board of School Edu-cation (NBSE) has rescheduled the board examinations for the classes ten, 11 and 12. Although the NBSE noti-fication on Sat. provided no reason behind the change in schedule, it is widely seen as a consequence of the Nagaland assembly elections.

(Refer page-5 for details)

Kohima BureauKohima, Jan. 20 (EMN): Two-time member of the Nagaland Legislative As-sembly with the Naga People's Front (NPF) rep-resenting the 14th South-ern Angami-I assembly consti tuency, Vikho-o Yhoshü is reported to have resigned from member-ship of the twelfth Naga-land Legislative Assembly (NLA) and the NPF on Jan. 20.

When contacted, an NLA official confirmed that the MLA has put down his papers on Sat. Yhoshü

was elected from stated constituency in 2008 and 2013 on NPF ticket. He was last holding the post

of advisor (cabinet status) for Mechanical Engineer-ing and as chairman of the NSMDC. It was learnt that the politician had written to the chief minister as well resigning from ‘advi-sorship to the government of Nagaland.’

Sources close to Yhoshü have substantiated that he had resigned from the NLA as well as from the NPF party. However, they did not cite reasons. It is pre-sumed that he would be joining the recently regis-tered National Democratic Progressive Party.

Bengaluru, Jan. 20 (PTI): Supreme Court Judge, Jus-tice J Chelameswar, today asked the youth to value the biggest public policy docu-ment - the Constitution of India- which was prepared by people who made great sacrifices for the country as freedom fighters.

"The greatest public pol-icy is the Indian constitution itself and the centre which created it is the Constituent Assembly," Justice Chela-meswar said.

He said the wide range of knowledge of each member of the constituent assembly and the great experience which the members of the constituent assembly had, enriched the constitutional document while creating a structure, giving clear guide-lines as to how the country's political future of the coun-try should be.

Each set of words in the documents reflect their ex-perience and knowledge, he said.

Justice Chelameswar was one of the four Supreme Court judges, who recently virtually revolted against the Chief Justice, raising a litany of problems, includ-ing assigning cases in the top court.

He was addressing a

gathering at the inaugu-ration of a department in an educational institution here.

Justice Chelameswar said he was aware of the fact that the constitution was amended from time to time depending upon the demands of the time.

"But so long as we are governed by the consti-tution, our policymaking should be subject to the broader constituents gov-erning us," he said.

Calling Justice Chela-meswar as the 'Sanyasi' in the court, former Chief Justice of India Justice M N Venkatachalaiah said "justice, truth and courage are the companions of his soul. It is impossible to as-sess the dimensions of his personality.

Kolkata, Jan. 20 (IANS): The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is expecting to eliminate multiple account numbers of an individual, once the process of seeding Aad-haar is completed, an of-ficial said here on Friday.

"Aadhaar seeding and bank account linking will help do away with mul-tiple provident fund ac-counts, once merger of accounts happens with the help of Aadhaar seed-

ing," Additional Central PF Commissioner S.B. Sinha said.

He also said that bank account linking would help members in managing PF accounts and in claim set-tlements.

Since July last year, a Universal Account Number (UAN) generation requires mandatory Aadhaar seed-ing, bank details and mo-bile number.

Sinha also said that for old account holders, seed-

ing was being carried out.Regional PF Commis-

sioner Navendu Rai said there were 26 lakh regular contributing members in West Bengal at present, but the number of PF accounts issued from the state was about 70 lakh.

"On an average, one person has three PF ac-counts (in West Bengal) due to change in employment," he said on the sidelines of a programme organised by the Indian Chamber of

Commerce (ICC).According to him, on-

line submission of claims and settlements would also be possible in case of Aadhaar-seeded UAN holders.

"An employee will not require transferring their PF account to the new em-ployer as with Aadhaar-seeded UAN numbers, transfer will happen auto-matically and seamlessly without any intervention of the member," Rai added.

Washington, Jan. 20 (PTI): The US government officially shut-down on Saturday for the first time in five years after the Senate rejected a short-term spending bill to keep the federal govern-ment running, marking a chaotic end to Donald Trump's first year as president.

The shutdown began at 12:01 am (local time) after a few Re-publicans joined Democrats in blocking the crucial measure would have provided short-term funding for the Pentagon and other federal agencies.

Trump blamed the Demo-crats for the shutdown which comes exactly a year after he was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.

"Dems want a shutdown in order to help diminish the great success of the tax cuts, and what they are doing for our booming economy," he said.

Despite last minute bipar-tisan meetings, the bill to fund

the government until February 16 did not receive the required 60 votes. The Senate voted 50-48 to block the stopgap funding measure.

The short-term spending bill was passed by the House on Thursday.

