With due honour and humble submission, I being the president of Nagaland Timber Association would beg to submit our representation as here under for favour of your kind perusal, sympathetic consideration and doing the needful for the greater interest of all the business men dealing in the business of timber in Nagaland.
That Sir, we got the information from some reliable source that it is decided in the recent cabinet meeting that Timber can he sold outside the Stale of Nagaland only in the form of finished goods such as furniture etc and there will be a complete ban on the direct sale of timber in any other form such as small size takta, batam etc outside the stale of Nagaland by any means.
That Sir, the timber which we are selling not only produced by us in our own land by facing lots of difficulties as we don’t have any other option to use the said land as we are engaging in plantation of different variety of plants which can be used as timber and somehow survive by selling the said timbers, both inside and outside the state in the form of small takta, batam etc by which we manage our family expenses.
That Sir, if your esteemed authority stops selling the unfinished timber such as in the form of small takta, batam etc outside the state than it would cause a great hardship for all of us as still for production of finished goods such as furniture etc, we the people of Nagaland are not well trained and equipped.
And moreover for producing the finished goods we have to do proper seasoning of the timbers, which will consume lots of our time and by that process we all the timber traders will fall in huge financial difficulties as the time which will be consumed for proper seasoning will be the hard time as at that point of time we will not have any source of income and will face high financial crisis. As such prayer before the esteemed authority to kindly think about our self in particular and for the public in general, helping us by not passing any such other which will stop us of selling the unfinished timber such as small size takta, batam etc outside the state. It is our humble prayer that to allow us to sell unfmished timber as we are doing till date outside the state. Moreover sir, the sale of big size Fanta outside the state is already banned for the last almost three years and now if the small size timbers are also restricted than it will bring our business to a halt. In the above said premises, we once again pray before your benign authority to kindly consider our prayer sympathetically, thereto help us to sell the unfinished timber outside the state which we are following till date and for this act of your kindness, we shall remain ever grateful to you.
Kevise Sogotsu, President Nagaland Timber Traders Union, Dimapur