Following the claim made by chairman and secretary of Longzang village on alleged misuse of funds by the village development board (VDB), chief Angh Lohwang, head GB Menwan, Tahmao and Kaiwang stated that the issue has been resolved amicably as per customary practice under Anghship (the village chief)\u201d since, they said, the Angh held \u201cthe rightful authority and power in the village administration as per Konyak customary and traditional practice.\u201d
In a press release, the signatories stated that the root of the issue of Longzang VDB under Mon district lay in the RTI filed in 2020.
While stating that representatives of Longzang public filed an RTI seeking information related to various schemes implemented in the village, they said the department replied to the queries on time.
They, however, said without discussing and verifying the matter at village level, it was dragged to the media with a complaint to the higher authority \u201cout of sheer ignorance.\u201d
The signatories on behalf of Longzang village have apologised to the administration and responsible department for creating inconveniences especially the \u201cwrong figure of amount, misinformation and outdated viral video\u201d which was circulated in the news and social media.
In this regard, the present village council chairman and VDB secretary have \u201cwillingly offered to resign\u201d not owing to present issue but for the progress and development of the village.
The village has warned individuals or groups to desist from such practices in future and not to malign the image of the village.
Further, it also appealed to the state government to revoke the suspension order issued to Longzang VDB in order \u201cto enable the VDB to function normally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Following the claim made by chairman and secretary of Longzang village on alleged misuse of funds by the village development board (VDB), chief Angh Lohwang, head GB Menwan, Tahmao and Kaiwang stated that the issue has been resolved amicably as per customary practice under Anghship (the village chief)\u201d since, they said, the Angh held \u201cthe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}