This is part of the Democrats strategy to force President Trump and the Republicans to negotiate with them on illegal immigrants who are facing deportation.

The effect of the shutdown would be felt most from Monday when the federal government employees would not be able to join for their work and be forced to stay at home without pay.

It is estimated that more than 800,000 federal employees would be furloughed. Only the essential services would be open. The last time that a government shut-down happened was in 2013.

Earlier in the day, the Of-fice of Management of Budget said it was preparing for "what

we're calling the Schumer Shut-down".

The Director of Office of Management of Budget Mick Mulvaney told reporters that efforts were being made to have the government shutdown less impactful than it was in 2013.

"We're going to manage the shutdown differently. We are not going to weaponize it. We're not going to try and hurt people, especially people having to work for this federal government. But we still need Congress to appro-priate the funds," he said.

Military will still go to work, the border will still be patrolled, fire folks will still be fighting the fires and the parks will be open. But in each of these cases people will not be paid, Mulvaney said.

Fanny and Freddy will be open, the post office will be open, the TSA will be open, but again all of these people will be working for nothing, which is simply not fair, he said.

US Postal Services would be working. The last government shutdown lasted for 16 days in October 2013. The previous shutdown before that was for 21 days that ended on January 6, 1996

However, this is for the first time in recent history that a shutdown has taken place when both the House and the Senate as well as the White House is controlled by the same party.

"This is completely unfair and uncompassionate for my Democratic colleagues to fili-buster government funding, harm our troops, and jeopard-ise health coverage for nine mil-lion children because extreme elements of their base want illegal immigration to crowd out every other priority," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell said.

He argued that immigration reform needed to be handled separately from the spending

bill.Trump has cancelled his

scheduled weekend trip to Mar-a- Lago in Florida. How-ever, he would continue with his trip to Davos to attend the World Economic Forum meeting next week.

"Democrats can't shut down the booming Trump economy. Are they now so desperate they'll shut down the government in-stead?" said White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and described it as a "Schumer shut-down".

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer is the Senate Minority Leader.

"Senate Democrats own the Schumer Shutdown. Tonight, they put politics above our na-tional security, military families, vulnerable children, and our country's ability to serve all Americans," Sanders said.

"We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants

while Democrats hold our law-ful citizens hostage over their reckless demands. This is the behaviour of obstructionist los-ers, not legislators," Sanders said in a statement.

"When Democrats start pay-ing our armed forces and first responders we will reopen nego-tiations on immigration reform.

During this politically manu-factured Schumer Shutdown, the President and his Adminis-tration will fight for and protect the American people," the White House said.

Earlier, Trump held a last-minute meeting with Schumer to avert a government shut-down.

"We had a long and detailed meeting. We discussed all of the major outstanding issues, we made some progress, but we still have a good number of disagree-ments. The discussions will con-tinue," Schumer said soon after his meeting with Trump.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): Five districts in Nagaland Mokokchung, Tuensang, Mon, Zunheboto and Longleng will be experi-encing frequent power-rationing in the coming, according to a statement from the department of Power.

“This is to inform that the 5 districts under Mokokchung transmission division namely: Mokokchung, Tuensang, Mon, Zunheboto and Longleng may experience frequent unscheduled load shedding as Kohima load centre is being fed from PGCIL, Mokokchung due to the fire that broke out at Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL), Government of India at Nagarjan, Dimapur on 15th Janu-ary causing damage to cables in one of the power panels.

“As Mokokchung and Kohima load

centres are restricted to draw only 50MW from PGCIL, Mokokchung during the shutdown period of Doyang Hydro Electric Project which is from 7:30pm to 4:00pm everyday; power availability has been con-straint,” reasoned a press release from the establishment of Mokokchung transmis-sion division on Sat.

“It may be mentioned that Kohima load centre was being fed from PGCIL, Dimapur before the incident. As such, the five districts under Mokokchung transmission division may experience more load shedding hours than usual. This arrangement will be in place till the damaged panels are restored. Therefore, all affected consumers are requested to kindly bear with the inconvenience”, the statement read.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): The Janata Dal (U) has re-iterated its alliance with the now-hardly-existing Democratic Alliance of Na-galand in the run-up to the Nagaland assembly elections.

A press statement from the JD (U) on Sat. stated that the party was com-mitted to contesting the

assembly elections ‘in a meaningful way’.

“The party is in the process of consulting all the concern political par-ties and groups to finalist the alliance. The state party leaders and some regional outfit will meet the party President Nitish Kumar in Delhi on 27th of Jan for fi-nal decision,” it informed.

Eastern Mirror Desk Dimapur, Jan. 20: Despite putting up a brave public front, the Congress party in Nagaland continues to suffer setbacks–a trend that has been plaguing the grand old party for decades in Nagaland.

