The North Cachar Hills Autonomous District Council in Haflong.
Guwahati, Jun 15 : The new administration under the governor has given time till tomorrow to members of the controversy-embroiled North Cachar Hills District Autonomous Council to vacate their official quarters and return their official vehicles.
The order comes two days after Governor Shiv Charan Mathur took over the administrative control of the district council, whose chief executive member Mohit Hojai was arrested for alleged links with militants.
The decision shows Raj Bhavan’s resolve not to tolerate any kind of interference from any quarter in administrative and security matters, even as Dispur initiated a move to appoint an administrator for the district to act as an interface between the district and the governor.
That a crackdown has begun in the right earnest was also indicated by the seizure of all official records since 1992, besides sealing of offices of the council which has been accused of diverting funds to militant coffers.
The move to seal council offices was necessitated by the coming visit of the National Investigating Agency (NIA) team which will peruse the records to assess the nature of alleged diversion of development funds and the politician-militant nexus.
This is the first case being probed by the NIA since it was formed after the Mumbai terror attack in November last year.
Hojai is already in the agency’s custody.
The names of several government officials, journalists and politicians have cropped up during interrogation of the two arrested so far in the fund diversion case, a source said.
“A fresh accounting system has to be put in place as this year’s budgetary sanction has been all but exhausted. We need to put in a foolproof accounting system,” he added.
The government has already appointed two new officials — superintendent of police Anurag Tankha and principal secretary to the autonomous council Diwakar Nath Mishra — to bolster the security scene as well as the local administration.
Both the officials are said to enjoy the confidence in both Raj Bhavan and Dispur.
Besides, an administrator will help the governor with day-to-day functioning of the council and could be based in either Haflong or Guwahati.
The official could be the incumbent deputy commissioner S. Jaganathan, the new principal secretary or a senior bureaucrat, to be chosen from a panel of officials that Dispur may submit to Raj Bhavan.
The governor, in fact, returned today from Delhi where he met Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Friday and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday to discuss the situation in North Cachar Hills.
Guwahati, Jun 15 : The new administration under the governor has given time till tomorrow to members of the controversy-embroiled North Cachar Hills District Autonomous Council to vacate their official quarters and return their official vehicles.
The order comes two days after Governor Shiv Charan Mathur took over the administrative control of the district council, whose chief executive member Mohit Hojai was arrested for alleged links with militants.
The decision shows Raj Bhavan’s resolve not to tolerate any kind of interference from any quarter in administrative and security matters, even as Dispur initiated a move to appoint an administrator for the district to act as an interface between the district and the governor.
That a crackdown has begun in the right earnest was also indicated by the seizure of all official records since 1992, besides sealing of offices of the council which has been accused of diverting funds to militant coffers.
The move to seal council offices was necessitated by the coming visit of the National Investigating Agency (NIA) team which will peruse the records to assess the nature of alleged diversion of development funds and the politician-militant nexus.
This is the first case being probed by the NIA since it was formed after the Mumbai terror attack in November last year.
Hojai is already in the agency’s custody.
The names of several government officials, journalists and politicians have cropped up during interrogation of the two arrested so far in the fund diversion case, a source said.
“A fresh accounting system has to be put in place as this year’s budgetary sanction has been all but exhausted. We need to put in a foolproof accounting system,” he added.
The government has already appointed two new officials — superintendent of police Anurag Tankha and principal secretary to the autonomous council Diwakar Nath Mishra — to bolster the security scene as well as the local administration.
Both the officials are said to enjoy the confidence in both Raj Bhavan and Dispur.
Besides, an administrator will help the governor with day-to-day functioning of the council and could be based in either Haflong or Guwahati.
The official could be the incumbent deputy commissioner S. Jaganathan, the new principal secretary or a senior bureaucrat, to be chosen from a panel of officials that Dispur may submit to Raj Bhavan.
The governor, in fact, returned today from Delhi where he met Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Friday and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday to discuss the situation in North Cachar Hills.
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