Development / Nagaland

GUWAHATI, April 5: A 6 million Nagaland Environment Protection and Economic Development Project (NEPED) jointly funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) through the India-Canada Environment Facility and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is likely to boost up sustainable management of the natural resource base of the state for the benefit of the people. The NEPED project which is coordinated by the New Delhi office of IDRC under its South Asia Research Programme has been identified as a special project in India. The Government of Nagaland is the implementing...

KOHIMA, March 26: Nagaland has taken up the issue of oil extraction by ONGC from the Assam-Nagaland border with the Centre and ONGC, Chief Minister SC Jamir recently said, reports PTI. Replying to discussions on Budget for 2001-02, Jamir told the Assembly that it was true that oil from Kolapani area under the 'disputed' belt was being extracted by ONGC with permission only from Assam government. "Our position has been that revenue should not go only to Assam and a tripartite meeting involving both the State governments and the Government of India be convened early to sort out the problem," the...

KOHIMA, March 18: The ONGC has so far drilled 30 exploratory oil wells at Changpang area under Wokha district, out of which nine were producing oil on trial basis but had been suspended since 1994, reports UNI. The annual administrative report which was tabled in the State Assembly by the Geology and Mining Department on Thursday, mentioned that four exploratory oil wells at Chumukedima-Tenephie area in Dimapur district and one in Changki area under Mokokchung district were drilled by ONGC, but these wells had not yielded positive results due to hydro-carbon deposits. The commission had so far...

KOHIMA, March 5: Nagaland Forests Minister TR Zeliang has urged the Centre to revive the Supreme Court's order restricting commercial exploitation of forests in the State in view of special status enshrined in the Constitution, reports PTI. The Apex Court has restricted timber business in the Northeastern States since 1996. However, a few mills are being allowed to recommence their activity with the permission from a High Power Committee (HPC), constituted by the Ministry of Forests and Environment, after the Supreme Court relaxed the earlier restrictions in an interim order last year. "The...

YANGON, February 15: In keeping with the changing perception in their relationship, India and Myanmar have identified at least five points in the Northeastern states of Mizoram and Nagaland for opening of border trade with the neigh-bouring country. The issue of opening of more border trading points in the economically backward NE states and North Western Myanmar received the green signal at a meeting between visiting External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh and Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Senior General Than Shwe here this morning. Indian officials revealed that...

GUWAHATI, January 29: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with Central Silk Board (CSB) has launched a Rs 1654.15 lakh programme under country co-operation framework to support the promotion and development of muga and eri silk industry in Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland, for three years. Inaugurating a 15-day resource development programme here, Joint Director of CSB and sub-programme coordinator of UNDP, JV Krishna Rao said the non-mulberry silk development programme would focus on participation of rural masses especially women. The programme will also focus on...

JORHAT, August 9: Development activities along the Assam-Nagaland border within Jorhat district have taken a backseat over the past few months as an amount of Rs 23 lakh sanctioned by the state government for welfare works in the area for the financial year March 2000-2001 is still awaiting release. A bone of contention between the two neighbouring states since the past few decades, frequent skirmisher along the border over allegations of land encroachment have been a constant pain in the neck especially for the Assam Government, which has all along claimed that land-hungry Naga folks have...

NEW DELHI, August 6: After the Central Government's permission to allow foreigners to visit Nagaland, the Union Home and Tourism Ministries have received demands for lifting restrictions on the foreign tourists in other Northeastern states as well. These states, including Manipur, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, have made a beeline for the two Ministries, and requested that foreigners should be allowed a free access in order to boost tourism. The government had last month lifted the ban on foreign tourists in certain districts of Nagaland. A decision on the demands of the other Northeast states...

KOHIMA, July 20: Centre on Wednesday told Nagaland government in no uncertain terms that non-lapsable pool of Central resources will be made available to the state subject to the condition of maintenance of transparency in project implementation and utilisation certificate by the state government of funds released under the same head for the last two years, reports PTI. Reviewing the development activities taken up under the Centre's new initiative for the region with departmental heads, the Additional Secretary of the Union Home Ministry, PS Shenoy told the government officials the Centre had...

GUWAHATI, July 17: Way back in the 1990s, there were at least 10,000 hectare of land under coffee cultivation in the Northeast. Today it is just about 3,000 hectare. Production, which should ideally have been in the range of 4,000 tons a year, hovers around the 400 tons mark. But these are only rough estimates. Ask the Coffee Board's Guwahati office for data on coffee cultivation in the region and you are likely to be refused. The Coffee Board, incidentally, is the main agency entrusted with the work of prompting coffee cultivation in the region. The Board's reluctance to part with the data is...