The latest blow to hit the Nagaland Pradesh Pradesh Committee (NPCC) arrived from its veteran leader, and former chief minister KL Chishi. Citing ‘trust deficit,’ the Congress veteran on Sat. announced his resig-

Eastern Mirror DeskDimapur, Jan. 20: On the evening of Jul. 11 2017, four persons including a minor boy were killed when the aged bridge over Chathe River at 4th Mile in Dimapur collapsed. In this connection two es-tablishments namely the Acaut of Nagaland and the Diphupar Village Council had registered separate First Information Reports (FIR) with the Diphupar Police Station the same day.

Six months since the tragic tragedy, and the con-sequent registration of FIR, the authorities in concern are yet to act on the dual police complaints.

The investigating of-ficer of Diphupar police station told Eastern Mirror on Sat. that the case was yet to be processed and have been stalled as per direction from the ‘high-er authority.’ The officer also pointed out that the Diphupar police had filed a suo moto case in this connection, as soon as the incident had occurred.

Further details could not be obtained as the po-lice officers involved in the case could not be reached

nation from the NPCC–and the Indian National Con-gress, by extension–with immediate effect.

Sources close to Chishi suggested that he was most likely to join a national party.

2 STATEEASTERN MIRROR | Dimapur, Sunday, January 21, 2018

Youths in Ahthibung of Peren district take out a public procession during an outreach programme, which highlighted flagship government schemes, on Dec. 12. The event was organised by the directorate of Field Publicity Nagaland & Manipur regions at Ahthibung, updates on Wednesday informed. The ‘special’ outreach programme emphasised on details about the schemes Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and the concept of Soil Health cards, it was informed.

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Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju; Nagaland state’s BJP President Visasolie Lhoungu, seen here with candidates.

Rajesh Soundararajan (Second-left) and other officials at the first meeting of the DLSC at the DC’s conference hall in Kohima on Jan. 20.KPC members pose for a photograph during the observation of the club’s 17th foundation ay on Sat. in Kohima.

A group of youth sing during the second day of the Angami Catholic Youth Association’s conference on Jan. 20.

Pol. parties get election dos & don’ts from code comm.

CORRECTIONThis is to inform that the identity of Mr. Khyolamo Humtsoe, named in one of the many press statements issued in condemnation of the violent incident at Wokha town on Fri., was submitted by an organisa-tion named Wokha Humtsoe Elumyo Senior Youth Welfare Forum. Eastern Mirror regrets the naming of Mr. Humtsoe without prior verification. This is an apology to Mr. Humtsoe for any repercussion arising from the news piece.

CEO convenes meeting with media, political parties

KPC observes 17th foundation day

Arms license holders asked to deposit arms within 7 days

Officials urged to strictly follow MCC guidelines

NSCN (IM) ‘crime cell’ cadres arrested for kidnapping

Dimapur DC instates committee

Angami Catholic youth convention enters day-two

Peren’s DEO meets election committees

State BJP welcomes candidates to party’s fold

Orgs. flay Wokha shooting

cal parties and candidates that they should avoid un-scrupulous activities. These include corrupt practices and offences under elec-tion statutes such as brib-ery, intimidation of voters, impersonation of voters; canvassing within hundred meters of polling stations; holding public meeting 48 hours prior to polling clos-ing; transport and convey-ance of voters to and from polling station.

Zhiemi ment ioned that no party or candidate should indulge in any ac-tivity which may aggravate existing differences or cre-ate hatred or cause tensions among different tribes and communities, religious or linguistic. No political par-ty or candidate will be per-mitted to make use of any individual’s land, building, compound, wall etc. with-out the owner’s permission for erecting flag-staffs, sus-pending banners etc., they were informed.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): The chief elec-toral officer (CEO) of Nagaland Abhijit Sinha has issued a circular informing that a meeting with representatives of all the print and electronic media in Nagaland will be held at the conference hall of the deputy commissioner of Kohima on Jan. 22 at 1 p.m.

The meeting has been called with regard to the provision of section 127 A of the RP Act 1951 instructions of ECI on advertise-ment and paid news and the guideline issued by ECI, PCI and NBSA on media related matters concerning election.

Members of the State Level Media Certification and Monitoring Committee;

the State Level Committee to entertain ap-plications for certification for advertisement of political parties and candidates; station directors, AIR / Doordarshan, Kohima; media and communication officer PIB, Kohima; and representatives from all local dailies /news channels.

