Reacting to the “destructive and detrimental backlashes” on the issue of shifting of the Dimapur district deputy commissioner’s (DC) office to Chümoukedima, the Chakhroma Youth Organisation (CYO) Friday said that Chümoukedima was the district headquarters of Dimapur “without any unreasonable doubt” and required no refutation from any angle.
In a statement, Chakhroma Youth Organisation president Seyieneilhou Keyho and general secretary Noseho Peter pointed out that the major stretch of the district was “beyond the parameter of the small, tiny and congested confinement of Dimapur town.”
The youth front further reminded that the people from as far as Tsiepama, Piphema, Zhuikhu, Hekishe, Tsii-iima, Medzipherna areas in the south, Rüzaphema, Zutovi, Shokhuvi, Bade in the West and in the East, Nihokhu areas and the plains of Niuland areas do exist as major part of the district of Dimapur.
Asserting that Dimapur district covered a vast area with huge population spread across its length and breadth, the CYO questioned how only a few and certain Dimapur town-based unions or organisations, “who fails to see beyond their comfort, stake claim or decide the fate of the whole district of Dimapur?”
CYO has, therefore, called for immediately shifting the administrative office to Chümoukedima.
The youth body termed as “very unbecoming” that the matter was being pitched on tribal lines with “some vested organisations deliberately using erroneous details to confuse and sway public opinion”. CYO also clarified that the new DC Complex fell under Chümoukedima urban administered municipality and not as alleged. It said that the intent of “those vested organizations are dangerous to societal coexistence and will have irreparable consequences if left unchecked.”
CYO has, therefore, urged the DC Dimapur entirely ban the mushrooming of unrepresented and unmandated organisations in the district.
It may be mentioned that the State cabinet during its meeting on April 7 decided, that a team of ministers would meet with civil society organisations over shifting of DC office.