Development / Nagaland

KOHIMA, August 5: The Nagaland health and family welfare minister, Neiba Ndang, today said that the government had taken every step to combat and prevent the epidemic outbreak of viral diseases along with malaria, typhoid, hepatitis and gastroenteritis in the state. Ndang told newspersons that in all 650 people died so far. Of them 470 had died in Mon, 120 in Mokokchung, 50 in Kohima and 10 in Tuensang district. Figures from Dimapur and some other affected areas were awaited and the toll might go up, he said. Ndang, who recently toured Mokokchung and Tuensang districts, visited some health...

KOHIMA, August 1: The 24 MW Likhimro hydel power project in the Tuensang district of Nagaland is likely to be commissioned by March next year, according to Nagaland power minister K Therie. The minister said during the lean season, only one turbine out of three with eight MW, will able to generate 8 MW. The state government is contemplating to set up a 24 MW thermal power project at Dimapur at an estimated cost of Rs 88 crore. The thermal project will run by furnace oil to be carried from the Numaligarh refinery in Golaghat district of Assam. So far, a Calcutta-based company has expressed...

KOHIMA, July 24 - Viral fever and water-borne diseases in Nagaland have claimed at least 274 lives in recent months, official sources said on Saturday. The state director of health services R Shaiza said the worst-affected areas were Mon, Mokokchung and Dimapur districts where the diseases were raging in an epidemic form. He said the diseases had claimed more than 150 people in Mon alone and 81 in Mokokchung. Forty-three people had died in Dimapur. Casualty figures from other parts of the state are yet to come in. However, unofficial figures put the toll at over 600.

KOHIMA, July 18 - Over 37 per cent of the total population of Nagaland live below the poverty line (BPL), according to official reports. The reports, quoting an assessment by an expert group constituted to implement the Centre's targeted public distribution system, said about 96,000 people of the state were living below poverty line (BPL). Under the BPL scheme, introduced by the Centre in 1997, each identified family was being provided with special cards to collect ten kg of grains per month at a specially subsidised rate. It provided district-wise break-up of the 37 per cent of the BPL...

KOHIMA, July 17: At least 53 people have died so far of viral diseases like malaria and typhoid in Changki village of Mokokchung district in Nagaland. Official sources said the Changki, Longjang and Longsa areas of Mokokchung district and Tizit area of Mon district were the worst affected areas where the epidemic was spreading fast. Similar types of viral fever were also reported from Wokha, Phek and Dimapur districts. But, the situation in Changki village was the most alarming where the diseases had taken an epidemic form.