Also in a separate circular, the CEO has convened a meeting with representatives of all political parties in the state at the confer-ence hall of the Deputy Commissioner, Kohima on Jan. 23 at 11 a.m. The meeting has been called with regard to expenditure monitoring measures in view of the upcom-ing assembly elections to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): The Kohima Press Club (KPC), which came into being in 2001 with an objec-tive to promote both organi-zational and professional re-spect as well as regeneration of the press fraternity of the state capital, observed its 17th foundation day on Jan. 20 at the conference hall of Congress Bhavan in Ko-hima. A press release from the club’s general secretary on Sat. informed about the event .

Delivering the presi-dential address at the pro-gramme, KPC president Xavier Rutsa shared in brief the history of the club. He said the KPC was formed in

2001 by few members of the fourth estate and it became the oldest Press Club in the state. The KPC, which humbly began with a small number of members, has evolved into a strong body with 56 registered members from both print and elec-tronic media today, Rutsa said. He acknowledged the pioneers of the club and all the members for rendering their active support and cooperation to the fraternity on all occasions, the press release updates.

During the programme, senior members of the club, Oken Jeet Sandham and Narain B Sagar delivered brief speeches and shared

their concerns for the wel-fare of the club and its mem-bers. They also encouraged the members of the club to uphold journalistic ethics and execute fair reporting during the forthcoming Na-galand Assembly Election 2018.

Earlier, KPC member Rana Chetri prayed for the gathering while KPC gen-eral secretary Alice Yhoshü and treasurer Ng. Solomon Sha delivered their respec-tive annual reports.

The programme was chaired by KPC member, Vishü Rita Krocha. Alto-gether, 34 members and well wishers of the club at-tended the programme.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): The district election of-ficer of Mokokchung dis-trict Sachin Jaiswal has issued an order directing all licensed arms holders to deposit their arms and am-munitions to their respec-tive police station within a period of seven days.

The officer, also dep-uty commissioner of the district, said in the order

that the prevailing law and order situation had been reviewed and examined minutely in view of the an-nouncement of election to the 13th State Legislative Assembly elections. It is necessary to keep all the li-censed arms in safe custody of police stations to ensure maintenance of law and order during election in the district, the order stated.

However, any indi-vidual wishing to appeal against this order may sub-mit written justification for retaining licensed arms to the deputy commissioner during all office working days.

The deposited arms and ammunitions may be withdrawn one week after the declaration of the elec-tion result.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): The District Election Officer and Deputy Commissioner, Peren Sarangi, on Jan. 19 apprised the Election Expenditure Monitoring Commit-tee about their duties which should start within 72 hours of announcement of the election. Updates from DPRO stated on Sat.

DEO made a special reference of all election related issues and complaints which will be coordinated by a control room set up for the purpose.

Sarangi also reminded the members that as a govern-ment servant everyone is bound by duties and added that everyone is deputed to Election Commission till the com-pletion of the process. She also requested the members to be thorough with their own assigned duties.

Earlier in the day, DEO also had a meeting with the entire sector magistrates of 6-Tening and 7-Peren assembly constituency at the Old DC office.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): The Lotha Students’ Un-ion (LSU) and the Wokha Circle Students’ Union (WCSU) have condemned the inhuman and barbaric act meted towards one of its member, Renbit-hung Yanthan, a student of Bailey Baptist College Wokha son of Etsorhomo Yanthan on Jan. 18 at GA colony in Wokha.

The two unions while condemning, appealed to the law enforcing agen-cies to book the culprits evolved in the incident at the earliest and award befitting punishment as per the law of the land. A press release was jointly appended by LSU and WCSU presidents.

Also, the Humtso Vil-lage Yanthan Ekhung (HVYE) and the Yan-than Hungjantaren Okho (YHO) have condemned the barbaric and inhuman act meted out to Etsorho-mo Yanthan and his family on Jan. 18.

“A group of miscre-ants led by Tumchobemo Kikon S/o. Lt. Sungro-

shan Kikon of Longsa vil-lage presently a resident of Vungotchu colony Wokha town forcibly entered the residence of Etsorhomo Yanthan attacking the fami ly members wi th wooden, iron road and a pistol injuring Etsorho-mo Yanthan and his son Thungjanbemo Yanthan and also damaged two motorcycles,” a press re-lease from YHO president Janbemo Yanthan, GB ‘C’ Khel Nsemo Yanthan and HVYE chairman Yibemo Yanthan stated.

The organization al-leged that during the scuf-fle, ‘Tumchobemo Kikon took out a pistol and shoot three times in the head, neck and chest grievously injuring Renbithung Yan-than son of Etsorhomo Yanthan.’

While condemning such inhuman act HVYE and YHO have urged upon the law enforcing agencies to take the matter seriously and arrest all the culprits at the earliest and serve stringent punishment as per the law.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): Dimapur district authorities have arrested two members of the NSCN (IM) stated to be attached with the armed faction’s “crime cell,” in connection with kidnapping a businessman from the city. The Dimapur police’s public relations establishment is-sued a press release on Sat. informing about the arrest.

