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Problems of cultivation alongside Zubza-Kohima road; need for survey but lack of money |
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COPY OF TOUR DIARY OF J.H. HUTTON, ESQ., I.C.S., DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF THE NAGA HILLS FOR 3RD AUGUST 1917. |
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With the A.E. to the 40th mile on the cart road to see some fields and discuss the question of water cultivation alongside this part of the road in general, in which connection the correspondence ending with the Commissioner's No. 1335 dated 19th February 1917 may be referred to. |
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The A.E. wishes me to pass an order that no new cultivation may be started within 150 feet of the road without my permission. I am then to consult A.E. in the case of each application before passing orders. As he points out this binds the Deputy Commissioner to nothing. He can always if it seems good to him permit the cultivation whether the A.E. approves or not. |
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I do not think that this request is unreasonable in itself, the trouble however is to know what is new cultivation and what is not. If a man adds a terrace 3 feet broad and 15 feet long at the top of his existing fields it will be very difficult to determine whether it is new or not without a surveyed map. Of course I know that funds for a survey of 150 feet on each side of the cart road from Zubza to Kohima are not forthcoming at present. I have therefore told the Asst. Engineer that if I pass the order asked for by him, it must be on the clear understanding that the P.W.D. will have the survey indicated made as soon as funds are available. For a short time an order without a survey might work, but after a time, if there is no survey, it will be impossible to tell whether an alleged new line of terracing is genuinely new or whether the P.W.D. Mohurrer has imagined that it is so. |
