NPF in a spot over appointments of advisers

DIMAPUR: The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has accused the NPF government of "highhandedness" by appointing only NPF leaders as advisers to civic bodies across the state, making them a complete monopoly of NPF.
The NPCC said the Dimapur Municipal Council, which is dogged with gross mismanagement and irregularities, is a classic example of NPF government's evil designs to usurp power of all municipal and town councils in Nagaland and loot public funds.
In view of the chaos and disorder in DMC, leading to exhaustion of crores of public funds, the NPCC asked the chief minister and urban development minister to own moral responsibility of such misdeeds by their partymen and demit office immediately.
Alleging irregularities in the functioning of DMC, the Congress stated that in Dimapur Municipal Council, there was no preparation of income and expenditure budget estimate for any calendar/financial year and it used to project only sources of revenue income. However, according to Nagaland Municipal Act, 2001, income and expenditure budget estimate of municipalities should be prepared within specific time and should be submitted for adoption.
Stating that DMC has not taken up a single project at its own effort, the NPCC said even the balance sheet were not prepared in time for audit scrutiny.