Our Correspondent
Kohima | March 19
Nagaland Governor Prof Jagdish Mukhi today said that the aim of the state government has always been for taking every possible step to bring development to the door step of every person.
Towards this end, the government has created four districts, namely, Tseminyu, Niuland, Chümoukedima in December 2021 and Shamator district in January 2022.
“The creation of Tseminyu district also realizes the aspirations of the Rengma people to have a district of their own. Shamator district’s creation is also the fulfillment of the desire of the Yimkhiung and Tikhir people to have a separate district and beautifully exemplifies the spirit of conciliation that the brother tribes exhibited for resolving their decades old disputes amicably, which also led to the recognition of Tikhir as a separate Naga tribe,” he said in his address on the first day of 11th session of 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) here today.
He said that the up-gradation of Niuland to a full-fledged district was required on administrative grounds, and creation of Chümoukedima district, resolved the matter regarding the headquarters of the erstwhile Dimapur district.
“There are certain other areas of the state also, from where demands have been received for creation of new districts.
My Government, keeping with our motto of unity, would not like to divide any single-tribe district. I congratulate the people of all the newly created districts and assure that we would continuously work towards the rapid and all-encompassing growth and development of these districts,” he said.
COVID-19: On COVID-19 situation, Prof Mukhi said that the past year remained challenging for all of us with the second wave of COVID-19 hitting the people with a greater intensity than the first wave in the year before that. The third wave also impacted the people but with a lesser intensity and has now receded.
“Our capabilities and health capacities were tested like never before. My Government besides taking several preventive measures and curbs to curtail the spread of the virus, also took all possible steps to ramp up the health infrastructure and ensure all the necessary medical interventions for treatment of the infected, and to save lives,” he said.
As part of the efforts to combat the COVID-19 and be prepared for the future, he told the House that the state government has significantly improved the health infrastructure of the state.
In the last one year, bed capacity, including for ICU and Critical Care have been increased from 737 to 1,309. A 200 bedded Acute Care Hospital Block in CIHSR, Dimapur which was built in record time and made operational. A 50 bedded facility was also added to Dimapur District Hospital. The Government recruited 390 additional Health Care Workers of different categories. While in July last year, the oxygen capacity was 49.3 MT, it is now 76.54 Metric Tons, he said adding further strengthening is also on-going.
“We need to continue adhering to COVID-19 behaviour,” he said and urged the people to get fully vaccinated at the earliest.
ILP: Prof Mukhi maintained that an appreciable step towards e-governance was taken by implementing the online ILP module for all the categories of ILP in the state, which will further ensure better monitoring and quality of implementation of ILP regime in the state.
He said that CM of Nagaland inaugurated the 11th NAP (IR) Battalion Headquarters at Aboi on April 29, 2021 and unveiled the Foundation Plaque of the Nagaland Police Sports Battalion on November 12, 2021.
The Nagaland Police had a significant achievement when it seized 290 gold bars weighing 48.14 kg, worth over Rs 22.78 crore, which is the single biggest seizure of the smuggled bullion in the state. In addition, the Department during the year 2021 seized drugs worth Rs 64.19 crore.
