Nagaland consultative meeting on NSDZ

Thepfulhouvi Solo [dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter being invited one of the Special Guests to express my views in the Nagaland Consultative Meeting on NSDZ, Prohibition of Alcohol, Nagaland Investment Board Bill on 26/9/2014; I was not offered TIME to speak, so lastly just before the Honorable Chief Minister took his Turn to deliver his Wrap-up Remarks, I suddenly stretched my full 77 years old frame straight up and in a voice as loud as my modest vocal chord could allow, I requested the Chief Minister to please give me 4 Minutes of his Time. The Chief Minister graciously allowed and so loudly I said: Honorable Chairperson, Since the creation of Nagaland, the State Government of Nagaland has followed a POLICY of Industrialization without REALITY. From the very beginning, the Leaders talked of making Nagaland Switzerland of the East without considering the Reality on the Ground. 51 years after, -that is two generations of Nagas, Nagaland is still an industrially starved State. Our Industrial Policy has failed:i. The Sugar Mill failed. ii. The Paper Mill failed. iii. The Plywood Mill Tizit failed. iv. The Timber treating Plant Dimapur failed, v. the Fruit Factory, vi. Starch Factory. vii. Cement Factory and the viii. Stone cutting Factory at Wazeho are tottering, ix. Mechanized Brick Kiln failed. x. Prohibition failed miserably, and xi. Nagaland’s Purest Form of Democracy could Father only Cottage Industry of Extortion in the whole of the North East. Nagaland has not learned from its PAST MISTAKES, it has not learned From History. The State Policy of IDEALISM in Paper without REALITY in the ground failed. Nagaland Government followed IDEALS in Paper only, not in REALITY. Nagaland’s Industrial Policy failed because Nagaland does not first emphasize REALITY on the Ground. Nagaland has no infra-structure for Industrialization. The Naga Society does not have the ETHOS of an Industrial Society. Nagaland Ethos is still TRIBAL not freewill secular modern Democratic. This is REALITY of NAGALAND the Planners of Nagaland forget. Nagaland goes only by Paper Idealism and not Reality. The Government Employment Policy is Employment and Employment without REALITY of the Need. For 51 years, Nagaland followed IDEALISM in paper without REALITY. IDEALISM and REALISM are separated by the same distance of the Whiteman is from the Blackman. 10. American IDEALISM without Realism eliminated Saddam Hussein to usher in anticipated Democracy in IRAQ, but it produced threat to Democracy only. The Industrialized West eliminated Col. Gaddafi to replace Dictatorship with modern Democracy in LIBYA: in REALITY, it only produced CHAOS AND INSTABILITY not only to Libya alone but to the whole of the Middle East Region today. IDEALISM alone, WITHOUT REALISM, cannot produce Industrialization of Nagaland. REALITY needs to be emphasized in Nagaland’s Government Policy of Industrialization. NAGALAND GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO RESET Its Policy from ‘IDEALISM without REALITY’ to ‘REALITY WITH IDEALISM’: Reality first in its POLICY. 14. King Nebuchadnezzar was dreaming about a great Empire for Babylon when he went to sleep one night 2500 years ago. When he woke, he forgot his dream. His dream was a great Statue: i. The Head was pure Gold, ii. The Chest and Arms of Silver, iii. The Belly was Bronze, iv. Legs were of Iron, v. But the Foot was Iron and Clay mixed together. vi. A small rock came and hit the feet of the awesome Statue; the whole Structure collapsed to the ground into Dust; vii. The wind came and blew away all the dust. viii. NAGALAND GOVERNMENT’S Industrial POLICY is like Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, but its Foot is made Clay and Iron only. Nagaland cannot dream of a great Prosperous Industrialized State until the majority of us, its people particularly the elected Representatives attain a higher Standard of Honesty, Self-sacrifice and a higher standard of Selflessness than they have today. SCRAP THE IDEA OF NSDZ FOR 10 YEARS: that will not make Nagaland industrially backward immediately; use the money to REPAIR THE ROADS. It will bring Industrialization to Nagaland automatically in one Generation of Nagas. Thank you very much Chief Minister.