Dimapur forms committee to check industrial units in public areas

Dimapur, Feb. 20 (EMN): The district administration of Dimapur has noted issues concerning the presence of industrial units such as brick kilns and quarries in and around residential areas and educational institutions. 

The department of Information and Public Relations (IPR) gave updates on February 20 informing about a meeting during which the board discussed the issue.

The monthly meeting of the Dimapur District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) for the month of February was held on February 20 in the deputy commissioner’s office in Dimapur.

Deputy Commissioner Anoop Kinchi, also the vice chairman of the Dimapur DPDB, presided over the meeting. Reviewing the previous minutes of the meeting with regard to the presence of brick kilns and stone quarries in and around residential areas and schools, the official informed that a committee has been formed with the DIC, Geology & Mining, the pollution board, Labour department, and the district administration as members.

‘The departments will oversee whether the factories/industries are being established as per the required norms and guidelines without posing threats to human lives and polluting the environment,’ the IPR stated.

The government servant also suggested setting up a committee to study “why banks refuses to grant loans under PMEGP.” The IPR did not explain which scheme it was.

Presenting a report of its departmental activities, the executive engineer of the PWD (roads and bridges) Tali Temsu Jamir was stated to have explained the status of the 25 ongoing road works in Dimapur and also the ongoing road projects from centrally sponsored schemes.

Jamir observed that connectivity had been achieved ‘up to a large extent yet felt that the burden of maintenance keeps on increasing,’ the IPR reported.

“It is an issue that needs to be addressed and solved at the earliest for which political support for the change process to take place is needed,” he added according to the IPR. The official suggested levying cess on diesel and petrol “to provide as maintenance fund.” He observed that “expected benefits in terms of social and economic development would materialise only with well maintained good transport infrastructures,” the IPR stated.

The government servant reminded that “all roads require regular and timely maintenance no matter whatever technical designs are chosen.”

“One should not wait for the road to be damaged but rather start maintenance well in advance,” the IPR quoted him as having said in the meeting. ‘In the context of Nagaland, he “observed that the paucity of fund and non existence of road maintenance policy posed as challenge which had led to the present bad conditions of the roads in all the districts,’ the IPR stated.

The board also discussed proposals for opening a number of new schools, among others and recommended them to the higher authority. The Power department and Nagaland State Cooperative Bank have been entrusted to present their departmental activities in the next meeting of the board, the IPR stated.