KAAC to receive direct funding from Centre: CEM Tuliram Ronghang

It has been a long-standing demand of the people of Karbi Anglong that all funds meant for the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC)
KAAC to receive direct funding from Centre: CEM Tuliram Ronghang

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DIPHU/BOKAJAN: It has been a long-standing demand of the people of Karbi Anglong that all funds meant for the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) should be directly remitted by the Union Government to the council to do away with the needless delay of their release by the State Secretariat. The matter could not be resolved at the time of the signing of MoU in 1995 and the MoS in 2011, although the MoS provided for the amendment of Article 280 to bring the council under the purview of the Finance Commission of India.

"Now with the relentless effort made by Team Karbi Anglong under my leadership, the Union Government has agreed to effect direct funding of all centrally-sponsored schemes to the KAAC," said KAAC CEM Tuliram Ronghang while addressing a press conference at the KAAC Secretariat on Wednesday. The schemes include NLCPR, AIBP, MoS package, NitiAyog, 5th Finance Commission and other schemes funded by the Centre in the Sixth Schedule areas of the Northeast, the CEM added. The CEM also said an account had been opened to receive the funds as per the direction of the Centre.

He said that recently some political activists had erroneously accused the BJP government of imposing Panchayati Raj system in Karbi Anglong. "It was therefore required to put the record straight from our side," he added. "Like in Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram and other hill tribal areas of Northeast, we have Village Development Committee (VDC) which is headed by chairman. But the MIS in the government website maintain a uniform system throughout India, including Sixth Schedule areas, as Gram Panchayat (GP) and its head as sarpanch. That is why our data is also entered as GP and sarpanch in their website since the beginning when the Congress government started the system," said the CEM.

He further said, "The same manner of data is also entered in the government MIS system for Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram also. We have already written twice to the government to correct the data management system. This fact is known to everyone, including those who raised the issue recently in KarbiAnglong. They are obviously doing it with the intent of stroking social tension for their vested political benefit. They should explain the financing system to the public and suggest solution rather than create social and political unrest."

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