The police said that in-formation was received at East Police Station on Jan. 19 about a businessman who was reportedly abducted from his shop at MP Road by some unknown individu-als, suspected to be under-ground cadres.

“Dimapur police verified the spot and after verifica-tion revealed that one Mr. Subash Kumar Jain (45 yrs)

proprietor of Amar Agency (garment shop) was report-edly missing from his shop at around 1230 hrs and no one could provide any informa-tion about victim or miscre-ants,” the police stated.

The authorities then ex-amined CCTV footage in a few locations during which one ‘suspected vehicle’ with the registration AS01-9353 (Maruti Swift) was identi-fied.

‘Accordingly the vehi-cle’s particulars were passed to various agencies under Dimapur commissionerate who were on surveillance duty in various market / places. While conducting search and enquiry, at about 1700 hrs the noted suspect vehicle was intercepted near Aoyimiti village junction

along with two NSCN (IM) cadres namely Toki Achumi (23) a “rajapeyu”; Khetoho Jakhalu (23) a “khapur,” both presently attached to one Khekuto Jakhalu, “secy. crime cell (LO) NSCN (IM),” the police stated in the press release.

The two accused were arrested and produced at the East Police Station along with the seized vehicle, the updates informed.

“The arrested accused stated that they had already released the victim Mr. Sub-ash Kumar Jain from Purana Bazar area, and voluntar-ily accepted their involve-ment in the crime. In this connection a case has been registered at East PS and further investigation is on,” the police added.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): Following the announcement of state assembly election to the 13th Nagaland Legisla-tive Assembly, Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer Dimapur, Sushil Kumar Patel has constituted a committee comprising of the follow-ing officers with immediate effect till the completion of the election.1. PD, DRDA Dimapur (chairman)

– 9436008449 / 85754284492. Rahul Mali, IAS (nodal officer for

EEM) convenor - 92844880683. District Treasury Officer, Dimapur

(member) - 8974344929The committee shall suo-motto ex-

amine case of seizure made by police, SST& FST and also look into matters of FIR / case registered against the seizure. The committee shall also find out whether the seizure links with any party / candidate and the same shall be informed to the expenditure observer and DC & DEO. All infor-mation pertaining to release of cash shall be maintained by Nodal Officer EEM (Election Expenditure Monitor-ing). If the release of the cash is more than Rs.10 lakh it has to be informed to the Income Tax authority, the order stated.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): A co-ordina-tion meeting for implementation of Model Code of Conduct (MCC) for Wokha district was held on Jan. 20 in the deputy commissioner’s conference hall.

The meeting was held with election expenditure monitoring cell, Election Expenditure monitoring control room and call centre, assistant expenditure observers, video surveillance team, video viewing team, accounting team, flying squads, static surveillance team and media certifi-cation, and monitoring Cell.

Presiding over the meeting, sub divi-sion officer (civil) of Wokha T Lanusenla Longkumer informed all team members about their roles and responsibilities to be carried out during the election process. She also reminded all concerned officials to remain in their respective place of assigned duties and perform their responsibilities with sincerity.

With the Model Code of Conduct is in-force, SDO urged all officials to strictly follow the laid down guidelines for the smooth conduct of the election.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): The Angami Catholic Youth Asso-ciation (ACYA) 31st convention being held under the theme “Cel-ebrating Faith, Celebrating Cul-ture” at Mary Help of Christians Cathedral entered day two.

Speakers for the day’s pro-gramme were Rovilatuo Ni-cholas, IAS, Richard Belho and Kezhasezo Kenneth. They spoke on prospects in civil services, enhancing livelihood through development, and teaching as a career option under the theme “passion in my profession.” A press release from organisers on Sat. informed about the event.

Mor spoke about the vari-

ous aspects and responsibilities as an administrative officer. He highlighted different steps and designations when a person clears NCS, NPSC, UPSC and competitive exams. He shared his own experiences as an adminis-trative officer citing examples of incidents such as tribunal clashes, factional clashes, etc.

Mor also emphasize on re-sponsibilities that one have to shoulder and face in order to maintain law and order.

“An administration officer has the most difficult job, the most tested but most satisfying profession,” he added.

Pointing out the ever increas-

ing unemployed youths, Belho challenged the youths to think beyond government jobs, dream bigger and take risks.

“Productive skills are in-grained in the DNAs of Nagas but most of the time, we tend to take the shortcut route,” he said.

Belho called on the youths to open their minds and change their outlook and think innovatively.

“We need a change of heart, look to God and give an extra time to pick up a new skill,” he added.

