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Chapter Twenty-seven. Return to Nagaland |
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numbers of officers and government employees |
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The population of Shiong was then 637, and of the children and young people 46 went to the local village school while 29 attended schools in Wakching, Mon, Mokokchung, and Naginimara. Altogether 35 men of Shiong were in government service. Apart from Henphong's brother Chingwang, who was Minister of State for Veterinary, Animal Husbandry and Jails in the Government of Nagaland, 34 men of Shiong were in government service. Ten of these were teachers, one a clerk, one a naik in the armed police, and twenty-two were Class 4 employees, i.e. police constables and office peons. Thus the flow of cash into the household budgets of Shiong must have been considerable, and this explained the villagers' ability to buy a good many of the manufactured articles imported into Nagaland. |
