• Anti-Extortion Cells (AEC) & Quick Reaction Teams (QRTs)
• High Power Committee on unabated taxation
• The Lokayukta Act
DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 15 (MExN): In a wake-up call, the Nagaland Senior Citizens Association (NSCA) has nudged the Nagaland State Government to act on a number of public welfare and security related undertakings which remains pending.
In a press statement, the NSCA through its president, Dr S I Thushi Ao, and secretary, S. Ghunakha Swu questioned as to what happened on the establishment of Anti-Extortion Cells (AEC) & Quick Reaction Teams (QRTs) as directed by the Director General of Police (DGP), Nagaland for enforcement.
Taking cognizance of the fluid condition of the rules prevailing in the state, it stated that the DGP had directed all respective districts, superintendent of police and district deputy commissioners to set up AEC & QRT on September 14, 2015.
This has been done in an apparent move to assuage the feelings and despairs of the people in general and unfortunate victims in particular, the senior citizens association noted.
However, even after a lapse of six months, its implementation is yet to see the light of the day, the NSCA reported while apprehending that there will be “more and more troubles and sufferings if left unattended.”
In this connection, the NSCA, on behalf of the elders of Nagaland, has ‘beseeched’ the concerned SPs and DCs to ensure that the proposed AECs & QRTs are established forthwith in the interest of all citizens as enunciated and in compliance of DGP’s directive.
The elders of Nagaland has also asked the State Government to put in public domain the recommendations of the High Power Committee headed by former Justice HK Sema on unabated taxation and the actions taken thereof. “In the event of non-implementation, it is sincerely appealed to carry out with unfailing assiduity to up keep the dignity of promised policies and implement it in letter and in spirit,” the NSCA also asked.
While taking serious note of the rampant corruptions and serious scams and financial embezzlement involving huge amount which has been causing heavy losses to the State exchequer, NSCA has put a reminder for implementation of the Lokayukta Act, which it said was passed in the Parliament to check such kind of ‘plague.’
Condemns all acts of violence & crime
Meanwhile, the NSCA has expressed concern over the series of violent incidents and criminal acts that has occurred since January 2016 in Nagaland severely affecting the harmonious social life and peaceful co-existence as a consequence.
In the first, the senior citizens association said it was aghast hear about the brutal killing of a businessman in Dimapur on February 2and the ambush on a couple between Shamator and Kiphire on February 6.
The NSCA also decried the obnoxious rape of a differently-able girl by one police personnel on January 30 at Bayavü Colony, Kohima; assault on former Dimapur Naga Students’ Union member Senenlo Kath on February 3 by RPF Personnel at Dimapur Railway Station, the attempted extortion by 2 (two) Nagaland Police personnel in connivance with two Naga underground at Chumukedima on February 3 and the murder of a man at Jalukie town on February 7 by unknown assailant.
The NSCA has condemned these incidents which it said are all alien to “our land and against the Naga cultures and practices,”
It also called for vigorous efforts to apprehend the culprits expeditiously by the concerned authorities and award befitting punishment to deter such recurrence in future.
Further, it also appealed to all concerned to remain calm and abjure violence while keeping in mind that “trouble will beget trouble only and nothing will benefit out of destructions.”
