WWW.EASTERNMIRRORNAGALAND.COM EASTERN MIRROR Zuckerberg rules out resigning, Aamir Khan urges urban Nadal maintains top spot at announces formation of crowd to help solve villagers’ ATP rankings | P12 research committee | P9 water woes | P10 WORLD ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS VOL. XVII NO. 96 | PAGES 12 ` 4/- RNI NO. NAGENG/2002/07906 DIMAPUR, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2018 JHUM CULTIVATION NPF wants credit from PDA Dimapur, April 9 (EMN): The opposition 9 and Part 9(a) of the Constitution. Naga People’s Front (NPF) party on Mon- “The government was to clear 3 years Nagaland loses 30.62 MT day claimed credit for a financial package backlog of Rural Development grant-in- that was received from the Centre which aid and matching cash grant apart from according to the party could not be re- schemes of communitized (sic) depart- leased in February because of the election ments like School Education, Power, of soil per hectare every year Code of Conduct in Nagaland. PHED and H&FW. Conversely, a press release from the The fund was to be released in Feb- Kohima Bureau NPF on Monday accused the People’s ruary 2018 but since the election model Kohima, April 9 (EMN): Democratic Government (PDA) of indulg- code of conduct came into effect, the The extensive practice of ing in ‘plagiarism.’ matter had to be kept in abeyance till the 'jhum' cultivation (or ‘shift- “NPF-led DAN government under the state assembly elections were over,” the ing cultivation’) in the hills chief ministership of TR Zeliang managed press release read. of Nagaland results in the to secure Rs. 185.09 crores from Niti Aayog It took umbrage to what it claimed was average loss of 30.62 metric and Ministry of Finance, GOI; the sanc- Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio announcing tonnes of soil area per hec- tion of which was made on 8 November his government will be distributing VDB tare annually, according to 2017 through the initiative of former chief allocation on April 24. “In the spirit of fair a government report. secretary and the state RD department. play and decency, the PDA government In its annual report of The special sanction for 2017-18, first of should give credit to the earlier govern- 2017-18, the state’s depart- its kind provided to the state of Nagaland, ment as and when it is due, and not hog ment of Soil and Water was released for areas not included in Part the limelight on false pretences,” it stated. Conservation has reported that said average loss of land area comes in the form of “turbulent velocity of runoff and soil erosion.” Rijiju has no business This further leads to de- struction of prime agricul- tural and forest lands in the talking about Indo-Naga form of erosion, landslides, flash floods and sedimen- tation – the report has ob- negotiation – NSCN (IM) served. Dimapur, April 9 (EMN): tiation, the NSCN deems it the statement read. Being one of the major In a withering statement necessary to make it plain According to the NSCN means of land uses in the the NSCN (IM) on Monday and clear to one and all of (IM), Rijiju has no business state, the report stated, the EM Images dismissed the Union Minis- what has been transpiring talking about a political is- practice of shifting cultiva- A file picture of a ‘jhum’ field in Kohima district. ter of State for Home Affairs all along these twenty-one sue ‘of which he is ignorant’ tion involved 1,35,339 rural Kiren Rijiju as ‘incompe- long years of historic nego- – even as the negotiation ‘is households covering about es. High rainfall during the cording to the report, was rivers. As a consequence, it that cases of fire-incident tent’ to make any comment tiations. progressing at the highest 947.37 sq km. This in turn monsoon, it stated, leaves the state’s record of high reduces the productivity of have been reported fre- on the status of the ongoing “It is unbecoming of Mr. level.’ constitutes 5.71% of the the state very vulnerable annual rainfall – charac- the land and hampers the quently from all parts of Indo-Naga political talks. Rijiju to have made such “The signing of the state’s total geographical to heavy runoff and soil terised by excessive surface recharge of ground water the state. The group issued a statements through the lo- framework agreement on area, according to the de- erosion. runoff during summer and as well, the report stated. While identifying those press statement on Mon- cal and national media (re- 3rd August 2015 through partment’s report. Even as the state’s drought like situation in It further remarked problems and challenges, day in response to Rijiju ported widely on the 8th of the statesmanship of Mr. The traditional style of economy is closely