Dimapur, June 10 (MExN): The Tenyimi Public Organization (TPO) today urged all the Naga tribal organizations to recall their ‘fellow community members’ from the Intanki National Park. In a press release issued today, the TPO appealed to all to understand the situation and not underestimate the ‘dangerous long-term consequences.’
“The TPO is against all encroachers without any exceptions and discrimination whatsoever. This should be clearly understood to understand TPO's fight to preserve Intanki for the purpose for which it was created in the first place,” the TPO leadership stated in the statement.
The TPO said that ownership of the park is “indisputably clear that the land of 20,202 hectares for the present ‘Intanki National Park’ was freely donated by Old Beisumpui village.”
This fact was acknowledged by the recipients of the said land i.e. British Colonial Government by observing all the terms and conditions imposed by the Village in the early 1920s when J.H. Hutton was the then Deputy Commissioner of Naga Hills District of Assam, the organization stated.
“The acknowledgement was clearly reaffirmed today by the successive recipients of the said land i.e. the Government of Nagaland in its affidavit in opposition in the Hon’ble Guwahati High Court, Kohima Bench, under WP (C) No. 217 (K) of 2009, by declaring ‘The Old Beisumpui village were the original owners of the land covering the present Intanki National Park till it was donated to the Governor in Council in the year 1923 for declaration as a ‘Reserved Forest.’”
For these reasons, the TPO stated, the “mischievous repeated attempt” to meddle with the indisputable historical and legal accounts of the donor and “the done” by the self styled “Inavi /Hevuto village” is ‘highly questionable, condemnable and objectionable to all the right thinking persons’.
“The TPO is against all encroachers without any exceptions and discrimination whatsoever. This should be clearly understood to understand TPO's fight to preserve Intanki for the purpose for which it was created in the first place,” the TPO leadership stated in the statement.
The TPO said that ownership of the park is “indisputably clear that the land of 20,202 hectares for the present ‘Intanki National Park’ was freely donated by Old Beisumpui village.”
This fact was acknowledged by the recipients of the said land i.e. British Colonial Government by observing all the terms and conditions imposed by the Village in the early 1920s when J.H. Hutton was the then Deputy Commissioner of Naga Hills District of Assam, the organization stated.
“The acknowledgement was clearly reaffirmed today by the successive recipients of the said land i.e. the Government of Nagaland in its affidavit in opposition in the Hon’ble Guwahati High Court, Kohima Bench, under WP (C) No. 217 (K) of 2009, by declaring ‘The Old Beisumpui village were the original owners of the land covering the present Intanki National Park till it was donated to the Governor in Council in the year 1923 for declaration as a ‘Reserved Forest.’”
For these reasons, the TPO stated, the “mischievous repeated attempt” to meddle with the indisputable historical and legal accounts of the donor and “the done” by the self styled “Inavi /Hevuto village” is ‘highly questionable, condemnable and objectionable to all the right thinking persons’.
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