With the approaching Hornbill festival and Christmas season, the State government has decided to spruce up both the State capital Kohima and commercial hub Dimapur by announcing a mass social work on November 7, involving all government employees, municipal councils, chambers of commerce and general public of both towns.
To make the mass social work in Kohima and Dimapur effective and result oriented, State chief secretary in an office memorandum, entrusted various departments and organizations with specific allotted responsibilities and assignment, which are as under:
1. All Government Departments having heavy and medium trucks shall mobilize their fleet to trucks and ensure that the trucks which are filled with POL/diesel by the departments concerned to report on 6th November 2008 afternoon on earmarked locations to be decided upon by the Deputy Commissioners and the Municipal Councils who shall be responsible for detailing the vehicles on 7th November 2008.
2. The Chairpersons and Ward Councils of DMC and KMC shall be responsible for mobilizing labourers and the public to take active part in the mass social work in their respective wards on 7th November 2008.
3. Head of Departments and Administrative Heads shall issue directives to ensure that the Government employees participate in the social work by taking head count in their respective Departments first and assigning works to them.
4. The Medical Department shall undertake cleanliness drive by physically inspecting all hotels/restaurant/eating joints etc and ensure hygienic conditions of the premises, certification of hygienic of these premises from offices without physical inspection is to be totally discouraged.
5. The Urban Development Department shall repair, maintain and ensure that the high mass lightings installed at different locations of the capital city and in Kisama are in working order and made operational with immediate effect.
6. The district administration, Municipal Councils, Chamber of Commerce shall jointly take measures to effect the following:
(a) Painting and repainting and renovation of shops and establishments by shop keepers and the house owners particularly within the main bazaars in Dimapur and Kohima at the expense of the shop keepers and house owners. Each shop/establishment shall also repaint their sign boards and put up external lights in their shops.
(b) Unauthorised pig sties, temporary urinals, latrines in public places which are eye sores shall be removed and future erections of these unhygienic shall stand prohibited.
7. BRO and R&B Departments shall carry out emergency repairs and improvement of roads and clearances and landslides and vegetative growth roads in Dimapur and Kohima with special focus on overall improvement of the road stretches within Kohima town leading up to Kisama on NH-39. Chief Engineer BRO and Chief Engineer (R&B) shall personally supervise the progress of the works and report physically progress to the undersigned every week.
8. Principal Secretary and Commissioner, Nagaland shall also oversee the social work on 7th November 2008 and also monitor the implementation of the government directives contained in the OM by all concerned agencies.
“Since this is a very special programme of the Government, active cooperation and participation of all concerned agencies, departments and the public are solicited and expected,” the memorandum stated.
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