linked winter. Though the report that Nagaland is highly the department however recently telling reporters at April 2018) of the on-going Narendra Modi, the prime jhum cultivation using a to its natural resource base noted that the state’s an- prone to multiple hazards asserted that its endeav- Guwahati in Assam that the negotiation to which he is minister of India and the ‘vast area’ leads to soil deg- and climate sensitive sec- nual rainfall varies from as it falls under seismic our was ‘to bring about NSCN (IM) had dropped incompetent to comment. NSCN leadership has laid radation which ultimately tors such as agriculture and 150 cm to 220 cm which zone V and is very suscep- sustainable development certain ‘crucial demands’ It is demeaning of him to the principles and founda- affects ‘production and forestry, it has been left fac- could be a blessing if har- tible to landslides. About in harmony with nature including ‘sovereignty and denigrate the Indo-Naga tion towards the final solu- productivity of the land’, ing what the department nessed to the optimum, it 15,551 sq km of the state’s through optimum devel- territorial integration of talk which is being held at tion. At this crucial stage, the report stated. said was an increased risk becomes a problem under geographical area is said to opment and judicious utili- Nagas’ from the negotia- the Prime Ministerial level. giving out irresponsible In agriculture, Naga- of the negative impacts of the prevailing topography be under ‘landslide zone’. sation of natural resources’. tion. At no point of the negotia- statements in the media or land is still considered climate change. and system of land use in Earthquake is also one of According to the report, “In view of the repeat- tion have both the parties otherwise by any individual one of the most backward Thus, according to the the state. the major disasters which the department was stated ed immature statement ignored important political or party that contravenes states ‘with low productiv- department’s judgement, Excessive rain causes have been striking this re- to be ‘taking up broad- of Mr. Kiren Rijiju, MOS, issues, and the concocted the spirit of the peace talk is ity and poor in livestock ‘land development for eco- high erosive velocity of gion (small scale tremors) based conservation activa- Ministry of Home Affairs, statement of Mr. Rijiju that, uncalled for. We advise him production’. The states’ nomic cultivation is a huge surface runoff which in in recent times. tion through various state government of India cre- ‘NSCN has dropped the to restrain himself from topography is divided into challenge under prevailing turn results in the washing Although the depart- and centrally sponsored ating a lot of confusion stand of the Nagas on their such repetition in near fu- hill ranges which further conditions’. away of fertile top soil and ment has not cited any spe- schemes throughout the and thereby vitiating the sovereign right’ is a figment ture in the interest of both breaks into spurs and ridg- Another problem, ac- inundation of streams and cific reasons, it maintained state’. environment of the nego- of his own imagination,” the parties,” it stated. 'Nagaland Home minister reporting DGP as incompetent' Thirty, including 27 children, killed Dimapur, April 9 (EMN): A letter purportedly imperative that an officer ered during the past years. The deputy chief minis- written by Patton to Singh having sufficient seniority Rupin Sharma has just 26 ter of Nagaland Y Patton, on March 28, containing and who is well aware of years of experience,” the as school bus plunges into gorge who also holds additional said request, went viral on the local issues is posted as letter reads. But it also in- Shimla/Nurpur, April 9 deceased. charge of the Home de- the internet on April 9. DGP of the state police,” the formed that Sharma is a (PTI): Twenty seven chil- A magisterial probe was partment, reportedly has According to the let- letter read. 1987 IPS cadre–three years dren were among 30 killed ordered and preliminary asked Union Home Minis- ter—in the letterhead of Patton has suggested senior to Lungriading. when a school bus fer- enquiries suggested the ter Rajnath Singh to replace deputy chief minister and another IPS officer, Lun- That aside, reliable rying them back home accident occured as the Nagaland’s Director Gen- even a file reference code— griading as replacement. sources have said that Shar- plunged into a deep gorge driver lost control over the eral of Police (DGP) Rupin the Incumbent DGP “does But this is where things get ma’s stint was not limited near village Gurchal on the bus which veered off the Sharma. not possess the requisite interesting. According to only to Peren.