Kezhasezo Kenneth said ‘amid the ever growing devel-opment and innovations in the society that has given rise to a

thousands of new profession and streams, teaching is a profession that will keep on going and con-tinue to flourish.’

Sharpen your skill and abil-ity, then even the simplest posi-tion will enable and drive you towards greater opportunities, he said.

Kenneth urged the youth to take up teaching as a profession to enhance the prevailing society and create a more meaningful society.

Folk song and debate compe-titions, skit and songs presenta-tions from Southern, Western, Northern and Kohima town regions marked the day’s event.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nagaland unit heart-ily welcome the intending candidates V Kashiho Sangtam of 59th assembly con-stituency Seyochung Sitimi and H Kehovi of 33rd Suruhoto who joined the party on Jan. 19 at Guwahati in the presence of Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home Kiren Rijiju, who is also the BJP election in-charge for Nagaland and state president, Visasolie Lhoungu. A press release from the party’s Media Cell informed.

The party has reminded that BJP has adopted a resolution in the state execu-tive meeting held at Mokokchung earlier

about, ‘an open door policy.’ The resolu-tion is to welcome any new entrants to the party’s fold without any pre-condition, who is willing to work for development, peace and stability in line with the Centre under the leadership of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Amit Shah, the press release updated.

“The party is of the view that shortly many significant development is to take place in the State in favour of the Party as the people knows that BJP is the only party that can deliver stability with a corruption-free Government and development with performance,” it stated.

WEATHER FORECAST IN OTHER DISTRICTS

Max Min DP RH RF

WOKHA 15.2 8.8 7.5 73 NIL

ZBT 10.7 5.8 7 85 NIL

MON 22.2 12 12.3 89 NIL

TUENSANG 15 10.2 6.9 71 NIL

MKG 15 9.4 11.6 89 NIL

PHEK 17.6 7 9.8 98 NIL

KIPHIRE 20 7.6 11.2 98 NIL

SECHÜ ZUBZA 18 10.5 10.8 72 NIL

LONGLENG - - - - -

TSEMINYU 24 12.8 13.5 52 NIL

JALUKIE 23 14 14.8 89 NIL

MANGKOLEMBA 23.8 16 15.9 73 NIL

*Dew Point (DP) *Relative Humidity (RH) * Rainfall (RF)

Source: Department of Soil & Water Conservation, Nagaland

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): The first meeting of the dis-trict-level standing commit-tee (DLSC) for the Model Code of Conduct and Ex-penditure Monitoring was held with various repre-sentatives from political parties and nongovernmen-tal organizations’ on Jan. 20 in the DC’s conference hall at Kohima town. The IPR gave updates about the meeting on Sat.

The discussions re-volved around activities set for the 13th Nagaland Leg-

islative Assembly elections in Kohima district.

Presiding over the meet-ing, the district election officer (DEO) of Kohima Rajesh Soundararajan said that the meeting was con-vened to discuss various election-related issues and assignments.

The DEO requested the members to used ‘su-vidha,’ which is an online permission management portal where candidates can apply for permission for meetings, rallies along

with a No Objection Cer-tificate (or NOC) from the authorities.

Soundararajan appealed to the candidates to open a separate dedicated bank account for the election expenditure monitoring at least one day prior to the date of nomination. He re-quested all the political par-ties to support and coopera-tion ‘as it is a constitutional duty of everyone to conduct free and fair election.’

The superintendent of Kohima police Aotemsu

also sought cooperation from the NGOs, political parties and the public to conduct elections peace-fully. He assured adequate security arrangements dur-ing the election process.

Assistant Commission-er Shashank Pratap Singh also highlighted election expenditure monitoring activities.

Talking to the attending individuals about the model code of conduct, Extra As-sistant Commisisoner Weku Zhiemi informed the politi-

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Scenes from the job fair conducted by the Indian Ins tute of Hardware Technology at its centre in Dhobinullah, Army Supply Road on January 19 and 20.

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Members of Pro Rural with the residents of River Belt Colony and DMC officials at the launching of Project Garbage to Gold on January 20.

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NStCB officials are seen during the 48th annual general mee ng in its head office, Dimapur, on January 19.

Na onal workers from the Angami and Chakhesang community pose for a group photo along with the NSCN (IM) steering commi ee members during a consulta ve mee ng on January 19.

NStCB achieves 18.70% growth during 2017 IIHT organises job fair

JD (U) to contest state electionCommittee inspects road project in Wokha

DC Dimapur briefs editors National workers reaffirm support to collective leadership

Project to turn Dimapur’s ‘garbage to gold’ takes flight

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): Nagaland State Coopera-tive Bank Limited (NStCB) has registered a growth of 18.70% as on March 31, 2017, against 10.78% as on March 31, 2016. Simul-taneously, the bank made an operating profit of INR 837.14 lakh during 2017

that grew almost four times of INR 215.19 lakh of the previous financial year.

