Politics defers from persons to context of regions. Normatively there are two types of politics: Politics of honest and politics of dishonest that people opt one or the other.Inseparably, development in society is associated with politics based on routinized authority and leadership style that power belongs to politicians.Even deacon and poor become rich as the wave of negative impact of political power remains obscurity for the development of State, once they indulge in politics. The mediocrities of power manipulation among political leaders have kept the state deadlock from development. There is no justification that explicates for predominant Nagaland Government officers in association with politicians to why the state remains behind neighboring states in development. It is not the insufficiency funds that India does not pour out in Nagaland; India has no partial funds for Nagaland less than other neighboring states for development works-the amount of sufficient projects to develop Nagaland.
The imagination of misutilizing major projects fund which India gives to the state for development is beyond the amaze of materializing. Even the basic projects fundsare stolen and utilized it for personal, family and relatives’ benefits. For instance, (a) Indira AwaasYojana (renamed as PradhanMantriAwasYojana) fund meant for citizens in Nagaland for housing project given for the Urban and rural poor families, launched by Rajiv Gandhi as the major program of rural development remains unheard and unreached to the concern Naga families. The fund follows categories like Rs. 1.5 Lakhs for house renovation, more than 1.5 Lakhs (Loan) for new house construction available for land owners who have land without building. This fund is mandatory for poor people poor citizens to attain from State Bank of India. However, one of the cleverest robbers who are next to politicians and government officers are Gao Buras; GBs have concealed such fund within their authority which is utilized for their self-interest.
(b). BPL facility is meant for lower class citizens who have less daily wages and it functions to reach rice to almost every poor citizens with affordable price but GBs in wards have kept it hidden; moreover, BPL rice is sold to mainland Indian business people by GBs. In a recent policy of transferring ration card to BPL is unknown to many below poverty line people in the State.
(c). Govt. of India has supplied approximately 9,20,000 LLINs (net) for needy people of high risk areas of Nagaland for free on January and February 2016.However, theculture of theft and money minded among the GBs haskept many families unaware of it. People in some colonies who have received have been charged with Rs. 30/net by GBs. In a recent press release, the government issued notice to GBs and other concern distributersto return the day-robbedmoney from the citizens. How many GBs and distributers have returned the money to citizens who werecharged for central free mosquito net? Most significantly, it should reach citizen regardless of any political party for the scheme belongs to central scheme, not to any particular political party
(d). Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) which was enacted by legislation on August 25, 2005, which aims to enhance the livelihood security of rural people (MRD Report. 2014) is deplorably stolen by many government officers in collaboration with Anghs, VDB secretaries and others.
(e). Signature approved by Sachin Arora(Under Secretary to the Government of India), central has released five crore two lakh eighty seven thousand for the Mid Day Meal (MDM) for the period of 2015-2016, on May 1, 2015 (MHRD India. 2015).
The preceding highlighted funds are the prototype to imagine the major funds that India release to Nagaland government every year for State development. Despite the honesty of India in supplying funds to Nagaland, political leaders, NGOs, Churches and Government officers have kept the state deadlock from development. The center has recently state that “Blame Northeast States for failure in completion of project” (Nlive. 2016). It vividly indicates that Nagaland should blame Nagaland for being undeveloped state in the country, not India. On the other hand is the failure of Naga intellectuals and students who have seen such malpractices fund and failures but remain silent. Many young Nagas have effective and loud voices on social media everyday against corruption in the State but have silence in reality.
Predominant intellectuals and educated Nagas remain intentionally blind to facility like Right to Information (RTI), which is one of the powerful means to investigate any illegal activities in the State. Nevertheless, there areemergences of few introspection citizens who start utilizing RTI to fight against corruption in the state; sooner or later, people who are indulge in degrading the State from development would bear fruits of their own. It is important to urge and appeal the State RTI to organize constant seminar or press release to encourage citizens to utilize RTI for claiming justice in the state. Moreover, the author encourages and urges every Naga citizen to come forward with facts finding on any misutilizing funds by any leaders within the community. Revelation of such hidden act is required at hand both in social media and print media.
Lemwang Chuhwanglim Researcher & Activist
