Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) has appreciated the state chief minister Neiphiu Rio for his prompt consideration in committing to undertake the foothill road construction on priority basis. In a press release, CNTC president K Lanu Imchen and general secretary Tsungro Kikon also acknowledged the collective initiative of the Ao legislators in taking up the foothill road issue with the chief minister.
CNTC also acknowledged the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) for their earnestness. It maintained that the Naga people as a whole have “miserably failed” to acknowledge the immense necessity of having a foothill road from Khelma to Tizit.
CNTC, therefore, asserted that foothill road project should be taken up on a war footing. CNTC has also called upon all mass-based civil society and tribal organisations and all legislators to come aboard on the issue so as to accomplish the aspirations of the people at the earliest.