NStCB vice chairman Kekhwengulo Lea stated this during the 48th an-nual general meeting of the bank on January 19 held in its head office in Di-mapur. Lea also informed

that the accumulated loss of the bank has drastically dropped to INR 2901.00 lakh as on March 31, 2017, as against INR 3738.14 lakh as on March 31, 2016.

Secretary of coopera-tion Chemrumo Lotha, ad-dressing the members, has emphasised on the need for

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): Janata Dal (United) has announced to contest the upcoming state assembly election in a meaningful way. JD (U) is part of the Democra-tive Alliance of Naga-land (DAN).

JD (U) general secre-tary and chief spokesper-

son, KC Tyagi, stated that Nagaland unit has already started its campaign in broader manner. Recently, the party had conducted a consultative meeting in Kohima on January 13, which was addressed by the national secretary general and secretary.

Tyagi further stated

that the party is in the process of consulting all the concerned politi-cal parties and groups to finalise the alliance. He added that the state party leaders and some regional outfits would meet the party president Nitish Ku-mar in Delhi on January 27 for the final decision.

Our CorrespondentWokha, Jan. 20 (EMN): Monitoring cum-Vigilance Committee (McVC) under the banner of Lotha Hoho, for the ongoing work at Wokha-Merapani road (widening and blacktop-ping), inspected the works at helipad on January 19 after learning that the works were not as per the guidelines.

The committee had a meeting at Sivasagar on November 21 last at the office of the DGM (P), NHIDCL, which was at-tended by members of the Lotha Hoho and McVC with Fakrul Islam, NHIDCL DGM (P) and Rupam Deka, Manager (P) NHIDCL. In the meet-ing NHIDCL had assured to deployed engineers for proper quality monitoring on daily basis as per the de-mand of the McVC at the earliest.

The committee stated that the works continued without any action as per the assurance whereas the Wokha-Merapani road is approaching to an end with major and final works including the installing of hume pipes.

The committee alleged that cutting and widening of the road was not done except for cleaning along-side the road. The com-mittee which met the work in charge at the site had directed to carry out the measurements and works criteria as per guidelines.

The committee has also urged the company and contractor for a joint sitting at the earliest on or before January 31. The commit-tee further decided tak-ing action to the extent of stopping the project if the company and the contrac-tor fail to comply with their demands.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer Dimapur, Sushil Kumar Patel, while briefing on Model Code of Conduct (MCC), urged the editors of print media, proprietors of cable TV and printing presses to strictly adhere with the guidelines regard-ing advertisement, paid news, telecast of political news and printing of pam-phlets.

The DC stated this dur-ing a meeting held on Janu-ary 20 in his office’s confer-

ence hall. In the meeting, DC Di-

mapur along with AEO Di-mapur briefed all concerned about the Model Code of Conduct and urged them to adhere with provisions of the law with regard to ad-vertisement, paid news, tel-ecast of political news and printing of pamplets.

The members present in the meeting clarified their doubts from DC and DEO Dimapur, Sushil Ku-mar Patel and Assistant Election Officer Dimapur Rolland Merry.

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putting more efforts to take the bank move forward so that it can deliver uninter-rupted banking service to the people and work for the economic emancipations of the people, especially the cooperative societies, agriculturist, artisans, the have-nots etc while ensur-ing financial soundness of the bank.

Managing director Im-tilemba Longkumer placed the annual report of di-rectors for the year 2016-17 and on behalf of the Board of Directors placed on record the gratitude to the state government for all help and guidance ex-tended to the bank in times of need. The director also acknowledged the co-op-eration and help received from the Government of India, NABARD, RBI and

other entities.Registrar of cooperative

societies, Wepe Ritse, con-ducted the election proc-ess where Ningsang Aier, Kasheto Yeptomi, and Zandi Domta were elected in the board of the bank representing the PACS of Dimapur, Zunheboto and Peren district respectively and also re-elected direc-tor Thsapongkyu Sangtam from Kipheri district.

The bank also bade farewell to the board of directors namely Lemjen Imsong, Yemba Chang and T Vikaho Zhimomi and thanked them for their valued contributions to the bank. Invocation prayer was pronounced by Rev. Dr. Weyiete Lohe and the vote of thanks was offered by AK Deb, general man-ager (Accounts, MIS).

Eastern Mirror Desk Dimapur, Jan. 20: The Indian Institute of Hard-ware Technology (IIHT) in Dimapur organized an an-nual job fair with the theme ‘job for all.’ The event was held on Jan. 19 and the 20th at the institution’s centre at Dhobinullah in Dimapur. The job fair was a recruitment platform for job seekers, companies, and recruiters.

More than 150 job op-portunities from more than 20 vendors and companies from various sectors in the field of marketing, real es-tate marketing, hardware and networking, account-ant, civil engineering, retail executive sales manager, banking etc., conducted the interviews this year.

The centre’s director, Kaushik Deb, called em-ployment the main focus for any society because “to give the best education or training only to the stu-dents is not enough.”

“The system has to provide platform to the students to implement and explore their skill in a pro-fessional field,” he said.

It was informed that activity was conducted to assess job seekers in find-ing a suitable job and re-cruiters to gain more em-ployees for their company. Another attraction for the youth was also the salary packages which started in the range INR 12,000-50,000.

More than 250 can-didates attended the job

fair this year. Most candi-dates were graduates who came in with certificates and documents. Saku, a bachelor’s degree holder in commerce, said that he had been without a job for two years after graduating as there were ‘not enough jobs in the state.’ “I hope that through platforms like this youth like me can get a job and support the fam-ily,” he said.

The fair’s objective was designed to help un-employed youth explore the job market and to se-cure employment. It also provided recruiters with opportunities to hire fresh candidates, those with de-grees; employers also found benefit by having new addi-tions to their teams.

Dimapur, Jan. 20 (EMN): The Angami and Chakhe-sang national workers have extended unconditional support to the collective leadership led by vice president General (retired) Kholi Konyak and the ato kilonser Th. Muivah.

The affirmation of al-legiance to the collective leadership was taken dur-ing the joint consultative meeting of the Angami and Chakhesang national workers held on January 19. The purpose of the meeting was to strengthen the eternal bond of broth-erhood and also to reach out to all the Naga broth-ers and sisters everywhere in the same spirit, NSCN (IM) has stated this in a press release issued by its MIP.

The Angami and Cha-khesang national workers, who are firmly grounded on the principle that Nagas have their own inseparable

Eastern Mirror DeskDimapur, Jan. 20: A Di-mapur-based non-govern-mental organisation Pro Rural has launched a sani-tation campaign dubbed “Project garbage to gold” on January 20 at River Belt Colony in Dimapur. The colony was awarded as winner of the ‘Clean-est colony competition’ in 2017. The campaign was held in collaboration with the Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC).

DMC is in an endeav-

our to make Dimapur municipal area a ‘dustbin free zone’ by 2018. The initiative is in line with the announcement by the DMC’s administrator Moa Sangtam on December 4, 2017, during the advent Christmas celebration that the municipal would be launching a project to con-vert household and kitchen waste into manure from January 2018.

Members of Pro Rural explained that to turn ‘gar-bage into a useful product,’

biodegradable waste must be separated in contain-ers provided by the DMC and Pro Rural, ‘sprinkle the powder provided and cover the container with a plank of wood to help re-tain moisture and heat.’

The water from the waster accumulated in the container can be used for watering plants, cleaning drains and kitchen sink etc. The waste then can be used as garden manure, it advised.

DMC had started a

and universal natural rights to self determine her own political future, have reaf-firmed their unconditional support to the collective leadership led by its vice president Gen. (retd.) Kho-li Konyak, and the ato kil-onser Th. Muivah.

The joint consulta-tive meeting was attended

by collective leadership members including Lieut. Col. (retd.) Neipfupe Venuh and KK Angami along with a host of steer-ing committee executive members, steering com-mittee members, kilon-sers, deputy kilonsers, tatars and regional au-thorities.

The meeting further reaffirmed its support to the August 3, 2015, Frame-work Agreement signed by the NSCN leaders late Isak Chishi Swu and Th. Muiv-ah with the Government of India, through which the GOI recognised the unique history and situations of the Nagas.

project called ‘A Better Dimapur’ on the theme ‘Cleaner, greener and healthy’ Dimapur with com-munity participation. Civic groups namely Team Green of Dimapur, Team Clean of Dimapur, Act of Kindness Movement, Dismantling Team, and the establish-ment of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dimapur and a core team for the ‘Bet-ter Dimapur’ project.

Another event was the ‘cleanest colony competi-tion’ in 2017, which started in July 2017 and judged by five judges. River Belt col-ony (ward-11) was ranked first; Kevijau colony (ward-16) in second position; Lengrijan colony (ward-12) in third position; Island colony (ward-10) in fourth position; and Niu colony (ward-22) in the fifth posi-tion respectively.

The second phase of ‘Better Dimapur’ com-menced from January 2018 with community participa-tion as its main motivational component. At the launch of Project Garbage to Gold at River Belt colony’s com-munity hall, 50 materials for household waste compost-ing were distributed.